By Shaya Laughlin From Bekaa Valley, Lebanon Walking through a refugee tent settlement in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley brings mixed feelings. On one side, there is the misery and the despair.…
The Young Explorers Program in the Black Forest is a project which was inspired by Mike Horn’s Pangaea Project over four years ago. Over the past years, we have set…
If you find yourself in the strange age right after your whole education has ended, you have worked for several years and have a trusted partner (or maybe not entirely)…
Nothing could have prepared me for my first food distribution at the largest refugees and migrants camp in Serbia. One by one, hundreds of men lined up for a plate…
Human beings live on the planet since several millions of years and have learnt to adapt to the environment, to live on earth and to create shelters for protection, intimacy,…
The Congo Basin is the second largest tropical rainforest and biodiversity hotspot in the world after the Amazonia. Covering an area of 3.7 million square kilometers, the tropical rainforest locates…
During 2016 scuba diving became a passion. Loving travel, people and the sea, becoming a scuba instructor, was the obvious choice. Easier said than done, but with a huge number…
Until today, more than 50.000 refugees of all ages and nationalities continue to find themselves stuck in a bureaucratic limbo in Greece. Barely protected by authorities and organizations, the violation…
This April I travelled through Morocco with some three Italians, one of them being a very dear friend of mine. Although we see each other only once a year we…
Our beloved friend Constantin Vogt passed away in an avalanche accident near Lauenen in Switzerland in late February 2018. It is incredibly hard to believe. Conny was an outstanding personality,…
There exists not a single skiing slope in Nepal, nor any local snow sports culture. At the customs I was asked if my ski bag contained golf cubs. In short,…
We produce something that has no value to be collected, nor to be recycled. We produce something for which we have no viable technology to handle it. We produce something…
Following a well-established tradition, members and friends of the Pangaea Project e.V. met from 30th December 2017 until 1st of January 2018 to celebrate New Years and hold the annual…
Reflection written by Kirsten König Not being an engineer, one might think that the documentation of a borehole construction is not interesting to accompany. However, if this construction takes…
By Sophia Paul At the end of my bachelor, I spent a semester abroad in Utrecht in the Netherlands. There I first encountered EGEA, the European Geography Association. That’s a…
We spent 17 incredible days riding past the Rhine, meeting people with great hospitality, crossing the Alps and passing clear water lakes in Austria. Then we thought we would conquer…
One year passed already by since the first seedlings were planted by Pangaea members. Accompanied by professional advice, Pangaea Volunteers planted seedlings with so much energy, manpower and passion in…
By Henrike Christ Everybody loves it. It’s the most popular sweet. You can get it all over the world and it’s one of the most produced. We all are eating…
By Henrike Christ (English Below) Wer seine Zeit in und um den Mata Atlantica aufmerksam verbringt, kann neben der außergewöhnlichen Flora auch eine vielfältige Tierwelt kennen lernen. Die Entdeckungstour beginnt…
By Kirsten König (English Below) Abwechslungsreich, wunderschön, entspannend. Nach den ersten fünf Tagen Bäume pflanzen, ging es heute auf eine Bootstour die uns zu Wasserfällen besonderer Art führte. Einmal durch…
By Charlotte + Max (English below) Es braucht ein bisschen Kompost, Calcium, Erde und einen Setzling. Ach, nur noch kurz hacken, schaufeln und ankratzen, nun ist der Baum gepflanzt. Wäre…
After our successful Pangaea Tree Planting project in summer 2016 (see video) another group of motivated Young Explorers travelled to Bahia to work for positive change. (Blog auf Deutsch +…
From the 21st to the 25th July 2017, we held our summer reunion in Vorauen, Klöntal in Switzerland. Around 30 of us enjoyed the beautiful region with its high-rising mountains…
Lima: Peruvian capital. 0 metres above sea level. 10 million people, a third of the country’s population. I found myself stuck in the fast paced city life and decided it…
I was woken by intense drumming every morning at dawn inside the tipi I was sleeping in. I was staying at the Oceti Sakowin camp, the biggest camp of about…
