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Expedition Diaries
Expedition Diaries
Join WWF scientists and program leaders as they journey into remote locales to learn more about the organization's conservation work around the globe.
Partnering to Preserve Lake Niassa Visit
Caroline Simmonds of WWF’s Coastal East Africa Program.
© WWF/Suzanne Apple
Join WWF’s Caroline Simmonds for an insider account of how WWF is conserving Lake Niassa – a unique freshwater lake in northern Mozambique. Meet local people whose community fishing organizations are the hope of this remote lakeside area. Learn what WWF and partners, including The Coca-Cola Company, are doing to protect Lake Niassa while also meeting the needs of the people who call this region home.
Cougar Conservation on the Northern Great Plains Visit
© WWF/Colby Loucks
Track mountain lions – also known as cougars – in rugged prairie terrain with WWF’s Dennis Jørgensen. In this first-hand account you’ll hear him talk about life in the Northern Great Plains, see footage of the team in action, and learn how WWF partners with the White Clay, Nakota and Chippewa-Cree tribes to study these powerful animals.
Signs and Sightings: A Tiger Tracking Story Visit
Investigating bear sign in Thailand
© WWF-US/Dr. Shannon Barber-Meyer
Join Dr. Shannon Barber-Meyer of WWF’s Species program as she treks through south and south-east Asia in search of tigers. The largest of all cats, these versatile creatures roam through a wide range of rapidly-shrinking habitats across the region. Read her first-hand account of narrowly avoiding a charging bull elephant and her unique experiences in the field as she travels through Cambodia, Thailand, Nepal, India and Indonesia.
Conserving the Congo: Education for Nature Visit
Judith Mashinya
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For almost 15 years, WWF’s Education for Nature (EFN) Program has been equipping conservation leaders with the training and practical experience to take on challenges in their home countries. Follow Judith Mashinya of WWF’s EFN Program as she travels through the Congo Basin to visit conservationists supported by WWF. Along the way, she travels across lagoons teeming with crocodiles and learns how to avoid a buffalo attack.
The Halmahera Expedition: A Journey to the Center of the Coral Triangle Visit
Dewi Satriani, WWF-Indonesia
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Join WWF’s communications expert, Dewi Satriani, as she reports directly from the field on the preliminary assessment conducted in April-May 2008 on the potential for marine conservation and tourism investments in the Halmahera area and its surrounding islands.
In Search of Jaguars: An Amazon Tail Visit
© WWF / Paloma Alcazar
Deep in the heart of the Amazon roam jaguars, pumas and other creatures of the jungle. Rodrigo Donadi of WWF’s AREAS Amazonia project has been tracking them for almost two years. He’s felt the bone-rattling sound of a jaguar’s roar and seen herds of wild pigs stampeding through the lush rain forest. Join him in the Amazon as he comes face to face with the jaguar – king of the jungle.
Borders and Bighorn: A Chihuahuan Desert Story Visit
Join WWF’s Cathy Plume for an insider account of how WWF is conserving this place. Meet local people whose eco-businesses are the hope of this desert. Experience nighttime border crossings, a day on horseback and the culture of the Southwest. Learn what WWF and partners are doing to keep water flowing through the Rio Grande – while also meeting the needs of the five million people who call this desert home.
Namibia: Adventures in Conservation Science Visit
Robin Naidoo
© Greg Stuart-Hill, WWF-LIFE
Robin Naidoo, a conservation scientist in WWF's Conservation Science program, returned from two weeks in the wilderness of Namibia's Caprivi Strip - a long, narrow band of Namibia that runs east-west between Botswana, Angola and Zambia. Get a first-person account of what it takes to capture, collar and release large African mammals - including buffalo, sable and impala. Read about his near-misses, helicopter chases and other adventures in conservation science.
WWF Girls' Scholarship Program Expedition Diary Visit
Drew Crandall, Manager of the Girls' Scholarship Program
© WWF/Mincha Wangdi
Join Drew Crandall of the Community Conservation group as he experiences the drenching monsoons of Nepal and the winding mountain roads and stunning natural beauty of Bhutan in the Eastern Himalayas. Read his accounts of how WWF is empowering girls and their communities to improve lives and become better caretakers of their natural resources.
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WWF Polar Bear Expedition Diary Visit
Margaret Williams, leader for WWF's Bering Sea and Kamchatka program
Margaret Williams, leader for WWF's Bering Sea & Kamchatka ecoregion, traveled to Chukotka, the northeastern most corner of Siberia on an expedition in April 2007. With several Russian and American colleagues, Margaret and her team traveled over 700 miles across the roadless, snow-covered Chukotka Peninsula to reach the small village of Vankarem, north of the Arctic Circle on the Chukchi Sea. The expedition is part of an ambitious effort to protect and study polar bears and address an increasing problem caused by climate change -- conflict between polar bears and humans.
Join Margaret on her journey across the vast and frozen tundra, and learn more about WWF's work in the Bering Sea & Kamchatka ecoregion.
Off the Beaten Path; My Cambodia Travel Log Visit
Dekila Chungyalpa
Dekila is the WWF US leader for the Greater Mekong Program. The Greater Mekong Program consists of three Global 200 ecoregions; the Mekong river, the Lower Mekong Dry Forests and the Greater Annamites and covers six countries; China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. This ecoregion complex is one of WWF US's priorities due to the incredible endemic biodiversity found there; whether it is the Mekong Giant Catfish, the largest freshwater fish in the world, or the Douc Langur, possibly the most charismatic primate in the world.
Dekila is from Sikkim, a tiny northeastern state in India the size of Rhode Island which is squished between Nepal and Bhutan. Like every other person from the Himalayas, she is convinced that her homeland is the original Shangrila. Her family is Bhutia, of Tibetan origin and she speaks Sikkimese, the local language, as well as Tibetan, Hindi and Nepali fluently. She worked in the WWF Eastern Himalayas Program for five years prior to working on the Greater Mekong. Her areas of expertise include strategic conservation planning, community based conservation and sustainable livelihoods. Among her most prized skills is the ability to eat anything remotely edible.
Mongolia Expedition Diary Visit
Dr. Darron Collins is the Managing Director for the Amur-Heilong program
Dr. Darron Collins, Managing Director for WWF's Amur-Heilong program, traveled Sept. 18 to Oct. 1 to Mongolia, where the headwaters of the Amur Heilong river form on the border between China and Russia. The River flows out through the Russian Far East into the Sea of Okhotsk, running a total of 2,750 miles and including 600,000 acres of surrounding watershed and forests.
Darron joined several Mongolian colleagues on an expedition along the Onon River, the headwater river that feeds the Amur. The team was tasked with assessing the management effectiveness of two key protected areas in those headwaters.
Join Darron on his journey, starting in Washington D.C., and learn more about WWF's work in Mongolia.
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