Supporting a Global Classroom for Environmentalists

Photograph by Claudio Rossi

By Holly Hall

In Guyana, where mining for gold and bauxite is threatening the country’s forests, Janice Monica Bollers is training the South American country’s residents in environmentally sound logging practices and helping them develop plans to plant new forests on former mining sites.

Ms. Bollers honed her conservation knowledge by getting a master’s degree in environmental forestry with the help of a scholarship from the World Wildlife Fund.

For the past 15 years,