PENGUIN PERSPECTIVES BLOG
Penguin Perspectives Blog
This is where we cherry pick the latest news and views on climate change and how its effects are already making waves in our economies, societies and daily lives. Tune into the fresh perspectives and opinions from both our own experts and other great movers and shakers on the climate scene and read uplifting stories from our climate protection projects across the world. Have an idea or topic you'd like to learn more about? Get in touch - our experts will have it covered!
Clean cookstoves saving the Giant Panda with WWF
Together with WWF and Coop, South Pole has clean cookstoves projects that address indoor air pollution while cutting emissions and protecting panda habitat
联合世界自然基金会,清洁炉灶,拯救大熊猫
South Pole支持和开发“三赢”项目——使人类、野生动物和地球受益的项目。早在2013年,我们研究了改变当地习惯如何拯救大熊猫、改善农村社区生活、减少碳排放,以实现更绿色、更清洁的未来。
On the road to Pormpuraaw: A glimpse into traditional Indigenous fire management in Australia’s Cape York
Last February, I spent three days in remote Northern Australia on the Cape York Peninsula where I visited the community of Pormpuraaw to meet with Traditional Owners and Pormpuraaw Land and Sea Rangers and learn how a strategic savanna fire management project operates.
Living with elephants – a day in the life of Kariba's wildlife scouts
If you are sitting reading this at your desk, this piece won't quite describe your average day at work. For the scouts and park rangers working in Kariba, however, a typical day is spent in the field – as you will see, they never know what to expect.
Protecting Australia's native animals from extinction
Sendle purchases carbon credits from South Pole to guarantee carbon neutral parcel delivery. Learn more about one of the projects they support through our EcoAustralia™ carbon credit solution—the Myamyn Lowland Forest Conservation project in Victoria—and how it helps safeguard habitat for a very special marsupial.
Women at the frontline of climate crisis
Climate change is affecting millions of women around the world, right now. But women are resilient. Read how 3 inspirational women are finding solutions!
Green gold: forests and global climate action
Forests help stabilise the climate: they regulate ecosystems, protect biodiversity, play an integral part in the carbon cycle, support livelihoods, and can help drive sustainable growth.
Alleviating poverty in Kariba through sustainable farming
Conservation farming plays a major role when it comes to the eradication of poverty; food security; empowering women; and helping communities adapt to global warming. The Kariba project shows that a single incentive can be incredibly effective, and that it is still very much possible to achieve the deep rooted change that is necessary for a better future.
Turning Kariba green: conservation farming at the forest protection project
Zimbabwe, Africa. Lilian Manyanga, standing in the relentless sun among rows of sorghum plants and holding a large shovel, is showing us around the Tashinga Community Garden of the Hurungwe District. "Before the Kariba project came into effect," she tells us while wiping the sweat beads off her forehead, "I could hardly feed my children. Every year I struggled to send them to school. But now," she gestures around her and smiles, "- now I can pay their school fees without even missing a term!"
Proyectos de REDD+ para la gobernanza comunitaria y la construcción de paz en Colombia
Penetrar en los espesos y recónditos bosques de Colombia puede ser una tarea tan desafiante como la de reconstruir la paz hoy en un país que ha quedado diezmado por la guerra de tantas décadas. Pero no es imposible.
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