CONSERVATION NEWS
News, views and features from the front lines of conservation
To see conservation success, we need to look through a ‘gender lens’
By Sophie Bertazzo
June 20, 2017
Integrating gender into conservation projects is a key component of success. To help ensure this happens, CI recently piloted field-based gender workshops in Fiji, Samoa and Ecuador.
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Bruce M Beehler
Want to change the world? Give women land rights
By Kame Westerman
October 14, 2016
More women than ever are growing the world’s food — yet men continue to make most land-use decisions.
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As a vital lake vanishes, a woman fights for the people it leaves behind
By Molly Bergen
April 5, 2016
Indigenous woman and “climate warrior” Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim has brought the struggles of her community onto the global stage.
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Conservation International/photo by Jeanne Tabangay
On remote Philippine island, female forest rangers are a force to be reckoned with
By Molly Bergen
March 8, 2016
Palawan communities are linked to the land by tradition, spirituality and survival — and women like Nolsita Siyang are rising up to defend it.
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Benjamin Drummond
How climate change affects women differently — and what we can do about it
By Cassandra Kane
December 7, 2015
In rural communities around the world, women experience and respond to climate change in different ways than men — a fact often overlooked in climate policy.
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