Virtual Events, September 2024
Written by Natalie Widel, Director of Digital Marketing | Published: September 9, 2024
Population Connection members and supporters flocked to join us for virtual events throughout the steamy summer months. We hope you’ll join us again soon — or for the first time! Another interesting event is always around the corner. See what’s next here!
June: World Rainforest Day
Several of our Global Partners work in and around vital forest areas, including Conservation Through Public Health in Uganda, Lemur Love in Madagascar, and Women for Conservation in Colombia. All three organizations focus on preserving their local forests through public health initiatives and education and empowerment programs for those living in communities bordering the forests, particularly women and girls. Representatives from each organization met for a panel discussion in late June to celebrate World Rainforest Day and to discuss how their work is helping to preserve these critical ecosystems.
July: World Population Day
To mark World Population Day on July 11, Vice President for Communications Marian Starkey and Communications Manager Olivia Nater discussed new demographic estimates and projections from the World Population Prospects 2024 report, just released by the UN Population Division hours earlier.
Marian and Olivia shared the 2024 updates to population projections at the world and regional levels and explored topics including fertility trends, age distribution, and the divergent projections made by other demographic research institutions.
August: Page Turners Book Club
Our quarterly book club met in early August to discuss Sir David Attenborough’s 2020 memoir, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future. In it, Sir Attenborough chronicles the environmental changes he has witnessed over his long career and life (he turned 98 in May). The book serves as a personal narrative and a call to action, highlighting humans’ profound impact on the natural world. It sparked a lively and engaging discussion amongst the Population Connection members in attendance, many of whom had long admired the renowned naturalist.
Membership Relations team: enagage@popconnect.org