I know that I mentioned on here a while back that I received the first Mongabay Prize for Environmental Reporting <http://news.mongabay.com/2013/1116-sri01-winner-announced.html> , a 6-month grant to report on innovative approaches to tropical forest conservation. My main reporting focus is how Elinor Ostrom¹s Nobel-winning theories can not only help forest conservation but also benefit people¹s livelihoods (of course they can be applied to other ³common pool resources² such as fisheries, as well, but my focus is tropical forests). Several more articles will be coming out in the next weeks and months, but I wanted to belatedly share a couple projects I did surrounding Jane Goodall¹s 80th birthday which was April 3. (she has been a lifelong inspiration of mine since I was in high school in the late 1980s!)
I got to interview Dr Jane herself the Sunday before her birthday (on the phone) as she was in transit from Montreal to California. How cool was that?! It wasn¹t the lengthiest interview in the world but it was really amazing to talk to her! That and another ³top 10² list (that has some meat in it, including some very cool projects happening in Africa by the Jane Goodall Institute) are at Animal Planet see links below. * Q&A with Dr Jane Goodall <http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/jane-goodall/jane-goodall-questions-an swers.htm> * 10 Reasons Why Everyone Should Love Jane Goodall! <http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/jane-goodall/photos/jane-goodall-birth day.htm> (if link doesn¹t work the URL is: http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/jane-goodall/photos/jane-goodall-birthd ay.htm) And I was really happy with how this feature on CBS Smart Planet turned out: How Jane Goodall¹s legacy is alleviating poverty <http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/global-observer/how-jane-goodalls-legacy-is -alleviating-poverty/> . (http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/global-observer/how-jane-goodalls-legacy-is -alleviating-poverty/). I highlighted a cool project I saw in the field being facilitated by the Jane Goodall Institute-Uganda. I wanted to also pass along the link to the page that lists the current/open Special Reporting Initiatives, because Mongabay will continue to have these over the next months for writers. Check out http://mongabay.org/special-reporting-initiatives/. You can see one Reporters Journal: The forests of Uganda <http://blog.mongabay.com/2014/03/26/reporters-journal-the-forests-of-uganda /> I did for the Mongabay blog too And last but not least my next 6-week online writing class is May 24! :) 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
