Environmental Education Short Courses

Lets Protect the environment 

Global Waste Cleaning Network has some amazing Environmental Education Courses 

The courses include 

1: Understanding Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development!

The course introduces you to the basic foundations of Environmental Education (EE) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), including their origins and the educational processes connected to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

2: Strategies to Advance Circular Economy

Circular Economy provides a regenerative framework to design a production and consumption system in which materials are used in cycles of closed loops. The course provides you with an overview of the concept of Circular Economy, its principles and introduces how the principles are being used to shift from a linear economy to a circular economy. 

3: Introduction to Environmental Literacy

This course will introduce you to the basics of Environmental Literacy, by providing you with an overview of the environmental literacy concept and its components. The course, divided into 6 Modules, will also present to you the bases of environmental literacy excellence and how you can create your own logic model for environmental literacy assessment.

These courses will help you as an environmental activist understand the fundamental principles of environmental literacy and equips you with enough knowledge to share during Environmental Awareness Campaigns 

To enrol visit http://www.gwcnweb.org/ and search the courses under the Education tab.

Happy learning!!

THE MIGRATORY LOCUST

The migratory locust on an Olive tree in Cape Town:Photo Credit:Takesure Matewa (2022)

The migratory locust scientifically known as Locusta Migratoria is a grey- brown grasshopper found in the various areas throughout the whole world. 

 It feed on plants, rangeland flora and economic crops such as corn/maize, sorghum and millet.Large groups of these locust can cause crop damage hence they are considered pests by farmers. Adults can grow up to 4 - 6 cm

They belong to the short horned grasshoppers, locusts and cricket family

Migratory locusts are mostly found where there is green plants and their common habitat is wetlands, agricultural fields and mountains.

Just like their cousins crickets, Migratory locusts  are  eaten by human beings  in Africa and other parts of the world and considered as a high source of protein.