The polar explorer using Grime to break the ice

29 January 2020

It’s not often someone compares the voices of seals to the sounds of space set to a Grime beat. But when he’s not monitoring seals from space, Fitzwilliam College PhD student Prem Gill, is using ‘Seal Grime’ as one way to encourage people from a wide range of backgrounds to take up polar science.

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Visitors in Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia

World’s protected natural areas receive eight billion visits a year

24 February 2015

Researchers say that the first study to attempt to gauge global visitation figures for protected areas reveals nature-based tourism has an economic value of hundreds of billions of dollars annually, and call for much greater investment in the conservation of protected areas in line with the values they sustain – both economically and ecologically.

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