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Empowering women through sustainable wildlife management: Flora Gomes’ story
In the Rupununi Region of southwest Guyana, 59-year-old Flora Gomes is becoming a renowned poultry farmer – with important implications…
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Agroforestry and restoration in the spotlight at Amazonian farmers’ workshop, Brazil
Ecological restoration, agroforestry systems, and carbon storage were in focus during a workshop with family farmers and local leaders in…
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Empowering women through sustainable wildlife management: meet Susan George
On her first trip to Guyana’s Kanuku Mountains, at the age of four years old, Susan George (pictured) decided she…
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REDD+ lessons from Peru
In our Infobrief, Lessons from early REDD+ initiatives to inform effective and equitable carbon mitigation efforts in Peru, we summarised…
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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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Usual and unusual suspects: What network analysis can tell us about climate policy integration
In one of the most dramatic scenes of the legendary film Casablanca (1942), Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) shoots Major Heinrich Strasser to…
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Bringing back mangroves: Scientists in Mexico restore degraded ecosystems
“What was this area like three years ago?” I asked researcher Jorge Herrera as we dipped our feet into the…
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Peatlands in South America an asset in climate action efforts
South America may be sitting, unaware, on a pile of climate gold, ammunition in efforts to forestall global warming. New…
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Life lessons: Teaching conservation and celebrating culture in Guyana
Late one sunny afternoon in September, in teacher Kim Spencer’s ninth-grade class, groups of students raced each other to guess…
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Supporting Indigenous peoples to restore the balance between wildlife and food security
“There used to be a lot of wildlife here in my father’s and grandfather’s time: deer, tapir, capybara and peccaries,”…
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