December/January webflash

Are you travelling this Christmas?

Christmas trees give pleasure for a few weeks – and then we throw them away. If you are travelling for Christmas, why not offset your carbon emissions by planting trees that will last a lifetime? Visit climatestewards.org.uk to easily calculate your emissions, find suggestions on how to reduce them and to make a donation. A Rocha plants native trees and takes expert advice in choosing species, so that the planting, in Ghana and Kenya, will provide maximum benefits for native wildlife, local people and of course, carbon mitigation.

Photo: The Wawa Triplochiton scleroxylon is a very tall tree indigenous to West and Central Africa.

Want to volunteer with A Rocha next year?

Have you any special skills such as gardening, cooking, taxidermy, carpentry, accounting, GIS, ringing birds, identifying dragonflies, fixing old cars, speaking Arabic, cleaning up hard-drives or teaching children? Are you willing to join in with whatever jobs need doing? If so, there may be a team eager to welcome you for a few weeks or a few months next year. Have a look at our recently updated leaflet Opportunities with A Rocha and if you want to apply abroad, use our new on-line application form, accessible from the Volunteering page.

Photo: A Dutch volunteer helping to renovate the new A Rocha Czech centre.

Ploughing has continued in botanically rich areas on the Quinta da Rocha.

Happening now…

The A Rocha Lebanon Team Leaders have recently returned to Beirut and are planning how best to continue the Important Bird Area research and other conservation programmes. More...

The A Rocha Portugal team are continuing the campaign to protect the Alvor Estuary and the Quinta da Rocha from threatened developments. More...

The A Rocha Czech team are fundraising to complete the purchase of their new field study centre in East Bohemia. More...