Latin America
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Amazon land tenure study wins top award
Two scientists from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Peter Cronkleton and Anne Larson, have received the top award…
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Reserves need tweaks to withstand Amazon fire threat
Nearly one million square kilometers of land in Brazil are currently designated as ‘Sustainable Use Reserves’ (SURs). However, a new…
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Quantifying the drivers of South American deforestation
Can you imagine examining samples from every patch of forest cleared over a period of 15 years across an entire…
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REDD+ and other imperfect solutions
For Carolina Barbarán, leader of an indigenous Shipibo Konibo community near the Ucayali River, protecting local forests is a major…
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Why ‘zero deforestation’ is only one piece of the sustainability puzzle
In the midst of efforts to achieve ‘zero deforestation’, it’s important to remember that halting deforestation is not just about…
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Science sisters of the Amazon
A welcoming committee of tarantulas outside her tent hardly inspired confidence in Katty García when she visited an indigenous Shipibo…
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Conservation by another name: Traditions, taboos and hunting
When Sara Armas Díaz goes hunting, she pauses before entering the woods and pays her respects to the forest spirits.…
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From the Congo to the Amazon, hunters speak the same language
Although continents apart, hunters in the forests of Africa and Latin America can learn from each other’s experiences in wildlife…
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Game hunting in the Amazon? There’s an app for that
A mobile phone is as much a part of Milton Pinto’s hunting equipment as rubber boots or a shotgun. And…
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Mix up the diet with some wild meat
Tráncito Rodríguez was waiting for a package of wild meat from her brother when she got the bad news: police…
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Having your oil palm, and forests too
You might not believe this from reading the news, but the oil palm industry isn’t necessarily synonymous with environmental destruction.…
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On the trail of Colombia’s bushmeat trade
Striding through the forest, beneath trees still dripping pre-dawn dew, Diomedes Silva suddenly veered off the path and into the…
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Hunters, gatherers and all those gender roles
Inside the community center in the village of Roya, deep in the Peruvian Amazon, scientist Dawn Rodríguez-Ward hangs pie charts…
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Colombia’s bushmeat black market comes to light
The night her husband went hunting and brought home a large tapir, Elsa Vargas* was relieved. After she fed the…
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Stronger rights for the commons: A new generation of challenges
Nearly 20 years ago, in 1996, the Namibian government granted rights to wildlife—elephants, black rhino, lion and many species of…
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