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WWF celebrates 20 years of Arctic program

The WWF’s Global Arctic Programme celebrates this year its 20^th anniversary of the creation of a WWF body to champion conservation in the Arctic.

When WWF was founded in 1992 it says that there was very limited understanding of the Arctic and its importance. That has however changed, and interest today is great from all over the world.

The WWF issues a magazine produced by the WWF Global Arctic Programme called The Circle, four times a year. Each issue focuses on a specific Arctic-related topic.

The Circle is distributed free to around 3,000 arctic stakeholders worldwide, including government officials and publicly-elected representatives, indigenous organisations, conservationists, scientists, NGOs, libraries, and business executives.

Its goal is to inform decision-makers, scientists and the interested public about arctic environmental and development issues.

The latest issue is fresh and it celebrates the history of the Global Arctic Programme, and its ongoing mission to ensure a resilient, sustainable future for the Arctic.

Click here to download the latest magazine.

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WWF

January 18, 2012
VLT in the Circle

A coverage about the Virtual Learning Tools (VLT) is in the latest issue of the Circle, which is a magazine produced by the WWF Global Arctic Programme. An interview is in the issue with Philip Burgess from the International Centre of Reindeer Husbandry (ICR). Philip is one of the instructor and organizer of the Masters program that is taught at the VLT, “Adaptation to Globalization in the Arctic: The Case of Reindeer Husbandry”.

In the article, he mentions the pros of participating in an online course such as the one taught at the VLT environment “The flexibility of the online environment allows students to follow the course according to their own schedules (and time zones!) through a weekly live lecture which is also archived for later viewing”.

The rapid technology is creating a smaller world, as Philip states in the article: “On a recent occasion, I was sitting I Toronto, Canada while a professor was delivering a lecture in Tromsø, Norway. Students were participating from Russia, Norway, Finland, Sweden, the UK, the US and Canada. But we were all together in a shared digital room (although perhaps it should be called a digital lavvu, or chum)”.

The Circle is published four times a year. Each issue focuses on one specific Arctic-related subject, the topic in the newest edition being ocean acidification. The latest issue has a focus on reindeer herding and caribou, entitled Reindeer and Caribou: Herds and Livelihood in Transition. This edition focuses on a number of themes that are current in the world of reindeer and caribou. Articles cover global warming, wild reindeer in Siberia, oil and gas impacts on Nenets reindeer husbandry and the impact of wind power development on reindeer herding districts in Sweden.

Latest Issue of the Circle – Reindeer and Caribou: Herds and Livelihood in Transition

Virtual Learning Tools

April 13, 2011
Newest edition of The Circle is out

The newest edition of the Circle is now out. It is a magazine produced by the WWF Global Arctic Programme, published four times a year. Each issue focuses on one specific Arctic-related subject, the topic in the newest edition being ocean acidification.

The Circle is distributed free to around 3,000 arctic stakeholders worldwide, including government officials and publicly-elected representatives, indigenous organisations, conservationists, scientists, NGOs, libraries, and business executives. The goal is to inform decision-makers, scientists and the interested public about arctic environmental and development issues.

To read the latest Circle and view the past issues, please go to the WWF The Arctic Progarm homepage

For further information about The Circle, or to contribute an article, please contact Becky Rynor, brynor@wwf.no or fill in WWF online form.

March 30, 2011