TheUnis-Cités association, which recruits young people for civil service, has just launched the Médiaterre program (October 2009). For the first pilot year, 120 young volunteers will be working on environmental issues in working-class neighborhoods.
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Encounter: the story of the Blongios or nature in the making
Visit nature workcamp as eco-citizen commitment. The Blongios association organizes some forty workcamps a year. Its aim is to get people involved in protecting the environment at a local level. There's no need to travel far to take action. On a regional, departmental or local scale, all goodwill is welcome. Meet Jean-Baptiste Boulange, the association's technical supervisor.
The Panthera expedition to Kyrgyzstan with Anne Ouvrard
On her return from Kyrgyzstan, Anne Ouvrard, scientific leader of the Panthera expedition, shares her experiences of riding across the Central Asian plains in the footsteps of the snow leopard. You're a biologist, and in 2009, as scientific leader, you accompanied ecovolunteers on the trail of the snow leopard. Can you ...
A Pas de Loup's Laurence Girard at the heart of eco-citizen commitment
"I first set my sights on birds and plants, and that led me to eco-citizenship." Interview with Laurence Girard, director of A Pas de Loup, a leading French association for ecovolunteering.
"I've already seen volunteers' life paths change when they return from a mission. When I see a sparkle in the eye of an ecovolunteer, I say to myself that it's a sure thing." Director and co-founder of the association A Pas de Loup, des volontaires pour la nature, Laurence Girard has been enabling volunteers to go on missions to help scientists protect the planet for over fifteen years. Driven by a strong passion for nature from an early age, it was after writing her dissertation on the impact of tourism in the polar regions that she came into contact with the world of ecovolunteering, even before the term was coined.
Turtle conservation in the VAR
Care center and public awareness The turtle village at Gonfaron in the Var is run by SOPTOM (Station d'Observation et de Protection des Tortues dans le Monde). Its mission is to protect Hermann's tortoise, whose population is endangered. The center collects turtles and studies them using ...