Nigel Sizer, Rare’s VP of Asia Pacific, blogs about his trip to Tibet with Rare’s CEO Brett Jenks. I have yet to meet a Tibetan that cannot sing, dance, tell elaborate stories, or tolerate sub-zero temperatures in clothes that I … Continue reading →

Nigel Sizer, Rare’s Vice President of Asia Pacific programs, recently traveled to Hunchun, China, located on the border between North Korea and Russia. Hunchun is the home of Jianmin Lang, a Rare Pride campaign manager who works for the Hunchun … Continue reading →

Rare’s Vice President of Asia and Pacific, Nigel Sizer, recently visited Malaysia spending time in Tun Mustapha, and with a local people in the village of Sibogo who are known as Sea Gypsies. Through the series of blogs below, travel with Nigel and … Continue reading →

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 →