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ABOUT ASSOCIATION "ECOSYSTEM"
Here I want to greet you in the name of thousands of Russian ecologists and educators
and their students, working in the field of environmental education, ecological research
and the protection of Nature. All of us are united in the non-governmental organization
entitled The Eurasian Association of Youth Environmental Groups "Ecosystem".
This page contains some information about the main areas of our activity.
You are welcome to cooperate with us!
Dr. Alexander S.Bogolyubov
President of "Ecosystem" Association
The main objective of the "Ecosystem" Association is the consolidation
of the environmental and field ecology education movement among
young people throughout Russia and the former Soviet Union Republics.
The "Ecosystem" Association unites teachers and administrators with their
classes, clubs, societies and other groups from: Young Naturalists Stations (552 in Russia
and about 200 in the former Soviet Union republics), ecological and biological education
centers (150), Clubs of Young Tourists (300), ecological clubs at schools (about 350),
universities (160) and public youth environmental groups (about 120). Each of these clubs
and centers consists from 100 - 1500 young members and 10-50 teachers. Most governmental
and non-governmental youth environmental groups from all 89 administrative regions are
members of the "Ecosystem" Association. You can see the organizations united by
"Ecosystem" on the map of Russia:
Members of the Association use innovative methods of work with children: field
ecological investigation, scientific research, work in different large-scale and local
projects, participation in scientific research contests, field camps, expeditions and
nature trips in Russia.
The main "Ecosystem's" activities are:
- the training of teachers (conferences, seminars, training courses), working in
environmental education - both formal and non-formal, both out-of-school and within the
school system, with the aim of involving them in field environmental investigation and
scientific research with children;
- the collection and spreading of information about new developments in environmental
formal and non-formal education, about the methods of field studies, research and
practical environmental projects for children, new technologies in education, different
contests, conferences, and seminars all over the world;
- the publishing of new projects and the translation of foreign-language works, the
coordination of work on research and practical projects in different fields of biology,
geography and nature conservation;
- international contests of research and practical works of young naturalists in different
subjects of Biology, Geography and Ecology;
- carrying out conferences and school camps for the winners of the above contests;
- nature trips and expeditions throughout Russia, studying various habitats and their
natural history - animals, plants, and landscapes .
of the Association working in Moscow have great experience in carrying out different
activities for teachers and young ecologists, working in the last 10 years in different
governmental educational and scientific organizations. As an example, there are following
For students: International and All-Russian Contests for young ecologists in
Ornithology, Botany, Water Ecology, Ecological investigation; International Youth
Ornithological Camp-School, All-Russian Camps in Geobotany, Water Ecology.
For teachers: The All-Russian Conference for teachers-zoologists, the
All-Russian Seminar for administrators of environmental education, teaching courses
"Use of field ecology methodology in environmental education".
The number of participants in each activity ranged from 20 to 60 students, and from 10
to 40 teachers. Beginning from 1995 we are carrying out all our camps and courses at our
own Field Ecological Center which is situated near Moscow, in
the middle of old coniferous forest. At our Field Studies Center we carry out ecological
(environmental science, biology and geography) field
practices for Moscow city schools. In 1996-2005 there were more than 750 2-4 day field
practices for over 30 000 students (11-16 years old) from more than 100 Moscow city
Especially for wild nature lovers and students we suggest field trips and expeditions to different
places of interest through the last wild regions of Russia (including summer field
curriculum practices for student biologists and geographers).
Among our Association members we have all the necessary facilities for tourists - local
hotels with rooms for 2-4 persons, hot water and bath or shower, restaurants with meals
three times a day, field trails for excursions, guides, biologists and geographers,
interpreters, buses for excursions, cultural programs in Moscow and other cities (visiting
theatres, circuses, national art museums, folk dances, old Russian villages, etc.).
As well as visiting local places we suggest a few "transcontinental" trips
through different nature zones of Russia. There are the trips by train to Siberia and Far
East and then by ship through the largest rivers in the World: Ob', Yenisei or Lena from
their upper parts in the South to their mouths in the North with short stops. The return
to Moscow is by air, followed by several days in Moscow.
