Wildlife Palestine Society (WLPS)
Al-Ard Society for Environmental Awareness and Protection
P.O.BOX 20510
14 Ibn Batuta Street, Jerusalem
Tel: +972-59-555001
Telefax: +972-2-6283351
Applied Research Institute--Jerusalem (ARIJ)
P.O.BOX 860
Caritas Street, Bethlehem, Palestine
Tel: +972-2-2741889
Fax: +972-2-2776966
E-mail: jad@arij.org
Website: http://www.arij.org
Background
Founded in 1990, the Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem (ARIJ) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting sustainable development in the occupied Palestinian territories and the self-reliance of the Palestinian people through greater control over their natural resources. The Institute works specifically to augment the local stock of scientific and technical knowledge and to introduce and devise more efficient methods of resource utilisation and conservation, improved practices, and appropriate technology. ARIJ plays an active role in the local community as an advocate for greater co-operation among local institutions, international and non-governmental organisations. In its capacity as a national research institute, it frequently provides current data and research necessary to the formulation of position papers and policy strategies on such issues as land and water resources. Moreover, through its work with donor institutions and regional and international experts, ARIJ promotes an environment conducive to the introduction of new initiatives and ideas and thus serves as a facilitator in the co-ordination of multilateral activities.
Although initially established to confront issues facing the agricultural community, ARIJ has since broadened its agenda to include a wide spectrum of environmental concerns. Early research priorities focused on cultivation in marginal lands, livestock production, agro-industries and marketing, and water management and utilisation.
Activities
- Biodiversity and Agricultural Research Unit: Survey of rain fed farming, field demonstrations and experiments, agricultural database, flora and fauna database, and use of pesticides in the West Bank
- Water and Environment Research Unit: Water database, irrigation management, environmental profiles for West Bank districts, air quality monitoring, and Localizing Agenda 21.
- GIS and Remote Sensing Unit: Monitoring land use changes, atlas of Palestine, urbanization trends, and transportation modeling and air quality.
- Environmental Resource Planning and Assessment (ERPA) Unit
The Center for Agricultural Services (TCAS)
P.O.BOX 506
Hebron, Palestine
Telex: +970-2-2214440
E-mail: tcas@p-ol.com
Background
TCAS was established in 1986 as a Palestinian, non-governmental, non-profit organization. At that time, the Palestinian community lacked a technical body that could support farmers and families and guide them in getting premium usage of their agricultural land in order to increase their financial situation. TCAS was founded to be that body. TCAS was founded by a group of specialized, dedicated experts who are interested in developing the local community through programs and activities in the fields of agriculture, environment, women, and water. TCAS's main goal is to improve the agricultural sector capabilities through implementing modern and suitable solutions for the problems facing farmers and inhabitants.
Activities
- Unit of Model Projects: Helping farmers and those interested in investment in the agricultural sector to adopt modern scientific techniques, creating job opportunities for agricultural engineers and technicians, serving as an experimental unit, and functioning as a source of income to the center and helping to support some of its activities.
- Services Projects Unit: Land reclamation and new agricultural roads, drinking water unit, springs and agricultural cisterns, animal vaccination, and agricultural material distribution.
- Agricultural Extension Unit: Demonstration stations, training program, and the awarding of scholarships, awards, and study visits.
- Women Development Unit: Service projects, training programs, an income generating project, a credit program, and social activities.
- Environmental Unit: Implementing environmental awareness programs, organizing workshops, and distributing environmental handouts.
The Center for Development in Primary Health Care (CDPHC)- Al Quds University
PO Box 4006
El Bireh, Palestine
Telefax: +970-2-2981526 or +970-2-2952767
Email: cdphc@planet.edu
Background
The Center for Development in Primary Health Care (CDPHC) is an NGO working under the umbrella of Al-Quds University and serves as a national health and development center aiming at upgrading the level of health and social services through the offering of training programs targeting health personnel, and through the promotion of the principles of Primary Health Care (PHC). The Center works with and through health, social and environmental institutions to provide training information, education and consultancy congruent with the needs of the local community and based on ALMA ATAs declaration of 1978 which stipulated that PHC is the prime propeller and main axis to strengthen world health.
The Center was established in 1992 through the initiative of local professionals and experts in PHC to be a forceful instrument in the development of health and to constitute one of the university arms and within an academic health complex within the university (Medicine, public health, nursing, allied health, and research) and other academic, professional, and community development bodies in the community at large. Upon its inception, the center has actively sought cooperation with already existing and operating organizations in the field of PHC and development at different levels.
