Robert (GeoBob) Ford's BLOG: Saving Nature and People: The Geotourism Approach

Next Monday (January 25, 2016) I will be making an illustrated presentation at the Color Country Camera Club of St George Utah. Here is the announcement:

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COLOR COUNTRY CAMERA CLUB

All meetings take place at the St. George Library and begin at 6 p.m.

Monday, January 25th: Robert Ford. Saving Nature and People: The Geotourism Approach

Bob is going to show us his world of helping to save nature and people using the geotourism approach. He will share his photography and information from numerous overseas adventures in helping to make the earth a better place to live.

Robert Ford has over 35 years experience as a photographer, professor, administrator, field researcher, development consultant, and conservation scientist. While doing field research on the Sahelian drought and famine of West Africa in the mid-1970s, he discovered that the use of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) linked to good photography were crucial in the task of documenting, understanding, and interpreting short and long-term change and the interactions between human society and the broader environment. He has become proficient in the use of social media for promoting positive change and policy development on a wide range of global sustainability issues.

To learn more, come to the meeting or see his BLOG at: http://geobobford.blogspot.com/.

More: Biz/Web: http://geobobford.com/consulting.html or Personal Web: http://geobobford.com/ Email: geobobford@gmail.com or LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/home

I will focus particularly on work over the last five years in the Democratic Republic of Congo doing park rehabilitation and planning, as well as explaining my view of what "geotourism" is and how I use it in my work as a conservation scientist as well as fine art geotourism photographer. Here are a few select photos I will show that give a perspective on my talk:

SOME LOCAL PHOTOS FROM WHERE I LIVE IN SOUTHERN UTAH