Self Learning Modules - HWB Scout Masters

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we can do this on a world-wide basis is the crux of our problem. Since pollution and exploitation are world-wide and multination is vogue, they must positively be combated from all quarter of the globe. Remarkably, it is also the same case with exploitation of the Wild life, which is running and vibrating in every nook and corner of our planet earth as has been explained already earlier. Because the Scout Movement is a world-wide and international organization with the mammoth strength of millions of scouting serving about 150 countries, because it is a movement of youth who are endowed with a powerful spirit of achievement and idealism and because it is an organization with a firm basis and a strong bias for the principles of woodcraft and consequently ecosystem as seen already, it is best calculated to strengthen and further the cause of conservation on a global and multinational scale. This poses itself as the strongest and the most persuasive argument for scouting to take part and co-operate in the current conservation campaign. A unique Form of Service: The declaration of intent calls on the Scout Movement to help carry out a very educative and comprehensive scheme of establishing information centers in different parts of the globe. Every community is advised to set up a Nature Reserve of its own in close proximity to or in contiguity with national Training and Campaign centers for scout, Of course, the scout concerned will be only too glad to render all the necessary help and assistance to them in this regard. They may even go to the extent of managing the centers themselves, provided necessary facilities are afforded to them by the community in charge. The second plan which is of equal importance opens a new and unique avenue of serviced for scout and particularly for the Senior and rover scouts to furnish the necessary details about the Wild life and Conservation to visitor s and others, who call at the National Parks a zoos and Reserves. Thirdly, the scout movement is requested to explore the possibility of sitting new training camps and resetting the old ones on the basis of the conservation principles and objectives as adumbrated in the WSB manual. It is believed that this sort of reorientation of camping and training is quiet easy for scouts to introduce since all that they have got to do is to amplify or intensity their usual programmes, which are more or


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