The Peak National Park Study Centre, Losehill Hall has never been short of ideas. In its position close to, but just outside, the official educational system, it can attempt to objectively assess trends, formulate policies, and, in accordance with its own conservation objectives, make a positive contribution to curriculum development and innovation in environmental education. On Wednesday, 5th March 1980, as the World Conservation Strategy (WCS) was launched in London and 30 other capital cities, the Peak Park simultaneously gave its own regional launch with a press conference at Losehill Hall. This public commitment by the National Park however needed positive action to follow. Thus Conservation Action Project (CAP) was born. It is a three year scheme to set up conservation projects which involve classroom work, outdoor studies and practical tasks. The aim is to increase students' awareness of their immediate environment and to get actively involved in its conservation. Over half the schools in the National Park now have projects which include setting up of school nature reserves and tree nurseries, tree planting, re-seeding old meadows, and wildlife monitoring. Community action has been a keynote involving local villagers, farmers, industrialists and elected officials.
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