Niue Biodiversity Teaching Kit for primary school students
Primary school students in Niue will soon be learning about the biodiversity of flora and fauna which exists in their island country and the ecological importance . FAO has partnered with Landcare Research NZ to produce the biodiversity teaching kit for the primary schools of Niue.
“This is one of the core results of creating awareness for biodiversity conservation among the people of Niue”, said Rudolf Hahn, Chief Technical Officer for FAO’s Forest Protection and Management Project (FPAM). ”We received a request from the Niuan Government to produce this teaching kit and in collaboration with the Niue Department for Education, biodiversity conservation will be part of the new curriculum for the primary schools”.
The FPAM project covers Fiji, Niue, Samoa and Vanuatu. They are located in two of the World’s 34 “Biodiversity Hotspots”, where the richest and most threatened reservoirs of plant and animal life can be found.
The aim of this project is to conserve biodiversity in Fiji, Niue, Samoa and Vanuatu by expanding and consolidating their networks of protected areas and building capacity for conservation management and sustainable use of biodiversity and reducing forest and land degradation. The sustainable livelihoods of local communities in living in and around protected areas will see improvement as from this project.
Landcare Research New Zealand finalized and contextualized the teaching kit in cooperation with the principal of Niue Primary School and teachers team.
The teaching kit can be downloaded from here.