WILDLIFE-PRESERVATION-TRUST-CANADA - ESTABLISHMENT, CONSERVATION-PROGRAMS CANADAS NEW-NOAHS-PROGRAM

The establishment of Wildlife Preservation Trust Canada (WPTC) and the development of a programme unique to the 'Trusts' programmes, Canada' s New Noahs (CNN) programme, are described, The programme was designed to address a gap in conservation education and training of Canadian s cientists and to provide resources and field assistance to the Trusts' conservation activities in Mauritius. The programme is divided into t wo phases: for the first three month phase, the trainee attends the Tr usts' International Training Programme at JWPT; for the second phase o n Mauritius, the trainee gains six to seven months of practical in-sit u experience of the Trusts' conservation activities in that country, T he programme has been successful in attracting good applicants, contri buting to the scientific knowledge base, providing assistance to the M auritius projects as well as attracting funding and publicity in Canad a for WPTC.