Samoa: Respecting the Mangroves
Case Study: Educating for the Future
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Many people believe that education is one of the most important ways to help the environment. People from the community, from non government organisations (NGOs) and from the government, work in such programs.
Tepa Suesi is an environmental education officer with the government. He takes visitors and children into special conservation areas, including mangroves, and his office walls are covered with drawings and letters of thanks. Tepa knows how important education about the environment is.
He says that people today have the wrong attitude. He believes that the way forward is to educate young people to see the world in a positive way. As Tepa says "We, the adults should tell how the world should and could be so we can all work together towards that vision. This would break the idea that we can't make it happen!"
The more that people learn about fragile environments such as mangroves and how to care for them, the better the chances of their survival. The survival of the mangrove areas would also ensure the healthy survival of the people.
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