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Let's Get Active!
Activists in Action In 2005 we will be highlighting population activists from around the country who are taking action in their communities. Listen to their stories and find out more about how they became involved with Sierra Club's Global Population and Environment Program.
I attended my first National Population Activist Training in 2002, where I met program staff who really know how to "make the population-environment connection!" The information I took in that weekend was extremely interesting, and provided me with the tools I needed to connect the issues that I work on in my professional life with my interests in human rights and women's empowerment. I have attended the Training every year since. As part of my work with SOS Rhino, I attend international conferences, where I spend time tabling and networking with colleagues from conservation, research, and animal management departments of zoos located around the world. I feel that it's important to raise awareness of population-environment issues to professionals in the field, as they in turn can reach a larger audience. In 2003, I attended an international conference on zookeeping and while there tabled and did a poster presentation about population and environment issues. I also recently presented at a local zoo's "bowling for rhinos" event. Sierra Club's Global Population and Environment Program has given me the opportunity to educate others, build collaborations and relationships with like-minded organizations and contribute to the key human rights issue that are connected to saving the environment.
Photo courtesy Cindy Salopek.
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Cindy Salopek, Chicago, IL