Rod Downie is WWF’s Chief Advisor, Polar Regions. He delivered a special guest talk as part of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society’s (RSGS) national talks programme, ‘Inspiring People’. With over 90 lectures across mainland Scotland in...
On Thursday 6 December, Rod Downie, WWF’s Chief Polar Advisor, came to Edinburgh to share his understanding and encounters of the Arctic’s most notorious species – the polar bear. With nearly two decades of experience in working in polar...
When we speak about waste management, we mainly mean recycling waste such as paper or plastic and glass. In fact, many other things can be recycled, including wastewater. Current treatment is mainly about processing wastewater with the purpose of...
“Anything that can leave has, and anything that couldn’t leave has died.” – Heather Barron, head veterinarian at Florida’s Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife (via National Geographic) Florida has the reputation for being...
“There’s a human in my forest and I don’t know what to do…” Several weeks ago, Iceland released their hard-hitting Christmas advert telling the story of ‘Rang-tan’, the young orangutan whose home had been destroyed by deforestation for...
Visualise masses of coral in striking shades of fluorescent blue, neon pink and radiant emerald stretching out as far as the eye can see. Now visualise these corals turning white, then brown; slowly becoming lifeless and covered in algae. Sadly,...
The Scottish Highlands has been declared a high risk region for Lyme disease by the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice). Lyme disease is a bacterial infection spread by ticks. If left untreated it can go on to cause...