In Touch with Nature Education makes regular donations to expanding environmental awareness in Thai schools. We conduct half day seminars in schools adjacent to Thailands national parks to help bring about the paradigm shift in values that will be necessary to save Thailand's wildlife. Park boundaries mean little when the people living adjacent to protected areas have never been educated in the values of conservation. Our goal is to create Thailand's first generation of true conservationists rather than see them become the last generation of poachers.

To this end we employ strategies both in and outside the classroom. Using slide lectures, experiential games, songs and traditional Thai shadow-puppetry with animal characters, our Thai team brings fun-filled and impacting programs into Thai schools. Older students are taken into the parks on weekend outings where they combine fun and adventure with conducting crucial wildlife inventories of "keystone" species - gibbons, hornbills and giant fruit bats. These population census and mapping exercises are the first of their kind in many of Thailands protected areas. They provide the data vital to monitoring the health of a species. International school groups and family tours on our Reef to Rainforests program all further these studies.

Langur Guardian	Flying Fox Guardian	Gibbon Guardian	Hornbill Guardian

The In Touch with Nature Education Club awards beautifully embroidered wildlife patches to every individual who becomes a guardian for life for these endangered species.