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Education/Outreach

The school outreach component is about conveying environmental concepts, mainly biodiversity conservation and recycling, to elementary schoolchildren in Iraqi Kurdistan. Activities are being used and tested in schools in villages around Piramagroon Mountain in the Governorate of Sulaimani, with constant coordination and consultation from our partners, the Royal Botanical Gardens of Edinburgh and BirdLife International. The ultimate goal was to produce an environmental education toolkit for elementary schools in Iraqi Kurdistan Region that has the potential to be expanded to the whole of Iraq, with different sets of practical activities and games, suitable in different environments and seasons.
Over 300 students from six different villages enjoyed our environmental education activities in the course of two years. 
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We worked with five schools in five different villages in the Piramagroon Area (Surdash, Shadala, Homar Qawm, Kani Shok, and Qarachatan).
We have helped students make their own bird feeders and hang them on the trees at home and in schools’ yards. This activity’s aim is to attract birds to children’s gardens and to help birds to get seeds easily in winter. Other environmental games were “Sound and Color” and “Balance of Nature.”

Let's Make Bird Boxes!

We're happy to share one of our educational projects from the first year of the project!

Making a bird box couldn't be simpler and is one of the best ways of attracting birds into your garden. This project uses a single piece of wood, cut into six sections. Make sure you site your nesting box high up in a tree or building away from predators, strong sunlight and wind. A north-east facing spot is best.

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  • Home
  • Who We Are
    • Staff Highlights
    • Contact
    • Support us >
      • Volunteer
      • Membership
      • Career
  • What We Do
    • Current Projects >
      • Conservation of Persian leopards in West Asia
      • Safeguarding the Persian Leopard Through the Establishment of Protected Area in Qara Dagh
      • Preservation and the Digital Documentation of the Traditional Handcrafts >
        • Photo Gallery
        • Videos
      • Wastewater Garden Project
    • Past Projects >
      • Persian Leopard Conservation >
        • Conservation and Monitoring
        • Advocacy And Stakeholder Engagement
        • Education And Public Awareness
      • Waterkeeper Law and Advocacy Program >
        • Project Photos
        • Project Videos
        • Waterkeepers Iraq >
          • Photos
        • List of Activities
      • Key Biodiversity Areas >
        • Gallery
      • New Eden Project
      • Adobe House >
        • Photos
      • Compressed Soil Brick Construction >
        • Photos
      • Darwin Project in-Situ >
        • Land Management
        • Education/Outreach
        • Online Course
        • Surveys and Fieldwork
        • Birds of Peramagroon
        • Photos
      • Marshlands Empowerment >
        • Photos
      • Sociable Lapwing Project >
        • Photos
      • The National Atlas of Marshes and Wetlands of Iraq
      • Green Festivals >
        • Photos
      • Biodiversity Conservation >
        • Wildlife Camera Trap Images
        • Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP)
      • Water Resources >
        • Mesopotamian Outreach Project >
          • The Tigris River Flotilla
          • Photos
      • Sustainable Development >
        • Eco-Camp
        • Photos
      • Capacity Building
      • Exhibitions >
        • Paris
        • UK
        • Al-Hella, Iraq
        • Basra, Iraq >
          • Basrah, 13-15 July 2008
          • Basra, 1 Jan 2009
        • Erbil, Iraq
        • Thi-Qar, Iraq
  • News
  • Multimedia
    • Photo Galleries
    • Videos ( Page 1 )
    • Videos ( Page 2 )
    • News Room
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    • Arabic عربي
    • Kurdish كوردی