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Are biodiversity credits just another business-as-usual finance scheme?

Oman’s mountain oases offer ancient farming lessons for a warming future
Fenced in by Sulawesi national park, Indigenous women make forestry breakout
Toilet paper: Environmentally impactful, but alternatives are rolling out



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HOW EFFECTIVE ARE GIANT FUNDING PLEDGES BY MAJOR CONSERVATION DONORS?

by Mike DiGirolamo 19 March 2024
Big philanthropic projects like the Protecting Our Planet Challenge usually
capture the media spotlight, but how effective are these endeavors? Do they take
into consideration the inextricable human rights considerations…



CULTURE OF HARASSMENT PERSISTS FOR WOMEN IN SOUTHEAST ASIA’S CONSERVATION SPACE

by Hướng Thiện 19 March 2024
During a 2020 field trip to a rural area in Vietnam, Hoa (not her real name),
then working for a conservation-focused nonprofit, visited local authorities to
discuss forest management. Vietnamese…



ROAD PAVING IN A PERUVIAN BIRD PARADISE THREATENS WILDLIFE AND ECOTOURISM

by Erik Iverson 19 March 2024
KOSÑIPATA, Peru – “It’s the best road I’ve ever gone birding on, in terms of the
variety of habitats and birds,” says Victor Emanuel, one of the pioneers of
modern…



UN PROBES CONTROVERSIAL FOREST CARBON AGREEMENT IN MALAYSIAN BORNEO

by John Cannon 18 March 2024
The state government of Sabah in Malaysian Borneo has reaffirmed its plans to
proceed with an opaque nature conservation agreement despite concerns raised by
the United Nations. Representatives of Sabah’s…



RISING TEMPERATURES THREATEN THE TINY ANIMALS RESPONSIBLE FOR GROUNDWATER
QUALITY

by Bernardo Araujo 18 March 2024
Underground ecosystems are everywhere. From gargantuan lightless mazes to
pore-sized bedrock gaps inhabited by microfauna — super tiny animals — these
ecosystems are believed to be the most widespread nonmarine…



OMAN’S MOUNTAIN OASES OFFER ANCIENT FARMING LESSONS FOR A WARMING FUTURE

by Ruth Kamnitzer 18 March 2024
In some ways, village life on Oman’s Jabal Akhdar Mountain is the same as it has
always been. Water still runs through the ancient aflaj channels. People still
cultivate pomegranates,…



FERTILIZER MANAGEMENT COULD REDUCE AMMONIA POLLUTION FROM 3 STAPLE CROPS: STUDY

by Claire Asher 18 March 2024
A machine learning model of ammonia emissions from the world’s rice, wheat and
corn crops shows that optimal fertilizer management could slash ammonia air
pollution from these crops by 38%.



SPYING ON WILDLIFE WITH BIOROBOTS: INTERVIEW WITH ENGINEER KAMILO MELO

by Abhishyant Kidangoor 18 March 2024
Kamilo Melo was building a robot shaped like a salamander for his Ph.D. in 2015
when an unexpected assignment came knocking on his door. Two producers at the
BBC were…



TOILET PAPER: ENVIRONMENTALLY IMPACTFUL, BUT ALTERNATIVES ARE ROLLING OUT

by Petro Kotzé 15 March 2024
Most used in China, North America, Europe and Australia, TP causes
deforestation, needs lots of energy and water to make, and is hard to dispose
of. Solutions abound, from the bidet, to recycled paper, bamboo and other
alternatives.



TO DETECT ILLEGAL ROADS IN REMOTE AREAS, AI COMES INTO PLAY

by Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 March 2024
For years, detecting illegal roads in remote areas has remained a challenging
and labor-intensive task. More often than not, it requires poring over satellite
images to identify thin lines cut…



BRAZIL’S AMAZONIAN STATES PUSH FOR COURT REFORMS IN BID FOR JUSTICE

by Luiz Antônio Araujo 14 March 2024
Amazonian states have gone largely unrepresented at the top of the Brazilian
judicial system for decades, a political distortion that has spurred calls for
reform.



MINI RADIO TAGS HELP TRACK ‘MURDER HORNETS’ AND OTHER INVASIVE INSECTS

by Claudia Geib 14 March 2024
The yellow-legged hornet is a predator: after it sets up a nest in a new
neighborhood, its workers head out in search of smaller wasps, flies and bees to
feed…



NOT JUST POLAR BEARS — CLIMATE CHANGE COULD PUSH AFRICAN RHINOS TO EXTINCTION

by Anna Dulisse 14 March 2024
New research is ringing alarm bells about how climate change may impact one of
Africa’s most iconic and vulnerable animals: the rhinoceros. “Climate change has
the potential of wiping out…



HOW A WIND FARM ON BRAZIL’S COAST ERASED A FISHING VILLAGE FROM THE MAP

by Lobato Felizola 14 March 2024
In the municipality of Camocim, on Brazil’s northeastern coast, the fishing
village of Praia do Xavier was erased from the map. Or at least that’s how it
appeared on the…



PERU’S ILLEGAL PET MONKEY TRADE IS ALSO AN INFECTION SUPERHIGHWAY

by Carla Ruas 14 March 2024
At Belén Market in the northeastern Peruvian city of Iquitos, monkeys illegally
captured from the Amazon Rainforest are sold as pets right next to fruits and
vegetables. The primates are…



