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
18 international students on discovery of biodiversity conservation in the High Atlas mountains By Pommelien da Silva Cosme, Mediterranean Programme and Communications Coordinator Photos by Pommelien da Silva Cosme On their way to cross the Atlantic Ocean, 18 scholars from Semester at Sea (a study abroad p
What are Cultural Practices of Conservation and what do they look like? By Pommelien da Silva Cosme, Ugo D’Ambrosio and Soufiane M’sou Photos by Pommelien da Silva Cosme and Inanc Tekguc Cultural Practices of Conservation generally refer to various traditional and customary practices within a cultu
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
Celebrating biocultural diversity at the Moussem festival in Aït M’hamed (High Atlas) By Pommelien da Silva Cosme, Mediterranean Programme and Communications Coordinator Following the great success of our activities and workshops at the annual Moussem Festival in Aït M’hamed last year, we were thrilled
Meet the species: an introduction to the plants of our High Atlas community nurseries By Abdellah Aghraz, Rachid Ait Babahmad and Pommelien da Silva Cosme Photos by Ibtissam Bouseta Over the past five years and in collaboration with our partner (MBLA), we have established two thriving community plant nurs
Why composting is good for the environment: a permaculture training at Dar Taliba By Pommelien da Silva Cosme, Communications and Field Officer, Global Diversity Foundation Photos by Pommelien da Silva Cosme “Alim, aman, amazir”–straw, water and manure in the Amazigh language–sum up our recent permacult
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
