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13 Results found. From 1997 - 2023
News
- 2 Apr 2021
Crowd-sourced – but from whom? Profiling citizen scientists in a Kenyan water monitoring project
Environmental awareness and concern are key motivators
Event Coverage
- 16 Jun 2020
Numbers not neutral and only part of a story, say scientists at GLF Bonn
Acknowledging political dimensions of numbers is starting point for all change
Interview
- 6 Sep 2018
Why the drone buzz is getting louder
Our leading drone ecologist shares how this technology is changing forest and land management research
Event Coverage
- 13 Jun 2018
Future finance: Blend, bond and blockchain
The financial landscape is changing to fit the planet's needs. Here's what's new
Event Coverage
- 13 Jun 2018
Future finance: Blend, bond and blockchain
Video Q&A
- 28 Nov 2016
Matt Hansen: ‘With satellites, you don’t look at a single pixel. It only makes sense on a landscape scale.’
Why remote sensing is a key tool for climate change, especially when it comes to the land use component
Feature
- 24 Feb 2016
From the Congo to the Amazon, hunters speak the same language
Hunters in Africa are already learning from how their counterparts in Latin America are managing wildlife.
Feature
- 9 Feb 2016
Game hunting in the Amazon? There’s an app for that
Indigenous hunters in Colombia are keeping track of their prey and harvest on their mobile phones.
Analysis
- 22 Apr 2015
Satellites can mislead: policy makers beware!
Policymakers must resist the temptation to mistake the map for the territory.
Analysis
- 22 Apr 2015
Satellites can mislead: policy makers beware!
DG’s Column
- 7 Apr 2015
Watchers of forests – what news from above?
The Global Forest Watch releases fresh data on the world's forests.
DG’s Column
- 7 Apr 2015
Watchers of forests – what news from above?
News
- 2 Feb 2015
Cheap drones could revolutionize forest monitoring, but turbulence ahead
“A particular issue is with the narco-gangs who certainly will not like these things flying over them.”
Video
- 22 Jan 2015
High-tech eyes on the forest seek to help curb climate change
In Kalimantan, CIFOR scientists take to the skies to scope out forests.
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