OCTOBER 2016
Dear Readers,
Every September, the Foundation brings together the volunteer members of its Board of Experts to thank them for their invaluable support and to encourage further sharing of experiences. This year, on 21 September, Thierry Huau, landscape architect, urban planner and ethnobotanist, was invited to present Villages Nature, a tourist site that pioneers environmental integration. A passionate, visionary approach that not only combines tourism and urban planning, but also creativity and biodiversity.
It is biodiversity – a theme close to our hearts at the Foundation – that once more takes pride of place in this Newsletter. Nineteen new initiatives have been selected this year within the special ‘threatened animal species’ small projects fund. That brings the number of species supported by the Foundation since its creation to 74 throughout the world.
For, as we know, the sixth mass extinction of animal species is now underway. And yet, at their own level, the outcomes of some of the small projects we support show that well thought-out and properly implemented local action can make a real difference on the ground. Find out about these initiatives on the Foundation’s website by consulting our project factsheets on animal biodiversity conservation. Above all, more and more of us need to act together whenever we can and wherever we are.
Biodiversity is a precious possession that requires mobilization from us all if it is to be conserved. Testimonies from beneficiaries published regularly in our Newsletter encourages us in our efforts. But let us not forget that we also have to be ready to act when major issues are at stake, with potentially irreversible consequences. For example, the alliance "against nature" between Monsanto and Bayer. If we don’t want agrochemistry in all our fields and in our food, then we need to act ...
We hope you enjoy this issue of our Newsletter.
Jacqueline Délia Brémond
Co-Founder / Co-Chair
