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Online Training Course Offered to Conservancy Partners and staff in Latin America

Course will provide participants with the training and knowledge they need to advance their conservation agendas with greater success

Monterrey, MEXICO — August 1st, 2008 — The Conservancy’s Mexico Program invites conservation staff and partners to participate in an online training course titled “Conservation Strategies and Techniques” offered in partnership with Mexico’s Monterrey Tech University. Distance learning classes through Monterrey Tech will be offered in conservation planning, finance and legal tools for conservation, and business planning for natural protected areas. The 96-hour Spanish-language course takes approximately 3 ½ months to complete and participants receive a certificate upon completion.

Online classes allow students to participate in the course from home, their workplaces or any place with an internet connection. Emphasis is placed on group learning through student networks that allow for the exchange of ideas and knowledge based on participants’ experiences in their own region.  During each course, participants work on a practical project from their own area. They complete the course with products tailored to their regions such as conservation plans, natural protected area business plans, fundraising and financing plans, among others
 

For more information about this online training opportunity, please contact Karen Wong at kwong@tnc.org or register at http://www.massociedad.org.mx/ed_01/. The cost of the course is $550, but scholarships are available to some applicants. Registration is open until August 25, 2008, when the course begins.

The Nature Conservancy is a leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people. To date, the Conservancy and its more than one million members have been responsible for the protection of more than 15 million acres in the United States and have helped preserve more than 102 million acres in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.