Frontier 50-52 Rivington St

London EC2A 3QP

United Kingdom

15^th July, 2009

Dear Ms van Hofman,

The Society for Environmental Exploration (FRONTIER), a UK based environmental NGO dedicated to conservation and development research is keen to forge a relationship with your department.

Since 1989 Frontier has, amongst other achievements, set up Tanzania's first multi-user marine park in partnership with the WWF, designed educational materials that were integrated into Vietnam's national curriculum, and produced over three hundred technical papers and reports that have been published in all major journals. A complete list is available on our website, www.frontier.ac.uk. Just recently, 30th January 2009, we received global news coverage, on the role we played in the discovery of fifteen new species of amphibian in Tanzania. This included articles in Nature and on the BBC website.

We are preparing to visit various institutions and universities in October 2009 with the aim of introducing Frontier and highlighting the volunteering and job opportunities we offer. This will give your students the opportunity to either volunteer with Frontier in order to complete their dissertation projects, or to work for Frontier and be a part of our future achievements and discoveries.

We are currently recruiting research staff for our Tanzania, Madagascar, and Cambodia programmes, as well as for an exciting new project studying the effects of climate change on the protected areas of Costa Rica.

I look forward to helping your students discover and discuss their dissertation opportunities. You can view a sample of the available projects on our website:

http://www.frontier.ac.uk/gap_year/BSc,_MSc_and_PhD_Dissertations/

Please contact me should you have an opportunity for us to meet you and your students and hold a brief presentation.

August 2009 will witness our fifth issue e-bulletin. This email is designed to update educational bodies across the globe. We hope this will be of interest!

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Mark Steer

Research and Development Manager

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