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How a literature degree prepared me for a career in conservation

Claire Adler came to Synchronicity Earth with a lifelong interest in conservation, a lot of anxiety about climate change—and a degree in medieval English literature. In the following blog, she writes about how studying our past, from peat bogs to the origins of colonialism, taught her the skills and perspectives she needed to start [...]

By |2024-04-17T10:36:12+00:00June 7th, 2023|Art, Capacity, Conservation Careers, Jobs, Our Team|Comments Off on How a literature degree prepared me for a career in conservation

Meet our Latin America affiliate, Grace Iara Souza

Over the past 18 years, Dr Grace Iara Souza has developed a deep understanding of the impacts of global environmental governance and social policies on local rainforest defenders in the Brazilian Amazon. Her academic training is rooted in Political Ecology, and her professional experience includes project management in the educational, private, and charity sectors, [...]

By , |2023-03-13T11:27:50+00:00March 7th, 2023|Approach, Biocultural Diversity, Brazil, Capacity, Interviews, Support|Comments Off on Meet our Latin America affiliate, Grace Iara Souza

Snapshots from a global biodiversity conference

The world's largest and most important global gathering on biodiversity convened in Montreal, Canada, in December 2022. As the speeches, pledges and media coverage of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity Conference of the Parties 15 (COP15) fade into memory, we hear from four people who were there. Large, [...]

By |2023-02-20T10:16:36+00:00February 20th, 2023|Advocacy, Biodiversity, Capacity, Congo Basin, Events, Freshwater, Inclusion|Comments Off on Snapshots from a global biodiversity conference