Prize Winning Conservation Projects
February 28th, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
An AFISAP forest conservation initiative in Guatemala and a MDI-Nepal sustainable development project in Nepal have both won this year’s $200,000 Sasakawa Prize, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has announced.
Both projects fit in with UNEP’s theme “Forests for People, Forests for Green Gr...
Tags: Conservation, forest, Guatemala, Nepal, sustainable, UNEP
November 12th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Fun Stuff
Rainforest Alliance has what is probably one of the most creative ways of introducing conservation information out there.
The Alliance invites you to vis...
Tags: alliance, Conservation, Food, game, Guatemala, rainforest, treehouse
November 9th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
Among the positive outcomes of the recent Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya, Japan, was that over 15 protected areas of our world are to re...
Tags: biodiversity, Conservation, Guatemala, LifeWeb, Nagoya
June 3rd, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Humanitarian
Weather and humanitarian efforts are becoming more and more linked. The UN and its aid partners have appealed for $1.9 billion for this year for Sudan...
Tags: 10 Reasons for Hope, Agatha, Canadian Forestry Agreement, Canadian Memorial Church, Climate Change, crop failures, Dzud, Greenpeace, Guatemala, Humanitarian, Mongolia, Nestle, palm oil, San Diego Zoo, Sudan, telecommuting, UN, wild weather, World Bank
January 12th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
In Guatemala just over a year ago, I flew in a small plane so low over the rainforest that we could see some large birds circle and land in a tree. For the first time in my l...
Tags: agri business, agriculture, Cargill, Climate Change, Conservation, endangered, Green: The Film, Guatemala, Indonesia, palm oil, rainforest, Rainforest Action Network, rainforest destruction, RAN, RSPO, sustainable, sustainable palm oil
