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Photo taken on South Africa's Brown Hyenas expedition. Photo credit: Niall Riddell

Dear Jane,

Welcome to the first edition of your redesigned eNewsletter. One of our new features is a regular Take Action section which we hope will spark your imagination - with spring in the air, we’ve been thinking of ways you can use your renewed energy to help us to raise money.

Other new features include In Profile, where you can read about the daily lives and work of Earthwatch Europe staff and scientists. And in Visions of Earthwatch, we’ll be showing you some of our best shots from the archives.

Finally, if you haven’t done so already, take a look at our new and improved website. We hope you enjoy browsing around!

Jane Nijssen


Jane Nijssen,
Editor

Contents

Latest news

Expedition of the month:
Lions of Tsavo

Field diary

Research focus:
Wildlife of the Mongolian Steppe

Take Action

Visions of Earthwatch

Latest News

Volunteers urgently needed in Kenya

The support of Earthwatch volunteers is vital to the recovery of wildlife and communities in our project areas.

Earthwatch Educator Awards 2008

Teachers and educators are invited to apply to join an Earthwatch expedition this summer.

Ghana cocoa boosted by pioneering tourism project

Earthwatch teams up with Cadbury Schweppes and Ghana's Nature Conservation Research Centre.

Ghanaian Communities and Conservation

Don't miss our May lecture at the Royal Geographical Society.

Turtle tracking

Read Ric Sagarminaga’s latest update from the Earthwatch research ship.

Dig it

Archaeology Abroad issues a spring bulletin about hundreds of exciting archaeological fieldwork opportunities outside the UK, including Earthwatch projects.

Ghana’s first ever cocoa farm tourism initiative has been launched. Photo credit: Olivier Asselin

The research ship the Toftevaag. Photo credit: Ana Canadas
Volunteers at work on Lions of Tsavo. Photo credit: Guy Stockton
Robben Island penguins. Photo credit: Rebecca Carmichael

Field diary...(find out what it's really like)

When the area became dark, we could see hundreds of penguins walking slowly inland. This was the first time I had seen so many penguins together.

In August 2007, Berry Wong, a Shell employee from Hong Kong, joined South African Penguins on Robben Island, the site of Nelson Mandela’s former incarceration. Read her diary...
Wildlife of the Mongolian Steppe. Photo credit: Richard Reading

In profile:

In the first of our series profiling Earthwatch members of staff and scientists, read about a day in the life of Hannah Rooley, Earthwatch Europe’s Acting Head of Marketing and Communications.

Hannah Rooley. Photo credit: Crispin Zeeman

Take Action!

Spring is in the air so if you’re feeling energetic and raring to go, read our top ten tips on how you can put your ideas into action. Why not try a sponsored bike ride, run, swim or bungee jump? Read more...

 Earthwatch staff fundraise by taking part in a dragon boat race. Photo credit: Earthwatch

Earthwatch Europe staff (pictured left) have twice taken part in the Abingdon Rotary Club Dragon Boat Race.
An Earthwatch volunteer joins in a tribal dance with the Samburu people of Kenya. Photo credit: Paul Harris
Photo credits (from top): Niall Riddell, Dr. Bruce Patterson, Olivier Asselin, Ana Canadas, Guy Stockton, Rebecca Carmichael, Richard Reading, Crispin Zeeman, Earthwatch, Paul Harris.