آموزش محیط زیست، لازم اما ناکافی

The transmission of experiences and knowledge is not a unique phenomenon of the human species, but in other animals there are also forms of learning and training. For example, the tail of the canes (Meerkat, Suricata suricatta) are patient teachers. In order to educate their children, these native African animals, who are the closest domestic relatives to small and large deer, are first fed a dead scorpion to feed them. Scorpio is quite alive to literally teach them about scorpions. A similar pattern is seen in cats (Thornton & Raihani, 2008).

Rarely can environmental articles be found that do not mention the role of education and its use as a solution. Education has always been recommended as a vital element in conservation science, and it has also been used as a way to reduce waste and less waste. (Howe, 2009)

The need for environmental education is felt today more than ever because people's awareness of environmental issues is not comparable to that of a decade ago and has made significant progress. Today's society has reacted much more to environmental news. However, the virtual space has not been ineffective in the meantime. In this turbulent market, recognizing accurate and evidence-based news from baseless and so-called Fake News may be misleading. Proper training on environmental issues and margins by a specialized source and by providing evidence can help the audience, which, although a late method of return, should not be overlooked. In this regard, educating children is more important because it is more educable and effective, an investment that is being made all over the world and a job called Wildlife Educator in most conservation projects can be mentioned as an example.

But it should be noted that education alone will not be enough in many cases. Training will be difficult when used in conjunction with other strategies. For example, in the field of management of urban stray dogs, owner training should be done in addition to reducing the available food resources (here waste) and sterilization to solve the problem. Just as education alone will not prevent poaching, so more ethics is needed to keep poachers out of poaching. But training must be done alongside all of this. Given the importance of the issue, in this issue we reviewed some of the global and domestic experiences. We hope to further apply our knowledge in this area.

The Environmental Science Association of the University of Tehran has always considered environmental education as one of its missions, and Zayn will continue to do so.