This Earth Day, National Geographic Society-Backed Landmark Study Unveils a Bold New Model to Break Siloed Education--and Protect Wildlife
Apr 21, 2026
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 21: A compelling new study finds that the way children are educated may be contributing to planetary loss, and provides a bold blueprint for reversing it. 'Teaching systems thinking to protect wildlife: a pilot study in West Bengal's secondary schools,' arrives at a defining Earth Day moment as the world grapples with accelerating environmental collapse and biodiversity loss. The research, funded by National Geographic Society (NGS) with publication support by Voices for Asian Elephants (https://www.vfaes.org/projects), highlights gaps in conventional education systems, which often rely on siloed, rote memorization-based instruction, often failing to address complex issues such as human-elephant conflict.