Educational Work
你有否試過在遠足的時候發現道路上有被人打死的蛇或其他兩爬動物？其實兩棲及爬行動物並不是你想象中那麼可怕，大部分的兩爬動物更對人無害。如果你看見牠們的話，只要你懂得尊重牠們，跟牠們保持一定的距離，牠們不但不會攻擊你，你更有機會可以欣賞牠們的美態！
對兩爬的誤解
當你走過金魚街，你會看見很多商店都售賣兩爬，當中以龜類為最常見，其次為蜥蜴、蛙類及蛇類。由於兩爬寵物的價格高，也受大眾歡迎，市場上買賣的風氣盛行。但是你有否想過在很多人購買兩爬作為寵物的同時，亦有很多人遺棄原本飼養中的兩爬？我們希望透過教育令市民改變動物買賣的看法，領養代替購買。
買賣的風氣
你有養寵物嗎？養寵物前有否留意動物需求的空間、餐單、習性、設備等？很多人就是因為養動物前沒有考慮清楚動物的需求，更沒有考慮自己能否給予寵物一個合適的飼養環境，結果將動物帶回家後才發現自己不適合飼養該寵物。最後那些被認為不適合飼養的寵物被主人遺棄街頭。飼養寵物是一生一世的承諾，飼養前主人必須做好資料蒐集，思考清楚才決定飼養，做一個負責任的主人！
遺棄動物
動物福利的「五大需求」概念，是來自英國於2006年訂立的動物福利法，為保障動物能被妥善照顧及合適對待，以免承受不必要痛苦。若以兩棲及爬行動物作為例子，即使同樣是龜，也有水龜和陸龜之分，因此並不能一概而論，我們需要視乎個別物種和情況，提供合適的日常護理。
動物福利五大需求
當你見到龜苓膏的時候，你會想起什麼？美食？藥用價值？還是虐待動物？很多人認為吃龜苓膏可以降火，可是龜苓膏的受歡迎程度讓我們相信龜苓膏的功效被「神化」了！龜苓膏中的龜苓，是指龜甲，其藥用價值有助陰虛陽亢、肝腎不足、筋骨失養、陰血不足等症狀，但是其實這些症狀可以容易地被其他草藥代替，根本無需使用龜隻作食材。在科學上，其醫學用途未被證實，其壯陽功效更是純屬誤傳。
食用兩爬的風氣
Experiential Learning
Our educational efforts value the experience of our participants. Through allowing the participants to feel, experience and gain contact with herpetofauna, they could change their negative impressions on herps.
Participants of seminars are closely observing and contacting the animals. Regardless of a minority of participants that show some fear towards the reptiles and amphibians, we discover that many of them are very curious about these scaly creatures and are very willing to touch them!
The nature is our border-less classroom! We always lead citizens and students to go outdoors for investigations, so they can experience wildlife surveying. Besieged by the natural environment, learning and understanding the roles of herps, their behaviors and conservation values are effectively. At the same time, through learning in nature, participants also develop interests and care for our mother Earth.
Knowledge Acquisition
Although we are passionate and active about herpetofauna conservation and the nature, we do need to know how do we conserve the animals and the nature correctly. Thus, conservation knowledge and understanding on the nature are primarily essential. Through seminars, we bring about issues on ecological conservation, human threats on herps, right ways on herps husbandary etc., so that people who have no idea about nature and herps conservation or passionate individuals can learn and reflect. In the future, in case of encountering problems as such, they could resolve them with the right environmental attitudes.
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