Laurence

The earth is overheating in Turtle Village

An eco-volunteer's world tour: the turtle village of Gonfaron (2/7) . Start of the day at the store. I run the store and take care of the entrances with Philippe. He's never worked before, but he's a young biology student who knows a lot about genetics and biodiversity. For me, it's been ...

An eco-volunteer's world tour: the turtle village of Gonfaron (1/7). The rucksack is hastily packed. I only take the bare minimum, and I'm light on the pharmacy as I'm staying in France. A second, smaller rucksack, positioned on my stomach, takes a little more time with the computer, camera and various cables.
I get on the train and head for Gonfaron listening to Tahitian music, slipping into a gentle torpor accompanied by Emma's songs from the famous belle époque and Tahiti Talk "De l'autre côté du monde". The train plunges into an increasingly Mediterranean setting, revealing the first umbrella pines and cork oaks planted on the white limestone cliffs.

uniscite civil service for environmental protection

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.

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.

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 ...

"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 ...

The earth is overheating in Turtle Village

Turtle village: love at first sight for Ms Hermann

Médiaterre: your civil service in environmental protection

Encounter: the story of the Blongios or nature in the making

The Panthera expedition to Kyrgyzstan with Anne Ouvrard

A Pas de Loup's Laurence Girard at the heart of eco-citizen commitment

Turtle conservation in the VAR