How environmental social marketing techniques can be integrated with education and communication strategies to produce focused, effective conservation campaigns.

What: An international course on the use of education as an effective and practical conservation tool. The course will demonstrate how environmental social marketing techniques can be integrated with overall education and communication strategies to produce focused campaigns that are effective and practical tools for solving environmental problems. The course will illustrate educational concepts and processes by demonstrating how they can be employed to assist in meeting the conservation needs of the tiger in India and the habitats on which they depend. Note: While for educational purposes, the species used in examples throughout the course will be the tiger, techniques for building campaigns around any species, habitat, or issue will be demonstrated during the course. The next course would take place in December 2011.The applications will be available on website from 1 January 2011.You can enroll yourself right now by sending us the email at satpuda@gmail.com so that we can send you the application form directly. If you want to read about the past course, please click here - 2009 course report.

Kids for Tiger Akola, Report by Amol Sawant. Sunday 13 December : Nature Trail At Kapsi Lake On 2nd & 4 th Sunday on environmental activity called Nisarga Katta is organised by Satpuda Foundation . As a part of field visit the nature trail were organised at kapasi Lake to observe the migratory birds on 13 December 2009. 60 students & 5 teachers form different school i.e. D.A.V. English School, Khandelwal English School, Swavlambi Vidylaya, Gurunanak Convent participated in the nature trail.In this Bird Watching programme student walked along the edge of kapsi lake and observed different species of migratory and local birds they include wooly nake stork, jackana, Brhmni Duck Etc. They also studied bio diversity of plants and small insects found along the lake. After observation a nature game were organised by Mr. Amol Sawant a co-ordinator of KFT , in ehich students know the relation between plants, animal and human being.

Tuesday 29 December : Street Play & Bird Photography Exhibition (Photo By Vilas Deshmukh Bird Photographer & Amol Sawant ) at Moharidevi Khandelwal Girls High School.600 student visit to Bird Photography Exhibition. Monday 4 January 2010 : Bird watching programe at Kapshi lake with Moharidevi Khandelwal Girls High School, participate 50 student's and 4 teachers including headmistress Smt. S.Sabale . Mr.Sanjay Harne (Employee of Wild life department, Akola & Famous Bird watcher) was sharing information with student's at Kapshi.

Thursday 7 January 2010 : Social Forestry Disportment Akola & Akola KFT jointly organised Bird Photography Exhibition (Photo's By Vilas Deshmukh Bird Photographer & Amol Sawant ) at Thelara City for 30 National Green Crops School. 1500 students giving visit for this Bird Photography Exhibition.