Blog - Nicola Peel

11 Mar Valuing one of the most biodiverse areas on earth -The Los Cedros Reserve Carbon Stocks

Posted at 22:05h in Carbon Valuation, Biodiveristy, CARBON OFFSETTING, Carbon Stocks, Cloudforest, Ecuador, Mining, Natural Ecosystem Services

Can we value nature? For a court case the forest of the Los Cedros Biological Reserve was valued in its carbon stocks and carbon sequestration. Sadly we can not value...

08 Feb Pay to Breathe – Carbon Offsetting Taken To The Next Level

Posted at 22:25h in Ecuador, Amazon, CARBON OFFSETTING

WE PAY FOR FOOD AND WATER WHY NOT FOR AIR? WHAT IS THE PRICE OF BIODIVERISTY AND WHY MUST WE PRIORITIZE SAVING ANCIENT FOREST OVER TREE PLANTING? IS CARBON OFFSETTING...

04 Dec Newsletter – Lockdown in Paradise – 2020 An overview of my years work to date

Posted at 21:13h in Ecuador, Mining

2020 work in the Amazon, Agroforestry to prevent deforestation, building rainwater systems, work with indigenous communities, and lockdown in one of the most bio-diverse places on earth....

11 May UK environmentalist raises the alarm to support children’s right to fresh air

Posted at 02:13h in Ecuador, Mining

Environmentalist Nicola Peel will be supporting nine children (aged between 7 and 14 years of age) this week who live in the contaminated province of Sucumbios in the Ecuadorian Amazon...

10 May Los Cedros Reserve – Andean cloud forest of Ecuador – UNDER THREAT

Posted at 00:42h in Ecuador, Mining

I had just finished my work in the Amazon and returned to Quito to have a couple of weeks to visit and travel when I heard the news, the following...

09 May Message from Ecuadorian cloud forest

Posted at 20:58h in Ecuador, Mining

Everything is covered in a deep green moss with vines hanging to the ground. Huge heart shaped leaves glisten in the rain. Here you can see how the trees create...

05 Feb We are Earth

Posted at 17:41h in Uncategorized

I hear we are only 10% mammal. 90% of who we are is made of numerous kinds of bacteria, viruses, parasites, yeast, eyelash mites and a host of other life...

05 Feb The Sound of Petroleum

Posted at 17:40h in Uncategorized

A distant drone. The sound of the Earth’s black gold. Ruira is the name the Uwa indigenous people call it, which means the blood of the Earth. How this blood drives...

05 Feb Climate Emergency Talk

Posted at 17:39h in Uncategorized

Here we are on a planet that is hurtling at thousands of miles per hour through space. In fact we are rotating at 1000 mph, circling the sun at 67,000mph...

22 Aug Solutionologist

Posted at 13:22h in Amazon, Oil, Rubbish, Solutions

Who am I? I have had many titles, speaker, film maker, activist, campaigner, environmentalist but sadly they can come with an adverse perception. An image of angry anarchists, tree sitters...