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Effective conservation of biodiversity requires strategies that make conservation economically viable and attractive to resource owners.

Malinda Gardiner shares her perspective in completion of the feasibility assessment in the Kamiesberg uplands of South Africa.

Li Zongrun keeps his community informed of local events, a vital service in the wake of the earthquake.

In pristine forests, isolated villages, nature preserves and major cities, last May’s Wenchuan earthquake devastated both human and animal life.

A biodiversity competition excites and teaches Malagasy communities about the biodiversity with which they live.

Despite being one of the smallest countries in South America, Ecuador is one of the 12 megadiverse countries in the world, harboring an amazing biodiversity – including forests that provide vital environmental services.

As the Senior Director of CI’s Conservation Stewards Program, Patricia Zurita works with over 16 countries, traveling nearly 75 percent of her time organizing field teams to enact environmental agreements with communities all over the globe.

The region is home of the Cardamom Forest, and it is under threat because the local communities survive by employing slash-and-burn agriculture to plant rice and to trap wildlife species and sell them for the Chinese medicinal market.

This is a story about a small bean that grew into a great big enterprise.

For Maasai tribesmen like Likalee Nongalayeh, the rationale for killing lions was once simple: I myself have killed a lion, he admits. It killed my livestock.

For hundreds of years, Cambodia's indigenous Khmer Daeum traditional communities native to the Cardamom Mountains existed harmoniously with their tropical forest home.