Latin America
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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…
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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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Award recognizes CIFOR’s Terry Sunderland for landmark research defining forest-food nexus
A top international scientist who has advanced the application of the landscapes approach to conservation and development research while introducing…
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From the frontlines: Fighting Bolivia’s forest fires
When firefighter Daniela Azero and her team first saw the extent of the uncontrolled forest fires in eastern Bolivia near…
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How a coffee rust epidemic escalated in Chiapas, Mexico
The thought that climate change is threatening our daily cup of coffee might be too much to bear for some…
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Collaborating for the Commons
As the environment changes around us, finding solutions to benefit the common good has never been more pressing. Enter multi-stakeholder…
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Now the IPCC knows it too, climate change can’t be solved without rights
Yesterday, the day before Indigenous Day, the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) included indigenous rights in its Special…
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Why there’s more to ecological restoration than ecology
In August 2017 Paula Meli, a restoration ecologist and researcher at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, flew to…
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What Peru’s government officials think of collective titling
To legally obtain title to their community lands, indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon must navigate a maze of legal…
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