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Colombia, Perú: Bajo Putumayo-Cotuhé: Rapid Biological and S...
In October 2019, a large multidisciplinary team of geologists, biologists, social scientists, and local residents explored the rivers, forests, and human communities around the junction of the Putumay...
Global Biodiversity Outlook 5
The fifth edition of Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO-5) is a final report card on progress against the 20 global biodiversity targets agreed in 2010 with a 2020 deadline, and offers lessons learned a...
Mobilizing Private Finance for Nature
This report provides a set of recommendations for governments, regulators, companies, financial institutions, and multilateral developments banks. These are synthesized into a set of “big five” approa...
Political and economic analysis of deforestation in regions ...
This document aims to identify the main obstacles and bottlenecks that limit the implementation of effective measures to tackle deforestation, taking into account the vision and motivation of the diff...
Ecology and economics for pandemic prevention
This article assesses the cost of monitoring and preventing disease spillover driven by the unprecedented loss and fragmentation of tropical forests and by the burgeoning wildlife trade. Currently, we...
Asynchronous Carbon Sink Saturation in African and Amazonian...
This article assesses trends in the carbon sink using 244 structurally intact African tropical forests spanning 11 countries, compare them with 321 published plots from Amazonia and investigate the un...
Niobium mining in Brazilian Amazon would cause significant f...
The recent niobium study offers an example of how science can be proactive in analyzing the environmental impact of infrastructure development well before it happens, hopefully helping guide policy de...
Highlights and policy implications of new economic report: “...
This independent report “Protecting 30% of the planet for nature: costs, benefits and economic implications” represents the most comprehensive global assessment of the financial and economic impacts o...
Earth observation & the Global Environment Facility – Techni...
This Technical Guide includes 1) an introduction to the different types of Earth observation technology and key characteristics; 2) how these data and tools can be used at various stages across the GE...
Delivering Transformational Change: The Journey of the Globa...
There are five principles in the direction outlined in the GEF 2020 Strategy. They have helped to navigate the GEF’s journey for the last eight years. This publication explains the principles and intr...
Guidelines for conserving connectivity through ecological ne...
Involving collaboration among specialist practitioners dedicated to supporting better implementation of ideas in the field, the Guidelines distil learning and advice drawn from across IUCN. Applied i...
Brazil needs to monitor its tropical regeneration remote mon...
Brazil needs systematic, regular, and frequent monitoring of secondary vegetation to spur tropical forest regeneration and strengthen its protection. This paper offers recommendations on how to move f...
