Asia Pacific
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Peatland restoration: connecting science with policy and practice
Peatland restoration is a potential solution for eradicating fires and accompanying toxic haze, reducing the loss of biodiversity and achievement…
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Collective payments for ecosystem services: a promising policy tool to reduce deforestation?
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programmes are often used as a tool to reduce deforestation and forest degradation in tropical…
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How bioenergy can help restore landscapes and livelihoods
Indonesia is the world’s fourth largest country by population and its demand for energy is also huge and growing. The…
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Selfies for sustainability?
You might not have heard of Mangunan Forest in Indonesia’s province of Yogyakarta, but chances are you’ve seen it. Selfies…
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Forest tenure reforms in Indonesia could open door to greater gender equality
Forest tenure reforms have had varying degrees of influence on the way governments and communities manage landscape resources in Indonesia,…
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How trees and water fuel sustainable communities
Podcast reveals the relationship between trees, forests and water
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Lifting the barriers to improve women and child health in Indonesia’s Komodo
Small-scale coastal fishing in Indonesia can benefit women nutritionally and economically, but in some areas, despite plentiful fish stocks, undernutrition…
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Papua mangroves could help Indonesia coast to climate targets
The characteristics of mangroves in a range of ecosystems – from undisturbed natural settings to areas where considerable land-use changes…
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Religious and Indigenous leaders in Indonesia unite to protect forests
More than 250 religious leaders descended upon Jakarta in January pledging to prioritize protection of the world’s third largest tropical…
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What are Bhutan’s sacred forests worth?
In the Kingdom of Bhutan, a mountainous country nestled between India and Tibet, you can’t just wander into the forest…
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Scientists and communities in Indonesia team up for peatland restoration and fire prevention efforts
The women of Dompas Village in the Indonesian province of Riau worked hard to plant 10,000 pineapple seedlings in only…
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Mobile app simplifies peatland restoration monitoring efforts in Indonesia
An inexpensive, community-based monitoring system is enhancing land management strategies in the Indonesian province of Riau as the government rolls…
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Kapuas Hulu diary: Resolving land-use conflicts for better land-use outcomes
Augusta Anandi is a researcher and Ph.D. candidate with the Collaborating to Operationalize Landscape Approaches for Nature, Development and Sustainability…
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