Our Future with Wildlife  /  Gallery

Drawings from the classrooms

A small selection from the founding schools in Kasungu, Malawi. As more classrooms take part, this gallery grows.

How these are chosen and shown

Drawings are anonymous — no child's name appears on any page. They are published with the school's permission, and they are shown as they were drawn, without cropping or tidying. An unfinished or nearly blank page is a real answer too, and is never discarded.

“No animals” — a child's drawing
Empty future “No animals”Kasungu National Park drawn as stumps and bare ground. The words are the child's own.
Misozi Primary School
A park still full — a child's drawing
Coexistence A park still fullElephant, lion, leopard, birds and buffalo among trees and hills — the future as the child hopes it will be.
Misozi Primary School
Storm and felled trees — a child's drawing
Threats Storm and felled treesA damaged house, uprooted trees and debris in the air: the environmental pressures children already witness.
Katchereza Primary School

What we look for when we read them

Every drawing is analysed centrally using the same scheme, so that a classroom in one country can be compared with a classroom in another. We record whether wildlife appears at all, whether people and animals are shown together, whether threats are present, whether any conservation activity is drawn, and the overall emotional tone of the page. The “no animals” flag — a future drawn with no wildlife in it whatsoever — is recorded separately, because it was the finding that started this project.

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