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Sustainable travel – an oxymoron?

Wednesday, 26th February, 2020

I spent my whole career working on environmental issues – with climate change at the heart of those. Although often it’s been tough, working to try and…

Slow fashion for elephants

Friday, 31st January, 2020

As you may know, our partner in Botswana, Ecoexist, has been the focus of our fundraising over the Christmas period. We are a huge fan of the…

All aboard the elephant express

Tuesday, 17th December, 2019

As mentioned in my previous blog, this Christmas we are supporting the wonderful Ecoexist through our Christmas appeal. Ecoexist focus on human-elephant conflict in Botswana, enabling communities to live alongside elephants. It was their…

‘Tis the season of giving: fundraising for Ecoexist

Thursday, 28th November, 2019

I thought I’d use this blog to launch our Christmas fundraising efforts. Last year was our first Christmas appeal, and was instrumental in kickstarting the work in…

An engineer called Kit Miyamoto

Thursday, 31st October, 2019

Just a very quick story about a trip that illustrates perfectly the effectiveness of travel as catalyst and support for long-term sustainable development, and in particular the…

Profit with purpose

Thursday, 26th September, 2019

Those of you who take the Financial Times may or may not have been surprised by ‘Capitalism. Time for a reset’, a recent letter from its editor…

The plight of the Batwa: we talk to Serena Strang, recently returned from Uganda

Friday, 23rd August, 2019

On 24 June, journalist Sophy Roberts posted a video of a group of Batwa children dancing. She wrote: ‘The persuasive innocence of childhood. What this video doesn’t…

Fixing Africa’s drug supply chain

Wednesday, 31st July, 2019

Just a quick note highlighting the work of one of this year’s Skoll Awardees for Social Entrepreneurship, mPharma, founded by Ghanaian Gregory Rockson. Having swapped a budding…

Sera and Melako: the NRT and the community conservancy as excellent conservation model

Friday, 14th June, 2019

Whenever I’m asked for evidence as to the success of mixed land-use and community-based conservation strategies, I immediately think of a night a couple of years ago,…