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Young leaders from China and Europe test a shared vision for mountain bioeconomies

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From mushroom markets and flower farms to forest restoration and Indigenous knowledge, a summer school in China’s Yunnan province explored how bioeconomies can create livelihoods.
From wild harvest to woodlot: Can masoi make conservation pay?

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Sustainable bark harvesting could offer much-needed income for Papua New Guinea’s Managalas communities, if the resource holds, says Joshua Ombo.
The trees it takes to build a home

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Housing timber research on Papua New Guinea’s Managalas Plateau
The genetics behind better tree seed

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How new seed sources are helping to strengthen landscape restoration
A new chapter for sustainable palm oil in Yangambi, Democratic Republic of Congo

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Decades after transforming the global palm oil industry, Yangambi is rebuilding its own production – this time with the protection of forests in mind.

Wait, what?! There’s more life in a teaspoon of soil than people on Earth

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Why “dirt” is one of the most valuable — and misunderstood — resources on the planet.
Wait, what?! Why are there three COPs?

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Why the climate, biodiversity and land summits all require healthy landscapes to succeed.
Steppe, soil and solutions

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Landscape Alliance digs in at Mongolia’s UNCCD COP17
When the scorecard improves, but the forest doesn’t

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Three decades of criteria, certification and scorecards have given forest and landscape management the look of accountability. New research and tools show how often that accountability stops just short of the forest.

Land degradation could cost us the Earth

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How can we craft and implement policy to restore our planet?
Regulating global trade without harming agroforestry farms?

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The debate over the European Union(EU)’s deforestation-free regulation and its unintended risks
Is simplicity always best?

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Scientists debate if a complex landscapes approach should be embraced
25% of world’s surface can be better protected with rights

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Rights emerge as greatest hope for healthy planet at weekend’s GLF Bonn 2019

The genetics behind better tree seed

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How new seed sources are helping to strengthen landscape restoration
A new chapter for sustainable palm oil in Yangambi, Democratic Republic of Congo

10 min read

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Decades after transforming the global palm oil industry, Yangambi is rebuilding its own production – this time with the protection of forests in mind.
From evidence to investment: COP17 puts finance at the heart of the Great Green Wall Initiative

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At UNCCD COP17 in Ulaanbaatar, African governments, researchers, development partners and investors examined how evidence from restoration efforts across the Great Green Wall can help turn proven approaches into investment-ready programmes.
Ethiopia reviews and validates National Great Green Wall Coalition Framework

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The workshop reaffirmed stakeholders’ commitment to operationalizing the National GGW Coalition through coordinated action and strengthened partnerships.

From wild harvest to woodlot: Can masoi make conservation pay?

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Sustainable bark harvesting could offer much-needed income for Papua New Guinea’s Managalas communities, if the resource holds, says Joshua Ombo.
The trees it takes to build a home

6 min read

EN

Housing timber research on Papua New Guinea’s Managalas Plateau
“I don’t know what came over me”: On Bioculture and why conservation needs to start with communities

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The moment in Managalas that reframed what Evengelyn Kove thought she knew
“Hands were shaking”: What a social media workshop taught us about Managalas

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A four-day workshop revealed gaps in smartphone access, digital confidence and internet connectivity in Managalas.

Who defines “high-integrity” carbon? In Peru, Indigenous groups are not waiting for an answer

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A world-first Indigenous-led REDD+ coalition is moving ahead, testing whether sociocultural integrity can work in practice
Paamari: Reclaiming ancestral fire management in the Peruvian Amazon

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An Asháninka organization has combined ancestral knowledge with satellite monitoring to reduce wildfires dramatically.
Governance, not just carbon accounting, is key to jurisdictional REDD+ success

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Evidence from East Kalimantan, Pará and Peru shows that credible jurisdictional REDD+ depends on informed consent, accountable institutions and real decision-making power for Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
Living with fire: Why the Pan-Amazon needs prevention, not just suppression

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As El Niño intensifies, evidence from across the Amazon basin shows why Amazon wildfire prevention depends on Indigenous knowledge and fire governance built from the territories up.

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The other 70%: Why “30×30” won’t fix biodiversity loss on its own

As countries review progress on the global biodiversity framework at CBD COP17, scientists warn that protecting 30% of the planet will not halt biodiversity loss unless conservation, restoration and sustainable production also address the remaining 70%.

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