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The new 2023 volume, CITES as a Tool for Sustainable Development, explores the legal aspects of implementing the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna (CITES) to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. The volume is co-edited by a team of experts, including Michelle Anagnostou, PhD candidate and SSHRC Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management.

Three students took part on a lifetime field trip to Bali, Indonesia with Professor Doberstein. Come along with Bethany Elizabeth, and Katherine as they share why they wanted to join the field trip, what skills they developed and the impact the experience has left on them. 

Students from the Faculty of Environment were seconnd place winners at this year's Esri Canada GIS Centres of Excellence Competition (ECCE App Challenge). Congratulations to Ben Woodward, Paramvir Singh, and Gabriel Diniz! 

Join us in congratulating the Faculty of Environment's undergraduate department award winners for distinguished academic achievement. Congratulations to Paramvir, Petrina, Yuki, Kaai, Sharah, Alexandria and Qinyi!

Over 200 graduating students, faculty members, and staff came together at Federation Hall to celebrate the incredible Class of ’23! Attendees indulged in delicious food, heard from past Environment valedictorians, and took group photos to mark the occasion.

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Two Waterloo students are among the top recipients of The Starfish Canada's environmentalist award. Congratulations to Michelle Angkasa and Sriranjini Raman for being awarded the Top 25 Under 25 Environmentalists.

Taking us on her experience trekking through Western Nepal, Caitlin Laidlaw, a master’s student in Geography & Environmental Management, answers the question: how do locals who live with snow leopards feel about conservation? Her short documentary is this year’s second place GRADflix competition winner alongside five other graduate students from the Faculty of Environment who placed in the top 25 finalists. Congratulations to Caitlin, Navya, Anika, Larissa, Amerald and Patrick!

Today's students learn best through experiential learning. Fieldtrips give them the opportunity to touch, feel, and hear what they're learning about in the classroom as well as experience new cultures and practices outside of their own world. Upper-year undergraduate students taking GEOG 460 visited four local community projects to learn about food sustainability in Waterloo Region.   

During his 10-year career in impact investing, Majid Mirza (BA ’08, MBET ’09, PhD, Sustainability Management in progress) saw the difference that socially conscious investors can make — generating not only wealth but greener, healthier and more equitable communities.