Thinking & Acting Sustainably: Profile of a 21st Century Professional

A one day workshop for professionals from PP4SD and The Institution of Environmental Sciences will be held in London, on 5th December, 2007.
The majority of professionals in the environmental field need sustainable development knowledge and skills in their employment but most undergraduate programmes provide insufficient knowledge and skills for professionals to cope with the sustainable [...]

VOLUNTEERS: Conservation and Culture in the Amazon

Volunteer Latin America are looking for new volunteers to work on Conservation and Culture in the Amazon.
Situated on the equator, Ecuador is the smallest country in the Andean Highlands. Despite its size it is probably the world’s most bio-diverse country, crammed with an astounding variety of flora and fauna. Combined with its beautiful colonial architecture, [...]

Thailand Research Opportunity

Stony Brook University in New York are offering a fantastic opportunity to join a research project in the Phu Kieo Wildlife Sanctuary in Thailand.
As a Field Assistant, you will be studying the Behavioural Ecology of the Phayre’s Leaf Monkey, including socio-ecological models of group life, ecology of female social relationships, and sexual strategies. Basic accommodation [...]

Chimps Cry Like Children

Primate experts at UK based St. Andrews University, have found that Chimps show a high level of Theory of Mind when calling for help from their peers.
Tests were conducted on wild troops in the Budongo Forest, Uganda, for 6 months, and the results show an expansion on the use of the cries over and above [...]

University of Washington Accused of Falsifying USDA Reports

University of Washington officials in Seattle are accused of filing false reports to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, according to a complaint filed with the USDA by the national research watchdog organization, SAEN.
Georgianne Nienaber wrote on OpEdNews.com yesterday, that a major news conference to release details of the complaint is scheduled on THURSDAY, 10:15 [...]

GREENPEACE Report on the Goldigging Government

Greenpeace has released a damning statement, uncovering the alarming destruction of Indonesia’s rainforest. Between 2000 and 2005, an area the size of 300 football pitches was razed by logging EVERY HOUR, amounting to the highest rate of forest destruction ever witnessed. This carries on unchecked.
Greenpeace has urged the country’s government to put a stop to [...]

Nobel Peace Prize a Winner?

Questions have been asked about the validity of awarding the Novel Peace prize to Al Gore for work on climate change. The Prize is supposed to represent significant labour for ‘fraternity between nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding of peace congresses’.
Among the skeptics was Czech President Vaclav Kraus [...]

Biggest Debt-for-Nature Swap in History!

Costa Rica has been on the receiving end of the biggest debt-for nature swap in history. The US has forgiven its $26 million, and drawn up a plan for it to be utilised to finance forest conservation over the next 16 years. This will ensure the protection of one of the world’s greatest and most [...]

IFAW Campaign Survey

International Federation for Animal Welfare (IFAW) wants to know what we each think are the most urgent issues to be addressed with regards to environment and animal welfare – Whaling? Suffering pets? or Bear cubs?
Click Here, have you say and help shape the next worthwhile IFAW campaign.

Greenpeace says Apple’s iPhone flunks green test

Independent laboratory tests have shown the new Apple iPhone, launched in June, contains environmentally hazardous brominated compounds.
The tests, carried out by Greenpeace, have highlighted an issue which was supposedly tackled in May earlier this year, when Steve Jobs (Apple CEO) made a promise to phase out all brominated compounds and PVC [...]

BEAR to Orangutans Aid

Francine Neago, a French Animal Behaviourist and Orangutan expert living in Bali, has secured funding and land from Italy’s Veterinary Association for an Animal Rescue Centre in Bali. It will not be open to the public, but is a research centre open to scientists and students completing their doctorates on endangered species.
It will be [...]

WWF Promotes Flagship Species

World Wildlife Fund Species Program Leader, Tammi Matson, has released a statement regarding the decreasing biodiversity and extinction threat to species worldwide.
The problem of species extinction is so enormous, it’s quite overwhelming at times. Worldwide, there are thousands of species threatened. The reality is that so many animal species are in such terrible trouble [...]

Gorilla Congo Warfare Update

The area of the Congo National Park that has been seized by rebels is now seeing more fighting and warfare, hugely increasing the threat to the endangered Mountain Gorillas.
Wildlife Direct have commented how shells and gunfire could be heard from their headquarters, and the Rangers have been forced to flee for their own safety. Without [...]

London: MSc Evolutionary Psychology

Brunel University have recently informed me of an exciting postgraduate course they are running, providing an exciting opportunity for advanced study in Evolutionary Psychology.
In very basic terms, Evolutionary Psychology, is the study of how evolution has shaped mind and behaviour, and in this instance it is very relevant to look at the broader view [...]

United Nations Documentary Film Festival: Needs a Logo!

Social Design Network Design21 announced their latest design competition this week; the challenge – to design the official logo for “Stories from the Field: The United Nations Documentary Film Festival”.
Presented by Media Communications Association International, New York Chapter (MCA-I NY) in partnership with the United Nations Department of Public Information (UNDPI) and The New School, [...]