John Lieber Ecology/ Planning - Jungle Capital (Environmental Professionals and Nature’s Pulse)

Happy to introduce episode 28 of Environmental Professionals. This episode is about pollinators in Australia. Kit Prendergast is a native bee scientist and conservation biologist, dedicated to promoting evidence-based actions to preserve indigenous native bees. She earned a Forrest Scholarship for her Ph.D. research documenting native bee biodiversity in the southwest Western Australian biodiversity hotspot. She created a Facebook group 'Bees in the burbs; which now has almost over 9K members, and has conducted citizen science projects to engage the community to care about native bees and ensure that there are thriving bee communities. Kit was awarded the Flow Hive Pollinator Support Program, Graduate Women WA Mary Walters Bursary, Australian Wildlife Society University Student Grants Scheme and the Ecological Society of Australia’s Outstanding Outreach Prize, and was a FameLab Australia finalist. She’s been invited to speak at community events and has published numerous academic articles. Kit has also written the popular book & Creating a Haven for Native Bees. When she is not out among the bees and flowers she is spending time with her dog, bunny and birds, or tumbling about doing acrobatics as a circus performer. To contact the Bee Babette, including to read her publications or participate in her bee hotels and bushfire project, her email is: kitprendergast21@gmail.com [kitprendergast21@gmail.com] Twitter: @BeeBabette Facebook group: Bees in the burbs Facebook page: Creating a Haven for Native Bees Facebook page: Abuzz About Dawson's Burrowing Bee Redbubble store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/beebabette/shop [https://www.redbubble.com/people/beebabette/shop] insta: @kit.prendergast

Happy to introduce Episode 27 of Environmental Professionals.   This episode is about environmental assessments in Nigeria.   Peter Tertese Ikyapa is from Benue state, North-Central Nigeria. He acquired a bachelor's degree in Geography 2014, at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria. Then he proceeded to Bayero University Kano (BUK) where he obtained Master's of Science degree in Environmental Management in 2019 all in Nigeria. He had six months industrial training at the Benue State ministry of Lands, Survey and Solid Minerals Makurdi prior to the 11 months of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Kano where he thought Geography in high school.  Aside the environmental advocacy services which he renders occasionally with his team at GreenTip Environmental innitiative, he conducts EIA, EA, & EMP's  where he gets to analyze data about soil, water & air pollution in order to propose actions and policies that are less harmful to the environment & people's health.  Part of the work he does as a freelancer is to conduct research for organisations that need his services. One of the recent research he did was the World Bank sponsored research on "the sustainability and skill acquisition ecosystem in Nigeria" under the umbrella of Academy of Learning Nigeria (ALN).  At present, he is working on "E-Waste Management in Nigerian Cities: a case study of Kano Metropolis" where he hopes to explore the trend, Challenges & opportunities in electronic waste Management in his country.   You can reach him on:  Twitter & Instagram; @IT_PeterZ  Facebook & LinkedIn; @Peter Tertese Ikyapa

Nature's Pulse: Episode Twenty Nine

Happy to introduce Episode 26 of Environmental Professionals.  This episode is about Forestry in the Philippines.  Rivah Shane P. LLano is from Pilar, Cebu, Philippines. She a licensed forester. She took my Bachelor’s degree in Forestry at Visayas State University, Baybay City, Leyte. She graduated last June 2019 with Latin Honor. She worked as a Forester and a Geographic Information System Operator at Department of Environment and Natural Resources- Community Environment and Natural Resources Office in Palo, Leyte for 11 months. She conducted compliance and monitoring to Community-based Forest Management areas within the office’s jurisdiction and made reports of her observations. She also organizes the Information Education and Communication (IEC) Campaigns to areas prone to illegal logging and deforestation and conduct interviews and series of seminars to communities within CBFM areas. She is also in-charge to form a Multi-sectoral Forest Protection Committee (MFPC) to a chosen municipality within our office’s jurisdiction. Furthermore, she also joined the extension officers conduct surveys and validation on National Greening Program. When she is in the office, she make maps of watersheds, hydropower plants, Community-based Forest Management (CBFM) and National Greening Program (NGP) areas. What she does is analyze and compare the maps of the NGP areas if there are changes in forest cover from the year the project began up to present and submit reports in monthly basis. On August 2020, she was offered a scholarship by the office of the graduate school and last December 2020, she had to leave her job to further my studies. At present, she is a 1st year Master student in Forestry in the same University where she finished my undergraduate program.   She can be reached through these social media platforms: Instagram (@ms.shaney ), Twitter (shanellano) and Facebook (Rivah Shane Llano) or this contact number +639464196936.

Nature's Pulse: Episode Twenty Eight