LEMUR film
"Training the next generation of wildlife professionals"
The LEMUR team has produced a short 10 minute promotional film to capture the essence of the LEMUR bursary training scheme and broaden the awareness of the state of the environmental conservation's skill base.
The film illustrates the problems nature conservation organisations have recruiting suitably skilled people and suggests that the LEMUR training model is one way forward - it invites you to add your voice to make the difference.
(A transcript of the entire film will be available shortly.)
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It is hoped that watching the film will stimulate an emotional response and greater understanding of the need to invest in both our current and the next generation of field naturalists, both professional and amateur. In order to make this happen, it requires current educational provision to create more flexible mainstream funding pathways to enable projects like LEMUR to continue.
It is intended that the LEMUR film will communicate the following messages:
- Perceptions of the state of the sector’s skill base as viewed by the sector skills council (LANTRA), the Institute of Ecology & Environmental Management (IEEM), Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, universities, Heritage Lottery Fund, trainees, environmental conservation employers, amateur naturalist societies
- Implications for nature conservation and climate change and the future health of our wildlife
- The nature, range and degree of skills shortages in nature conservation
- Experience a taste of an exemplary training model called LEMUR that is successfully improving the quality and availability of skills to the heritage sector.
- The loss of ongoing funding of schemes such as LEMUR will result in the drastic reduction in availability of these skills.