Activities
The following is a list of areas that the CDPHC focuses on:
- Family planning within the context of reproductive health.
- Environmental awareness in the rural areas.
- AIDS/STDs and sexual health
- Youth and adolescent health.
- Women health and gender equity.
- Operations and Participatory research
- Quality improvement in health care.
- Management, planning and evaluation.
- Elderly health
- Operations research
Development and Environment Association—Baladna Cultural Center
P.O Box 3988
Al-Bireh, Palestine
Tel: +970-2-2958434
Telefax: +970-2-2958435
Website: www.baladna.org
Background
The Development and Environment Association was established in 1993 as a non-profit, non-governmental organization for the purpose of developing Palestinian society's awareness of the necessity of protecting the environment. It is a part of the Baladna Cultural Center.
Activities
The Development and Environment Association emphasizes the development of the concepts of the protection of the environment, and the development of Palestinian society. Main activities of the organization focus on:
- Tree Planting
- Parks cleaning
- Public health programs
- Providing help for the needy in the local community.
Institute of Water Studies, Birzeit University
PO Box 14
Birzeit, Palestine
Telefax: +970-2-2982120
E-mail: mbarakat@birzeit.edu
Background
The Institute of Water Studies at Birzeit University was established in September 2001, to offer and contribute to the capacity building of the Palestinian water sector by providing knowledge, advisory services, graduate education (MSc level), research and continuous education through short-term training in water and related issues. In addition, the Institute of Water Studies will participate in solving crucial water problems within Palestine and the neighboring countries through research projects, consulting activities and joint regional activities.
The decision to establish an Institute of Water Studies (IWS) at Birzeit University (BZU) came as a direct result of water sector problems in Palestine, which require a multidisciplinary approach.
Activities
The IWS will have direct links with the various faculties and instutes of the University which will help in the implementation of the MSc program (lecturing input) and research projects. Together with the International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering in The Netherlands, (IHE-Delft), BZU will establish a sustainable training and knowledge center at the University for professionals of the water sector in Palestine. Both partners are implementing an ongoing project Water Sector Capacity Building in Palestine (WASCAPAL) (1996 - 2001), to establish graduate education in water supply, wastewater engineering and hydrology, complete with research capacity to support the MSc program. IWS will implement the graduate program, perform research for the Palestinian community and generate income from consultancy and research assignments. The scope of the graduate program will be broadened to deliver graduates with an engineering as well as with a science or agricultural background.
Land Research Center (LRC)
On February 6, 2002 the LRC was forcefully shut down, data and equipment confiscated, by the Israeli security services. Please join our appeal on behalf of the LRC and other institutions.
4 Abu Obeida St.
P.O. BOX 20479
Jerusalem, Palestine
Tel (temporary): +972-2-2217239
Mobile: +972-50-507931
E-mail : lrc@palnet.com
Background
The Land Research Center (LRC) was established in Jerusalem in 1986 as a branch of the Arab Studies Society and as an independent, non-governmental, non-profit Palestinian organization. The organizations aims to protect Palestinian land through safeguarding Palestinian agriculture from Israeli violations, by making full linkages in shape and content between Arab Jerusalem and the remaining parts of occupied Palestinian territories and taking into consideration that Jerusalem is an integral part of the West Bank, as well as by working for the restoration of collective popular action with the aim of preserving land and agriculture with an emphasis on the prominent role of women in these areas . The LRC conducts research as well as produces publications on issues related to land, agriculture and training.
Activities
- Documenting, following-up and defending more than 200 lands, roads and settlement cases.
- Publishing a number of statistical based reports and studies on Israeli settlement activities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
- Preparing a study on Palestinian olive oil production in terms of quantity and quality, and exploring the possibilities of marketing abroad.
- The Agricultural Development Project which involves: implementing a number of agricultural family projects, implementing two land reclamation projects, implementing two small livestock projects, implementing a number of agricultural training projects, and implementing a project on the "Inventory of the Soil resources of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
LAW-The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment
P.O.Box 20873
Jerusalem, Palestine
Tel: +972-2-5833430 / 530 / 537
Fax: +972-2-5833317
E-mail: law@lawsociety.org
Website: www.lawsociety.org
Background
LAW, The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment, was founded in 1990 by a group of Palestinian lawyers to promote human rights and further the principles of the rule of law, and to defend Palestinian rights in accordance with international human rights law and United Nations declarations. LAW seeks to protect human rights through an intensive program of documenting and following up abuses and through providing legal and financial help to people in need.
