My Placement with IMPACT Madagascar: A Journey of Learning and Conservation By Iyanuoluwa Shittu 23 NOVEMBER 2024 PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR This article was produced as part of the Global Diversity Foundation’s Darwin Initiative-funded project “Mentoring GEN Fellows to incubate Global South biodiversity
Celebrating the Journey: The Conclusion of GDF’s First Ever Conservation & Communities Fellowship Following 10 months of intense learning, deep connection and individual growth, GDF’s first edition of the Conservation & Communities Fellowship (CCF) concluded at the end of August. A total of thirty-o
Bio-physical and human characterization of High Atlas landscapes We are very pleased to share our latest HACL publication, entitled “No atlas for the High Atlas? Bio-physical and human characterization of the landscapes of the Moroccan High Atlas”, where we describe and detail the socioecological systems of
The Power of Art in Activism 15th July, Monday | 16.00-18.00 GMT/UTC | 17:00-19:00 BST | 18:00-20:00 CEST “Art is not neutral. It either upholds or disrupts the status quo, advancing or regressing justice. We are living now inside the imagination of people who thought economic disparity and environmen
CCF fellows strengthen connections and make long-term commitments GDF’s Conservation and Communities Fellowship (CCF) programme gathers 31 grassroots community-based conservation leaders from 19 Global South countries. It is an element of our initiative on conservation justice that helps redress the inequitie
المصطبة Intangible Cultural Heritage and Peace Building in Palestine 24th June, Monday | 16.00-18.00 UTC/17.00-19.00 BST/18.00-20.00 CEST Heritage is often at risk and under attack, either directly or indirectly, when violence and conflict escalate. Although targeting cultural heritage sites during con
Restoring environments through seed banks and plant nurseries 28th June 2024, Friday | 13.00-14.30 BST/ 14.00 – 15.30 CEST Our planet is losing domesticated and wild plant diversity at an unprecedented rate. The loss of crop diversity is particularly alarming: out of approximately 20,000 edible plants, on
Harnessing emerging technologies for communities and conservation 7th June 2024, Friday | 14.00 – 15.30 CEST Digital technologies are one of conservation’s leading edges. Large-scale conservation institutions and programmes rely increasingly on digital technologies to store and manage data, monitor w
Transforming conservation practice through indigenous-led M&E Wednesday, 29th May 2024 | 20.00 – 21.30 CEST Ecological/biodiversity monitoring is widely acknowledged as key to good conservation project management. Currently, the leading conservation monitoring systems use mainstre
Rooting conservation in indigenous ways of being 8th July 2024, Monday | 19.00 – 20.30 BST/ 20.00 – 21.30 CEST Indigenous ways of being, knowing and engaging with the more-than-human world are radically different from those of most practitioners of mainstream conservation. They often centre healthy spirit
