My name is Ghouthia Toffa, I am an 18 year old, first year Biodiversity and Conservation Biology student. I have a passionate interest in protecting the environment and conserving it, not only for us, but also for the animals, plants, and all the other types of life we share our planet with.

I started caring for the environment at a young age, and even though it started out as little things, like recycling and consistently donating to charities, I eventually ventured into things like volunteer work, and now here I am, choosing this as future career path.

I love art, painting especially, and I always try and incorporate nature into my work. We’re surrounded by such beautiful wonderments, yet so few people see how amazing the natural structure of things are.  When I say this, I speak not of one of the 7 wonders of the world, but of things that may seem far less insignificant to you. I speak of the little things… Waking up to clear skies and chirping birds, the fresh smell of rain, or nights where you could look and actually see the stars, geological footprints, fossils. Cliché as that may sound, it’s what I yearn for.  Global warming is the result of our ongoing pollution caused by our negligence on the environment. Although the damage is already done, the least we could do is ensure that it doesn’t get any worse.  And that is exactly what I intend to do.

My focus for my studies will be earth sciences and ESS. I hope to some day be the director in organizing projects such as mining locations and preventing things like soil erosions in correspondence with construction.