Activities
LAW issues various kinds of reports, studies and other publications. The association organizes workshops and conferences on the subject of human rights abuses in the Israeli occupied territories and the Palestinian Autonomous areas, in order to raise human rights awareness and to strengthen community involvement against these abuses.
LAW represents Palestinians in legal cases to do with the environment, on the basis that environmental rights are integral to human rights. LAW raises lawsuits in both Israeli and Palestinian courts against pollution and other environmental violations.
The Local Committee for the Protection of the Environment
Nablus, Palestine
Background
The idea of the Local Committee for the Protection of the Environment was initiated by Save the Children Foundation (SCF) in Nablus. In 1995, SCF contacted a number of organizations and institutions concerned with the environment. A meeting was held and 10 organizations and institutions located in Nablus were selected to form the committee.
The organization's main goal of enhancing the community's environmental awareness is achieved by concentrating on working with children. The committee's main philosophy for succeeding in its mission is based on the idea of creating environmentally aware children who will be capable of protecting the environment and who will have an influence on society when they grow up.
Activities
To achieve its goal, the committee, through the Division of Education in Nablus District, has gathered the teachers through a workshop to educate them about environmental concepts and in order to clarify the importance of such a committee in the area, and to the concept behind its philosophy. The teachers were encouraged to form an environmental committee in each school. These committees have been formed and they began their activities, under the supervision of the Local Committee for the Protection of the Environment. Activities have included:
- Composing songs and organizing plays about issues related to the environment.
- Planning environmental games and writing contests.
- Publishing a calendar containing environmental insignias and pictures drawn by the children.
- Visiting the schools in Nablus District and participating in establishing public services utilities.
- Holding a number of awareness programs that concentrated on two main subjects: wastewater and solid waste.
MA'AN Development Center
P.O. Box 51352
Ramallah, Palestine
Telefax: +970 2 2954451/
+972 2 2986796/2986698
Gaza Branch Office
P.O.Box 5165
Gaza, Gaza Strip
Telefax: +970 7 2823712
E-Mail: maanc@palnet.com
Internet Site: www.maan-ctr.org
Background
MA'AN Development Center is an independent Palestinian developmental and training institution established and registered in Jerusalem in 1989 as a non-profit, non governmental organization. MA'AN was founded by a group of Palestinians who wanted to make a concrete contribution to the development of Palestine's national economy. MA'AN's early activities took place within the context of the Intifada, which was based on principles of non-lethal resistance and the incorporation of self-sufficient developmental initiatives in health, education, agriculture and so forth. Launching its work in the area of food processing and quality control, MA'AN worked with unregistered, and mainly, women's cooperatives and collectives to create income generating projects that worked towards national autonomy for the Palestinians. Today, MA'AN continues its work in these fields but has broadened its mandate to encompass initiatives to strengthen Palestinian institutions, develop the rural and agricultural sectors and contribute to the creation of income-generating projects.
Activities
- Organizing training programs in food processing and quality control techniques.
- Establishing two permacultural centers: MARDA in the West Bank and Khuza'a in the Gaza Strip.
- Initiating five agricultural development projects for 20 marginalized farmers
- Implementing a vocational program for women in house maintenance skills, including carpentry, plumbing, interior decoration, electrical wiring and installation, and small household equipment maintenance.
- Implementing a training program in food processing quality control.
- Running a Child to a Child pilot project, in cooperation with the Khuza'a Permaculture Center. Children were trained in community activities and participated in discussions on socio-related topics.
- Implementing the project "Empowering Palestinian Rural Women."
Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees
PARC
Jerusalem Office
P.O.Box 25128
Shu'fat, Jerusalem, Palestine
Tel: +972-2-5833818
Fax: +972-2-5831898
E-mail: pr@pal-arc.org
Website: www.pal-arc.org
Background
The Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees (PARC) was founded in 1983 by a group of Palestinian agronomists responding voluntarily to the deterioration in agricultural extension programs in the Jordan Valley area of the West Bank as a result of the Israeli occupation by offering expert advice to marginalized, poor farmers in the area. This voluntary effort gained momentum and recognition over a short period of time.
