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UNESCO Kids, The World Natural Heritage for Elementary Students Project, Now Offering English Content for Smartphones and an Android App

TOKYO - (BUSINESS WIRE) - UNESCO Kids is an environmental education program that provides a forum for learning with nature itself as teaching materials to the children of Japan.
The objective of this project is for children to understand that there is no replacing nature, and its activities began in fiscal 2006 with support from NTT Docomo, Japan's mobile telecommunications company.
Project activities are not just environmental education for the future that advocate the protection of nature, and the need to make nature more important. Instead the main point is to get children to like nature through more and more opportunities to interact with it, and thereby develop an interest in nature that leads to deeper learning.

English Content for Smartphones now Available
There are three categories of English content available.
The first is the NATURAL HERITAGE MAP. You can find World Natural Heritage sites on a world map, and can view particularly representative natural heritage sites in detailed images. The second is the NATURAL HERITAGE IN JAPAN. It features Japan's World Natural Heritage sites, and you can even learn about the Bonin Islands, which were only recently registered as a World Natural Heritage site. The third is SPECIAL TOPICS, and it introduces natural wonders and animals on a theme-basis, allowing you to enjoy that category from various different angles.

for Smartphones:
http://www.unesco-kids.com/en/

for PC:
http://www.unesco-kids.com/pc/whats_eng/index.html

Introducing the UNESCOKIDS ZOOM ANIMALS Android App
The UNESCOKIDS ZOOM ANIMALS Android app is now available on the Android market. This app allows you to view animals at the closest range, something you had never be able to do in a zoo. Simply by using your smartphone's pinch-to-zoom feature, you can view down to the eyelashes on a giraffe, from among the many photos of treasured animals that will be included. There are plans to add more animals every month.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.unesco.unescokids_animals

Feedback from Marina Apaydin, Deputy Director Management, World Heritage Centre
"UNESCO Kids, which allows children to get to know nature closely from a very young age, is important for the environmental education of children, and provides an opportunity for many children to get to know World Natural Heritage sites" she said. She was very much in favor of the launch of English content for smartphones. "It is a revolutionary digital educational material that can be integrated as part of our projects that are involved in world heritage through a variety of programs. It is wonderful that more children around the world will have the opportunity to learn about world heritage sites" she said, with great expectation.

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UNESCO Kids PR Office,
Katsuhiko Araki, +81-3-6821-4411 (Japanese correspondence only)
all@one-pr.net (English and Japanese correspondence)