Conservation education: the need for regional approaches supporting local initiatives

Conservation education has usually focused on local scales; however, local approaches may lack the capacity to cope with conservation problems that sp an multiple spatial and temporal scales. I present an educational model to foster local educational initiatives supported by regional perspectives. Br inging local and regional educational perspectives together could enhance t he success of conservation programs as a result not only of actions conduct ed at local and regional scales but also of synergistic effects deriving fr om interactions between local and regional people. This model has a broad a pplication to many management and conservation problems.