Today, PARC offers extension of land resources, raises awareness and provides support activities and services for individuals and groups of organizations working in the same field. The organization's aims include: Protecting and enlarging the amount of agricultural land and its productivity, achieving comprehensive environmental development, developing and optimizing the utilization of available water resources, promoting and increasing all aspects of production abilities of rural women, and empowering their role in the rural community, assisting in establishing, building and supporting institutions, committees and unions and mobilizing efforts in organizing individuals and groups in order to realize PARC's objectives in all areas related to the work, enhancing and achieving the development of the complementary agricultural activities, accomplishing the aims and potentials of PARC's workers, expanding their capabilities and raising their productivity skills, and developing and realizing the dynamic financing of the organization.
Activities
PARC'S main objectives of integrated development for Palestinian society have been achieved through their different departments. These include:
- Rural Women Development Department: the department implemented its activities and projects in the West Bank and Gaza Strip with 34 women agronomists and social workers.
- Extension and Land Development Department: The program of Extension and Land Development, through its three sections (Animal Production, Plant production, and Land Development), focused on consolidating the contribution of rural families to food security and the reclamation and utility of lands as well as alleviation of the use of chemicals in agriculture.
- Environment, Irrigation and Technology Transfer Department.
- Training and Support Activities Department: The department executed a number of activities through its different units. These include: The training unit, the Consultancy unit, information and publication unit, and ISO 9002 system.
- Institutional Building and grassroots relations Department.
The Palestinian Association for Cultural Exchange (PACE)
P. O. Box 841
Ramallah, Palestine
Nablus main road, Al-Bireh
Tel: + 972-2-2407610
Telefax: + 972-2-2407611
Email: pace@p-ol.com
Website: www.planet.edu/~pace
Background
The Palestinian Association for Cultural Exchange is a Palestinian NGO whose mission is to promote Palestinian culture through education, preservation, research, and exchange. PACE is committed to the rich history, diversity, and resources of Palestine and therefore to supporting an agenda that both protects heritage and promotes change. PACE recognizes that to uphold its vision, it must work together with the youth, educators and academics, rural and urban populations, community leaders, cultural organizations, international exchange programs, tourism, and the Diaspora in order to make a significant contribution. PACE was founded in 1996 by a group of Palestinian academics, activists, businessmen, and writers who were committed to Palestinian heritage and the strengthening of Palestinian society.
Activities
PACE focuses of the following areas:
- Cultural Tours and Lectures
- Youth Awareness
- The Diaspora
- Environment and Nature Protection
- Archeological Rehabilitation
- Publications and Research
- Income Generating Projects
Palestinian Hydrology Group (PHG)
Ramallah (Main Office)
Al-Ma'ahed St., Near Casablanca Hotel
PARC Building
PO Box 565
E-mail: phg@palnet.com
Website: www.phg.org
Tel: +972-2-2966315/8
Fax: +972-2966319
Offices in Jerusalem, Hebron, Nablus, and Gaza.
Background
The Palestinian Hydrology Group (PHG) was established in 1987 as a non-profit, non-governmental organization dedicated to developing and protecting water and environmental resources; to insure more public accessibility to adequate water supply sources and sanitary conditions, especially in rural areas; and to develop a Palestinian water information system. PHG is considered to be a major water information center, which provides services and consultation for water professionals, graduate students, journalists, politicians, local government councils, local and international firms and decision makers.
PHG main objectives center on the following:
- Upgrading the socio-economic situation of marginalized and poor communities.
- Empowering local communities, and lobbying governments to guarantee community participation in projects and justice in service.
- Helping to build the infrastructure of water and environmental services,
- Supporting the role of women in society.
Activities
The following is a list of PHG's primary projects:
- Conventional Water Resources Rehabilitation and Development, covering rainwater harvesting and rural and small community sanitation and water development.
- Awareness and Conservation, including lectures, workshops, campaigns and exhibits.
- Lobbying and Advocacy
- Research and Publication, including "Water Watch" and "Water and Environment".
Background
Roads and Environmental Safety Center (RESC)
P.O. Box 4497
PARC Bldg,. 1st floor
Ramallah, Palestine
Tel: +970 2 2963842
Fax: +970 2 2963850
Email: resc12000@yahoo.com
Website: www.resc.s5.com
RESC is an independent, non-profit Palestinian association specializing in road and environmental safety. RESC was established in the end of the year 2000. It is the sole center in Palestine with respect to its designated mandate. The objectives of RESC are the following:
- Increasing awareness on road and environmental safety issues.
