At the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in February 2012, Africa Environment Day was renamed Wangari Maathai Day to honor the famous activist and Nobel Peace laureate whose life work was dedicated to bringing African communities together to preserve the environment. The day, which will be celebrated on Saturday, March 3rd, recognizes Professor […]
World Environment Day is just around the corner – an annual event held every June 5th – that was started in 1972 by the United Nations Environment Programme as a way to bring global awareness to issues surrounding the environment. This year’s theme, in tangent with the UN’s International Year of Forests is meant to highlight […]
Pledging to plant 1 million trees in Tanzania in the next two years and a special Earth Day bangle set for ARC
The African Rainforest Conservancy is very pleased to announce its new partnership with Earth Day Network! With our field partner, the Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (TFCG), we are pledging to plant 1 million trees […]
Thank you to everyone (all 18 of you!) who participated in ARC’s anniversary t-shirt giveaway contest last week. Thanks also for your posts on Facebook and tweets on Twitter, helping us to spread the word about our new partnership with JILLY jellybug. Your comments were all fantastic, and it is inspiring to see that people are […]
On Saturday, March 19th people around the globe will unite to celebrate East Africa’s Serengeti with the firstInternational Serengeti Day. This precious landscape encompasses the Serengeti National Park and the Masai Mara Reserve in Kenya, and is home to the world’s largest herds of grazing animals. The migration patterns in May and June across […]
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