Traditional Aboriginal fire practices can help promote plant diversity: Study
While research is still mixed on whether diverse fire patterns promote biodiversity, a new study suggests that practices under active Indigenous stewardship can do...
New ecoregion proposed for Southern Africa’s threatened ‘sky islands’
A group of scientists is proposing the designation of a new African “ecoregion” consisting of an “inland archipelago” of 30 isolated mountains, some harboring...
New report details rights abuses in Cambodia’s Southern Cardamom REDD+ project
Gerald Flynn
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Why language is central to the survival of cultures and communities
More than half the world’s languages could go extinct by 2100, The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues says.Roughly 4,000 of the world’s...
Gundi tool gets conservation hardware and software talking the same language
A new open-source platform aims to help conservationists and protected-area managers seamlessly integrate data between hardware and software tools.Currently being used at 600 sites,...
Conflict in the canopy as human and climate factors drive liana...
Lianas, woody vines that rely on trees for structural support, are growing more abundant in tropical forests around the world, negatively impacting forest recovery...
Squeezed-out Amazon smallholders seek new frontiers in Brazil’s Roraima state
As infrastructure projects and soy plantations pump up land values in the Brazilian Amazon, smallholders are selling up and moving to more distant frontiers,...
Brazil risks losing the Pampa grassland to soy farms and sand...
Nearly a third of the Brazilian portion of South America’s Pampa grassland has been lost since 1985, largely to agricultural expansion and forestry plantations.This...
Tien Hai reserve saved from development in win for nature in...
In 2023, the government of Vietnam’s Thai Binh province announced plans to remove protection from 90% of Tien Hai Nature Reserve, part of the...
Global conference to accelerate nature-based solutions: Q&A with Self Help Africa’s...
This week, more than 150 conservation and community organizations, experts and policymakers are gathering in Zambia for the Accelerating Nature-based Solutions conference.Discussions will dive...
Java rice farmers suffer crop failure as copper mine pollutes local...
Rice farmers in Cokrokembang village, East Java province, suspect contamination from a nearby copper mine operated by PT Gemilang Limpah Internusa is to blame...
Project retraces Darwin’s voyage, educating young conservation leaders
The DARWIN200 Project is retracing English naturalist Charles Darwin’s 19th-century voyage, stopping at 32 ports around the globe by 2025.The sailing ship’s crew is...
