Hardwood Forest Foundation
May 6th, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in Friday File
The Hardwood Forest Foundation is involved in educational programs and activities in both Canada and the United States. Through 20,000 videos and over 300,000 books they reach teachers and students and tell them about sustainability and smart forest management.
The Foundation’s website has an educational game about how wood touches our daily l...
Tags: forest, game, management, sustainability, video

October 17th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Travel
Conservation International has a video on Youtube that shows Madagascar’s Alley of Baobabs and the positive relationships being developed betwee...
Tags: baobab, Conservation International, Madagascar, tourism, video, YouTube

October 10th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
A great video “marking 10 years since the establishment of America’s Conservation Lands – 27 million acres of the American Wild West” is on Mother Nature Network’s website. These are ...
Tags: Clinton, Conservation, lands, Mother Nature's Network, video

October 3rd, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Endangered Species
The International Society for Endangered Cats Canada has several good videos on their website. Scroll down the page a bit and you’ll find them.
If you watch the Cutest C...
Tags: captive breeding, cats, endangered, Scottish, Snow Leopard, society, video, wild cat

September 5th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
A conservation activity for Labor Day, the annual holiday that celebrates the economic and social achievements of workers, might be to watch a video about a progra...

A Lifetime of Conservation
August 21st, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
What does it take to win the $100,000 conservation award called the Indianapolis Prize?
A lifetime of dedication to conservation, as demonstrated in the International Crane Foundation’s video about George Archibald, co-founder of the Foundation and the first recipient of the prestigious award in ...

Bear Resistant Bins
July 30th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Wildlife
It’s irritating when an animal upheaves your garbage bin and causes a mess. Manufacturers are making better bear-resistant garbage bins, many of which undergo rigorous testing before entering the marketplace. Using bears to test bins saves other be...
Tags: bear, bin, Discovery Center, garbage, Grizzly, product testing, resistant, video, Wolf, Yellowstone

Moving Turtles to Safety
July 24th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
Among the videos on National Geographic’s website is a Gulf Turtle Eggs Relocated video about volunteers moving loggerhead turtle eggs to a new, safe location. I’m so glad that biologists have agreed to move the turtles rather than ...


