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The Amazon Center for
Environmental Education and Research (ACEER) Foundation is a
non-profit organization founded in 1991 whose mission is to promote
environmental conservation, awareness, understanding, action and
transformation. (www.aceer.org) |
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The ACEER
Foundation is based on the principle that bringing together strategic
partners with the goal of conservation generates unique opportunities
leading to success. Thus, in partnership with The National Geographic
Society, Windhover Foundation, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
and INKATERRA Association (ITA), the ACEER Foundation
has developed a new comprehensive education and research center
located in the heart of the southern Peruvian rainforest in the
Madre de Dios Region. It is considered one of the world's most biologically
diverse eco-regions on Earth, but also one of the most endangered.
Since 1996 the ACEER has begun to design and implement a
wide array of strategic initiatives aimed at empowering the Peruvian
people to become active participants in natural resources decision-making.
These key initiatives include: |
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Environmental education
training for Amazonian teachers. |
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Graduate training in field
ecology for Latin American scientists. |
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Village-based community
service projects including medicinal plant gardens and sustainable
agriculture. |
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School-based efforts to
create libraries and provide needed educational supplies to students
lacking the most basic materials. |
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Specialized workshops on
geographic information systems, habitat modeling and pollution transport
modeling for government scientists. |
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more information about ACEER, visit www.aceer.org |
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