biodiversity
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Côte d’Ivoire’s neglected botanic gardens key for conservation
In recent decades, Cote d’Ivoire’s botanic gardens and reserves have been woefully overlooked. But that is changing: recognition of the…
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Q&A: Researcher Julia Fa on reconciling wildlife and wild meat
Around the world, millions of rural and forest dwellers rely on the meat of undomesticated terrestrial animals for their nutrition…
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Sustainable development goals hinge on tapping women’s full potential
As we celebrate International Women’s Day 2024, we are reminded of how far we have come, almost 55 years after…
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“We will protect them ourselves”: Yangambi’s young conservation champions
Thirteen-year-old Olive Basekawike-Nyota, a student from Weko Village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)’s Yangambi Engagement Landscape (YEL),…
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The school that trees built
Until recently, the Bilaka School Complex, in the Yangambi Engagement Landscape (YEL) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s Tshopo…
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Learning across landscapes
Alida and Eric are PhD candidates at the University of British Columbia and University of Amsterdam, respectively. They’re also colleagues…
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How can the DRC cut its carbon emissions?
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) hosts over half of the species-rich Congo Basin forests – the second-largest contiguous tract…
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Q&A: What can trees tell us about environmental history and climate adaptation?
As people around the world rush to plant trees to restore degraded land, meet climate mitigation commitments, and build biodiversity,…
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Biodiversity in agricultural landscapes finally on conservation agendas
The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) guides actions worldwide to preserve and protect nature – and its essential services to…
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Avoiding extinctions from international trade in tropical tree species
Saving endangered species is a critical challenge for conservation and sustainability movements, and is also a matter of survival as…
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Fielding peatland data in remote Central Congo
Field data is essential to gain an understanding of the genesis, development, contemporary function, and extent of the central Congo…
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Why the time for trees, forests and agroforestry is now
When I joined the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in 1999, the organization was just six years old, with…
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Leading women in sustainable wildlife management: Meet Lorrie Thomas
Waking at 3 am to monitor the beaches and paddling with her husband for water lilies and duckweed – favourite…
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Toucans, tapir and tortoises: Revealing the biological riches of southern Guyana
“In the hushed pre-dawn darkness, the first sounds of daylight begin to filter through the forest understory. As the trees…
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Congo Basin: Need for more funding to let ‘lungs of Africa’ breathe
The forests of Central Africa, which include the Congo Basin – a carbon sink like no other, absorbing more carbon…
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