ERIC Number: EJ1441280
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Apr
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ISSN: ISSN-0814-0626
EISSN: EISSN-2049-775X
Caring Enough to Counter Extinction: The Work of Volunteer Bat Carers and Educators in Tropical Queensland, Australia
Australian Journal of Environmental Education, v40 n2 p359-370 2024
In the state of Queensland, volunteers perform much of the work needed to prevent the extinction of threatened species who are native and unique to this continent. Acting from an understanding of interspecies justice, caring people rescue and rehabilitate hundreds of thousands of wild animals every year. Many of these same people conduct informal environmental education to bring to community attention the problematics of extinction by seeking the material expression of an ethics of conviviality. Using a document case study approach, this paper narrates aspects of the kindship work of a network of carers and educators of flying foxes who undertake informal environmental education as part of their care practices. Volunteering to care and educate for Australian flying mammals is a form of activism in a nation with a mammalian extinction crisis that still fails to meet its obligations under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 15. This paper describes how volunteer run informal environmental education in far north Queensland is driven by a strong sense of multispecies care.
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Wildlife, Informal Education, Networks, Volunteers, Activism, Sustainable Development, Objectives, Foreign Countries, Conservation (Environment)
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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