Earth Day Giveaway, Day 3: Eco Friendly Bird Doodle Books by Tree-Free Greetings
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Earth Day Giveaway, Day 2: Kikkerland Tree Friendly Recycled Pencils
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Read moreEarth Day Giveaway, Day 1: Elephant POOPOOPAPER Twine Journal
The products and the story behind POOPOOPAPER convey the important message of sustainability. Learn how to “Like&Win one of their products.
Read moreIn the Spotlight: Global Health Corps Malawi
At the end of my Master of Public Health program, I was determined to work abroad to apply the skill and knowledge I had gained through my maternal and child health focus and my global health certificate. I was very much drawn to the mission of GHC, and how it is a community that values social justice and cross-cultural collaboration. One aspect of GHC that I was particularly interested in is having the opportunity to work with and learn from a national co-fellow, who is also based at your placement organization.
Read moreIntroducing DANTAisms blogger: Siobhan
When I think about the key moments in my life that steered me towards an interest in understanding and protecting the natural world, I credit television, books, my parents and the reverence they instilled in me for naturalists such as Jane Goodall . I am the daughter of an ex-hippie and a botanist, so I was raised to think and live
Read moreMy Summer in India: Seeing the World From a Different Perspective! (இந்தியாவில் என் கோடைகாலம்)
It was only 4 am and as soon as I stepped outside from the airport the heat took my breath away. Dr. MohanKumar had warned us it was going to be hot, but nothing could have prepared me for the heat of India. Myself and 14 other veterinary students from the University of Georgia had been selected to spend 7
Read moreIn the Spotlight: Peace Corps Togo
As an EAFS volunteer, I don’t really have a “typical day”. Some days I am building a permaculture garden and surveying the tree nurseries of my reforestation team, and other days I am meeting with the women’s cooperative that I helped to create and running my girls club at the middle school.
Read moreNew Course Offering- Birds of Costa Rica
DANTA is delighted to announce a new course offering for summer 2017! Birds of Costa Rica will be held from July 15-July 30, 2017 at Osa Conservation‘s Piro Research Station in Costa Rica’s spectacular Osa peninsula. As the one of the largest tracts of rain forest north of the Amazon (roughly 400,000 acres in the Osa Conservation Area), it is renowned for high
Read moreSexual Conflict in Nonhuman Primates: A Female’s Perspective
by Lisa Barrett Sexual conflict is the clash between evolutionary interests of males and females. It stems from anisogamy, the discrepant sizes of the male and female gametes (sperm and eggs, respectively). Think: eggs are bigger and more costly to produce; sperm is cheap and plentiful. These gametic differences lead to (sometimes) opposing reproductive interests and strategies for the sexes– a
Read moreConservation Behavior
What happens when you don’t see things from the animal’s perspective? A conservation failure. Unfortunately there are quite a few examples of conservation attempts that failed, because their leaders lacked an understanding about some aspect of behavior.
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