Entries in conservation (83)

Thursday
Jun132013

How to pack a green lunch 

You may think you are being resourceful by packing your own lunch, but a brown paper bag lunch can produce staggering amounts of waste – from plastic bottles to aluminium wrap and non-degradable wrappers.

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Tuesday
Jun112013

The Crossing Point: behaviours that shows how critical corridors are to elephants

Read one researcher’s experience of studying elephant / human conflict in Sri Lanka and how wildlife corridors can help reduce the impact for both parties.

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Monday
Jun102013

Volunteer photo of the week: Thomas Brown

Can you tell us what this little creature is? Volunteer photo of the week this week goes to Thomas Brown who volunteered on Frontier’s Madagascar Wildlife Conservation Adventure project.

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Friday
Jun072013

World Oceans Day - what will you promise?

In honour of World Oceans Day, annually held on the 8th June, The Ocean Project is asking everyone to make a pledge in order to help preserve the ocean and the species that live within it.

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Thursday
Jun062013

The power of pink - unusual accessorising in an attempt to save rhino horn

Some creative thinking has gone into this latest scheme to try and protect the rhinos of South Africa, and the outcome has resulted in some pretty stylish looking rhinoceros roaming the grasslands of a private game reserve.

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Thursday
May302013

Job Jealousy: Jordi Chias, marine photographer

Jordi Chias is a freelance photojournalist specialized in underwater and marine themes. His work includes extreme sports like cave diving, free diving and deep wrecks, and he is also working on travel articles and natural history subjects.

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Friday
May242013

Meet the animal stars in an unanimated habitat

When animals take the stage they completely steal the focus, and leave us in an emotional lock, while our hearts melt over their lovable personality. So what if you got to meet them in real life?

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Wednesday
May222013

International Biodiversity Day 2013

May 22nd is International Biodiversity Day, first established by the UN in 1993.

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Monday
May202013

Volunteer Photo of the Week: Char Armitage

Char Armitage volounteered on the Madagascar Wildlife Conservation Adventure where she took this stunning photo of a rainforest tree frog.

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Thursday
May092013

Project of the week: Peru Amazon Rainforest Conservation

Based in the Peruvian Amazon, this project is spearheading the conservation of a unique region of the rainforest. The Amazon Rainforest is facing deforestation at an increasing rate, and if this trend continues then it could be destroyed by the end of this century.

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Thursday
Apr182013

The problem with palm oil

Palm Oil is one of the most widely used products worldwide. It is a primary ingredient in cooking, and cosmetics and is therefore found in a large number of consumer goods.

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Friday
Apr122013

Cheetah enrichment in Namibia

The Namibia Wildlife Conservation & Sanctuary project has come up with an ingenious way of keeping their cheetahs occupied - by having volunteers make false prey filled with meat treats!

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