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No fewer than 30 media practitioners mainly
editors, web-designers, radio presenters and online reporters from the print
and electronic media 15th March, 2014 hold a day long capacity
enhancement on environmental editing, reporting and broadcasting, at the
Wellingara Horticulture Model Centre.
Organised by the Biodiversity Action Journalists-The Gambia
(BAJ-Gambia), through funding from UNDP GEF-Small Grants Programme
(UNDEP/GEF-SGP), the grant is meant to implement a twelve-month project on
public awareness on ‘Environmental Protection and Mitigation’ nationwide.
The objective of the project is designed to promote public participation
in Protected Area Management of environmental and biodiversity resources for
posterity.
BAJ-The Gambia is an environmental and natural resources journalists’
organisation, with a membership of 70 practising journalists from both print
and electronic (social) media community radios and youth activists across the
country, aimed at advocating sustainable use of biological and natural
resources for generations yet unborn.
Mamadou Edrisa Njie, BAJ-Gambia social-secretary said the project is
meant to protect and mitigate the environment, working in collaboration with
Gambia Press Union, National Environmental Agency (NEA), Young Journalists
Association of The Gambia (YJAG), MOBSE and other relevant stakeholders across
the country.
