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Iwokrama educates public through exhibition
A class from the Centre for Learning and Afro Centric Orientation and several others hear about Sustainable Tourism.
The Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development (Iwokrama) yesterday launched an exhibition for the general public as a part of its 21st anniversary observances.
The exhibition featured displays from Iwokrama’s three sectors; Sustainable Tourism, Sustainable Forestry and Climate Change. These displays allowed for students, along with walk-in visitors, to receive information about work the centre has been doing and about various creatures, their habitats and niches along with information on 3-D mapping, logging and climate change.
According to an official attached to the centre, the exhibition is also a way of reminding the general public that “Iwokrama is still here” and to update them with what the centre has been doing.
The Bishops’ High School and Marian Academy were among schools present at the exhibition. Students were able to indulge in small quizzes with officials from the centre along with group discussions.
The Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development is an organization created in the “run–up” to the Rio Summit in 1992. It was set up to better organize and sustainably manage the 371,000-hectare (nearly one million acres) Iwokrama Forest in central Guyana.
The organization is currently aiming at spreading awareness about the importance, beauty and diversity of the forest.
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