Seeing Is Caring: Ecoventure Gives Emirate Children Hands On Experience

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 Emirate children will have a chance to seek their teeth into nature at the new Ecoventure Field Study Center.

Children in America were asked where their beef comes from. Their answer? The supermarket. This could be a classic case of the stupid American, or it could point to the wider implication. Many children have never been to a farm, much less the kind of beef factory that has put thousands of animal lovers off meat forever. They can’t integrate the knowledge that the calf is born, then it’s fed until it grows into a juicy fat cow, and then… well, I’ll leave out the grizzly details.

Instead, most children only see the inert piece of beef in the refrigerated section of a supermarket. If we don’t show them, we can’t expect them tocare  how it got there. The same applies to the wild. Dubai’s city children rarely get to experience nature up close and personal, to fall in love with its genius, so they have little incentive to protect it. But now they have a chance thanks to Ecoventure, the UAE’s first field study center.
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