"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.