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May 28, 2021

Global Conservation & My Disregarded To-Do Lists

About a year ago, I had a mini-revelation about international conservation that made me feel marginally better about my seeming inability to stick to the really excellent goals I regularly set for myself. I was once again (as many times before) growing frustrated with my tendency to craft gorgeous to-do…

Conservation

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Global Conservation & My Disregarded To-Do Lists
Global Conservation & My Disregarded To-Do Lists
Conservation

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May 21, 2021

Obstacle, opportunity, outcome: Unpaid internships and inequity in marine mammal conservation careers

Allow me to stroll in, fashionably late, on an issue that sparked furor in my corner of the conservation world about a year ago: unpaid conservation internships. Though, of course, I’m only “late” in the sense that I’ve missed the most recently major swarm of impassioned tweets and group chat…

Conservation

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Obstacle, opportunity, outcome: Unpaid internships and inequity in marine mammal conservation…
Obstacle, opportunity, outcome: Unpaid internships and inequity in marine mammal conservation…
Conservation

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May 13, 2021

Why we need conservation realism

The rationale behind the Conservation Realist series Welcome to the Conservation Realist publication! I am a conservation researcher who specializes in studying the interactions between conservation and communities. I’ve worked as an academic and as a conservation practitioner, and currently am a consultant for various conservation projects, including as a…

Conservation

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Why we need conservation realism
Why we need conservation realism
Conservation

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Bootcamp

·May 5, 2021

Journey mapping: A research tool for empathy

As a conservation researcher whose work focuses on the interactions between conservation efforts and communities, a critically important part of my job is to better understand people. Those who aren’t particularly familiar with conservation might be surprised to learn that there is often conflict between conservationists and communities. This is…

Journey Mapping

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Journey mapping: A research tool for empathy
Journey mapping: A research tool for empathy
Journey Mapping

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Bootcamp

·Mar 24, 2021

Design thinking & conservation

I’ll be very candid. When I first learned about Design Thinking, I internally rolled my eyes. “This is just… common sense. Why does it need a flashy label?” And then I thought it over, and remembered — to quote many elderly people in my life — “common sense isn’t very…

Design Thinking

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Design thinking & conservation
Design thinking & conservation
Design Thinking

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May 19, 2020

A Street in a Strange World

Jakarta, August 2012. My first visit to Jakarta, completed. It was not as bad as I’d expected, based on warnings. …

Indonesia

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A Street in a Strange World
A Street in a Strange World
Indonesia

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Age of Awareness

·Apr 24, 2020

Environmentalism in a Pandemic: The importance of critical, empathetic, and future-driven thinking

About a month or so ago, the grumpy old lady who lives in the not-so-deep recesses of my mind was stirred by social media posts like these: “Nature is healing! Humans are trash!” “The COVID crusade is saving the planet from humans doing bullshit.” “Mother Earth is now healing. Maybe…

Pandemic

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Environmentalism in a Pandemic: The importance of critical, empathetic, and future-driven thinking
Environmentalism in a Pandemic: The importance of critical, empathetic, and future-driven thinking
Pandemic

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Apr 21, 2020

What dwells in these muddy waters: The quest for dolphins and porpoises in the Gulf of Mottama, Myanmar

Rainy season in this part of southeastern Myanmar is miserable. It brings relief to the scorched remnants of the hot dry season, but then it runs amok and often floods the cities and villages and rice fields. It is a time of mud and mold. It is not an ideal…

Dolphins

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What dwells in these muddy waters: The quest for dolphins and porpoises in the Gulf of Mottama…
What dwells in these muddy waters: The quest for dolphins and porpoises in the Gulf of Mottama…
Dolphins

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Mar 31, 2020

A tangled net: Bycatch, dolphin conservation, and human well-being

Zion shot me a look of doubt, which I deftly avoided by gazing off into space. I snuck a glance at the man sitting in front of us — a grizzled old salt, a man of the sea, a sinewy and no-nonsense fisherman. He was one of the first participants…

Dolphins

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A tangled net: Bycatch, dolphin conservation, and human well-being
A tangled net: Bycatch, dolphin conservation, and human well-being
Dolphins

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Mar 25, 2020

Rounds of the sun: Commemoration in a time of pandemic

My father’s birthday was last week. He would have been 76. As with so many of his birthdays, I was far from home, though the situation this time was certainly more surreal. I was whiling away the days in my partner’s apartment in Yangon, self-isolating instead of pursuing my original…

Grief

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Rounds of the sun
Rounds of the sun
Grief

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TS Whitty

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Exploring the world of coastal conservation & communities, meaningful travel, and life along the way | tswhitty.com | PhD in marine conservation

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