Founded by lisbet rausing and peter baldwin, arcadia supports charities and scholarly institutions to preserve cultural heritage, protect the environment, and promote open access. Since 2002, we have awarded more than $678 million in grants to projects around the world.
Alongside its rich online programme, our grantee @palmuseum also provides #openaccess to its archive of endangered photos, docs, audio-visual material & ephemera documenting Palestinian culture & history from 1800-present. Explore🔎palarchive.orgsekkamag.com/2020/08/08/826…
A win for science and open data! This reform will undoubtedly improve research and protection of heritage in the area. We are grateful for the perseverance and relentless work of @michael_fradley and Andrea Zerbini @EAMENA123. Congratulations!! twitter.com/EAMENA123/stat…
#EnvironmentDefenders are the first line of defence against the causes & impacts of climate breakdown, yet businesses & governments still fail to safeguard their vital work. Join @Global_Witness's event (13.8) for more on the new Defending Tomorrow report act.globalwitness.org/page/64247/sub… twitter.com/Global_Witness…
The Directory of Open Access Journals @DOAJplus has announced it has indexed more than 15,000 journals 🎉 For more news from our grants teams on #openaccess and #endangered culture & nature, check out our monthly digest mailchi.mp/5bd954b9afd2/a…
New study finds that investing in healthy ecosystems to prevent future pandemics would cost governments a fraction of the $5.6tn set-back to the global economy caused by #Covid19: @BusinessGreen businessgreen.com/news/4018186/n… @sciencemagazine science.sciencemag.org/content/369/65…
Chinese super trawlers are threatening the livelihood of canoe fishers and future food security in Liberia. Local organizations are calling on the government to refuse fishing licenses for these vessels. Read more in our grantee @ejfoundation's article: ejfoundation.org/news-media/lib…
Congratulations to the @EAMENA123 team on reaching 300,000 records in their online database! An astonishing achievement, not least because 75% of sites had not been digitally documented before. eamena.arch.ox.ac.uk/resources/data… 📸 Khirbat al Samra, Ma’an, Jordan 2018 ©@APAAME @robertbewley
In April our grantee @FaunaFloraInt launched a crisis fund to support local #conservation partners whose work was impacted by #COVID19. To date the fund has supported 14 projects helping to develop resilient models for the future. Read more cms.fauna-flora.org/wp-content/upl… 📸@maxi_caal1
Our grantee @plazi_ch has been extracting data on #bats from the biodiversity literature to help uncover the possible origins of #Covid19. Read more here: plazi.org/news/beitrag/t…📸: Coronavirus-Host Community, scientific illustrations liberated from scholarly publications.
Wonderful work @natalianorori. #OpenData in action! forbes.com/sites/andrewwi…
Last week the @IUCNRedList reclassified the North Atlantic right whale from “endangered” to “critically endangered”, the last step before the species is considered extinct.Here is how you can help to protect these whales and other marine mammals: twitter.com/oceana/status/…
The French government has taken its first major legal step towards officially restituting 27 looted objects from its national collections to the former colonies of Senegal and Benin news.artnet.com/art-world/fran…