Thi Thanh Than Nguyen (Conservation Education Associate) recently won a spot at the “2023 Special Training Session for Young Female Researchers and Conservation Practitioners” organized by WildAct. The goal of this capacity-building workshop is to empower Vietnamese women to lead biodiversity conservation projects in the Greater Annamite Ecoregion. During the three-day event that took place […]
LVDI International’s Little Green Guards® program empowers children who wish to contribute to biodiversity conservation. We offer guidance and mentoring to help young people propel their passion into action. Early this year we began sponsoring the Forever An Animal Lover Club (FALC) founded by Nguyệt Linh Nguyễn, a student at Marie Curie School in Hanoi, […]
LVDI International and its partner, Green Guard, recently assisted the Division Forest Office of Hattisar – Kathmandu in a study of the Bagmati River ecosystem. Originating at Bagdwar in Shivapuri Hills about three miles north of Kathmandu Valley, the Bagmati River is a lifeline for 3.5 million people living in the Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Latipur […]
Building on our highly successful Little Green Guards® program, we created a new learning platform, Conservation Science Investigators (C.S.I.), to connect children with nature. This initiative was born out of The Catalyst Creative Leadership Challenge 2019 workshop series hosted by The Nonprofit Institute of University of San Diego. Under the guidance of Drs. Randy Kunkel and Leslie Hennessy (Catalyst International), […]
As we await the next issue of Green Guard, a special edition on Primates of the World, here is a look back at our proudest conservation achievements in Nepal.
The Gnanhouizounmè Nature Center is officially open! It all began with a promise to the people of Gnanhouizounmè. Now after a year of planning and construction the dreams of this rural community in southern Benin have been fulfilled (see post Building a Legacy for Current and Future Generations). On December 20, 2019, local stakeholders, including […]
This is the first of a series of blog posts contributed by LVDI International’s Board Member, Mr. Bruce Engelbert. *** Since serving as a member of the Board of Directors at LVDI International, I’ve heard wonderful stories about the impact of our conservation program in Maromizaha, Madagascar. In this rural area, most people subsist […]
LVDI International is excited to announce that our global conservation team has been awarded a number of external grants to save endangered species from the brink of extinction! Mr. Van Tuan Bui (Vietnam Conservation Program Coordinator) received a grant from Primate Conservation Incorporated to conduct the first behavioral ecology study on a newly discovered population […]
LVDI International proudly announces that Ms. Rose Marie Randrianarison (Madagascar Program Coordinator) has been chosen as a 2019 winner of the Charles Southwick Conservation Education Commitment Award! Her nomination was submitted by Dr. Chia Tan (Vice President) and endorsed by Dr. Friederike Woog, Curator of Ornithology at the Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History. In her […]
LVDI International and our partner, Organisation pour le Développement Durable et la Biodiversité or ODDB, are fulfilling one community’s dream! Over the past three months a 1,500-square-foot nature center is taking shape at Gnanhouizounmè, an eco-conscious village we serve in southern Benin. This village borders the Gnanhouizounmè Sacred Forest, one of the last few forest-savanna […]