Earth-Info.Net collaborates with field projects
Today I demonstrated how
Blogger works to
Graham Hemson and discussed helping him to set up a collaborative
lion conservation weblog...
Hopefully this new blog will be one of a stable of high-quality
environment + development field projects that Earth-Info.Net will help to get online + publicise.
The idea of collaborating in this way is to give a frank,
first person summary of the
ups + downs associated with running a
field project, demonstrate what is happening at the
grass roots level + aid the
engagement of field workers with collaborators, sponsors + the public...
As many of the projects I am approaching work in
remote parts of the world + are understaffed I hope that a group of us
working together will be able to produce a more
compelling site than any of us can manage alone and also give readers a broader impression of the
range of worthwhile work that is going on out there,
below the NGO level.
See
here for a letter Graham recently had published in
New Scientist regarding the
resolution of conflict between lions + people in Botswana.
The
Predators + People weblog will go live in the next few days...