🎬 Life on Earth – London Chapter (May 2025)

 From Lecture Halls to Living Forests: Advancing Sustainability Through Knowledge, Nature, and the SDGs

In May 2025, the journey took me to London for the Annual Gladwyn Lecture, where I joined Prof. Daniella Tilbury in exploring how environmental education, sustainability, and collaboration with media can accelerate progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The lecture was a call to action: to learn, to share, and to act for a greener, fairer future.

🌳 After the lecture, the day unfolded in the heart of nature at Richmond Park, London’s largest royal park. Its ancient oak trees and wide grasslands are home to majestic red and fallow deer, playful foxes, woodpeckers, bats, and countless butterflies. Within it lies the enchanting Isabella Plantation, a woodland garden bursting with rhododendrons, azaleas, and rare plants—an oasis of biodiversity and beauty.

✨ This chapter of my story is not just about visiting places, but about inviting everyone to explore, protect, and cherishthese living landscapes. Richmond Park reminds us of the SDGs in action:

• SDG 15 (Life on Land): safeguarding wildlife and forests.

• SDG 13 (Climate Action): preserving green spaces to combat climate change.

• SDG 17 (Partnerships): working together—scientists, educators, media, and citizens—to amplify impact.

🌍 The forest whispers a timeless message: our planet thrives when we care for it. Come, walk among the deer, breathe the woodland air, and let Richmond Park inspire you to live sustainably—for the Earth, for each other, for the future.