Radios, phones and social distancing help protect Amazonian communities By Dr. Eglee Zent, Alleviating Malaria in Venezuela Project Leader, with Dr. Susannah McCandless, North America Director Photos by Jkali and Gerardo. Right: Jkali with mentor, volunteer project doctor Oscar Kayama and Jotï community of
Biodiversity is life: listen to the youth voices Photo: Reflecting on Privileges at the GYBN European Capacity-Building Workshop (credit: Global Youth Biodiversity Network) Emma Courtine suggests how and why it is necessary to welcome young people into decision making arenas, to give them a platform and t
Good news emerges from Joti territory! By Dr. Eglee Zent (Alleviating Malaria in Venezuela Project Leader), with Dr. Susannah McCandless (GDF North America Director & GEN Advisor) Dr. Egleé Zent, who leads the “No one should die of malaria today” project, hears exciting news about the ongoing
Reasons for Hope – a week with Dr. Jane Goodall Aini Hasanah binti Abd Mutalib, Co-Founder of Malaysian Primatological Society, writes about the “#IAmWithJane” event held in Penang, Malaysia: a week filled with film screenings, lectures, sessions on conservation optimism and activities to engage young peo
Building leadership for food systems resilience in Peru Yolanda Lopez Maldonado, PhD, ALLSA Peru Project Co-organiser, reports on the The Latin American Academy for Food Systems Resilience (ALLSA): Transformative social and environmental learning: Facilitating innovation in agricultural, food and nutritional s
First Mediterranean regional academy focuses on community-based resource management By Pommelien da Silva Cosme, Communications and Field Officer, Global Diversity Foundation Photos by Pommelien da Silva Cosme Global Environments Network’s third regional academy and first in the Mediterranean region—the M
A collection of photos from our 2018 Summer Academy This summer, the Global Environments Network hosted its sixth Global Environments Summer Academy (GESA 2018) at the University of Oxford and beautiful locales in the surrounding countryside. Global Diversity Foundation delivered this year’s GESA in col
Seeds at the heart of first Community Exchange in Europe By Emily Caruso, Co-Director, Global Environments Network As we go by our daily lives, we might not always remember that seeds are at the very source of life on this planet, and essential for the survival of many beings who live on it. We also […]
Reflecting on the first Latin American Regional Socio-Environmental Leadership Academy Ana Elia Ramón Hidalgo, Spain (Global Environments Summer Academy 2014 participant) co-organised GEN’s first Regional Academy. The Spanish version is available here. Several months have passed since we convened the firs
