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HotSpots H2O: Indigenous Communities, Biodiversity Along Brazil-Peru Border Threatened by Highway Construction

Circle of Blue

Eastward, across gnarled rivers and historic indigenous homelands, the great Amazon Rainforest paints this basin shades of green, refreshing much of the world’s oxygen. . BR-364, the 2,700-mile asphalt strip that weaves through rainforest to connect São Paulo to Acre, might soon be lengthened.

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Guatemala’s rainforest is expanding thanks to community efforts

New Scientist

The forests of the Maya Biosphere Reserve are growing rather than shrinking, because of a community-led conservation programme

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Olá Jeff

Legal Planet

Directed at Jeff Bezos, the founder and former CEO of Amazon, the video is narrated in the voice of the Amazon rainforest and contrasts the activities and value of the mega corporation with that of the world’s largest tropical forest region and its 38 million people. “If

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Stanford’s Sustainability School: A Good Model?

Legal Planet

I’ll talk about some more mundane considerations next, but the fundamental issue is really whether there’s enough commonality among people like energy economists, conservation biologists, and civil/environmental engineers to make it useful to put them and their students under one roof. Intellectual Coherence. Sending a Message.

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Mike Schaefer: Stewarding a Remarkable Trustee's Gifts of Time and Money to Pacific Northwest Conservation

Washington Nature

By Anya Blaney © Mike Schaefer Mike Schaefer began his decades-long involvement with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) by stewarding the legacy donations of his late partner, Ric Weiland. The Nature Conservancy in Washington bestowed Mike and his family with a Conservation Hero Award in 2010 during its 50th-anniversary celebration.

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Why restoring seagrass meadows would be a huge conservation win

New Scientist

Seagrass meadows are vanishing at a rate of 7 per cent a year, but this is a habitat that buries carbon up to 35 times faster than tropical rainforest. We must safeguard and restore it, says Sophie Pavelle

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Celebrate World Book Day with environmental themed titles for children

A Greener Life

It highlights the impact of collective action in environmental conservation. The Emerald Forest Set on Indonesias tropical island Sumatra, where deforestation has challenged the animals dependent on the tropical rainforest , the Emerald Forest is a picture book by author Catherine Ward and Illustrator Karen Littlewood.