We all know there are problems with the meat industry. For those of us willing to learn, and to invest some time and money, there are viable alternatives. Here’s how…
Authors: Chris Arderne, Michael Kloos, Rick Kotze We knew this already, but our three weeks in Mexico drove the message home on an almost daily basis. This is the story…
An unConference is a conference, but better. It doesn’t have a fixed agenda but rather develops on the spot. It brings together people from all sorts of different backgrounds and…
Following an established tradition we met from 30th of December 2016 until the 2nd of January in a mountain hut close to the Bielerhöhe in Vorarlberg, Austria. This year about…
By Ansgar Fellendorf In the first week of December I participated for Pangaea Project and my university, the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, at the 4th Arab- European Young Leaders Forum…
Tree planting project at Fazenda Almada near Ilheus, Bahia, Brazil – 20.10.2016 till 02.11.2016 We finished our second project at Fazenda Almada. It was great to see the 600 seedlings…
We are excited to share with you the final video of our 2016 summer Brazil Tree Planting Project on Fazenda Almada. You are interested in joining the reforestation project next…
Clara Natanine is a youth leader from the Inuit town Clyde River. In 2011 she spent a week with us Young Explorers during the Pangaea Program Mike Horn Nunavut expedition.…
After two eventful, tough and inspiring weeks at Fazenda Almada close to Ilheus, Brazil we successfully finished this year’s tree planting and agroforestry project. We planted 605 tree seedlings, dozens…
You might wonder what we do here all day. We admit, we were asking ourselves the same before coming to rural Bahia. Many expected that planting a tree cannot be…
We write the year 1500. The Portuguese navigators reaching the new continent found the tree in abundance at the coast and its hinterland. It presented itself with a hard red…
1. Have a dedicated team around you. 2. Make it sustainable: Prepare the ground properly and use agroforestry know-how. 3. Don’t kill yourself with the machete, hospitals…
Find out what our motivation is to spend more than two weeks on the Fazenda Almada, planting trees!
Today we started the tree planting agroforestry project on the edge of the Natural Reserve on the farm Fazenda Almada. During the next two weeks we will be busy removing…
Is it even possible to rightfully claim to help the environment with the Pangaea Project agroforestry project in Brazil, if I travel from Europe across half of the world for this? To be…
In the first week of July we start our tree planting and agroforestry project in Bahia Brazil. We are both excited to explore the area and its community and keen…
Before travelling to the farm Fazenda Almada in less than two weeks to start our tree planting project, we want to shortly describe Agroforestry. The word combination already gives it away,…
Text by Henko Roukema and Pictures by Lani van Niekerk The Cederberg is the perfect place to host a project like this. The environment is breathtaking, the camping facilities are…
For one weekend, the international community came together for a world-wide uprising against extractivism, carrying out disruptive actions of civil disobedience against the infrastructure of the climate catastrophe. Together with almost…
Bem vindo to another blog that leads towards Brazil. Although at the moment you encounter the country a lot in the media, I only recently started to learn more about…
We take 8-10 youth from the Fisantekraal bike club (settlement outside of Cape Town) to the Cederberg Conservation area over a weekend filled with adventure of hiking, rock-climbing and camping…
Campus to Coast – a 160 mile canoe adventure race from Michigan State University’s campus in East Lansing, following the Red Cedar and the Grand River all the way to…
Bem día and thanks for reading the first entry about our tree planting and biodiversity project in July. Currently, we- that is about eight Pangaea members from Germany, Switzerland and…
This winter I spent two months volunteering at the Seal Rehabilitation and Research Centre (SRRC) in Pieterburen, Netherlands. This centre works as a hospital for sick or injured stranded seals…
Ever since the continuous migration movements across Europe started to increase throughout the course of 2015 we have been witnessing Europe’s incompetence to prevent a major humanitarian crisis. Instead of…