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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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Shoring up Burkina Faso’s shea trade requires intensive landscape restoration efforts
For generations, women in West Africa have produced shea butter for home consumption and to sell for use in cosmetics…
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Gender dynamics in Ghana’s oil palm processing sector
Known throughout the industry as “oil palm mamas” or “market queens,” women play a competitive role in Ghana’s informal oil…
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Meet the farmers and scientists collaborating to restore Kenya’s degraded grasslands
Hellen Atieno Owuor remembers a time when farming goats and cattle in the sub-humid eastern highlands of Kenya was a…
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Is the formalization of collective tenure rights supporting sustainable Indigenous livelihoods?
Titling Indigenous territories has been discussed in global fora as an essential tool to promote forest conservation. Activism by Indigenous…
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Scientists urge action as Gambian livestock grazing puts forests at risk
Herders moving within Gambia and across the country’s borders into Senegal in search of pasture inadvertently threaten forests and the…
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Peru’s smallholder farmers need state recognition for timber production, study says
Smallholders who produce fallow timber on their farms in the Peruvian Amazon would benefit from a regulatory mechanism to help…
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Amerindian culture and land rights shape conservation in Guyana’s Rupununi region
Everisto Lawrence remembers fishing and hunting as a boy, walking along riverbanks and at the edge of the forest for…
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These ecosystems could determine our climate future: study
This article originally appeared in Conservation News. Nature’s stashes of climate-warming carbon are packed into a small percentage of Earth’s…
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Study on emissions breaks new ground in Peru’s palm-swamp peatlands
A new study marked a series of “firsts” for understanding greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions and land degradation in the palm-swamp…
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Legal hubs help identify gaps to support sustainable wildlife management
Wildlife provides a vital source of protein and generates income for millions of forest-dwelling communities in tropical and subtropical regions.…
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COP26 deforestation pledges a win, but only if they are upheld
Forestry experts are applauding an agreement made in a joint statement on Monday by more than 130 countries at the…
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Study pushes for climate smart agriculture to curb deforestation in DRC
Farmers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who have experienced reduced crop yields from the negative effects of climate…
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COP26 delegates should address gender gap in inequitable land policies, scientists say
Women’s access and ownership rights to land and trees are key to addressing global warming, biodiversity loss and the inequity…
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Spotlight on forests at COP26, a big step forward for climate talks
In the minds of many observers and environmentalists, the outcome of the upcoming U.N. COP26 climate summit in Glasgow is…
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