ABOUT THE WRITER
Zoe Cormier is a freelance journalist and science writer with a background in biology who specialises in environmental reporting. Her work has featured in Nature News, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, The Ecologist, and the New Internationalist. She has been shortlisted for the Canadian National Magazine Awards twice.
BY THIS WRITER
Event Coverage
- 7 Dec 2012
Efforts to protect roadless areas pick up steam: good news for forests
Clear relationship between building roads and deforestation, but can we still have economic activity?
News
- 8 Nov 2012
With 3D maps, villagers able to see benefits of good land use planning
Engaging local communities in a learning process and building capacity for future negotiation processes.
News
- 31 Oct 2012
In Nepal and Papua New Guinea, media does little to explain REDD+
Media needs to be able to simplify the complexities of REDD+ to help build public understanding.
12 Oct 2012
Producers and traders should be more responsible for charcoal decision-making
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (12 October, 2012)_As part of efforts to sustainably manage charcoal production in West Africa, policy makers should consider giving...
News
- 26 Sep 2012
Follow the rain: tree biodiversity greatest in areas of high rainfall
We cannot control rainfall itself, but we can conserve the landscapes that have high rainfall.
News
- 3 Sep 2012
Cattle ranching and law enforcement key areas of action to slow Bolivia’s deforestation rate
Concrete and country-specific information on drivers of deforestation are required to protects carbon-rich forests.
News
- 20 Aug 2012
Why rural women in Uganda should be empowered to take the lead in forestry
"Unless we actually are having an effect on the ground, we are not doing anything."
Video
- 15 Aug 2012
Agriculture: friend or foe of the Moluccan cockatoo?
Moluccan cockatoo found to partially depend on the human modified forest inside national park.
Video
- 15 Aug 2012
Agriculture: friend or foe of the Moluccan cockatoo?