- Conducting research on the environmental damage that results from traffic-related poisonous gasses and material.
- Organizing conferences, lectures, advocacy campaigns that aim at increasing the safety on the roads and reducing pollution.
- Encouraging individual and collective initiatives to achieve the goal of road and environmental safety.
- Studying the social, economic, and political impacts of the roads in general and the Israeli by-pass roads specifically.
- Presenting suggestions and recommendations to government bodies and municipalities to undertake practical precautions to
prevent road accidents and environmental pollution.
RESC's Mission is: Towards a Safe Road and Clean Environment.
ACTIVTIES
- Various awareness projects in relation to reducing air pollution resulting from vehicles.
- " Waste Tires Reuse as Playground Equipments and Agricultural Purposes": constructing school gardens using waste/used tires and performing lectures and workshops to show the negative effects of waste tires and how to make use of them in nature friendly ways.
- Lectures and production of informational material for schools in relation to air pollution, recycling and the construction of school
gardens.
The Society for Environmental Protection
Jenin, Palestine
Tel: +970-9-2385894
Background
The Association of Environment Protection was established in September 1996. The idea behind establishing this organization was mainly related to the lack of local and national organizations that work in the environmental field and the environmental disasters in Palestine, especially in Jenin. The association's main goals in protecting the Palestinian environment and minimizing the environmental problems are achieved by activating society's role and expanding public awareness.
Activities
- Environmental summer camps and tree planting campaigns.
- Posters and leaflets about wildlife in Jenin district.
- In the future, the organization is planning to implement more awareness programs about rock quarries and coal mines and is planning on organizing training programs for journalists and teachers in Jenin's private and public schools.
Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC)
PO Box 20338
Jerusalem, Palestine
Main Office: Ramallah
Tel: +970-2-2980316/54298
Fax: +970-2-2965545
E-mail: uawc@palnet.com
Offices in Jerusalem, Gaza, Hebron, and Tulkarem
Background
The UAWC was founded to provide farmers with an organization to represent and protect them in the absence of effective governmental agricultural departments. The Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) was established in 1986 as a non-governmental, non-profit, developmental organization and became the spokesperson and representative for the farmers and their demands and complaints in both the West Bank and Gaza. Today, the main goal of UAWC organization is to protect the Palestinian lands from Israeli settlements and work on the development of farmers' efficiency.
Activities
The Union of Agricultural Work Committees for the promotion of sustainable development of issues related to agriculture and environment have achieved its goals from programs and projects that have been conducted by its different units:
- Training and Extension Units: Arranging field visits to different areas in the West Bank and the Gaza strip, distributing agricultural pamphlets in many areas, holding seminars and workshops on different subjects related to agriculture, preparing broadcast programs that discuss a wide range of agricultural and rural development aspects, training of agricultural engineers, and establishing a training center and an agricultural laboratory in the Gaza Strip.
- Women's Unit. Implementing courses in preserving nutritional foods and public relations, organizing seminars related to rural women's awareness and distributing pamphlets about Brucellosis and diseases that affect chickens in the summer, including methods of treatment.
- Land Development Program: Includes reclamation's leveling, planting various types of seedlings, digging water cisterns and building retaining walls.
- Food for Work program.
Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees (UPMRC)
PO Box 51483
Jerusalem, Palestine
Tel: +972-2-5833510/2697/8/4021
Fax: +972-2-5830679
Email: mrs@baraka.org
Website: www.upmrc.org
Offices in Ramallah, Gaza, Hebron, Nablus, and Tulkarem.
Background
The Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees (UPMRC) was founded in 1979 by a group of Palestinian doctors responding to the deterioration in health care services in the West Bank and Gaza as a result of the Israeli occupation. Organizations which had traditionally provided welfare services, such as charitable societies, were not able to keep up with the growing needs of the population poorly served by health and other care structures run by the military authorities. Over the years, UPMRC expanded its constituency to include some 1,200 participating physicians, nurses, laboratory technicians, pharmacists and other health professionals, the majority of them volunteers.
UPMRC's work is a concrete realization of the objectives of the organization, which can be specified as follows: To create a health infrastructure which meets the needs of Palestinians in Palestine; To provide primary health care services to those most in need, with special emphasis on women's health, maternal and child care; To emphasize preventive health care; To aid in consciousness-raising and health education; To emphasize and further coordination and cooperation between different health institutions; To assist in research and identification of health problems; To help people help themselves rather than treating only medical symptoms.
