Seymour Airport in the Galapagos Islands is the world’s first ecological airport, designed to encourage tourism while protecting the environment of one of the world’s most iconic ecosystems.
This video by UN Environment features three of the most exciting anti-poaching innovations of 2018. In South Africa GPS trackers developed by the Sigfox Foundation are being used to track rhino horns. In Costa Rica scientists with PasoPacifico are 3D printing decoy sea turtle eggs to find out where they are being sold. And in the UK researchers are using crime scene methods to identify poachers fingerprints on pangolin scales.
Growing older is a gift. Unfortunately that gift also comes with it’s own burdens, often meaning a lack of mobility and thus a loss of independence. This spectacular tiny house design has helped to give mobility and independence back to one very special lady though, through some very clever small space design to create an elderly, disability and mobility friendly tiny house on wheels.