ARE BIODIVERSITY CREDITS JUST ANOTHER BUSINESS-AS-USUAL FINANCE SCHEME?

by Shreya Dasgupta 19 March 2024
Nature is in crisis. Yet, there’s a massive $700 billion gap between the
financing needed to stop biodiversity collapse versus what’s available each
year. In December 2022, nearly 200 governments…



SORAIDA CHINDOY: THE INDIGENOUS GUARDIAN DEFENDING THE SACRED PUTUMAYO MOUNTAINS

by Natalia Pedraza Bravo 19 March 2024
On May 9, 1983, Soraida Chindoy Buesaquillo’s placenta was planted in the
mountains of Putumayo, where Colombia’s Amazon rainforest meets the Andes. Her
mother, Concepción Buesaquillo, was a midwife by…



IRRAWADDY DOLPHIN DEATH IN THAILAND’S SONGKHLA LAKE UNDERSCORES CONSERVATION
NEEDS

by Carolyn Cowan 19 March 2024
The recent death of a critically endangered freshwater Irrawaddy dolphin in
southern Thailand’s Songkhla Lake has brought the plight of the waterbody’s tiny
remaining population into stark focus. As few…



FANNED BY EL NIÑO, MEGAFIRES IN BRAZIL THREATEN AMAZON’S PRESERVED AREAS

by André Schröder 18 March 2024
Researchers and protection agencies expected a dry season with more fires in
Brazil’s Roraima state at the start of 2024, but the effects of an intense and
prolonged El Niño have aggravated the situation.



CHOCÓ LAND DEAL SHOWS FLAWS IN ECUADOR’S FORESTRY INCENTIVE PROGRAM

by Maxwell Radwin 18 March 2024
By now, dozens of countries have some version of a forestry incentive program,
with the government paying local property owners to keep their trees in the
ground. But a lot…



FENCED IN BY SULAWESI NATIONAL PARK, INDIGENOUS WOMEN MAKE FORESTRY BREAKOUT

by Sarjan Lahay 18 March 2024
SOUTH KULAWI, Indonesia — In a forested valley in the interior of Sulawesi
Island, Elisabet Heta gathers up a clutch of farming tools used by the Moa
Indigenous people and…



IN PERU, CONSERVATIONISTS AND AUTHORITIES STRUGGLE TO GET TURTLE EGGS OFF THE
MENU

by Ryan Biller 18 March 2024
IQUITOS, Peru — "Oh, they're so delicious," said Soledad Coronil, an elderly
local woman, as she enjoyed a boiled tortoise egg earlier this year. "You have
to open the shell…



FIRES SURGE IN THE AMAZON, BUT DEFORESTATION CONTINUES TO FALL

by Mongabay.com 17 March 2024
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has continued on a downward trajectory
despite a sharp increase in fires associated with the severe drought in the
region, reveals data released by Brazil's…



BRAZILIAN YOUNGSTERS DISCUSS HOW THEY ARE TACKLING THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY

by Beatriz Jucá and Leandro Barbosa 15 March 2024
The climate emergency has affected development and violated the rights of
children and adolescents around the world, and in Brazil. In addition to fires,
prolonged, extreme droughts make access to…



HUGE NEW NO-FISHING ZONES GIVE ANTARCTIC MARINE PREDATORS AND THEIR PREY A BREAK

by Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 March 2024
Thousands of miles off the southeast coast of South America lies a set of remote
islands, one broad and comma-shaped, the others a series of small dots that
trail off…



E-SAK KA OU DECLARATION UNDERSCORES INDIGENOUS RIGHTS AS A CONSERVATION SOLUTION
(COMMENTARY)

by Minh Tran 14 March 2024
It was a sunny day in Koh Lanta, an island known for tourism in Krabi Province,
Thailand. Surrounding us were calming shades of blue and green, a white sandy
beach…



CLIMATE CHANGE BREWS TROUBLE FOR TEA INDUSTRY, BUT CIRCULAR SOLUTIONS AWAIT

by Sean Mowbray 14 March 2024
It’s estimated that we drink around 5 billion cups of tea every day. Producing
this vast quantity of leaves to quench global thirst for black, green and other
varieties is…



PALM OIL DEFORESTATION PERSISTS IN INDONESIA’S LEUSER AMID NEW MILLS,
PLANTATIONS

by Hans Nicholas Jong 14 March 2024
JAKARTA — Deforestation for oil palm plantations continues unabated at the
northern tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, likely driven by new
processing mills that in turn may ultimately…



BIG PROBLEMS FOR LITTLE ANIMALS WHEN FLOODWATERS RISE, STUDY FINDS

by Charles Mpaka 14 March 2024
Blantyre, MALAWI — When Cyclone Idai stormed Mozambique in 2019, researchers at
Gorongosa National Park rode the current to test a long-held theory that the
vulnerability of wildlife species to…



REFORESTATION AND RESTORATION: TWO WAYS TO MAKE THE PAN AMAZON GREENER

by Timothy J. Killeen 14 March 2024
One of the benefits of agroforestry and plantation forestry is the ability of
tree crops to capture and store carbon in their above-ground biomass. Although
they must be renovated (cut…

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