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Event Coverage
- 9 Jan 2013
Green growth in Myanmar: an emerging democracy’s vision for future development
Myanmar is home to one of Southeast Asia's largest expanses of natural forest, but for how much longer?
News
- 1 Jan 2013
BEST OF 2012: Mangrove conservation grapples against development
Local fishermen will be trained in aquatic resource management, but is conservation what the community needs?
Feature
- 26 Dec 2012
BEST OF 2012: Going once, going twice…the great green land grab
Market-based solutions are perceived as the overriding panacea to the world’s environmental problems. Are they?
News
- 24 Dec 2012
BEST OF 2012: Supernatural powers play key role in forest use
A strictly secular approach to forest management may be at odds with local attitudes.
News
- 22 Dec 2012
Landscape-based certification scheme aims to lift poverty by engaging communities
Landscape labelling offers payments to community-based organisations to manage unique and diverse rural landscapes.
News
- 19 Dec 2012
Globalisation, logging concessions, conservation organisations and local people
Are conservation organizations keeping people in poverty?
DG’s Column
- 16 Dec 2012
Landscapes for sustainable development
How can we combine high conservation and high development approaches?
DG’s Column
- 16 Dec 2012
Landscapes for sustainable development
Video
- 8 Dec 2012
Qatar’s mangroves: why they matter to climate change
Mangroves play a very important role in the Arab Gulf ecosystem, for both humans and for animals, especially camel herds.
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?
2 Dec 2012
Q+A in Doha: Meeting food needs while protecting forests
DOHA, Qatar (2 December, 2012)_As the world struggles to feed a growing population without expanding into forests and scrubland, poliycmakers need to consider...
News
- 14 Nov 2012
Under Threat: Deforestation pressure on Congo Basin forests increasing
Scientists call for a viable scientific information mechanism to deal with drivers of deforestation.
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