ENHANCING EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR CAT TIEN NATIONAL PARK

Forest rangers are the critical force in forest inspection, monitoring, and protection. To comprehensively perform the duty, forest rangers have to organize communication campaigns and maintain related activities to raise the awareness and promote forest and biodiversity protection behaviors for local communities. Environmental education and communication should be regularly and sustainably organized, therefore adaptability and creativity are crucial in promoting evironmental protection for the people. However, forestry education and training are inordinately focused, despite the benefit of environmental education and communication, hence the mediocre effectiveness of the task.

To enhance the environmental education and communication, in January 2023, Center for Nature Conservation and Development (CCD) cooperated with Cat Tien National Park in organizing 02 training courses for Cat Tien’s staffs and rangers. The courses prioritize providing basic understanding, introducing skills and methods in effective communication as well as strategy, planning for communication events. Not only understood and equipped with skills, the training supported Cat Tien’s staffs and rangers to actively develop and implement communication campaigns, propagating activities and community approachment in the most efficient and practical way.

With the mission to raise awareness, capacity and responsibility for stakeholders, plus years of experience in implementing environmental education and communication across the country, CCD cooperates with national parks and nature reserves to promote effective solutions in forest protection and biodiversity conservation. By organizing training courses for forestry staffs and facilitating environmental education and communication processes, CCD and partners advance awareness, responsibility for the public, ultimately gather cooperations in nature and biodiversity conservation.