Topic 06: History of Wood Badge 75

for scouts or to improve their environmental management practices. They may serve as important natural habitats or contribute to the protection of plants, animals and habitats in the local area.

One of the main strengths of SCENES is that it provides a place for young people to have direct experience with nature and the environment in a fun and hands-on way. These experiences can help them to apply what they have learnt when they return home. The SCENES Network further strengthens these experiences by connecting the individual SCENES Centres to work in co-operation with other SCENES Centres and scout throughout the world for the benefit of the environment. More can be achieved when working together in co-operation that by many individual action alone. SCENES Centres can open the eyes of the Scout visitor to the diverse natural wonder throughout out the world and make a lasting impression on them.

An Educational Exercise:

Conservation is one of the important subjects itemized in the Four Point programme launched out by the WWF (World Wide Fund) and WSB (World Scout Bureau) together; it can be explained in clear and definite terms as the spread and dissemination of knowledge. There is no grain saying the fact that there are millions and millions of men and women in the world, who have not yet got an adequate idea of what conservation is, what its aims and purposed are and what role every one of them must play in order to promote the cause of the present ecological crusade. A world wise propaganda on the subject is very urgent and necessary and all men should be given an opportunity to know and realize the urgency and emergency of the situation and summoned up to render all possible assistance to meet it, lest the bogey of exploitation should continue to hold its way and sway the deprive the poor endangered species of their chance of survival. It is for this reason that the great European Conservation Campaign of 1970 in which twenty countries took part has formulated the following aim and tried its best to carry out it.

“To make conservation problem clearer to everyone so that there will be better support for any measures needed to deal with them”

Any kind of delay in our salvaging oprations will have a very serious impact and repercussion on the Wildlife population a a whold. There is no time to lsoe, not even a minute. Referring to the urgency of the situation, what Sir Pert Scott has said is veritably true and he has cautioned us saying, ―It is a fire brigade action, where time is not on our side‖. But how