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Moderator:
Gail Langellotto, Assistant Professor of Biology, Fordham
University
Panelists:
Don Lisowy, Curator of Education/Bronx Zoo
Laurie Wilkison, Vice president for Communications and
Development, Rare International
Yannick Glemarec, Deputy Executive Coordinator, Global
Environment Facility, UNDP.
Al Stenstrup, Director of Curriculum programs, Project
Learning Tree
 Laurie Wilison, Vice President for Communications and Development, Rare Conservation
Synopsis: Rare Conservation has developed an innovative
conservation strategy, the Pride Campaign, to foster community-based
conservation through environmental education. The main objective is to
inspire local people and to make them proud of their natural resources
and surroundings; this, in turn, results in a dramatic increase in local
participation to clean and protect their nature. For this campaign, familiar
local wildlife such as a sea turtle or parrot are chosen as mascot to
help raise awareness, and local people are trained to help motivate environmental
pride within their communities. As a consequence, local communities lead
conservation action and ensured that endangered species escape from extinction.
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