A Cousteau app for Facebook and iPhones!

The Cousteau Collection app is now live and available for Facebook and iPhones!

Equipe Cousteau welcomed Opel / Vauxhall Project Earth in Mexico

From July 14 to August 4, 2011, the Opel / Vauxhall Project Earth expedition took a group of young students and scientists for a unique voyage to four vulnerable and endangered regions of the world. The team visited four organizations which work to protect habitats and endangered species, and helped the scientists in their work. Equipe Cousteau has been choosen together with three preeminent environmental organizations: WWF Canada, The Rain Forest Foundation US and The Jane Goodall Institute. The expedition explored the Arctic, a National Park in Tanzania, the Gulf of California (Mexico) and the rain forest in Panama.

The project aimed to present major threats to our environment as well as practical solutions for sustainability and conservation. Back in their country, the participants from all over Europe commited to act as ambassadors of the preservation of these fragile ecosystems threathened by human activities.

Pierre-Yves Cousteau, new IUCN Goodwill Ambassador

Dedicated marine conservationist Pierre-Yves Cousteau has joined IUCN’s global team of Goodwill Ambassadors.Goodwill Ambassadors work hand-in-hand with IUCN to raise public awareness and popularize solutions to global environmental challenges, acting as high-level spokespeople.

Apologies to our faithful members!

Because of printing complications compounded by the holiday season, the Cousteau Society is very late getting its membership publications to you. The September/October and November/December issues of Cousteau Kids as well as the September and December issues of Calypso Log are en route to printing and should reach you shortly, one at a time. We offer our apologies for the confusion and delay—and make our first New Year’s Resolution: to stick better to the schedule for 2011.