Mangroves: A global treasure under threat
Indonesia contains the largest area of mangrove forest in the worldAbout 3 million hectares of mangrove forest grow along Indonesia’s…
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A price tag on the environment? That will be $125 trillion a year
BOGOR, Indonesia — Although not a particularly romantic idea, putting a price tag on the natural world is something conservation…
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Social networking for climate change adaptation in Cameroon (and it’s not Twitter)
It has an on-ground social networking system that could be harnessed to spread knowledge about climate change—in much the same…
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Can farmers be forest custodians in the Amazon?
Agricultural activity and forest conservation have often had an antagonistic relationship and are usually discussed in terms of how the…
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‘Forgotten guardians’: Local communities in natural resource management
Late last year, there was publicity about the plight of the San (bushmen) of the Kalahari in Botswana – part…
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Shades of green: Balancing Indonesia’s conservation and development
It’s the familiar story of Indonesian environmental issues: the battle between economic development reliant on natural resource extraction and fears…
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Watch and read: Making timber plantations attractive for smallholders
BOGOR, Indonesia — Encouraging Indonesian smallholders to view timber plantations as an attractive business opportunity could have far-reaching economic and…
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Wild food means good food: CIFOR study
In Tanzania, women supplement their families’ diets by collecting foods that grow wild near their homes.They gather edible species while…
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REDD+ in Laos: Think big or fail
REDD+ is at a crossroads in Lao PDR, and needs to “think bigger” to survive.As the anti-deforestation project nears its…
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Monty Python and tropical forests. Really?
In your best John Cleese voice: “All right… all right… but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and…
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WEST AFRICA SPECIAL: In Burkina Faso, small solutions and big returns
PABRE, Burkina Faso—A simple fence that protects against grazing livestock and bush fires is all it’s taken to transform three…
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WEST AFRICA SPECIAL: In Burkina Faso, disappearing rains and new realities
KALEMBOULI, Burkina Faso—The people of Kalembouli, a village of about 1,000 people in southern Burkina Faso, have no doubt that…
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