biodiversity conservation
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Papua New Guinean community members learn new ways to track flora and fauna
What does it take to monitor wildlife across one of Papua New Guinea’s largest conservation areas? Three young Biodiversity Team…
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What we do and don’t know about wild meat in Asia and the Pacific
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on the Sustainable Use of Wild Species Transformative Partnership Platform (SU-TPP) website. “In…
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Beyond the Philippine eagle’s nest
The Philippines is home to one of the world’s largest and most powerful forest raptors: the Philippine eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi). However, over the past decades, the…
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How genebanks are protecting Africa’s threatened wild food plants
Across Africa, wild food plants — especially fruit trees and vegetables — quietly sustain people’s diets and livelihoods. Yet many of these valuable species,…
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Participatory mapping: A game-changer for community empowerment in southern Cameroon’s hunting zones
Across the tropics, millions of rural families continue to depend on wildlife for food, income, and cultural identity. Yet unsustainable…
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Beyond fish and tourism: The hidden value of the Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean’s sparkling blue waters and pristine sandy beaches are a familiar sight for visitors arriving in coastal towns…
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How to better assess health risks from wild animal meat
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has been on alert for “Disease X” — the spillover of a virus from…
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Bridging science, people and policy: How evidence-based storytelling shapes environmental action in the Congo Basin
With the intensification of the global environmental crisis, deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change and land degradation are no longer abstract…
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Conservation dialogues advance rights-based approaches in the Amazon
Protected Natural Areas (PNA) are key to the global effort to conserve biodiversity and adapt to and mitigate the effects…
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Increasing ecosystem carbon is good for species, says new study
It is widely assumed that land uses that increase carbon in biomass and soil to mitigate climate change also benefit…
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Cull! Say scientists. Crisis! Say journalists. Plus news from the Wood Wide Web
In Forests News last week: Keeping the peace in a national park buffer zone When access to the Kaboré Tambi…
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