Earthwatch Europe

👏 Huge congratulations to the three winners of this year's Neville Shulman Earthwatch Awards! The Awards provide individuals across the world with funding to implement exciting new research, engage local people and tackle environmental challenges. 🌍 🏆 Meet our 2024 winners: 🌟 Consolata Gitau, who will work with communities in the Maasai Mara region, Kenya, to use Passive Acoustic Monitoring in order to assess the degradation of savanna ecosystems. 🌟 Dr Bibhuti Prasad Lahkar, who will engage young researchers in the conservation of wildlife and its habitat in Assam, India. 🌟 Alex Nduah Nderi, who will explore the biocultural restoration of ecosystems in the Maasai Mara region in Kenya. Discover more 👉 https://lnkd.in/dA54NcnX #EnvironmentalResearch #EarlyCareerScientists #ResearchFunding #ScientificResearch #EnvironmentalCharity #Conservation

📣 We're hiring! We're looking for a Senior Programme & Partnerships Manager to join our team in the Netherlands. 🌾You will lead, develop and manage our Farming with Nature programme, supporting farmers to re-imagine the way we farm and produce food. Do you have excellent relationship management skills and a keen interest in partnerships and programme development? Apply today! 🌱 ⏰ Deadline: 3 December 2024 View the full job description and apply on our website. 👉 https://lnkd.in/erwRWeuU

💚 As a charity, we are grateful to have a Board of Trustees with a wealth of experience and diverse perspectives to guide us on our mission of building a world where we live in balance with nature.   💬❔ This Trustees' Week, we asked four of our trustees how their role with Earthwatch Europe links back to their passion and personal interests. Thank you to Lucian J. Hudson (Chair of Trustees at Earthwatch), Ozlem Gunduz Robinson, Kian Bakhtiari and Dr Jack Matthews for sharing their thoughts!   Read the full blog 👉 https://lnkd.in/emTnMEti   #TrusteesWeek #GreenCareersWeek #Trustees #EnvironmentalScience #CitizenScience #NatureConnection

💧📣 On Sunday we were proud to join the March for Clean Water alongside our friends at River Action UK , The Rivers Trust, Surfers Against Sewage, The WI (National Federation of Women's Institutes) and thousands of others to demand Government do more to save our freshwater. Our rivers and freshwater habitats are at crisis point, and we need to turn the tide now. We want to see: - The law enforced - Pollution to be unprofitable - Focused targets - Nature-based solutions implemented - Communities engaged and empowered We believe in the power of data for change. During the Great UK WaterBlitz, taking place twice a year, citizen scientists across the UK collect data to evidence the poor health of our nation’s freshwaters. You can view our latest report and sign up to join the next WaterBlitz on our website ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e5GVxhpE #WaterQuality #MarchForWater #MarchForCleanWater #CitizenScience #GreatUKWaterBlitz

Last month we ran a workshop at the #BritishScienceFestival in London. The festival aims to connect with diverse audiences and ignite curiosity about science. Just like the festival, we seek to enhance public understanding of environmental issues and empower communities. The workshop was inspired by our #NatureinCities work, exploring the importance of urban greenspaces. We invited participants to imagine a bold sustainable future. Our Science Coordinator, Georgie, shares more on how it went in our blog 👇

🎙️Our Director of Science & Policy, Dr Sasha Woods, enjoyed having a chat with Niki Roach from the Planet Possible podcast and the The Rivers Trust's Technical Director, Michelle Walker, about the power of freshwater citizen science. 🎧 Listen to the full podcast episode 👉https://lnkd.in/eVdKbteC 💧 Discover more about the results of our September #GreatUKWaterBlitz in the report published on our website 👉https://lnkd.in/e5GVxhpE 📣 And don't forget to join us for the #MarchForCleanWater in London this Sunday! #WaterPollution #CitizenScience #FreshWaterWatch

📣 Today we’ve joined over 30 organisations to write to the new chair of the Gov's Water Commission calling on them to make sure it delivers a future for the UK’s lakes, rivers and coastal communities. 💧 We’re calling for the Commission to: - Stop companies prioritising profits over water health - Set clear goals for cleaner rivers - Support proper funding regulators to enforce rules - Punish polluters who damage our rivers, lakes and seas Read our full letter 👉 https://lnkd.in/erq59BXN

🏫 ✨ A huge thank you to our partners Admiral Group Plc for supporting and capturing the transformation of our first Green Earth School in Wales (watch the video below)! 🌱 Through our #GreenEarthSchools programme, we collaborate with school communities in urban areas to turn their grounds into nature-rich spaces for exceptional outdoor learning and play. Find out more 👉

💡 How can policy support citizen science? Our Director of Science and Policy, Dr Sasha Woods, wrote a piece for Comment Central on how policy can better support citizen science by recognising it as a legitimate scientific approach and integrating its findings into official monitoring and reporting. In the environmental sector, citizen science has a key role to play. Citizen scientists are capable of generating extensive, accurate, and timely information at local, national and even global levels - helping to create data for positive environmental change. With the right policy support, the impact of citizen science will multiply – for people, for science and for the environment. #GreatUKWaterBlitz #CitizenScience #policy https://lnkd.in/en7mbTeg

💧 How clean is your local stream or river? Find out about the state of our fresh waters in our September Great UK WaterBlitz report! Between 20 and 23 September, over 4,500 people across the UK used our FreshWater Watch water testing kit to measure their local water quality, collecting more than 2,300 datapoints. It's been fantastic to see this citizen scientists data make national headlines this week in The Guardian, on BBC News, in BBC Countryfile Magazine and many others. Together we can fight for real change! Join us for the next Great UK WaterBlitz in Spring 2025 ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eR4GT9yk #GreatUKWaterBlitz #FreshWaterWatch #nutrientpollution #watertesting #riverhealth #citizenscience