Conservation

Originally posted at CIFOR’s Forests News When Indonesian President Joko Widodo took office in 2014, he made a commitment to strengthen the rights of local communities over land and forest resources. Indonesia’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry has since announced that 12.7 million hectares of forestland will be transferred to local communities by 2019. This […]

Originally published on the Conservation International Blog. By Bruno Vander Velde  The world watched as wildfires raged in parts of Indonesia last month, filling the skies with smoke and even causing the country’s president to cut short a trip to Washington. Not making headlines, however, is a recent bit of good news from the Southeast […]

Originally published  by The Nature Conservancy A first-of-its-kind global development risk assessment identifies the most at-risk regions worldwide for habitat conversion. With the world population predicted to approach nine billion by 2050, global demand for energy, food, minerals and other resources is skyrocketing. The development required to meet these demands is likely to have significant […]

By Frank Hajek, Executive Director of Nature Services Peru We heard the chain saws first: a buzz from a bee on amphetamines, interspersed by the crash of falling giants, then the toiling drone of the bulldozers. We were approaching the advancing edge of the Shintuya-Boca Manu-Colorado road. Our Matsigenka guide, Feliciano, from Pankotsi Lodge in […]

Justin Adams, global managing director, lands, at The Nature Conservancy contributed this article to Live Science’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. This article links to a session at the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum (5-6, December in Paris): Green Growth Compacts: Realizing the promise of sustainable development. By Justin Adams, The Nature Conservancy This is a […]