BAJ-Gambia National Coordinator off to Kenya for climate change training

Sallah BAJ-Gambia National  Coordinator

Mr Abdou Rahman Sallah an environmental journalist with The Point newspaper who doubles as national coordinator for Biodiversity Action Journalists Gambia on Saturday 25^th January left Banjul International Airport for Kenya to join a team of participants from other parts of the world for a two weeks training on Climate Change organized by Youth Encounter on Sustainability (YES) in Kenya

  

He has been selected out of a big pool of applicants to participate to this YES course in Kenya, January 28th – February 14^th 2014. This is a two week intensive course operated by myclimate, a Swiss Non-Profit foundation together with ACTIS, a Spin-off organisation of ETH Zürich, in cooperation with UNEP, and the Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS) – an environmental research partnership between the ETH Zürich, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Tokyo (UT) and the Chalmers Technical University in Göteborg /Sweden.

YES courses have been operated since the year 2000 in different parts of the world with the goal to bring together a diverse group of motivated future leaders (university graduates, PhD students, young professionals) for learning, discussing and debating urgent questions of a sustainable future for mankind, in a global and regional perspective.

NBR Governor Challenges Environmental Journalists

By Haruna Kuyateh in NBR

NBR Participants

The governor for North Bank Region, Mr Lamin Queen Jammeh has challenged journalists in Gambia to be proactive in the protection of the environment.

He was speaking at a day-long capacity building training for journalists, forest users and wood loggers in his region. This was organised by BAJ-Gambia, an association of environmental journalists.

Yet, Governor Jammeh, whose area is hit hardest by deforestation, believes that environment journalism could do more.

”Building public awareness on environmental issues is essential” he said. “As environmental journalists, more is needed [from you] to bring about positive behaviourial change to ensure that communities take ownership and contribute to the regeneration forest species and natural habitat.