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26 Oct 2011
Orangutan survival rests on conservation education: an interview with Dr. Biruté Galdikas
BOGOR, Indonesia (26 October, 2011)_With orangutan numbers in Indonesia having plunged 80 percent in 40 years, the only way to reverse this trend is to push for greater conservation awareness in society...
20 Oct 2011
Brazilian women push for greater role in managing forest reserves
BOGOR, Indonesia (20 October, 2011)_While women in many of Brazil’s extractive reserves do not play a large role in decision-making processes, a recent...
18 Oct 2011
Competing actors and land uses in Latin America challenges “effective and equitable REDD+ design”
LIMA, Peru (18 October, 2011)_The rapid growth of agribusiness, cattle ranching, small-scale agriculture, logging and resource-based economies in Latin...
17 Oct 2011
The Matching Game: More on Protected Area Effectiveness
A metastudy by Porter-Bolland et al. shows how most peer-reviewed case studies have found community-managed forests to disappear less rapidly than strictly...
14 Oct 2011
Giving a voice to the invisible women in forest product value chains
BOGOR, Indonesia (14 October, 2011)_Finding the hidden links in non-timber forest product value chains could help government and non-government agencies...
13 Oct 2011
How closing the gender gap will lead to better forest management
BOGOR, Indonesia (13 October, 2011)_Understanding the different roles and responsibilities of women, and increasing their opportunities to participate...
30 Sep 2011
Fewer Farms = More Forest = Less Biodiversity?
BOGOR, Indonesia (30 September, 2011)_If clearing tropical forests for agriculture is a major cause of the ongoing catastrophic decline in biodiversity,...
30 Sep 2011
Fewer Farms = More Forest = Less Biodiversity?
23 Sep 2011
Are community forests actually benefiting the communities that manage them?
BOGOR, Indonesia (23 September, 2011)_Community forests are helping to ease rural poverty in Cameroon by giving local populations more power to sustainably...
6 Sep 2011
Frankincense and Myrrh harvest may encourage sustainable livelihoods in Ethiopia
BOGOR, Indonesia (6 September, 2011)_ The sustainable production and marketing of oleo-gum resins such as frankincense and myrrh could provide both valuable...
2 Sep 2011
Making small-scale mining less of a gamble in the Congo Basin
BOGOR, Indonesia (2 September, 2011)_Gold and diamond mining remains a risky business in the Congo Basin, but the development of coherent mining policies...
30 Aug 2011
Paper company demonstrates environmental and social responsibility in Lao PDR
BANGKOK, Thailand (30 August 2011)_Swedish-based paper producer, Stora Enso, is setting the pace for behavior change needed within large-scale industry,...
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