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Presentation of Ecological Education Programs
October 28, 2000 – the Kindest Lesson Competition of the XXI Century
Children and Ecology Third International Festival ended in Krasnoarmeysk
of the Moscow Region.
Two awards were given: the Kindest Lesson Prize at the contest of school
programs of ecological education; Kindness to Children Prize at the contest
of supplementary ecological education programs.
The competition was organized by the Local Initiatives Fund and the Krasnoarmeysk
Town Administration under the aegis of the Russian Federation Commission
on UNESCO.
It was supported by UNICEF, the British Council, the Russian Ministry
of Culture, the Russian Federal Ecological Fund, the Administration of
the Moscow Region, and Shell Exploration and Production Services (Russia).
Information support was given by RIA Novosti, Argumenty i Fakty Newspaper
(edition of children's publications), and Pionerskaya Pravda Newspaper.
This was the third such Festival to be held. Many organizations helped
to develop and publicize it. For example, the Biodiversity Conservation
Center, which participated in a previous Festival, presented its experience
of the March of Parks Action.
The Environmental Education Centre “Zapovedniks” is another of the Festival’s
traditional partners. Thanks to its information support, more and more
zapovedniks and national parks participate in the competitions.
This year, Voroninsky, Denezhkin Kamen, Pasvik and Privolzhskaya Lesostep
Zapovedniks, as well as Ugra, Vodlozersky, Sochinsky and Pleshcheevo Ozero
National Parks, submitted their works for consideration of children's
juries.
O. A. Shokhina, on staff at the Pasvik State Zapovednik,
won the Kindest Lesson Prize.
Importantly, the quality of the works submitted for the Competition by
Natural Protected Territories is constantly improving. No doubt they will
win an even greater number of prizes at the 4th Festival, which
is to take place in the Bryansk Region on April 26–29, 2001.
A. Rybakov,
member of the BCC staff
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