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’s in a rainforest?
This is the first in a three-part series examining how communities and researchers are tracking biodiversity across Papua New Guinea’s…
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The honey bargain: How bees keep forests standing
There is a moment before dawn in the dry montane forests of Lambayeque, in northern Peru, when the air is…
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Malawi: Why conservation success hinges on rural livelihoods
Across Africa, the expansion of conservation areas often collides with the needs of a growing population and a developing economy.…
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Study: Amazonian wildlife feeds millions
Across the vast Amazon rainforest, people have hunted a wide array of animals — mammals, reptiles, birds, fish and amphibians…
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Our forests are not spreadsheets: Why nature demands more than market logic
As a tropical forest ecologist, I have spent decades studying ecosystems teeming with a complexity that still humbles me. I…
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Can we protect old trees by planting new ones?
Conservation isn’t just about avoiding cutting down trees. Successful long-term conservation—particularly in places where lots of people live in, around…
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When ‘the field’ is a forest: Nuances of data-gathering on Managalas Plateau
In Joive Village, on the eastern edge of Papua New Guinea (PNG)’s Managalas Plateau, a group of local youth gather…
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Making Managalas: Consensus for conservation on PNG’s Managalas Plateau
What makes a place a place? When we give a name to a country, a bioregion, or a geographic feature,…
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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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OECMs: An opportunity to turn ‘coercive conservation’ upside down
People blindness is a long-standing critique leveled at conservation initiatives that historically valued plants and animals more than human rights.…
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Turtle conservation in Guyana’s Rupununi spawns awareness for sustainable wildlife management
As in many parts of the world, in Yupukari, a small village in Guyana’s northern Rupununi region, Christmas has always…
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Replacing short-term projects with long-term processes
Conservation and development initiatives – even when well-funded and carefully executed – may not succeed if essential, yet often overlooked…
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Let learning lead the way to strategic forest and landscape restoration
Combining the myriad theories and strategies on forest and landscape restoration into a successful recipe for implementation requires not only…
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COVID-19 pandemic offers opportunity to rethink status quo conservation efforts
The coronavirus pandemic creates an opportunity to rethink generally accepted underperforming business-as-usual approaches to conservation, say more than 20 conservation…
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