Podcast: Agroforestry, an ancient climate solution that boosts food production and biodiversity
Wed 6:41pmToday we’re taking a look at how agroforestry, an ancient indigenous technology that is increasingly being adopted by farmers around the world, can help solve many of the major environmental issues we’re facing, from deforestation and biodiversity loss to…France contributes to protection of Amazon stronghold, Yasuní National Park
Wed 2:54pmFrance has rolled out a new initiative to fight deforestation and promote sustainable development. Under the initiative, announced in Ecuador in early December 2020, the South American country will be the first regional beneficiary of the related pilot…Invasion of the crayfish clones: Q&A with Ranja Andriantsoa
Wed 11:23amIn 2005, farmers in Antananarivo discovered an unfamiliar creature in their rice paddies. It was a crayfish unlike any other in Madagascar, and it soon spread throughout the country’s central highlands. When a team of researchers at the German Cancer…Planned coal-trucking road threatens a forest haven for Sumatran frogs
Wed 9:55amJAMBI, Indonesia — Armed with a flashlight, 43-year-old Musadat walks slowly through the thick and dense Harapan forest, one of the last remaining expanses of lowland tropical rainforest on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Musadat suddenly stops and…It’s not too late – yet – to save the Philippine pangolin, study finds
Tue 11:46pmMANILA — Knowledge of the Philippine pangolin, the only pangolin species in the country, is scant. Sightings of the animal are rarer still. But unlike other pangolin species around the world that teeter on the brink of extinction, a new study suggests that…Lasers find forest gaps to aid tree mortality studies in Brazilian Amazon
Tue 5:02pmIn the skies above far-flung corners of the Brazilian Amazon, a small plane aims laser beams down at the treetops to create a real-time topography down to the ground. Its goal is simple: find gaps in the forest. “It may sound like a Star Wars movie, but this…Investment in Indigenous peoples’ knowledge can drive their economic growth (commentary)
Tue 2:23pmHow can we support Indigenous communities in using their current knowledge and knowhow to improve their living standards? Three shifts in investment practice could yield more sustainable, organic outcomes while honoring and empowering local and traditional…Indonesia remembers ‘irreplaceable’ Gunawan Wiradi, gentle giant of the countryside
Tue 10:19amFew figures have championed the cause of Indonesia’s farmers and rural communities more than Gunawan Wiradi, who has died aged 88. Born in Solo, a mid-size city in Indonesia’s Central Java province, Gunawan authored several influential books and, in 1994,…Timber organization’s backing ‘one step’ toward ‘peace park’ in Borneo
Tue 8:42amAn intergovernmental organization representing countries that produce the bulk of the world’s timber has thrown its support behind a decade-long effort to protect the last remaining primary forest in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. In its November 2020…What does a great argus pheasant sound like? Candid Animal Cam listens to birds
Tue 12:45amCamera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting one of the world’s largest pheasants: the great Argus pheasant. The great Argus pheasant (Argusianus argus) lives…Smallholder agriculture cuts into key Sumatran tiger habitat
Mon 8:07pmIndonesia’s Kerinci Seblat National Park is the largest national park on the island of Sumatra and the second-largest park in Southeast Asia. It is home to a wide variety of jungle cat species and is considered one of the world’s last great strongholds for…Transforming conservation in times of crisis and opportunity (Commentary)
Mon 2:34pm“Disasters and emergencies do not just throw light on the world as it is. They also rip open the fabric of normality. Through the hole that opens up, we glimpse possibilities of other worlds.” – Peter Baker, in The Guardian, March 30, 2020 The year of…Death by 1,000 cuts: Are major insect losses imperiling life on Earth?
Mon 1:52pmChances are, the works of the world’s insects touch your lips every day. The coffee or tea you savor, both are insect pollinated. Apples, oranges, cabbages, cashews, cherries, carrots, broccoli, watermelon, garlic, cinnamon, basil, sunflower seeds, almonds,…Amazon is on the brink of turning into a carbon source, study warns
Mon 8:56amTropical forests are guardians against runaway climate change, but their ability to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is wearing down. The Amazon, which accounts for more than half of the world’s rainforest cover, is on the verge of turning into a…Canadian First Nation deploys ROV in push for stronger marine protection
Mon 4:00amWhen Súlhlima Morris was a girl, in the days when the Tl’ches archipelago was still inhabited, the tide pools were full of urchins. The Songhees Nation elder, who also goes by the English name Joan, learned from her own elders how to harvest the plentiful…6% of Earth’s protected land is used to grow crops, study finds
Fri 7:50pmCovering around 13% of Earth’s surface and harboring an estimated 83% of its endangered wildlife, protected areas are tasked with an outsize responsibility to safeguard vulnerable species, as well as many Indigenous communities. But mounting evidence…Ivory by any other name: Illegal trade thrives on eBay, study finds
Fri 4:16pmTwo miniature sculptures sold on eBay in December 2020: a tiny egg with a chick hatching through the shell, and an intricately carved man in traditional Japanese dress with a rat perched on his shoulder. The egg sold for $195 and the figure for $1,345. But…Indigenous groups blast Amazon state’s plan to legalize wildcat mining
Fri 12:40pmThe Roraima state bill legalizing garimpo prospecting, if signed into law by the governor, could put the Yanomami reserve and other Indigenous territories at greater risk of invasion and COVID-19 infection.Plantations, mines didn’t worsen flood, Indonesia says. The data begs to differ
Fri 5:06amJAKARTA — The Indonesian government has denied that deforestation for oil palm plantations and coal mines contributed to a recent deadly flood in southern Borneo. At least 21 people died and more than 256,000 were affected in what President Joko Widodo has…No safe space for Philippines’ Indigenous youth as military allowed on campus
Fri 1:24amMANILA — Indigenous youths harboring from a military-led counterinsurgency in the Philippines may soon lose the only safe space they have known for the past two years. Under a nearly 40-year pact, the 17 campuses of the University of the Philippines are…
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