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Hope takes root in Africa: How community-led restoration is driving change
Across Africa, communities are restoring degraded landscapes, creating jobs and strengthening local economies. With new investments and a deepening commitment…
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Doing better: How REDD+ safeguards can advance Indigenous rights in Peru
The Amazon is not only essential to addressing the climate and biodiversity crises, it is also the ancestral territories of…
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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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Land tenure and restoration: A dual challenge for African landscapes
Managing land sustainably and improving local people’s living standards are major challenges for environmental conservation. Faced with these challenges, the…
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Tracing palm oil’s path: From plantation to product
You might not know it, but your supermarkets’ shelves are heaving with palm oil. It’s found in about half of…
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In Pará, agroforestry systems foster networks, learning and Amazonian landscapes
The northeastern region of the state of Pará, Brazil, is a complex landscape. This long-settled area of the Brazilian Amazon…
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Planting change: How AfroGrow is rethinking agroforestry in Africa
“Through this initiative, we are laying the foundation for a future where agroforestry is not only a sustainable solution but…
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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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Conservation dialogues advance rights-based approaches in the Amazon
Protected Natural Areas (PNA) are key to the global effort to conserve biodiversity and adapt to and mitigate the effects…
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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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