community monitoring
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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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Paamari: Reclaiming ancestral fire management in the Peruvian Amazon
Asháninka communities in Peru’s central Amazon are combining ancestral knowledge with satellite monitoring through PAAMARI to prevent wildfires. The community-led…
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Global climate action is nothing without local backing
Global climate negotiations take place on the international stage, bolstered by countries’ national policies. But preventing greenhouse gas emissions from…
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‘Restoration starts on the ground’
Monitoring is the only way to effectively assess the performance of global restoration initiatives, but is not yet receiving the…
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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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Cheap drones could revolutionize forest monitoring, but turbulence ahead
LIMA, Peru—Sending small unmanned drones to fly over tropical forests has great potential for enhancing community-based forest monitoring—and in measuring…
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To include local people in REDD+ activities, four conditions required, study finds
BOGOR, Indonesia—This month in Lima, experts are debating how to safeguard the rights of local communities in global forest-carbon initiatives.…
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New technologies key to community monitoring for REDD+
In the birthplace of Arabica coffee — Ethiopia’s Kafa Biosphere Reserve — rangers are using Facebook to monitor and verify…
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