Amazon
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Seeing the forest and the trees: Brazil’s transparency in deforestation data
Brazil’s deforestation tracking system – followed up with enforcement measures on the ground – is often cited as a key…
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Martyr of the Amazon: The legacy of Chico Mendes
It’s impossible to talk about forests in Acre, Brazil, without mentioning the state’s home-grown hero: rubber-tapper, union-leader and Amazon-defender Chico…
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Land rights: Both prerequisite and incentive for smallholder-based REDD+
Incipient initiatives designed to reduce carbon emissions through avoided deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) are also helping to secure forest…
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Postcards from the field: All you need is a hammock
Late on an Acre afternoon we arrive at a small farmhouse along the newly-paved BR-364 Highway in the Brazilian state’s…
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Lessons from the Amazon: Searching for a Sustainable Future for Forests and People
The Amazon rainforest hosts some of the richest biodiversity in the world; stores vast amounts of carbon; and regulates the…
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From the Amazon to the world: A story of Brazil nuts
Every wet season in the Western Amazon, Peru’s castañeros (brazil nut concession holders and harvesters) gather the huge brazil nut…
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The invisible workforce: gender myth-busting in Ecuador
An hour’s walk into the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador’s Orellana province, Maricela Tapuy and her sister-in-law are working alongside their…
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Who buys, who sells, how much? Mapping Ecuador’s timber markets
Luis Andi*, his brother Jorge and their wives are clearing a small patch of forest in the province of Orellana,…
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SPECIAL REPORT: How a remote Amazonian state is leading the way in climate change policy
In Brazil’s wild west, a state government is trying to prove that it is possible to safeguard the Amazon –…
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Right of return: Sharing research results with communities
Scientists often tend to privilege presenting their research at conferences, to other scientists, sometimes to policy-makers or the media. But…
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Postcards from the field: Building trust in Ecuador
Bulldozers churn in the mud and block the sticky, bumpy road up ahead as Elena Mejia and Ayme Muzo head…
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Amazon degraded lands prompt new bushmeat hunting trends
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (19 August, 2013) – Hunting patterns are changing in the Peruvian Amazon, according to an expert…
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Amazon smallholders use fast-growing timber to supplement income
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (15 August, 2013) — Smallholder farmers in the Amazon sell timber from trees that have grown…
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Amazon urban migration may not improve livelihoods, environment – report
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (7 August, 2013) – The migration of rural people to cities in the Brazilian Amazon often…
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Scientists seek out forest traditions in climate change fight
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (22 July, 2013) — How is a raised garden of cassava plants deep in the Brazilian…
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