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  • “Empowering Women in Conservation” training materials

    “Empowering Women in Conservation” training materials

    Women are critically important to their communities, and often play vital roles in harvesting, processing, and selling products made from natural resources. They are also vulnerable to negative impacts that harm those natural resources. However, in many areas, women are not meaningfully included in conservation-related processes – which means that these processes are missing out […]

    Tara Sayuri Whitty

    March 21, 2022
    Conservation, Trainings
    Conservation, Featured, Gender Equality, Gender Equity, Human-Centered Research, Research training, Training, Women, Women in Conservation
  • Journey Mapping: A research tool for empathy

    Journey Mapping: A research tool for empathy

    As a conservation researcher whose work focuses on the interactions between conservation efforts and communities, a critically important part of my job is to better understand people.

    Tara Sayuri Whitty

    May 17, 2021
    Conservation, Research and Evaluation
    Conservation, Design Thinking, Human-Centered Research, Journey Mapping, Social-ecological research, User Experience
  • Listen for Unspoken Voices: Our nonspeaking views much be valued

    Listen for Unspoken Voices: Our nonspeaking views much be valued

    What is autistic representation? It is a question I have asked myself seriously in the past months. I have watched Love on the Spectrum and a bit of Atypical, and it left me feeling down. I was initially thrilled to see autism featured on mainstream television shows. But they were not telling the reality of my autistic experience. […]

    Danny Whitty

    March 26, 2021
    Nonfiction
    actually autistic, autism, nonspeaking autistics, representation
  • Design Thinking & Conservation

    Design Thinking & Conservation

    With thoughtful and responsible use, Design Thinking can substantially contribute to more effective, equitable, and ethical conservation practices.

    Tara Sayuri Whitty

    March 19, 2021
    Conservation, Our approach, Research and Evaluation
    Design Thinking, Featured, Human-Centered Research
  • Developing an Innovative Conservation Training Program

    Developing an Innovative Conservation Training Program

    At the Myanmar Coastal Conservation Lab (MCCL) at Point B Design + Training, we’ve developed a thoughtful, remarkably effective training program to build research and conservation skills and knowledge and to cultivate the passion that many youths have for environmental work. We designed this as part of the Gulf of Mottama Project’s (GoMP) Conservation and […]

    Tara Sayuri Whitty

    March 17, 2021
    Conservation, Our approach, Trainings
    Education, Featured, Research training
  • What dwells in these muddy waters: The quest for dolphins and porpoises in the Gulf of Mottama, Myanmar

    What dwells in these muddy waters: The quest for dolphins and porpoises in the Gulf of Mottama, Myanmar

    About our journey – from an unexpected revelation in India, to poking around fishing villages, to finally seeing the animals with our own eyes – to start a research program on the marine mammals in the Gulf of Mottama.

    Tara Sayuri Whitty

    June 19, 2020
    Conservation, Nonfiction, Research and Evaluation
    finless porpoises, Irrawaddy dolphins, Myanmar
  • A tangled net: Bycatch, dolphin conservation, and human well-being

    Bycatch is a serious threat to marine megafauna around the world; reducing it requires changes in how people fish, posing a highly challenging situation where conservation might threaten human well-being.

    Tara Sayuri Whitty

    June 19, 2020
    Conservation, Nonfiction
    bycatch, Conservation, dolphins, Featured, Marine conservation, Philippines
  • Cute, Generally Irritating, and Endangered: Lessons from studying Irrawaddy dolphins & their conservation systems

    We love to gripe about these dolphins, but we also just love them. My views of conservation have been heavily influenced by my experience following these “generally irritating” animals, interviewing the fishers who live alongside them, and working with some of the most dedicated and bright conservation minds in the world. Posted on Medium

    Tara Sayuri Whitty

    June 19, 2020
    Conservation, Nonfiction

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