Next month will mark 25 years since enactment of the Iwokrama Act, which marked the establishment of the Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Iwokrama Inter-national Centre has announced that it will celebrate the milestone through a series of low key activities throughout the year.
In a statement issued last week, the Centre said it will launch a series of educational presentations and videos to start its observances. The series are meant to be educational for students and even for the general public, it said, while noting that they will target issues such as biodiversity, protected areas, the business of conservation, and other activities that Iwokrama is involved with. “The idea is to educate and empower students to make decisions about choosing conservation as a career but also make the general public more aware of conservation activities in Guyana,” the Centre noted.
