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 By Eliot Levine, WWF-US @ R.Isotti, A.Cambone – Homo Ambiens / WWF-Canon Last August I found myself in a dark room at a conference facility outside of Delhi, listening to what was meant to be an adaptation talk. The speaker was supposed to be walking us through adaptation options for conservationists and natural [...]  By Shaun Martin, WWF-US Workshop Participants in Kota Kinabalu ©Shaun Martin I don’t know about you, but I have had my fill of boring PowerPoint presentations that have little relevance to my work. I just can’t take it anymore – and that’s unfortunate, because recently I am listening to a lot of presentations. So in [...]  By Shaun Martin, WWF-US Participants at a recent training in Vietnam ©Shaun Martin Ask anyone who has ever designed a training course and they will tell you that it’s always a good idea to conduct a needs assessment first. To create an effective training, one is told, you need to know your target audience inside [...]  By Carina Bachofen and Edward Cameron Malé, capital of Maldives © Shahee Ilyas The Maldives is a country with many pseudonyms and identities. The great Venetian explorer Marco Polo referred to the Maldives as the “flower of the Indies”; to the scores of holidaymakers and honeymooners the island nation is popularly known as the “pearls of [...]  By Shaun Martin, WWF-US Two participants work together at an adaptation training in Madagascar © Shaun Martin At a recent gathering of 200 conservationists, a speaker asked her audience to identify which of the following activities were examples of “adaptation,” – restoring mangroves, removing dams, introducing new crops, building corridors, or promoting community forestry. Almost [...]  By Anne Schrag, WWF-US Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan ©Troy Fleece In April, I was stymied by a late-season blizzard; in mid-June, extreme flooding washed out a section of Trans-Canada Highway. Finally, in late June I was able to make the drive from our Bozeman, Montana field office to Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan to lead a planning [...]  by Jonathan Cook, WWF-US Community members, Fiji © Joanna Ellison For the past six months, I have managed a WWF project, supported by the Global Environment Facility and United Nations Environment Program, that tries to address the significant adaptation challenges facing a fascinating but often neglected ecosystem: mangrove forests. Mangroves – the guardians of tropical [...] |
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