The Free University of Bozen - Bolzano (Unibz, Northern Italy) and the University of Innsbruck (Austria), both located in the Alps, have developed an international Master program which focuses on sustainable landscape development as well as ecosystem and land-use management in mountain regions. The cooperation between these universities combines in an integrative way the ecological as well as the socio-economic perspective of ecology and…

The ChangemakerXchange Summit in South Africa will bring together 25 top young African changemakers across civil society, media, the corporate sector, government, and more. The aim of the summit is to build a cross-sectoral network of changemakers that work together to address societal issues in a collaborative manner. Eligibility extends to participants who lead, co-lead, have founded, or have co-founded an ongoing social venture that addresses…

The Thomson Reuters Foundation invites applications to attend its reporting workshop ‘Diversity and Resilience in a Rapidly Changing World’ at the European Alpbach Forum in Austria (August 2018). The workshop will tackle the unintended consequences of the Industrial or Green Revolutions. Participants will have access to experts from the worlds of business, politics, culture and civil society. The Thomson Reuters Foundation will cover the visa,…

Pegasys Cape Town, South Africa invites applications for the consultancy position in Climate Change.

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Thomson Reuters Foundation seek participants for a four-day workshop on reporting land rights in Johannesburg, South Africa (30 July – 2 August 2018). Journalists with outstanding story ideas on property rights will receive training, editorial support and limited funding to help them realize their stories. The program will cover airfare, lodging, and subsistence for journalists from Southern African…

The Canon Collins Trust seeks to support exceptional individuals who are committed to social justice in Southern Africa. The Trust offers 3-year scholarships for students studying justice, including politics and the environment, among others. In 2018 most awards will be valued at R70 thousand for each year of study at Masters and PhD level. Applicants must be nationals of — or have refugee status — in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique…

The master's program Ecology and Ecosystems (MEC) addresses fundamental problems in Ecology in a holistic way. Core topics are the role of organisms in the functionality of ecosystems, and the factors responsible for the spatial and temporal variations in biodiversity and functioning of systems. In MEC, topics covered are various marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems. These range from lowland to alpine, and from arctic to tropical biomes.…

The World Wide Fund for Nature South Africa (WWF-SA) invites applications for the position of Project Coordinator: North-East Cape Grassland Protected Area Project to support the National Protected Area Expansion Strategy. The work aligns with the WWF-SA Grassland Programme which aims to, among others: Enable the conservation of South Africa’s natural assets in priority landscapes through appropriate and innovative protected area expansion…

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is seeking a Senior Programme Officer – Conservation Areas and Species Diversity Programme based in South Africa to support the the management and implementation of projects in the Conservation Areas and Species Diversity (CASD) portfolio.

The IIASA’s (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) annual 3-month Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) offers research opportunities to talented young researchers whose interests correspond with IIASA’s ongoing research on issues of global environmental, economic and social change.

In the face of global change and natural resource depletion, it has become an imperative to understand the links between biodiversity and ecosystem services such as among others: Freshwater; Crop production; Grazing; Climate regulation. In this course, a variety of biodiversity and ecosystem service frameworks will be introduced and discussed in light of how they help us understand our connection with and dependence on nature. The course will…

In this session policy makers and scientists will discuss the role of forests and trees and their sustainable conservation and management in limiting climate-related risks in the context of the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In particular, the importance of forests in Africa will be underlined and examples of cooperation between Austrian and African partners will be highlighted. The discussion session will include the…

Give your contribution towards wildlife monitoring & conservation and learn a lot about nature, park management and anti-poaching while living a lifetime experience by volunteering with this amazing team.Volunteers will be expected to help the following among others: Assisting with the Big 5, hyenas and cheetah monitoring in the stunning Marataba Section of the Marakele National Park surrounded by the beautiful Waterberg Mountains; Learn and…

The SER conference brings delegates from every continent representing a range of professional backgrounds including natural and social sciences, environmental engineering, urban and regional planning, public policy, landscape architecture, natural resource management, and more. Attendees include professors, researchers, staff scientists, environmental consultants and students from leading colleges,universities and many others around the world.…

The diversity of life that sustains humanity is being severely degraded by human action. This is leading to a deterioration in land, air and water quality, loss of natural ecosystems and widespread declines in populations of wild species. These changes are well documented and of existential significance to human societies, yet significant knowledge about the problem has not catalysed effective broad-based action. We encourage you to critically…

The World Wide Fund (WWF) works to reconnect people to our most valuable and vulnerable landscapes, namely the Grasslands, Succulent Karoo and Fynbos. We also assist with expanding protected areas for the benefit of people and the environment. Our work is strongly guided by national, regional and provincial conservation priorities and most of the land acquired by WWF is managed through agreements with conservation partners such as CapeNature and…

The Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) conference brings delegates from every continent representing a range of professional backgrounds including natural and social sciences, environmental engineering, urban and regional planning, public policy, landscape architecture, natural resource management, and more. The theme of SER2019 is about interconnectedness. It reminds us of the link between land and water and the inextricable relationship…

BiodivERsA is a network of 39 agencies and ministries from 24 European countries programming and funding pan-European research on biodiversity and ecosystem services on a competitive basis. It is an ERA-NET Co-fund, funded under the EU’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. This call will cover the following four non-exclusive themes: Consequences of climate change on biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people…