Nigel Sizer, Rare’s Vice President of Asia Pacific, recently traveled to China in anticipation of Rare’s first-ever conservation training program in China, which will be based at Southwest Forestry University in Kunming, China. In the five blogs below, Nigel talks about … Continue reading
[photopress:Siberian_Tiger.jpg,full,centered] In October, Rare’s first China cohort will travel to Southwest Forestry University in Kunming, in China’s mountainous, sub-tropical southwest, the “city of eternal spring.” We’re now putting the finishing touches to all the partnership agreements, lining up the funds, … Continue reading
[photopress:chinese.jpg,full,centered] We have eight campaigns in our first China cohort. This is fortunate since the number eight is the luckiest in Chinese numerology – Cantonese for eight is the same as the word for “rich.” Mobile phone numbers with lots … Continue reading
[photopress:Yunnan_Province.jpg,full,centered] Yunnan Province Yunnan is China’s most biologically diverse province and so it is no surprise that we will have three Pride campaigns here – all in partnership with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the Chinese government’s nature reserve management … Continue reading
Today I spent the day in discussion with the Rare China Advisory Group. I spent the morning as a student listening to Professor Kun Tian, one of the country’s top wetlands specialists. He is also deputy director of the newly created National Plateau … Continue reading
What’s to be done about a protected area that the community has forgotten about? Rare Pride Program Manager Adam Murray blogs about how Campaign Manager Tublai Ililau in Palau is answering that very question. [photopress:Giant_Clam.JPG,full,centered] There are nine speices of clams … Continue reading
Oswaldo Contreras made a trip to the Amazon to give technical support to Marta Torres, who is running a Pride conservation campaign in Southern Peru. With the help of her two little girls Marta is making her campaign a family matter … Continue reading
Think you have double vision? Nope! That’s two Cock-of-the-rock mascots, the flagship species of Aldo Rojas Colca’s Pride campaign in Southern Peru. Oswaldo Contreras, Latin American Pride Program Manager, recently went on a site visit to Peru and blogs about Aldo, his site, … Continue reading
Fisheries Fellows, a Mexican based program which trains biologists and oceanographers to give local fishers tools to become sustainable, recently had one of its fellows speak at an international conservation conference. Salvador Rodriguez Van Dyke, a Rare Fisheries Fellow, talks … Continue reading
Global Warming. Climate Change. Greenhouse Gasses. These are phrases which have seeped into our everyday language. But, what are the effects? Who does is it concern globally? And what are ways to help those at the local level? Rare Pride Program … Continue reading