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Multiple ways for Congo Basin forests to flourish
Two hundred million hectares, and sixty million people. That’s the size and feeding power of the forests of the Congo…
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Grubs in tubs: Cameroon’s larvae love just got so much better
Palm weevil grubs are, to many eyes, the sort of creature you would stamp on if you saw it wriggling…
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REDD+ in Brazil: Coordination needed. Now
Farming and ranching remain the main drivers of deforestation in Brazil, a new study from the Center for International Forestry…
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The Atlantic Ocean holds the key to western Amazon rainfall
In 2010, catastrophic fires ravaged huge tracts of the western Amazon, a region of rainforest that until just a few…
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Counting trees: 143 scientists just did
Forget about finding the needle in the haystack. An even more complicated task might be counting all the hay on…
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Indonesia’s best hope for slowing climate change
Indonesia’s mangroves are a massive storehouse of carbon and a key bargaining chip for the country in the upcoming climate…
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A little-known big producer: Will forest policy reform in Peru support farm-forestry?
Collectively, 20 farming households in a Peruvian Amazon village can easily produce 760 cubic meters of sawn lumber per year…
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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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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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Catching the ‘big fish’: How banks can stop environmental crime in Indonesia
It was the US$100 million in his bank account that gave him away. There was no legitimate reason why Labora…
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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…
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Carbon or biodiversity conservation – you can’t have the best of both worlds
When trying to protect carbon stocks and biodiversity, the expression “to kill two birds with one stone” seems hardly appropriate.…
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The Political Economy of Fire and Haze in Indonesia
BOGOR, Indonesia – Widespread fires across Indonesia have challenged policy makers and forest managers for over three decades. Burning remains…
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Where, when, why: Human-orangutan conflict in Borneo
BOGOR, Indonesia—A 90 kilogram full-grown male orangutan is sitting in your garden, eating mangoes stolen from your mango tree. You…
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