Frequently asked questions
Over the last few decades, as we built cities and cut off our own access to natural spaces like parks and wildlife reserves, we have increasingly become detached from nature, no longer have fascination for exploring it, and have less knowledge of how it works than ever before. Environmental education needs to start at a young, impressionable age to develop an inherent love and understanding of nature early on.
We believe people of all ages have so much to learn about the environment. It can never start too early and nobody is too old to be part of a holistic learning programme. This is why we work with children as young as 5 or 6, up to high school. We also work with businesses, organisations and collectives, whose members are adults of all ages.
Environmental conservation is very directly tied to our ability to exercise our basic human rights. You cannot have clean drinking water, gas to cook food and power your car, clean air to breathe and nutritious food to eat without proper environmental management strategy. Moreover, people from lower income backgrounds are more vulnerable to climate impacts and have a harder time accessing these rights than those from higher income backgrounds. This way, understanding the environment involves understanding how different people manage their natural resources differently.
We believe that there are many, many endless ways to learn and discuss! Videos, images, stories, puzzles, outdoor activities like nature trails and marine walks are just some. It is important to engage students in various different ways so that their interest does not die out, and so that they get a multidimensional picture of how the planet works. Educators who are well-versed with many different environmental sectors (wildlife conservation/ecology, renewables, climate activism, policymaking, science/research, etc.) along with psychologists and social workers need to work together to create such toolkits.
Festivals, days like World Environment Day and such are helpful in bringing attention to the important issues briefly, but these may not always help sustain long-term behaviour change or consistent action over time. For this, an entire perspective shift must be achieved, where people can clearly envision how and why things can be done differently every single day, and not just on a few instances.
