The 6th International Eco-Schools Conference was organised by WWFMalaysia together with GGAF from 7 -11 December 2017. A total of 120 students and 30 teachers gathered at the Hotel Riverview, Melaka Sentral to attend the annual conference. The conference allow participants across Malaysia to meet, share and exchange their school’s sustainability initiatives in a conducive environment, to create awareness about waste and its impact on marine life, and to emphasise the importance of working together with various stakeholders, especially local communities to tackle waste management issues.
The Eco-Schools Program (ESP) seeks to support participating schools to implement a whole-school approach towards educating student and the public on sustainability and environment conservation. The them for 2017 was “Waste Management and Its Impact on Nature and Biodiversity”.