Caretakers is acting locally and globally to spread the "Seeds of Biodiversity" (the current theme for CEI's international programming). In this Canadian programme we will use a community-service learning approach. We will identify funding and other support for Nova Scotia schools and their environmental clubs (a) to develop Informative Nature Trails; or (b) to discover the value of bird habitat in our communities.

The international component of the project is an opportunity for Nova Scotia students to correspond with their peers in high schools in Java and Bali on contemporary environmental situations. This will be an on-going project. The following timeline relates only to the selection of a school to participate in the international CEI annual conference which will take place in Costa Rica 27 June-3 July, 1999.

In this process, CEI-Canada will further diverse community development by introducing and supporting the use of the tools of value mapping, field visits and community service, organized around one or more of the following biodiversity topics:

• Informative Nature Trails
• Bird houses/ habitat construction
• Contemporary environmental situation comparisons (Nova Scotia, Bali & Java)

Timeline

• Oct 01
  - Topic selection, formulate an action plan using a service learning approach
  - Report on the awareness activity as it took place at S.P.E.C.'98
  - Identification of question for inquiry

• Jan 01
  - Report on activiies to CEI-Canada (to include photos, videos, drawings, poetry, letters...)

• April 15
  - Final Report to CEI-Canada

• May 01
  - Selection of school to attend Env. and Biodiversity conference in Costa Rica

Role of CEI-Canada

Since 1991, the Canadian national branch of Caretakers of the Environment International (CEI), based in Nova Scotia, has worked to support and link high school students and teachers who are active in environmental education. Caretakers is a non-profit international high school network concerned with stimulating and improving the quality of environmental education around the world.

In this programme our role is to get schools involved and connected, to co-ordinate fund raising, and to select a school to attend the annual CEI international conference in Costa Rica in 1999.

Role of the Community or School

To participate in the empowerment of high school students to act according to their own situation and capacity to build community.

Facilitators

Project Co-ordinator for Canada
Caretakers of the Environment International-Canada(Nova Scotia)
1657 Barrington Street, Suite 125,
Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada B3J 2A1
(902)423-9005 FAX 902-422-7117, ah718@chebucto.ns.ca http://www.boker.org.il/eng/caretakers/ceican.htm
Co-ordinator: Kathryn Graves

Biodiversity Topics - Forests Co-ordinator: Roy cumming from Bayne River, Canada
email: rcumming@headwaters.com

Allison Casselman, Association of Canadian Educational Resources
email:acerass@globalserve.net

SouthEast Asia Co-ordinator: Surio Prawiroatmodjo of Indonesia Environment Education Centre. Email: pplh@sby.centrin.net.id, pplhbali@denpasar.wasantara.net.id

Schools in bilateral cooperation with Nova Scotia:
SMU Muhammadiyah
3 SurabayaHadi Ul IchsanJl. Gadung III no. 7 Surabaya, East Java, Ind.Bird species

SLTPK St. Stanislaus II SurabayaLili AndajaniJl. Kalijudan 25 Surabaya, East java, Ind.Herbal Medicine