HO CHI MINH CITY, (PNA/VNS) -— More than 30,000 secondary school students here will take part in wildlife conservation activities, with a focus on Asian Elephant conservation under the SOS program that kicked off Thursday.
Under the program, co-organised by the non-profit organization Wildlife At Risk, the city’s Dept. of Education and Training and the city’s Forest Protection Division, seventh-grade students at schools in Binh Thanh District will learn about wildlife through biology.
As many as 1,000 secondary students and teachers from the districts of Tan Phu, Tan Binh, Binh Tan and Go Vap will visit the Cu Chi Wildlife Rescue Station during the academic year.
“The SOS traveling exhibition, which was launched at the end of 2011, has received positive feedback from secondary school teachers and students,” said Nguyen Hoai Chuong, deputy director of the city’s Department of Education and Training.
The SOS traveling exhibition is a 60-sq.m tent with various interactive exhibits, models, objects and games to show students threats to wildlife.
Twenty-eight wild elephants and 10 domestic elephants in Viet Nam have died in the last four years, according to statistics released by WAR.