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Jan 20
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Beyond Durban or saving tomorrow, tomorrow
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNCCC) from Durban 2011 ended with a common decision to adopt a legally binding agreement on climate change no later than 2015, to be fully implemented by 2020. However, just a day later Canada has pull out with Russia supporting their decision.Read more here. |
| New Environmentalist is pleased to announce that Agent Green, one of our partners in Transylvania completed in September 2011 a new local project to increase the ecotourism potential of the Retezat National Park. The project consisted of marking, increased accessibility and planning a viewing point for the Lolaia waterfall. The waterfall is a spectacular natural attraction located at 1050 meters altitude in the north of the park and is accessible to visitors all year round by a passage called Carnic. Read our full article here… |
New Environmentalist is proud to announce a new partnership with Apuseni Mountain Club. Apuseni Mountain Club (or Club Montan Apuseni) is an association operating in Transylvania whose purpose is to protect endangered species and to promote responsible tourism. The association aims to achieve their goals by implementing sustainable development programs in partnership with local communities and by educating the younger generations in nature conservation. Partner’s link.
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The New Environmentalist “Sprint” team was proud to take part in this year’s London Duathlon, in the Challenge Relay category. The London event is the world’s largest duathlon held annually in Richmond Park, south-west London, with thousands of participants. Ion started the Relay with a challenging 10km run, Ciprian then took over with two fast laps around Richmond Park (22km in the rain) and Siobhan crossed the finishing line with a fast 5km run and a blistering sprint to the line. The result was a well deserved 7th place (out of more than 80 teams competing), with an overall time of 1 hour and 52 min. Click here for more pictures. |
Alter Natives Eco Farm
Jun 13
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Siobhan and a few of our volunteers travelled to Almeria for a week at an Eco Farm: the Alter Natives, a family run venture that uses sustainable technologies to grow organic vegetables in a part of Spain that is more famous for its semi-arid desert and western movies than the unexpected fruit and vegetables.
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| Lauren Tucker is our youngest volunteer Media Advisor at only 17 years old but her passion for wildlife, photography and local conservation issues has really impressed us and we are looking forward Lauren’s future work. This article focuses on the conservation issues around the village of Newton St Loe.
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Cycling, 01st May 2011
Jun 1
| Siobhan and Ion take on the Surrey hills in the Wiggle Super Series Ups and Downs Sportive (Road) – 68miles around Dorking. It was a great day for cycling, with sunshine throughout, great atmosphere and good support from the organisers. Which was exactly what was needed to complete a challenging course with plenty of hard climbs and fast downhills. Please visit the organiser’s site for videos and we hope you can join us for future events, below: http://www.ukcyclingevents.co.uk/video/ Click here for more pictures! |
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Despite the rain and cold weather our team had one of our best results to date, finishing ahead of the competition as best team in The Fix UK Run Richmond first 5K run of the year. Special thanks to all our runners that braved the weather, to Anca on her first run and to Siobhan, Ciprian and Ion on achieving personal bests. For full results, please follow this link: http://www.thefixevents.com/content/run-richmond-park-5k-race-1-results/ |
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New Environmentalist has joined Agent Green and several other conservation groups in their campaign to stop the building of national road 66A through an area of international wildlife importance: the Retezat-Godeanu-Tarcu mountain range, western Romania. Read our full article here… |



