World Rainforest Day — Seeing Rainforests For More Than Their Trees
World Rainforest Day June 22, 2020 Venturing into the humid rainforest tropics for the first time can be a shock to your temperate senses. The heat feels like it never goes away. Even at night the heat and humidity can incite a restless riot of tossing in a...
What is an Endangered Species?
What is an Endangered Species and who decides when a species becomes endangered? Seems pretty obvious, until you start to give it some thought. With Endangered Species Day on Friday May 15th, many of you asked us that very What and Who question. Here’s the...
Coronavirus and Our Fellow Great Apes: UPDATED 12 May 2020
UPDATE as of 12 May 2020 Key to our Apes Like Us program is exploring the impact of threats to all great apes; disease is one of the greatest of those threats. In the past two decades multiple accounts of ape deaths due to disease have raised alarm amongst scientist....
Keeping Minds and Bodies Active — Learning Resources for Kids (and Parents) in Quarantine
“But what’s there to do?” You can hear it echoing from houses and apartments up and down my street — from kids and parents alike! Most home-bound parents aren’t prepared for home schooling much less 24/7 entertainment. Weekend activities, soccer games, romps in the...
Jane Goodall – Happy Birthday!
Birthdays are special times of celebration and unless it’s one of your first four or five they’re also an opportunity to reflect. A chance to cast your mind back to birthday punctuation marks, milestone birthdays, even tipping points. Famed primatologist, Jane...
For nearly 20 years, GLOBIO has been connecting kids and adults to the magic, awe and wonder of our planet. GLOBIO works with education partners, wildlife sanctuaries and conservation projects in Equatorial Africa and Borneo to support their conservation work on-the-ground, and share their stories with the rest of the world. Ever evolving, we also create engaging educational content to educate the public on shared environmental issues.
