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Forever Costa Rica Association: 10 Years Sowing the Seeds fo...
During this month of August, the Forever Costa Rica Association (FCRA) is celebrating its 10th Anniversary. This is a very special celebration and an opportunity to account for all of the impact and s...
Five PhD Graduate Student positions on the social-ecological...
Leia em Português Picture credit: Meylin Chang, Proyecto EbA Amazonía, PNUD Five qualified and motivated candidates are sought to complete PhD studies at Virginia Tech and Indiana University in an int...
Cost-effective protection of biodiversity in the western Ama...
The western Amazon needs to expand its protected-area system to ensure the conservation of its immense and threatened biodiversity. The cost of the proposed expansion, estimated at US$ 100 million ann...
The Living Planet Index (LPI) for migratory freshwater fish
This report presents an updated global analysis using a more recent data set with improved representation of species monitored in areas generally classified as tropical. Using the Living Planet Index ...
Climate & Nature Sovereign Index
This index combines the economic and financial factors that currently inform risk-modelling for sovereign debt investments, and the risks related to natural capital and climate change. The resulting i...
Wildlife trafficking in Brazil
This assessment explores Brazil’s role in illegal wildlife trade (IWT) identifying past and present wildlife legislation, institutional context, species targeted by trade, and recommendations that ref...
Editorial essay: Covid‐19 and protected and conserved areas
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a dramatic impact on the global community; on people’s lives and health, livelihoods, economies, and behaviours. Most zoonotic disease pandemics, including COVID-19, ar...
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...
