 Read about WiNN India's Dr. Purnima Barman and her work in helping to save the endangered Greater Adjutant storks of India.   Left: Greater Adjutant stork; Right: Dr. Purnima Devi Barman
Photos by Gerrit Vyn
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In case you missed our June 24th WiNNsday with Dr. Caroline Ouko and Dr. Margaret Awuor Owuor, here's a brief documentary about their Akara Hills project. The WiNN December 2019 newsletter is out! You can view it in your browser here. Don't forget to sign up to receive future newsletters using the form in the sidebar on the right.   Assam in India has been witness to one of the most unique conservation success stories in the world, with the reversal of a species’ fortunes from being persecuted, to being revered as a national identity. The Greater Adjutant Conservation Initiative of Assam, India led by Dr. Purnima Devi Barman, Director, WiNN India, has now received another helping hand from New Zealand High Commission. The Commission had recently come forward to support the rural women’s efforts to save the endangered Hargila in Assam. This is one of the recent milestones the Hargila movement in Assam has been able to reach in recent months. Earlier this year, conservation activists from around the world had visited Assam to visit the Greater Adjutant habitat and attend Women In Nature Network's Global networking event that took place in Guwahati in January 2019.
The WiNN May 2019 newsletter is out! You can view it in your browser here. Don't forget to sign up to receive future newsletters using the form in the sidebar on the right.  Watch some highlights from the 3rd Annual WiNN Symposium, which was held in Guyana in August 2018. Thank you to Margot McManus for all her work in putting this together! You can watch the video here!  Group photo from WiNN Guyana 2018. Participants from 7 countries attended. WiNN members Claudia Sobrevila and Leeanne Alonso contributed to the World Bank "Voices" blog with a piece on WiNN India 2019 and the history of WiNN as a network. Click below to read the article:
Author: Tracy Melvin  With generous funding from the Alice C. Tyler Perpetual Trust, Aaranyak, Global Wildlife Conservation, and the International Finance Corporation, the Women in Nature Network (WiNN) hosted their fourth annual global networking event, “WiNN India 2019”.
From January 28th to February 2, 2019, 60 women from 12 different countries came together in Guwahati, Assam - situated south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys – a northeastern Indian treasure. Here, surrounded by success stories from a state that has conserved the one-horned Indian rhinoceros from near extinction and one of the last wild habitats for the Asian elephant, these women started building an international community of 21st-Century conservation practitioners. The event was held with the leadership of Purnima Devi Barman, WiNN partnered Aaranyak (www.aaranayak.org), a Guwahati based NGO, and with the Kamrup District Administration, Kamrup Police, and Assam Forest Department. On World Wetland Day 2019, GROOTS Kenya received an award from the Kenyan Ministry of Environment and Forestry and National Environment Management Authority in recognition of their work in spearheading community-led environment conservation and climate change resilience campaigns. GROOTS Kenya focuses on supporting the engagement of women in leadership and advocacy at the grassroots level. Congratulations on this fantastic work!  The WiNN November 2018 newsletter is out! You can view it in your browser here. Don't forget to sign up to receive future newsletters using the form on the right.  |
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