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Indigenous lands crucial for conservation
The world’s remaining ‘wild places’ are often envisaged to be packed full of biodiversity, and bereft of one troublesome species:…
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On the road back from ‘safari science’ to embedded collaboration
Sitting in a session at the 15th Conference of the Parties for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate change…
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Ethiopia’s new forestry law: A win for landscapes and livelihoods?
The Ethiopian government has a big dream: restoring 22 million hectares of degraded lands and forests by 2030. By doing…
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Rights in the DRC: Whose rights matter?
“We need change,” says Dorothée Lisenga, indigenous delegate at a Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) workshop on protecting indigenous…
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Rights in the DRC: What’s getting in the way?
At the Rio Earth Summit of 1992, the Forest Principles sent a clear message to governments: to preserve forests better,…
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Back to the future: Sketching out oil palm scenarios to 2035
We may not yet be able to time travel, but data modeling can help us to make more educated guesses…
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Benefit-sharing mechanisms: Barking up the wrong tree?
As the quest to protect and restore forests advances and evolves, the age-old question of “who gets what?” seems as…
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Progress on the process of managing landscapes
It’s 2018, and the pressure to manage the world’s resources responsibly for people, biodiversity and the climate has perhaps never…
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Are deforestation-free commodities too good to be true?
Oil palm, cattle, timber and soy have all received global attention in recent years for their outsized ‘forest footprints’ –…
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Oil palm for the people
Palm oil might seem an odd proposition for reducing poverty and preserving rainforests. In recent years, the negative environmental and…
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Fishing with a new research method nets bountiful insights
Why might fish stocks be more depleted inside a marine protected area (MPA) than outside of it? This and other…
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Plenty in common
This research will be presented by its authors on 21 March at the World Bank Land and Poverty Conference 2018:…
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Oil palm landscapes: Sketching out sustainable futures
This article is the fourth in a four-part series on a global study on Oil Palm Adaptive Landscapes. In Colombia,…
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Oil palm landscapes: Playing the long game with palm oil
This article is the third in a four-part series on a global study on Oil Palm Adaptive Landscapes. It might…
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How safe are our wildlife sanctuaries?
In celebration of World Wildlife Day on 3 March 2018, as the anniversary of the signing of the Convention on…
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