Community versus enforcement: Responses to illegal wildlife trade
As the illegal wildlife trade escalates globally, many government and conservation agencies have upped their enforcement responses: increasing monitoring, surveillance, penalties,…
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Less laws, more communication, collaboration and capacity needed: expert
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom—Weak government institutions often hamper international conventions and treaties related to protecting forest resources, a leading expert says.A…
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Rights, resources and environmental impacts: A complex but crucial link
It is well known that property rights, which govern how individuals can control, benefit from and transfer property, influence the…
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It’s a forest, not a ‘museum’: What sustainable development means in the tropics
BOGOR, Indonesia—A tropical forest: A habitat for wildlife, untouched by humans? Or trees ripe to be cleared for profit?Or is…
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Sustainable Development Goals and forestry: Lessons from Peru
LIMA, Peru—A decade ago, forests along the Ampiyacu River in northeastern Peru were being logged, hunted and fished unsustainably by…
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Promises to keep: Can private sector ensure success of zero-deforestation pledges?
BOGOR, Indonesia—The aim of last year’s New York Declaration on Forests is an ambitious one: Halve deforestation by 2020 and…
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Zero-deforestation pledges and palm oil: a conversation
BOGOR, Indonesia—The 2014 New York Declaration on Forests has ambitious goals: halve deforestation by 2020 and eliminate it altogether by…
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Restoring deforested landscapes means more than planting trees
LIMA, Peru—To stop the loss of the world’s forests, countries around the globe have set an ambitious goal of replanting 150…
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Mind the ‘stick’: How ‘carrots’ can make conservation fairer in Brazil’s Amazon
BOGOR, Indonesia—In the world of forest law enforcement, it was hailed as a historic breakthrough.Brazil’s arrest in February of Ezequiel…
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Sumatran road plan could spell a dark new chapter for storied ecosystem: study
BOGOR, Indonesia—In at least one way, it’s a place right out of a storybook.A patch of Indonesian forest is the last…
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Link between wildlife, human nutrition is food for thought for development in Africa
BOGOR, Indonesia—A new study has found for the first time a link between the availability of wild meat and human…
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‘Boom’ and gloom: Forest-based wildlife feel brunt of Asia’s appetite for meat, medicine
BOGOR, Indonesia—It’s one of the dark sides of the Asian economic boom.Growing demand for wild meat and traditional medicine among…
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