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Bamboo furniture and handicraft training revitalize Vizimumba community
Clack. Tap. Clack. The rhythmic sound of hammers striking bamboo fills the air, breaking through cheerful conversations and bursts of…
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In Cameroon, honing organizational arrangements to boost REDD+
Cameroon is a rainforest-rich country, with about 46% of its land area covered in tropical forest, representing a massive carbon…
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How soil laboratories are building climate resilience
The Knuckles Mountain Range in Sri Lanka has long been a cradle of biodiversity and a protector of the inhabitants…
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Brazil mulls deforestation patterns as Lula government launches new action plan
Brazil’s policy makers are turning to scientists to help pinpoint deforestation trends in the Amazon region over the past decade…
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Leading women in sustainable wildlife management: Meet Guyana’s ecotourism entrepreneurs
With its rolling savannahs, breathtaking mountains, therapeutic waterfalls, and rich biodiversity, Guyana’s Rupununi is one of the country’s most sought-after…
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Central Africa: Battling deforestation, balancing development
In the struggle to curtail forest loss and degradation, experts writing in Chapter 8 of the Central Africa Forest Observatory…
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Measuring impact to improve conservation results
As the second most heavily forested Amazonian country, Peru has attracted a steady stream of programmes aimed at reducing greenhouse…
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Leading women in sustainable wildlife management: Meet Lorrie Thomas
Waking at 3 am to monitor the beaches and paddling with her husband for water lilies and duckweed – favourite…
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Bringing science to public policy on REDD+
Government officials who make public policy increasingly seek to base their decisions on scientific evidence — but the information they…
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Mind the gap: What knowledge is needed for UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration success?
Significant gaps exist in information and knowledge about the barriers and pathways towards ecosystem restoration and biodiversity protection, according to…
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Toucans, tapir and tortoises: Revealing the biological riches of southern Guyana
“In the hushed pre-dawn darkness, the first sounds of daylight begin to filter through the forest understory. As the trees…
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Protecting habitat, preserving heritage at the Karaawaimin Taawa
In Guyana’s remote South Rupununi region, which abuts the northern border of the Brazilian Amazon, there’s a mountain range that’s…
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Empowering women through sustainable wildlife management: Meet Kim Spencer
When Kim Spencer, an Indigenous woman in Guyana’s isolated South Rupununi region, was 16 years old, she joined the South…
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Amazonian peatlands – up close
“This is peat,” says researcher Kristell Hergoualc’h, pointing to an area of dark, moist soil on the ground composed of…
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OECMs: An opportunity to turn ‘coercive conservation’ upside down
People blindness is a long-standing critique leveled at conservation initiatives that historically valued plants and animals more than human rights.…
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