Resources for the summer

Do you have some free time this summer and want to learn more about ecosystem services, pollinators, the seabed, species interactions or many other topics?

You've come to the right place, we've prepared a list of various resources: books, podcasts, documentaries, online courses so that you can discover more about the biodiversity that surrounds us!

Don't hesitate to share in comments the resources you can find too.

DISCOVER

• Explore the Natural History Museum

• Explore the Goodplanet Foundation

• RESES Resources

• The Resources of the French Committee of the IUCN

• The Work of the OFB

• Reports of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

• The Work of IPBES

• The Work of the FRB

• News from the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

• The thematic sheets of the Environment Booklet of the Academy of Sciences

• “Biodiversity” section of the Notre Environnement website

• The Forest and Us

• Below the Ocean

• Good Gestures for Biodiversity with the OFB

• Atlas of French Birds

ONLINE LEARNING

• MOOC of the Virtual University Environment and Sustainable Development (UVED)

• Self-training tools from the Main à la Pâte Foundation (high school level)

• Open course “Pollen - Vegetation - Environment” from MNHM

• Open course “Invasive species” de l'UVED

• Open course “Teaching Biodiversity within the framework of education for sustainable development” of the MNHM

• Open course offered by the UN

• AFD Campus, “Biodiversity, Protection of Life” section

• MOOC permaculture of the University of Hummingbirds

• Dictionary of biological diversity and nature conservation

BOOKS

• ​In the forests of Siberia by Sylvain Tesson

• Ecological culture by Pierre Charbonnier

• Manner of being alive by Baptiste Morisot

• The French and Nature by Valérie Chansigaud

• Salut au Grand Sud by Isabelle Autissier and Erik Orsenna

• The Death of Nature (Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution) by Carolyn Merchant

• Atlas of the Anthropocene by François Gemenne and Aleksandar Rankovic

PODCASTS

• ​Those from the MNHM, in particular “Chronicles of Our Planet”

• The series “How to Live with the Living” - Six feet on Earth

• La Terre au Carré with Mathieu Vidard

• Subject “Animals” on France Culture

• The episode "Why Are Ugly Animals More Endangered Than Others?" from the Minute Papillon series

DOCUMENTARIES & MOVIES

• ​The Snow Panther by Vincent Munier & Marie Amiguet

• Animal by Cyril Dion

• Tomorrow by Cyril Dion

• A Life on Our Planet with David Attenborough

• The Factory of Pandemics by Marie-Monique Robin

APPLICATIONS

• ​We Act for Good (WWF)

• BirdLab

• INPN Species

• Explorama

• Groww

• Ecobalade

PARTICIPATORY SCIENCE

• ​Study pollination networks with SPIPOLL

• Participatory science program on coastal biodiversity

• Vigie Terre program

• Collaborative digital herbarium

• Participate in a large digital inventory with Les Taxinomes

• Participate in the Vigie-Nature School program:

  • ​Birds

  • Wild plants in town

  • Snails

  • Earthworms

ACT

• ​Participate in a fresco of biodiversity

• Explore the FRENE website

• Join a Young LPO group (18 to 35 years old)

• The nature activities guide of the Foundation for Nature and Man

• Participate in a nature project

• Become a volunteer for nature with À pas de Loup

• Explore missions in France on the Eco Volunteer website

• Explore missions on the Cybelle Planet website

• Join an association of the France Nature Environnement movement

• Volunteer with WWF

• On the Je Veux Aider government platform, tick “Nature Protection”

• Service Civique portal, tick environmental area

• Young Reporters for the Environment