An interview with Kate Mana Galido, Asia Affiliate
Synchronicity Earth speaks to Swetha Stotra Bhashyam about her career in youth activism for the global biodiversity movement.
Jim Pettiward
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Jim Pettiward
Head of Communications
Communications, Leadership Team
Jim’s background is in education and training, a field in which he has held a number of roles including designing and writing resources for the web, developing teacher training resources and workshops, teaching effective research and writing skills and providing online learning support for students and staff in UK Higher Education institutions. Jim’s role at Synchronicity Earth is to enhance our communications strategy and to design and write new content and resources to inform and inspire supporters, partners, friends and anyone with an interest in conservation and the environment. By telling the stories of Synchronicity Earth and its partners, we aim to bring their work on critical conservation projects around the world to life. Jim works closely with our research analysts and other staff, as well as with external partners, to develop narratives and campaigns around key conservation issues and priorities. Jim graduated from Southampton University with a degree in Modern Languages (French & Spanish) and has an MSc in Digital Solutions and Online Learning. He has volunteered on marine conservation projects in Ecuador, Thailand and Madagascar, recently spending 3 months on a coral reef conservation project in southwest Madagascar. Over his 15 years as a scuba diver, he has developed a particular interest in the health and conservation of the oceans and is lucky enough to have dived some of the most beautiful dive sites in the world.
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Biocultural Diversity: An interview with Carla Bengoa Rojas
Carla Bengoa Rojas joined Synchronicity Earth as our Biocultural Diversity Programme Manager in 2024. She has collaborated with Amazon and Andean communities in Peru, Indigenous women entrepreneurs worldwide, and Indigenous experts in international forums. In this interview, we speak to Carla about her early interest in environmental law, her experience working with Indigenous Peoples [...]
Announcing our new Co-Executive Directors
Having recently undertaken a recruitment process to strengthen and take forward the leadership of Synchronicity Earth, we are delighted to announce our two new Co-Executive Directors. Rachel Hewitt Firstly, we have appointed Rachel Hewitt as our Co-Executive Director, Finance & Operations. Currently Chief Finance Officer at Client Earth, [...]
Why local conservation challenges require local solutions
Sisters Merline Touko Tchoko and Julie Gagoe Tchoko speak about their careers in natural resource management in the Congo Basin.
Pathways to change in the Congo Basin
Sisters Merline Touko Tchoko and Julie Gagoe Tchoko speak about their careers in natural resource management in the Congo Basin.
A career in conservation: an interview with Julie Thomas
Our Head of Conservation Programmes, Julie Thomas, joined the Synchronicity Earth team in January, 2023. In this interview, Jessie Birabil and Jim Pettiward talk to Julie about how she started out in her conservation career and hear how her experiences working in diverse regions and communities around the world have shaped her attitudes towards [...]
Meet our Latin America affiliate, Grace Iara Souza
Over the past 18 years, Dr Grace Iara Souza has developed a deep understanding of the impacts of global environmental governance and social policies on local rainforest defenders in the Brazilian Amazon. Her academic training is rooted in Political Ecology, and her professional experience includes project management in the educational, private, and charity sectors, [...]
Snapshots from a global biodiversity conference
The world's largest and most important global gathering on biodiversity convened in Montreal, Canada, in December 2022. As the speeches, pledges and media coverage of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity Conference of the Parties 15 (COP15) fade into memory, we hear from four people who were there. Large, [...]
An interview with Nemonte Nenquimo
Nemonte Nenquimo is an Indigenous leader of the Waorani people in the Ecuadorean Amazon province of Pastaza, one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth. Nemonte gained global attention when she led a successful court action to block a proposal for oil exploration and drilling on 500,000 acres of Waorani land. Her tireless and courageous [...]
An Interview with Miriam Supuma
Miriam Supuma has been working for over ten years with conservation organisations in Papua New Guinea, a country that comprises 1% of the world’s land but around 7% of its biodiversity. Miriam joined Synchronicity Earth in April 2021 to lead its Biocultural Diversity Programme (formerly the Flourishing Diversity Programme), which focuses on the recognition [...]