Will COP 27 Deliver?
Another year, another Convention of the Parties coming together to fight climate change. But will COP 27 deliver? It seems unlikely. As...
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All things Bright and Blogderful!
Below we have all of our blogs in one place, the funny and the educational combined!
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The Prince of Wales and the Illegal Wildlife Trade
Prince William, now the Prince of Wales, spoke at the United for Wildlife Global Summit at London’s Science Museum, which brought...
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The Les Miserables Paradox
Warning to readers; this is quite a niche blog topic! But as this blog has Latin at the start of it, this blog is perhaps the perfect...
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A Blueprint to Protect Wildlife
We are enormously proud that one of our partner charities, the Pole Pole Foundation, was a finalist in the first Earthshot Prize. This...
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Safari Rail
I was recently doing some work in Zambia and kept meeting conservationists with an interest in steam railways; it’s a an interest I share...
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Countries with Oil get Filthy Rich While Countries with Elephants Remain Dirt Poor
I was on a video call with John Kahekwa this week and was reminded of something he’d said to me years ago, looking out over the town of...
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Our Top 5 Wildlife Films
Everyone loves a good film, so we've listed our top 5 wildlife movies in this post. Some are fairly standard choices, but number 2 might...
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Top 10 TED Talks About Wildlife Conservation
TED talks are a great way to learn about a whole range of topics, including wildlife conservation, so we’ve listed out the top 10 TED...
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The Psychology of Conservation
How many people would click on a red box on a website homepage that says, ‘do not click here’? We put that box on our homepage with a...
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What will 2021 bring for wildlife conservation?
2020 was a tough year for everyone as Covid-19 spread around the world and millions suffered illness, loss of loved ones, loss of jobs,...
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Ethics Won’t Stop the Illegal Wildlife Trade
Many campaigns to bring an end to the illegal wildlife trade (IWT) focus on the ethics of killing animals for their parts, imploring...
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It’s Time to Stop Arresting Wildlife Poachers
Imaging the following situation: a lion is found dead next to a cattle carcass that has been poisoned. Analysis of the scene points...
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The Cookies that Save Lives
When most people think about cookies, they think about sugary biscuits (or the weird things that appear to be on every website but which...
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Covid and the Collapse of Tourism and Conservation Funding
As people around the world remain in lockdown and the number of fatalities from the Coronavirus continues to rise, the human tool of this...
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Conservation Crisis Reviews and Features
We've had a few reviews of our Conservation Crisis board game and app, so this blog brings together some of the the links to see the...
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Wildlife Cartoons from Tunza Games
At a recent Conservation Optimism event about how framing affects communication, the host of the seminar, Ralph, used cartoons to share...
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A Tusker Elephant and a Calf: how a big business is helping a small business save wildlife
We were fortunate to be in the 2018/19 cohort of the Allia serious impact incubator, which provides support to social enterprises....
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Is Fake Rhino Horn a Fake Solution
A recent BBC article reported that researchers at the University of Oxford and Fudan University in China have found a way of making fake...
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A Cup of Coffee a Week to Save Wildlife
International conservation initiatives are estimated to face a funding shortfall of $1 billion dollars a week or more (exact statistics...
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Should Nature Documentaries Shock or Inspire?
Scientists recently published an article in the Journal People and Nature arguing that documentaries narrated by David Attenborough...
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Engaging People
This is the tenth post in our series on the top 10 wildlife conservation challenges and solutions, to provide some quick and easy to read...
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Wildlife Population Recovery
This is the ninth post in our series on the top 10 wildlife conservation challenges and solutions, to provide some quick and easy to read...
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Wildlife Habitat
This is the eighth post in our series on the top 10 wildlife conservation challenges and solutions, to provide some quick and easy to...
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Conservation and Corruption
This is the seventh post in our series on the top 10 wildlife conservation challenges and solutions, to provide some quick and easy to...
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