My volunteer trip - Croatia
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Hi
My name is Lauren and I am in my last year at secondary school, I have been offered the amazing opportunity of going out to Croatia in July and working with professional scientists in research, conservation an biodiversity. I am predicted to get good grades and the opportunity of this experience has invigorated and excited me about learning more about the Sciences. The Charity I will be working with is called Operation Wallacea (Opwall) and this Charity can only continue to do its great work with the help and support from Students who go out to help each year. I have been holding cake stalls and have sent leaflets round to all my neighbours offering to do odd jobs, car cleaning, dog walking and any odd jobs.
I would really appreciate it if you could help me achieve my dream of completing this trip and actually making a real difference to the World.
The research carried out will generate unique long term data sets on local and regional biodiversity which is used to publish peer-reviewed scientific papers and identify urgent conservation priorities for local partners and government. These data sets are then donated, free of charge, to The Opwall Trust (charity number 1078362), who use them to design and implement large scale conservation management strategies.
Amongst the charity’s recent achievements are:
• Using species distribution data from Honduras, Madagascar and South Africa, correlated with habitat and satellite-derived environmental variables, to predict distributions across much larger areas. This collaboration with the University of Oxford Biodiversity Research Centre aims to develop biodiversity performance criteria for the UN REDD+ scheme to fund forest protection.
• Publishing their 280th paper in peer reviewed journals including Nature, Global Change Biology and Conservation Biology.
• Discovering 30 new vertebrate species to science and three previously considered extinct.
• Part-funding 64 PhD studentships directed at our global research strategy.
• Pioneering the use of novel technology in ecological surveying, including stereo-video analyses for coral reef fish biomass, and 3D computer modelling to quantify structural complexity.
• Developing a sustainable method of achieving value added processing of farmed seaweed on a local scale, providing a true alternative income source to reduce fishing pressure on Indonesian coral reefs.
A massive thank you in advance for your help and support!
My name is Lauren and I am in my last year at secondary school, I have been offered the amazing opportunity of going out to Croatia in July and working with professional scientists in research, conservation an biodiversity. I am predicted to get good grades and the opportunity of this experience has invigorated and excited me about learning more about the Sciences. The Charity I will be working with is called Operation Wallacea (Opwall) and this Charity can only continue to do its great work with the help and support from Students who go out to help each year. I have been holding cake stalls and have sent leaflets round to all my neighbours offering to do odd jobs, car cleaning, dog walking and any odd jobs.
I would really appreciate it if you could help me achieve my dream of completing this trip and actually making a real difference to the World.
The research carried out will generate unique long term data sets on local and regional biodiversity which is used to publish peer-reviewed scientific papers and identify urgent conservation priorities for local partners and government. These data sets are then donated, free of charge, to The Opwall Trust (charity number 1078362), who use them to design and implement large scale conservation management strategies.
Amongst the charity’s recent achievements are:
• Using species distribution data from Honduras, Madagascar and South Africa, correlated with habitat and satellite-derived environmental variables, to predict distributions across much larger areas. This collaboration with the University of Oxford Biodiversity Research Centre aims to develop biodiversity performance criteria for the UN REDD+ scheme to fund forest protection.
• Publishing their 280th paper in peer reviewed journals including Nature, Global Change Biology and Conservation Biology.
• Discovering 30 new vertebrate species to science and three previously considered extinct.
• Part-funding 64 PhD studentships directed at our global research strategy.
• Pioneering the use of novel technology in ecological surveying, including stereo-video analyses for coral reef fish biomass, and 3D computer modelling to quantify structural complexity.
• Developing a sustainable method of achieving value added processing of farmed seaweed on a local scale, providing a true alternative income source to reduce fishing pressure on Indonesian coral reefs.
A massive thank you in advance for your help and support!
Organizer
Lisa Kelly
Organizer
