Today’s Bats Without Borders Webinar is on Bats and Climate Change, and is presented by one of their Board Members – Dr Orly Razgour.
To join in at 15 hrs, contact Bats Without Borders beforehand via their website and they will email you the joining instructions. And you can also catch up and watch any of their past Webinars on their website.
Survey – Online Training Courses
Following the success of their #WingedWednesday webinar series, Bats Without Borders have received requests to run online training courses. To better understand what type of courses would be most useful for people’s careers, they have set up a short survey to find out what you would like to learn. So please take a few minutes to complete their short survey to suggest what courses would be of interest to you and which would most benefit your career. Their survey ends on Friday 26 June.
Women for Conservation Zambia is excited to launch its first virtual mentoring program starting on the 25 June 2020 at 1400 to 1500. Eleven incredible conservationists from Zambia, and across the globe, will be available to provide valuable professional advice and skills to early career conservationists in Zambia. The mentoring program will run for six months and each mentor will have monthly meetings with their mentee on different topics.
Three of the Women for Conservation mentors (Patricia Mupeta Muyamwa of The Nature Conservancy, Kaize Griffin Shanungu of the International Crane Foundation and Kristina Kesch of Frankfurt Zoological Society) will be talking briefly about their experience as conservationists and what they hope to offer as mentors.
Being mentored is a valuable and effective development opportunity. Women for Conservation passionately believe that guidance, encouragement, and support from the trusted and experienced mentors will provide a broad range of personal and professional skills leading to personal and professional success in the conservation field.
It is not too late to sign up to become a mentee. For more information and to register for the Zoom Webinar, contact Maina at maina@wcpzambia.org.
During their 10 weeks training, CLZ’s K9 Unit have been working hard and are now ready for the field .
The two new dogs, Kalo and Amor, have been imprinted on firearms, ammunition, ivory, rhino horn, bushmeat and pangolin scales enabling them to successfully conduct operational open area searches for forensic evidence, vehicle checkpoints and baggage searches.
They have now progressed to low-risk operations in the field for practical learning and to further reinforce their training.
For more news from CLZ (Conservation Lower Zambezi) you can subscribe to their newsletter, read past editions and find their monthly updates online. To find out more about their current projects and how you can support them, visit their website – www.conservationlowerzambezi.org
Don’t forget to join in today’s Webinar with Bats Without Borders (BWB) at 15 hrs. They are hosting a panel discussion about Bats and COVID-19 – separating the facts from fiction. The panel will include Professors Wanda Markotter, Paul Webala, Kirsty Park and Dr Ricardo Rocha. Contact them to be sent the joining instructions via their website
For those of you who missed out on the webinar last week, with Merlin Tuttle, from Merlin Tuttle’s Bat Conservation (MTBC), you can now catch up on ‘Winning friends for bats’ on their YouTube channel. If you subscribe to the channel you will then receive updates on the new videos posted. BWB highly recommends that you watch Merlin’s ‘The power of winning friends not battles‘ video, which gives extra background into his engagement wins!
Batty Art Competition – news
If you entered BWB’s ‘Batty Art Competition’, they have announced it is being judged by Fiona Reid – the naturalist, author, and an incredible illustrator.
To find out more about the work Fiona is involved with and her Wildlife Encounters, visit – www.fionareid.ca.
BWB We’ll be sharing their fantastic art entries over the next two weeks, before announcing the winners on their Facebook and website pages.
With few jobs being available this year in conservation, wildlife and the environmental sectors, competition is getting fierce. So why not upgrade your skills by gaining a new graduate or post graduate qualification, enhancing your career prospects?
The Copperbelt University is now enrolling. You can choose between their graduate degrees and post graduate qualifications in economics, finance, business administration, education leadership and more. Visit their website or download their prospectus here: www.ecampus.cbu.ac.zm/prospectus
The Copperbelt University is accredited and/or recognised by the Ministry of Higher Education, Zambia. All programmes are accredited by the Higher Education Authority, an institution established under the Higher Education Act No. 4 of 2013.
