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Can we protect old trees by planting new ones?
Conservation isn’t just about avoiding cutting down trees. Successful long-term conservation—particularly in places where lots of people live in, around…
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Tracing palm oil’s path: From plantation to product
You might not know it, but your supermarkets’ shelves are heaving with palm oil. It’s found in about half of…
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When ‘the field’ is a forest: Nuances of data-gathering on Managalas Plateau
In Joive Village, on the eastern edge of Papua New Guinea (PNG)’s Managalas Plateau, a group of local youth gather…
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Making Managalas: Consensus for conservation on PNG’s Managalas Plateau
What makes a place a place? When we give a name to a country, a bioregion, or a geographic feature,…
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Champions for effective ecosystem restoration: Reflections and insights from four countries
With biodiversity in the balance, restoring ecosystems is a critical quest that requires a whole-of-society, whole-of-government approach. Deforestation, habitat fragmentation,…
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Sustainable wildlife management in the spotlight at UN biodiversity conference
Managing wildlife sustainably is necessarily a nuanced and knowledge-led enterprise. Our planet’s wild animals face innumerable threats, from habitat loss…
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Following the hunt: New study tracks flow of wild meat from tropical African forests
People have hunted animals in Africa’s tropical forests for millennia, bringing a diverse range of animal meat—from aardvark to porcupine…
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Pay attention to perennial crops’ sustainable development potential, urge scientists
Perennial woody crops—that is, those with a life cycle of at least three years, such as coffee, cocoa, grapevines, olive…
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Sulawesi study finds local forest management units don’t impact deforestation— unless it’s a fire year
It’s almost a cliche to say that local communities must be engaged meaningfully in sustainable resource management efforts. Yet examples…
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Playing it out: Why theatre matters for conservation on the Managalas Plateau
It’s a sunny September afternoon on Papua New Guinea (PNG)’s Managalas Plateau and the residents of Joivi Village crowd the…
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New Global Biodiversity Standard raises bar for biodiversity-positive restoration
One of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework’s headline commitments is the quest to restore 30% of degraded land by 2030.…
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Reflecting on Southeast Asia’s transboundary haze response history as dry season smoulders on
A foundational challenge of environmental governance is that of transboundary issues. By their very nature, environmental phenomena don’t obey regional,…
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A climate conference in Azerbaijan—the “homeland” of oil extraction
This year, the annual 29th Conference of the Parties to the landmark UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP29)…
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Food for the future: Enhancing productivity of local African food crops
Over the past 12 years, the African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC) has trained 172 scientists – 40% of whom are…
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Put farmers first when scaling agroecology tech, say experts
A virtual workshop held on September 10, 2024, entitled ‘Using digital tools to support climate & agroecological transitions at scale’,…
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