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Thiago completes his thesis

04 Apr 2019

Thiago Gomes successfully defended his PhD thesis in Ecology at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil, last August. He also had a Rufford Foundation Small Grant accepted for an eco-cultural restoration project based on red-listed native species’ nurseries.

GEN Alumni reunion at ‘Territories of Life’ event

04 Apr 2019

Four GEN members - Ugo D’Ambrosio, Anna Varga, Emma Courtine and Aili Pyhälä - reunited in Valsaín, Spain in March 2019 for the event "Territories of Life: Areas conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities."

Anna speaks about wood pastures in Japan

04 Apr 2019

Anna Varga writes about her experience at the international symposium “Making Food in Human and Natural History” at the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan.

Jessica shares her experience of curating an ethnobotany conference, and more

21 Dec 2018

Jessica Dolan, Program Coordinator for the North American Community Environmental Leadership Exchange 2015 held in Montreal, shares her journey since the event.

Nessie Reid is new director of the Global Environments Network

06 Dec 2018

Global Environments Summer Academy 2013 participant Nessie Reid takes on the leading role in the Global Environments Network.

First Mediterranean regional academy focuses on community-based resource management

05 Dec 2018

The Mediterranean Environments Regional Academy 2018, held in Morocco, focused on the relationships between nature and culture in the Mediterranean, and in particular on the role of community-based resource management systems in maintaining the unique landscapes, seascapes and biocultural diversity they harbour.

A collection of photos from our 2018 summer academy

29 Nov 2018

The sixth Global Environments Summer Academy (GESA 2018) took place at the University of Oxford and beautiful locales in the surrounding countryside, bringing together twenty inspiring environmental changemakers from eighteen different countries.

International delivery of mosquito nets begin!

09 Oct 2018

Egleé Zent, project leader of the "Alleviating malaria in Venezuela" project, shares a detailed update on efforts to purchase and transport mosquito nets to three remote Indigenous communities to prevent further spread of malarial infection and catastrophic loss of life.