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2009 Animal L. Comm. Newsl. 1 (2009)

handle is hein.journals/anilawcn2009 and id is 1 raw text is: Summer 2009 Animal Law Committee SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH OF HUMANE EDUCATION PUBLIC SERVICE PROJECT By: Meena Alagappan In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught. - Baba Dioum, Ecologist The Animal Law Committee recently launched the Humane Education Project as a joint public service project of the TIPS' Animal Law and Law in Public Service Committees; and Humane Education Advocates Reaching Teachers (HEART), a nonprofit public charity. The primary objective of the Humane Education Project is to cultivate compassion and empathy in our youth toward animals and foster respect for the environment. In March 2009, we began piloting this program in Washington, DC and New York City, where interested volunteers were trained by two of HEART's teachers, Kimberly Korona and Casey Sullivan, to offer a four- lesson humane education program for fourth and fifth grade students. As part of the project, the Animal Law Committee (the Committee) and HEART published a comprehensive Humane Education Training Manual including detailed lesson plans, teaching tips, classroom Continued on page 24