Paul Butler revisits a Peruvian Pride campaign that is trying to save the endangered spectacled bear. While my friend and colleague Nigel Sizer (Rare’s vice president for the Asia region) was battling the poor roads in Indonesia’s Aceh Province to monitor … Continue reading
Fernando Garcia, Rare manager, ecotourism promoter, explores the connection between the super grand slam in sport fishing and the ecotourism enterprise Community Tours Sian Ka’an. For the saltwater sport fishing hobbyists, the super grand slam means that a person catches … Continue reading
Fisheries fellow Salvador Rodriguez Van Dyck describes his work in the small village of Agua Verde in Baja California Sur. Seven months have passed since the beginning of the Fisheries Fellows program, and we’ve already spent three months in our … Continue reading
Nigel Sizer reflects on the slow recovery of Aceh Province in the wake of the tsunami. Years of civil war has had the ironic side effect of leaving large swaths of Aceh’s forests relatively intact. Rebels used the forests as a … Continue reading
Nigel Sizer’s tour of Pride campaign sites in Aceh Province reveals that much devastation remains after two years. This morning we drove south from Banda Aceh along the coastal road that skirts the beach hit by the full force of … Continue reading
Nigel Sizer finds that it’s sometimes the authorities who are doing illegal logging in Aceh in Indonesia. The Pride campaign with Mapayah Foundation, a local NGO with three staff, is focused on abating illegal logging in two spectacular forest reserves in … Continue reading
Nigel Sizer makes his way to the airport in Medan, capital of North Sumatra, but just barely…. Fransisca is all set, and sadly we have to leave beautiful Singkil and make our way up to Banda Aceh, capital of the … Continue reading
Nigel Sizer, Rare VP, Asia and Pacific, describes his trek to southern Aceh Province. He was accompanied by Ni Putu Sarilani Wirawan, Rare assistant course manager in Indonesia. Two plane rides, seven hours by car, and a couple of hours in … Continue reading