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WHAT

PACE Sharing ideas between communities

PACE, the Pan African Conservation Education project , is run in collaboration with Tusk Trust . With funding from the Vodafone Group Foundation, Siren and Tusk have produced a series of films and educational materials on seven key environmental themes. These have now been distributed via environmental education centres across Africa helping to spread environmental awareness and share practical techniques that address common environmental problems. From planting chilli fences to deter marauding elephants to creating energy from rubbish by making fuel briquettes, the PACE films feature inspiring people and projects across Africa, giving them an opportunity to communicate their ideas to a wider audience. View PACE project materials on www.paceproject.net

Wild Woods (UK)

Once upon a time, Britain was forested coast to coast. Throughout history timber has been enormously useful, and through logging we have lost 98% of our ancient woodlands. With it has gone the romance of the forest, the Middle Earth, Narnia, the wilderness of our homeland. Siren works with woodsmen, artists and storytellers to bring the woods to life for children in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.

African Painted Hunting Dogs (Zimbabwe)

While man's best friend may be the dog, the dog's best friend is not always man. Painted hunting dogs (Lycaon pictus) have been persecuted mercilessly, until instead of thriving in 34 countries across Sub Saharan Africa, they now survive in only four. These animals classified as extremely vulnerable by CITES have a friend in Siren and in Greg Rasmussen who heads an education and anti-poaching project in Zimbabwe. This project has reversed the decline of the dogs in Zimbabwe, and will not give up until the dogs are safe.

Bird Super Highway (Spain)

Siren owns a coastal nature reserve near Tarifa, Andalucia, in one of the best places in the world to watch the miracle of birds migrating overhead. With no suitcase, map or passport these animals travel twice a year the thousands of miles between Africa and Europe. The Costa del Sol has been all but destroyed environmentally by the demands of British tourists, but the Mediterranean coast has been designated as one for the most important areas for conservation in the world - a sizzling hot hotspot. Siren has long term plans to work with local conservation groups to build an education programme for tourists and local people, and a conservancy of land-owners to protect this stunning coastline

© Siren Conservation Education 2003.