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What on Earth is ‘sustainable’ coffee?

By Bruno Vander Velde

September 29, 2016

What makes coffee “sustainable,” and why it even matters.

Tags: biodiversity hotspots Colombia Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) Hawaii India Mozambique Panama Tunisia Vietnam World Conservation Congress 2016

We can be heroes: Local leaders with super powers for conservation

By Jamey Anderson

September 9, 2016

Fifteen conservationists came together at the World Conservation Congress to showcase the power of community action for the environment.

Tags: agriculture Asia biodiversity CBD COP 12 Communities Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) deforestation extinction food security India primates

Raiders of the Corn: Reducing Human-monkey Conflict in the Indian Himalaya

By Martina Anandam

October 10, 2014

How a team of researchers is working with communities to protect farmers’ crops — and the animals that are destroying them.