ATREE’s Wild Kidz ‘Summer Camp - 2019’
The weekend of 10-12th May this year will forever be engraved in the minds of the 15 participants who attended the ATREE’s Wild Kidz ‘Summer Camp’ organized by the Agasthyamalai Community Conservation Centre (ACCC), Manimutharu. The three-day two-night sleepaway camp, held at Mundanthurai, Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR), was a wild camp for 11 to 15 age group from various government and private schools around Tirunelveli District. The objectives of the camp were to educate awareness about the environment, ecosystem services, to give them an opportunity to learn and develop skills like painting, leadership qualities, teamwork, and the specific goal is to instill conservation education among the campers in an enjoyable and meaningful way. All the camp activities were conducted by researchers of ATREE. The campers were exposed to pre and post camp evaluation in order to measure the outcomes of the camp. ‘I design my T-shirt’ a fabric painting session, where th