Alison Coburn and Kathleen Bury who run the MAVA Leaders for Nature Academy bring a unique combination of personal and professional experience and insight to the programme. "Real investment in people is relatively uncommon in the non-profit sector. And without it, the demanding vocational nature of conservation work means burn-out is all too common. MAVA’s investment recognizes it’s people that deliver change." Alison Coburn Kathleen and Alison are passionate about personal growth and change. Having both come to mentoring and leadership from other sectors, Kathleen from oil and gas and Alison from broadcasting, they understand the need to do work that matches personal values.

World Water Week’s 2018 theme, ‘water, ecosystems and human development’, reminds us that freshwater is not only a shared resource, fundamental for well-being, enterprise and prosperity, but also that its scarcity is a shared risk.

When I joined WWF’s Global Partnerships team in 2010, my ambition was to make sustainability an integral part of doing good business. A decade ago, most companies were grappling with sustainability, and asking what it meant for business. Now it’s the other way around. Companies are asking what their business means for sustainability. It’s a fundamental shift.

This April, something extraordinary happened in the world of bird conservation. Over four days in Abu Dhabi, scientists, policymakers, businesses, NGOs and donors from 100 organisations and 70 different countries came together in the world’s first-ever global Flyways Summit.

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Benoa Harbour in Bali is one of Indonesia’s main tuna fishing ports. Every day of the year, hundreds of yellowfin and bigeye tuna are landed by longliner boats that have spent several weeks at sea. And its fishers are rightly proud of their catch.

Strong, light, flexible, attractive and renewable, wood is perhaps the ultimate raw material. Integral to our lives for millennia, its future uses are bound only by the limits of our collective imagination. Tomorrow morning we might clean our teeth with recyclable wood fibre brushes in front of nano-crystal mirrors made from wood-based composites. Then, at breakfast, read the news electronically on the wood-based semi-conducting polymeric screen built into kitchen tables. And later at work, use fibre-based displays that change according to our schedules and moods.