Ecological education in the Polish national parks – data from 2010
Journal Title: Roczniki Bieszczadzkie - Year 2012, Vol 20, Issue 1
Abstract
In 23 Polish national parks high qualified educational staff works, having long time experience and offering wide range of educational programmes. There are 116 educational workers supported by 40 technical workers, and 90 other persons from park staff, as well as ca. 500 persons from outside the parks (Fig. 1). Good, although not always sufficient, educational basis amounts to 89 objects, in this number 25 educational centres, 20 field stations, 24 museums and stable exhibitions, 17 field exhibitions, and 10 others, as well as 144 educational trails (natural and historical) of total length 665 km (Fig. 3). The territory of national parks is visited by 11 millions of visitors per year (basing on tickets sold and estimations) (Fig. 8). Museums and other exhibitions are visited by ca. 1 million person per year (Fig. 2). In 2010 national parks published 180 new publications, with total number of copies amounting to ca. 1 017 950 (Fig. 4, 5; Table 1), in this number 28 periodicals (11 periodicals have electronic version). Parks organized ca. 2 580 educational events, in which took part ca. 388 650 persons. Ecological education of local society were carried out, inter alia, by co-operation with ca. 1500 schools and within 162 educational programmes (Fig. 6, 7), in which ca. 68 400 pupils from school of different level took part. All these activities were financed from different sources e.g. own budget, National and Regional Funds of Environment Protection, European Union programmes, etc. In 2012 national parks became corporate bodies in sector of public finances. Future questionnaire investigations will show if the change of legal status will have influence on educational activity in Polish national parks.
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Beata Szary
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