Partnering with the Rafiki Memorial Wildlife Conservation Initiative and the Bwindi Plus Primary School in Buhoma, Uganda, our PICC team spent an exciting week with local children, educators, parents and elders. Together, we explored information about mountain gorillas, the children learned how to take photos with a DSLR camera and use photography for conservation awareness, and gained skills in making…
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Conservation Education in Uganda
Part 2–Rwenshama In August 2022, the PICC program visited the rural community of Rwenshama, Rukungiri District, in Southwestern Uganda. We worked with the students of BACHO (Banyabutumbi Cultural Heritage Organization) where we learned so much from the children and the community about their wildlife and their own lives living within the borders of Queen Elizabeth National Park. The Banyabatumbi are…
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Read about our last 5 projects, in Madagascar, Panama and Uganda. PICC Projects
Conservation Club Students Explore Masoala National Park
Many students from the FARAKA Conservation Club had officially given up hope of seeing one of Madagascar’s most reclusive lemurs– the red-ruffed lemur– when a distinctly auburn-colored movement drew their eyes to the trees above. At long last, they had spotted one of Madagascar’s most critically endangered animals, whose habitat is restricted to the forests of the Masoala Peninsula in…
About our Founder
Kathy West, has over 30 years of nationally recognized expertise in designing, implementing and teaching unique youth education programs for education organizations. She has successfully designed, illustrated and written children’s activity workbooks for science education, including for primate conservation. She has also conducted scientific field research with wild nonhuman primates as well as done extensive international travel. A wildlife…