Katika mwaka wa 2000, Shirika la Maendeleo ya Mazingira la Shirika la Mazingira la Shirika la Mazingira la Shirika la Mazingira la Shirika la Mazingira la Shirika la Mazingira la Shirika la Mazingira la Shirika la Mazingira la Shirika la Mazingira la Shirika la Mazingira la Shirika la Shirika la Mazingira la Shirika la Shirika la Mazingira la Shirika la Shirika la Shirika la Shirika la Shirika la Shirika la Shirika la Shirika la Shirika. "Kuhusu ""Ecosystem"" Association, hapa nataka kukusalimu kwa jina la maelfu ya Urusi ekolojia na walimu na wanafunzi wao, kufanya kazi katika uwanja wa elimu ya mazingira, utafiti wa ikolojia na ulinzi wa asili." Sisi sote tumekuwa pamoja katika shirika lisilo la kiserikali linaloitwa The Eurasian Association of Youth Environmental Groups "Ecosystem". Ukurasa huu una habari fulani kuhusu maeneo makuu ya shughuli zetu. Unakaribishwa kushirikiana nasi! "Aleksandr Bogolyubov, Rais wa Chama cha ""Ecosystem"" alisema: ""Lengo kuu la Chama cha ""Ecosystem"" ni kuimarisha harakati ya elimu ya mazingira na mazingira ya shamba miongoni mwa vijana kote Urusi na Jamhuri za zamani za Muungano wa Sovieti." Chama cha Ecosystem kinajumuisha walimu na wasimamizi na madarasa yao, vilabu, vyama na vikundi vingine kutoka: Vituo vya Young Naturalists (Rusia 552 na karibu 200 katika jamhuri za zamani za Muungano wa Sovieti), vituo vya elimu ya ikolojia na kibiolojia (150), Klabu za Watalii Wachanga (300), vilabu vya ikolojia katika shule (karibu 350), vyuo vikuu (160) na vikundi vya umma vya mazingira vya vijana (karibu 120). Kila klabu ina washiriki 100 hadi 1500 na walimu 10 hadi 50. "Kama ilivyoelezwa hapo juu, ""kijamii cha vijana wa mazingira kutoka mikoa yote ya kiutawala ya 89 ni wanachama wa Chama cha Ecosystem.""" "Kama ilivyoelezwa katika makala ya kwanza ya ""Mfumo wa mazingira"" ya Shirika la Watoto, wanachama wa Shirika la Watoto hutumia mbinu za ubunifu za kufanya kazi na watoto: uchunguzi wa mazingira ya shamba, utafiti wa kisayansi, kazi katika miradi tofauti ya kiwango kikubwa na ya ndani, ushiriki katika mashindano ya utafiti wa kisayansi, kambi za shamba, safari na safari za asili nchini Urusi." Shirika la Mafunzo ya Mazingira (Ecosystem) linafanya kazi katika sekta ya elimu ya mazingira (mikutano, semina, kozi za mafunzo), pamoja na kuandaa mafunzo ya ufundi wa mazingira (mikutano, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, semina, sem Miongoni mwa watu wanaofanya kazi katika shirika hilo ni wanafunzi na wasomi wa mazingira, ambao wamekuwa wakifanya kazi katika taasisi mbalimbali za elimu na sayansi. Kwa mfano, kuna zifuatazo Kwa wanafunzi: Mashindano ya Kimataifa na All-Russian kwa wanasaikolojia vijana katika Ornithology, Botaniki, Ekolojia ya Maji, Uchunguzi wa Kiikolojia; International Youth Ornithological Camp-School, All-Russian Camps katika Geobotany, Ekolojia ya Maji. Kwa walimu: Mkutano wa Urusi wote kwa walimu-zoologists, Semina ya Urusi yote kwa wasimamizi wa elimu ya mazingira, kufundisha kozi "Matumizi ya mbinu ya ikolojia ya shamba katika elimu ya mazingira". Idadi ya washiriki katika kila shughuli ilikuwa kuanzia wanafunzi 20 hadi 60, na walimu 10 hadi 40. Kuanzia mwaka 1995 tunafanya kambi zetu zote na kozi zetu katika Kituo chetu cha Mazingira cha Shamba, ambacho kiko karibu na Moscow, katikati ya msitu wa zamani wa coniferous. Katika Kituo chetu cha Mafunzo ya Shamba tunafanya mazoezi ya shamba ya ikolojia (sayansi ya mazingira, biolojia na jiografia) kwa shule za jiji la Moscow. Katika mwaka wa 1996-2005, kulikuwa na zaidi ya 750 2-4 siku mazoezi ya shamba kwa zaidi ya wanafunzi 30,000 (miaka 11-16), kutoka zaidi ya 100 Moscow, hasa kwa wapenzi wa asili ya mwitu na wanafunzi, tunapendekeza safari za shamba na safari za maeneo tofauti ya maslahi kupitia maeneo ya mwisho ya mwitu wa Urusi (ikiwa ni pamoja na mazoezi ya shamba ya majira ya joto kwa wanafunzi wa biolojia na jiografia). Katika nchi yetu, kuna hoteli za kawaida na vyumba vya watu 2-4 na maji ya moto na kuoga au kuoga, mikahawa na chakula mara tatu kwa siku, njia za shamba kwa ajili ya matembezi, viongozi, biolojia na wanahistoria, wahamasishaji, mabasi kwa ajili ya matembezi, mipango ya kitamaduni katika Moscow na miji mingine (kutembelea majumba ya maonyesho, circuses, makumbusho ya sanaa ya kitaifa, dansi za watu, vijiji vya zamani vya Urusi, nk.). Pamoja na kutembelea maeneo ya ndani tunapendekeza safari chache za "transcontinental" kupitia maeneo tofauti ya asili ya Urusi. Safari za treni za Siberia na Mashariki ya Mbali na kisha kwa meli kupitia mito mikubwa zaidi duniani: Ob, Yenisei au Lena kutoka sehemu zao za juu Kusini hadi midomo yao Kaskazini na kuacha kwa muda mfupi. Kurudi Moscow ni kwa ndege, ikifuatiwa na siku kadhaa huko Moscow.