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BWINDI YOUTH GUARDIANS
and their STEAM Conservation Projects in Communities
around Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

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Launching Bwindi Youth Guardian STEAM Conservation Projects,
Jan. 2023
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STEAM Training with Conservation Through Public Health Staff
 
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What does it mean to be a Guardian of Bwindi? Learning with Bwindi Cards.
 
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What STEAM is in the Conservation Projects of Bwindi Youth Guardians?
 
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Raising Goats & Pigs for Protein to Reduce Illegal Hunting of Indigenous Forest Animals
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Raising Chickens for Protein to Reduce Need to Illegally Hunt Indigenous Forest Animals.
 
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Designing Plastic Waste Collection Sites and Systems. Building with Plastic Bottle Bricks. 
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Growing Irish Potatoes to Reduce Need to Illegally Gather Food in the Forest
 
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What to do When Forest Elephants Raid and Damage the Potato Crop
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Repurposing Livestock Feces and Urine for Beneficial Use
 
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First Mountain Gorilla Experience for these Teen+ Bwindi Youth Guardians
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First Time in the Forest for these Young Bwindi Youth Guardians
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First Ranger-Guided Forest Walk for these Teen+ Bwindi Youth Guardians
 
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Shirts to Fit a Silverback Mountain Gorilla: A Learning Tool for Bwindi Youth Guardians 
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Site Visits for Bwindi Youth Guardian Group  Presentations, Tours, and Celebration. Feb. 2024   

Bwindi Youth Guardian groups and the wardens and rangers of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park are working with the BWINDI CARDS (now also the book We Are Inseparable) to learn about the gorillas, forest ecosystem, convervation jobs and STEAM conservation projects and to teach others. 

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