Curriculum Safari Earth symposia are traveling classrooms designed to facilitate the study of sustainable wildlife management, community development and other issues surrounding natural resource and environmental conservation.   They are designed to appeal to an increasingly concerned public to show that problems in distant lands are significant not only to the peoples of villages in developing nations, but to our own communities as well.

Participants in these CSE symposia include conservation scientists, community leaders, government representatives, university educators, students and other interested individuals and groups.   Through this unique inter-disciplinary approach, CSE endeavors to highlight key issues of concern, and to help in establishing credible strategies for their resolution.

Our first symposium, Zambezi Valley Symposium (ZVS 95), focused on the role of the government and the communal lands in wildlife conservation.   In 1998, we returned to Zimbabwe to continue our research with the second Zambezi Valley Symposium (ZVS 98) to learn about community based environmental education programs and the role private conservancies play in wildlife management. Our return this year is to provide material support and funding to several environmental education programs that help rural and urban children understand their environment and the science of protecting it.

The information collected during these symposia is used in the development of  materials for presentations to businesses, schools, universities and communities groups interested in the complex inter-related issues of sustainable wildlife management and community development in southern Africa. 

Our sincere hope is that, working together with a dedicated purpose, the responsibility for our future on Earth can be placed onto the shoulders of a society committed to taking meaningful steps toward understanding and planning the future of it's world.

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