EED2601: ENVIROMENTAL
EDUCATION
Assignment: 05 Unique Code: 200493
Year Module 2022
N.B Do not forget to paraphrase your work
QUESTION 1
Discuss the advantages wildlife conservation in national parks and the disadvantages
with respect to local communities around the parks.
Advantages of Wildlife conservation to local communities
Firstly, Protecting forests from deforestation and rebuilding forest habitats to preserve
biodiversity aids in the carbon-sequestering process helping in bringing in clean air.
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, Secondly, provides new economic opportunities to the local communities as rangers,
environmentalists, managers among others.
Thirdly, wildlife conservation leads to improvements in access to forest resources,
improved basic infrastructures such as drinking water, trails, and bridges, and
improvements in health, sanitation, and social services thus helping local communities
access such benefits.
Disadvantages of Wildlife conservation to local communities
Firstly, wildlife conversation has led to the destruction of properties of the local
communities by wildlife like elephants destroying maize in the surrounding farms.
Secondly, it has led to deaths from the wild animals on escaping.
QUESTION 2
List [5 marks] and explain [15 marks] five sustainability competences for the 21st
Century
These 21st-century skills are more important to students now than ever before. They not
only provide a framework for successful learning in the classroom, but ensure students
can thrive in a world where change is constant and learning never stops. And they are
also tremendously important for our nation's well-being.
Systems thinking
The ability to recognise and understand relationships to think of how systems are
embedded within different domains and different scales and to deal with uncertainty.
Global thinking
Ability to think as world citizen careful consideration of previous approaches and
perspectives of others acting ethically and collaboratively to contribute to local, regional
and/or global development ability to work collaboratively and to seek collaborative
opportunities
Values thinking
The ability to understand and reflect on the norms and values that underlie one’s actions
and to negotiate sustainability values, principles, gaols and targets.
Strategic thinking
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EDUCATION
Assignment: 05 Unique Code: 200493
Year Module 2022
N.B Do not forget to paraphrase your work
QUESTION 1
Discuss the advantages wildlife conservation in national parks and the disadvantages
with respect to local communities around the parks.
Advantages of Wildlife conservation to local communities
Firstly, Protecting forests from deforestation and rebuilding forest habitats to preserve
biodiversity aids in the carbon-sequestering process helping in bringing in clean air.
1
, Secondly, provides new economic opportunities to the local communities as rangers,
environmentalists, managers among others.
Thirdly, wildlife conservation leads to improvements in access to forest resources,
improved basic infrastructures such as drinking water, trails, and bridges, and
improvements in health, sanitation, and social services thus helping local communities
access such benefits.
Disadvantages of Wildlife conservation to local communities
Firstly, wildlife conversation has led to the destruction of properties of the local
communities by wildlife like elephants destroying maize in the surrounding farms.
Secondly, it has led to deaths from the wild animals on escaping.
QUESTION 2
List [5 marks] and explain [15 marks] five sustainability competences for the 21st
Century
These 21st-century skills are more important to students now than ever before. They not
only provide a framework for successful learning in the classroom, but ensure students
can thrive in a world where change is constant and learning never stops. And they are
also tremendously important for our nation's well-being.
Systems thinking
The ability to recognise and understand relationships to think of how systems are
embedded within different domains and different scales and to deal with uncertainty.
Global thinking
Ability to think as world citizen careful consideration of previous approaches and
perspectives of others acting ethically and collaboratively to contribute to local, regional
and/or global development ability to work collaboratively and to seek collaborative
opportunities
Values thinking
The ability to understand and reflect on the norms and values that underlie one’s actions
and to negotiate sustainability values, principles, gaols and targets.
Strategic thinking
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