Congratulations!!! A phenomenal accomplishment for an admirable career thus far. keep up the good work! For those who have not read Wendee's work, you should. She does an outstanding job of environmental reporting.
Malcolm On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Wendee Nicole <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- Malcolm L. McCallum Department of Environmental Studies University of Illinois at Springfield Managing Editor, Herpetological Conservation and Biology "Peer pressure is designed to contain anyone with a sense of drive" - Allan Nation 1880's: "There's lots of good fish in the sea" W.S. Gilbert 1990's: Many fish stocks depleted due to overfishing, habitat loss, and pollution. 2000: Marine reserves, ecosystem restoration, and pollution reduction MAY help restore populations. 2022: Soylent Green is People! The Seven Blunders of the World (Mohandas Gandhi) Wealth w/o work Pleasure w/o conscience Knowledge w/o character Commerce w/o morality Science w/o humanity Worship w/o sacrifice Politics w/o principle Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
