I thought you all might be interested in seeing this exciting news, since many of you have followed my career from the time I was a wee undergrad. I just found out last week I was awarded Mongabay's first Prize for Environmental Reporting! This is a competitive 6-mo grant that will fund me to travel to explore the question "What is the next big idea in tropical biodiversity conservation?"
I selected the concept of polycentric governance (thanks to Jean-Baptiste Pichancourt who tipped me off to this fascinating & important concept) to explore and will report at least 4 stories, including 2 in Uganda (one with mountain gorillas Conservation Through Public Health ctph.org) and one with the Batwa people, 1 in Peru on REDD and how polycentric governance can informs that program & overcome some of the resistance to it by indigenous groups, and then one on Nobel prize winner Elinor Ostrom's life and work. I will probably blog at Mongabay along the way still working out the details. Here's the announcement: http://news.mongabay.com/2013/1116-sri01-winner-announced.html And if any of you have any leads in Uganda (decentralization policies etc) or Peru (with REDD projects specifically). I'm already connected with the mountain gorilla folks I was going to report on but I am always open to ideas and thoughts :) Wendee Wendee Nicole, M.S. Wildlife Ecology Freelance Writer * Photographer * Bohemian Web: http://www.wendeenicole.com Adventures Blog: http://bohemianadventures.blogspot.com Writing Green ~ online class http://www.wendeenicole.com/nature.htm
