31、Project Manager

 

Sarita Jnawali

National Trust for Nature Conservation - Central Zoo

 

The “Central Zoo” as an institution for managing and exhibiting a collection of living wild animal specimens offers unique and enormous potential for conservation education. With over one million visitors annually, most of them from rural areas, the Central Zoo, Kathmandu, Nepal is virtually a walking encyclopedic tour of wild animals for diverse groups of Nepalese people. It conducts 2 types of conservation education programs mainly focusing on students where annually, about 6000 Friends of the Zoo (FOZ) members from 300 different schools attend various environmental related program activities. Education as a key component of conservation that zoos possess can have an important and lasting influence on preserving the value of the natural world, which is really what conservation is all about. So with our effective educational programs we are not only creating awareness among people about biodiversity and wildlife conservation but also teaching them how to save nature and natural resources for coming generations.