Activities
UPMRC has a separate department dealing with the environment and health. Like its other units, the environment and health provides health education and medical care. In cooperation with UNICEF, UPMRC has facilitated comprehensive education and screening campaigns to help combat child health problems common in the occupied territories, such as acute respiratory infection, diarrhea, etc.
Water and Environment Department-Ramallah Municipality
Ramallah, Palestine
Tel: +972-2-2963217/216
Email: ramallah@planet.edu
Website: www.ramallah-city.org
Background
The town council of Ramallah was established in 1910. The Water and Environment Department is part of the Ramallah Municipality and works together with the Engineering and Health Departments of the Municipality. The Water and Environment Department is responsible for solid waste collection and sanitation in the city.
Water and Soil Environmental Research Unit (WSERU), Bethlehem University
P. O. Box 9
Bethlehem – Palestine
Tel: + 970-2-2741242
Fax: + 970-2-2744440
Email: abedrabo@bethlehem.edu
Background
The commitment of Bethlehem University to the needs of the local Palestinian community is part of its founding statement. Particular needs were identified following an extensive socio-economic survey conducted by the university during the late 1980s. The university’s outreach program was based on the findings of this survey. The Water and Soil Environmental Research Unit (WSERU) is part of this Outreach Program, and was established in 1988 by the Chemistry Department. WSERU has been able to respond effectively to requests from a large number of municipal authorities for help and information on water quality issues.
Activities
WSERU has set up an ongoing database on the water quality of the West Bank and Gaza. The unit has also developed a program for water and soil analysis for its graduates and others for whom such techniques are valuable in their careers.
The West Bank is an area of water stress, and so WSERU’s concern is with water quantity as well as quality. WSERU cooperates fully with the Palestinian Water Authority and also works with relevant international and local NGOs, academic and professional institutions. WSERU provides data and make recommendations to the appropriate agencies. WSERU also has an extensive list of publications.
Water and Environmental Studies Center (WESC),
Al Najah University
P.O.Box 7
Nablus, Palestine
Tel: +972-9-2383124
Fax: +972-9-2387982
E-mail: anan@najah.edu
Background
The Water and Environment Studies Center (WESC) was established in 1994 to meet the needs of the Palestinian community in the areas of water and environmental control, maintenance and education. The partners of and interested parties in the WESC include the Palestinian National Authority, water departments and utilities, municipalities, village councils, NGOs, international organizations, industries, farmers, as well as individuals involved in analyzing and evaluating water and environmental problems. WESC has four main laboratories (water, wastewater, soil, and microbiological) and one technical administrative section.
Activities
WESC has been involved in the following projects:
- Carrying out a regional project on water resources planning and management in Palestine.
- Carrying out a project on Irrigation Water Management in Palestine.
- Establishing a Geographical Information System (GIS) Unit.
- Conducting different Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) for infrastructure projects and industrial sectors in Palestine.
Wildlife Palestine Society (WLPS)
P.O.BOX 89
Beit Sahour, Palestine
Tel: +970-2-2774750
Telefax: +970-2-2774373
E-mail: wildlife@palnet.com
Website: www.wildlife-pal.org
Background
Wildlife Palestine Society evolved from Children for the Protection of Nature in Palestine (CPNP), which was a project from the Lutheran Schools and other private schools, upon their requests. WLPS was founded unofficially in autumn 1998. Since then, WLPS has had clear and strategic objectives regarding environmental concepts, protection of nature, and preservation of diverse species while the CPNP main objectives and activities concentrate on public and children awareness. WLPS stresses the "think globally, act locally" conservation philosophy. WLPS does intensive work in the field of awareness and education. In addition, WLPS is a part of the National biodiversity strategy and action plan for Palestine and Palestinian Environmental Authority.
Activities
Wildlife Palestine nature conservation programs and projects include:
- Establishment of monitoring stations of the wildlife (flora and fauna) in three stations - Beit Jala, Jericho, and Gaza by 2001.
- Training of local and regional ecologists on nature conservation and management.
- Education and Promotion Program: Emphasizing education and promotion of birds and habitats through its activities with school and children, trips to nature reserves, and similar activities, production of printing materials including posters, magazines and video tapes, and inclusion of birds and wildlife conservation in national curriculum for schools.
- Introducing eco-tourism concepts in the Palestinian society.
