School children at a Wildlife Rescue education and outreach session in Delhi

Education & Outreach

Raising the Next Generation of Wildlife Allies

We take wildlife into the classroom — teaching Delhi's school children about the environment, urban wildlife, and the hidden dangers of manja kite string.

7 Delhi schools June 2026 – September 2026Wazirabad & north Delhi

Teaching the Next Generation

Conservation begins with the young.

Children are the future custodians of Delhi's skies. Through our education and outreach programme, Wildlife Rescue visits schools to help students understand the wildlife that shares their city — and the everyday hazards, like glass-coated manja string, that put it at risk. Between June 2026 and September 2026 we took the same lesson into 7 schools across Delhi, taught in English and Hindi, and every session ended the same way: a drawing contest in which the children put back what they had just learned.

What We Teach

Four ideas at the heart of every session.

Environment

How ecosystems fit together, why biodiversity matters, and the small everyday choices that protect nature.

Wildlife & Birds

Delhi's wild neighbours — Black Kites, owls, and vultures — and what to do when you find an injured bird.

Urban Ecology

How wildlife survives in a megacity of glass and concrete, and how we can share the space we live in.

Kite-Flying & Manja Safety

Why glass-coated manja string maims and kills thousands of birds — and safer, kinder ways to enjoy kite flying.

Where We Have Taught

The same lesson, school by school. Newest first.

Nav Jyoti Model School
7 September 2026
Sabrang Public School
5 September 2026
Rama Public Sr. Sec. School
1 September 2026
Giggling Toddler's School
20 August 2026
Convent of Modern Education
12 August 2026
ABC Modern School
28 July 2026
Infinity Learning Centre
20 June 2026

Inside the Classroom

Photographs from the sessions, and the drawings the children made afterwards.

A drawing contest. Each child put what they had learned onto paper — birds, kite string, glue traps, cage traps instead of poison.

Gifts for everyone. Sessions end with prizes and a gift distribution, celebrating every young artist and their new role as a wildlife ally.

Nav Jyoti Model School

7 September 2026

Children watching a bilingual slide comparing what crows do for a city, at a Wildlife Rescue session

Students looking up at a slide identifying the myna during a Wildlife Rescue class

A class watching a photograph of an injured bird under treatment at the Wildlife Rescue clinic

First-place drawing: a boy flying a kite beside a bird, captioned “Bird is no safe, please safe bird” — First place — Nav Jyoti Model School

A child's contest drawing about keeping birds safe from kite string — Second place — Nav Jyoti Model School

A child's contest drawing from the Wildlife Rescue session — Third place — Nav Jyoti Model School

Sabrang Public School

5 September 2026

Students watching a photograph of a bird being treated at the Wildlife Rescue clinic

A class facing the Wildlife Rescue helpline number on screen: 9810029698

Students drawing at their desks during the Wildlife Rescue contest

First-place drawing: a four-panel strip showing a bird cut by kite string, carried to a building marked Wildlife Rescue, with the helpline number — First place — Sabrang Public School

Second-place drawing: rat poison crossed out beside a cage trap ticked, showing a lizard and snake also killed by the poison — Second place — Sabrang Public School

Third-place drawing: a bird captioned “king of the nature”, with warnings against kite thread and glue traps — Third place — Sabrang Public School

Infinity Learning Centre

20 June 2026

Students learning about Delhi's birds and urban wildlife at the Wildlife Rescue session

A student at the Wildlife Rescue awareness session at Infinity Learning Centre

Interactive learning during the Wildlife Rescue school outreach session

Students taking part in the Wildlife Rescue environment and wildlife class

Gift distribution to children following the Wildlife Rescue drawing contest

Children with their gifts at the Wildlife Rescue education and outreach event

A child's drawing about wildlife and the environment from the Wildlife Rescue contest — First place — Infinity Learning Centre

A student's artwork on birds and urban ecology from the awareness session — Second place — Infinity Learning Centre

A child's drawing on the dangers of manja kite string to birds — Third place — Infinity Learning Centre

A student's drawing about protecting Delhi's wildlife — Contest entry — Infinity Learning Centre

A child's artwork about the environment and nature — Contest entry — Infinity Learning Centre

A student's drawing of birds and wildlife from the Wildlife Rescue contest — Contest entry — Infinity Learning Centre

A child's drawing about kite-flying safety and birds — Contest entry — Infinity Learning Centre

A student's artwork on urban ecology and sharing the city with wildlife — Contest entry — Infinity Learning Centre

A child's drawing about wildlife conservation — Contest entry — Infinity Learning Centre

A student's drawing about the environment, wildlife, and kite safety — Contest entry — Infinity Learning Centre

Children's faces are blurred and no student is named. Drawings are shown with the entrant's name, class and roll number removed.

Led by our outreach team

Our sessions are led by Samia and Mohammad Umar of Wildlife Rescue, who bring the work of the clinic into classrooms across Delhi. The most recent session was at Nav Jyoti Model School on 7 September 2026.

Bring Wildlife Rescue to your school

We'd love to visit your classroom. Invite our team for an awareness session on wildlife, urban ecology, and kite-flying safety — or help fund the programme so more children can take part.

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Raising the Next Generation of Wildlife Allies

Teaching the Next Generation