Asia Pacific
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From Amazonia to New Guinea
Brazilian biologist Gabriel Leite discusses his journey to Papua New Guinea’s Managalas Plateau, comparing its dense rainforests to the Amazon…
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What’s in a rainforest?
This is the first in a three-part series examining how communities and researchers are tracking biodiversity across Papua New Guinea’s…
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Drylands are feeding the world. Why are they still overlooked?
Drylands support one-third of humanity and supply almost half of the world’s food, yet they remain largely overlooked in climate…
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Invisible forests: Why scale matters for Borneo’s last lowland trees
The lowland rainforests of Borneo are some of the most biodiverse places on the planet. Surveys have found over 700…
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What we do and don’t know about wild meat in Asia and the Pacific
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on the Sustainable Use of Wild Species Transformative Partnership Platform (SU-TPP) website. “In…
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Beyond the Philippine eagle’s nest
The Philippines is home to one of the world’s largest and most powerful forest raptors: the Philippine eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi). However, over the past decades, the…
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Closing the capacity gap in blue carbon finance
As countries across the Asia-Pacific region accelerate efforts to harness blue carbon ecosystems for climate action, a central question is emerging: who…
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The honey bargain: How bees keep forests standing
There is a moment before dawn in the dry montane forests of Lambayeque, in northern Peru, when the air is…
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The stories that saved the orangutans
In 1982, Usman Saibul and his friend Jerry were working for the Indonesian government’s transmigration programme in Ketapang, West Kalimantan,…
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Making deforestation-free value chains fairer: What does the ‘+’ in GESI+ really mean?
As countries, companies and producers prepare for the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), one thing is already abundantly obvious: technical compliance…
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How to better assess health risks from wild animal meat
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has been on alert for “Disease X” — the spillover of a virus from…
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REDD+ can make poor households more vulnerable
Protecting tropical forests while supporting local communities is the core idea behind Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+),…
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Magic beans: Can Managalas capitalize on coffee?
At dawn in Joivi Village on the Managalas Plateau, a small silver object drew a crowd. A team from the…
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Turning degraded lands into a forest-positive bioeconomy in Indonesia
As Indonesia navigates rising demands for food, energy and climate mitigation, a strategic question sits at the centre of national…
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Pods of promise: Could vanilla bring sustainable development to Papua New Guinea’s Managalas Plateau?
What does a yellow-green Mexican orchid have to do with roads and schools in rural Papua New Guinea? Potentially, plenty. The orchids are Vanilla planifolia and Vanilla tahitensis, cultivated across…
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