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					<title>Kenyan teen leads charge on tree planting and climate awareness</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/kenyan-teen-leads-charge-on-tree-planting-and-climate-awareness/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Jul 2026 09:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Lynet Otieno]]>
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						<![CDATA[Ashoka]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Kenya]]>
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							<![CDATA[Books, Climate, Climate Change, climate finance, Culture, Economics, Education, Environment, Forests, Health, Media, Plants, Research, Solutions, and Trees]]>
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							<![CDATA[Baraka Moruri has been passionate about the environment since he was 6. Now 13, the Kenyan climate champion says he has planted more than 7,600 trees with the help of family, friends and private organizations. “My goal is unlimited. I want to plant over 1 million trees before I turn 18,” he says. On March [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Baraka Moruri has been passionate about the environment since he was 6. Now 13, the Kenyan climate champion says he has planted more than 7,600 trees with the help of family, friends and private organizations. “My goal is unlimited. I want to plant over 1 million trees before I turn 18,” he says. On March 20 this year, Baraka and his family launched Go Green with Baraka, a book calling for young people in Africa to lead in protecting the environment. Baraka is Little Mister Environment Kenya, and the ambassador of Plant Your Age, an initiative started by the Green Africa Foundation following the death in 2011 of Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai at the age of 71. Her work inspired him to become involved in climate action. “Once, as I was doing my agriculture class assignment that involved researching about Prof Wangari Maathai, I watched a video in which she was being denied her rights. She later won a global award because of her love for the environment,” Baraka says. Baraka Moruri with his younger sister, as he holds ‘Go Green With Baraka’, a book he authored. Photo by Lawrine Moruri. Baraka’s father Arnold Warinda (left), his mother Lawrine Moruri and a friend during the launch of ‘Go Green With Baraka’ in Nairobi in January 2026. Photo by Lawrine Moruri. The impacts of climate change fall especially hard on children in countries like Kenya. The newly released “Children’s Climate Risk Report” by UNICEF describes how children in East and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/kenyan-teen-leads-charge-on-tree-planting-and-climate-awareness/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-324658</doi>				</item>
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					<title>‘Beasts of the East’ chronicles the unheralded restoration successes of America’s eastern wildlife</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/beasts-of-the-east-chronicles-the-unheralded-restoration-successes-of-americas-eastern-wildlife/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Jul 2026 14:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[North America and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Books, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Culture, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Landscape Restoration, Media, Reintroductions, Restoration, Rewilding, Solutions, Wildlife, and Wildlife Corridors]]>
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							<![CDATA[Thinking of America&#8217;s iconic wild creatures and places usually brings images of Yellowstone or Denali National Park to mind, or the many wilderness areas scattered across multiple states, but the collective imagination generally passes over the East Coast, with its long history of human settlement and large urban population centers. However, a new book by [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Thinking of America&#8217;s iconic wild creatures and places usually brings images of Yellowstone or Denali National Park to mind, or the many wilderness areas scattered across multiple states, but the collective imagination generally passes over the East Coast, with its long history of human settlement and large urban population centers. However, a new book by Andrew Moore, “Beasts of the East: The Fall and Rise of America’s Eastern Wilderness” contains a collection of inspiring narratives which argues that this is a mistake. Through a combination of science, effort, imagination and policy, the East has seen a great resurgence of wildlife and wildlands through reintroductions, ecological restoration, and rewilding that adds up to one of this year’s most eye-opening reads. In an interview with Mongabay, Moore discussed themes in his book chronicling this underreported story, and his responses have been edited lightly. Chris Lucash releases a red wolf in northeastern North Carolina in 2004. Image courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Mongabay: What did wildlife populations in the U.S. East look like pre-European settlement, and afterward for a while before resource extraction and agriculture became rampant across the landscape, that might surprise readers to know? Andrew Moore: Picture first the landscape: bigger, wetter, wilder in all ways, and frequently on fire. And then fill this natural area with massive animals, including whooping cranes and sandhill cranes, black bears, deer, plus overwhelming flocks of Carolina parakeets and passenger pigeons. Imagine sprawling meadows and tallgrass prairies filled with bison and elk —&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/beasts-of-the-east-chronicles-the-unheralded-restoration-successes-of-americas-eastern-wildlife/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-323641</doi>				</item>
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					<title>How an activist network built pressure without political power</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/how-an-activist-network-built-pressure-without-political-power/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Jun 2026 14:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Books, Climate Change, Environment, Forests, Interviews, Protests, Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[When Rainforest Action Network began in 1985, it had little of what usually makes an organization powerful. It had no large budget, no legal department, no reliable access to politicians, and no formal way to force global corporations or development banks to change. It had Randy Hayes, a wide activist network, a way to connect [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When Rainforest Action Network began in 1985, it had little of what usually makes an organization powerful. It had no large budget, no legal department, no reliable access to politicians, and no formal way to force global corporations or development banks to change. It had Randy Hayes, a wide activist network, a way to connect distant forest destruction to everyday choices, and a willingness to use tactics that many mainstream environmental groups avoided. David Benac’s new book, Rainforest Radicals: A History of Rainforest Action Network and Transnational Organizing, tells the story of how that combination became effective. RAN’s early campaigns targeted Burger King over rainforest beef, True Geothermal in Hawai‘i, the World Bank over development projects, and Mitsubishi over tropical timber. These were different fights, involving different places, institutions, and coalitions. Together, they show how a small San Francisco-based group helped bring tropical deforestation, Indigenous rights, and corporate accountability into late twentieth-century environmental politics. Rainforest Radicals: A History of Rainforest Action Network and Transnational Organizing Benac, an environmental and public historian of the postwar United States, came to the subject indirectly. He was researching timber-industry history in the Pacific Northwest when he encountered the MacMillan Bloedel papers and a grassroots campaign against clear-cutting in British Columbia’s coastal rainforests. RAN appeared in the archival trail. That led him to Hayes, RAN’s co-founder, then to a larger oral-history project with activists, allies, and contemporaries. The result is a history built around interviews, archives, and a close look at how people organize when&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/how-an-activist-network-built-pressure-without-political-power/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How silk caterpillars became a tool for conservation in Madagascar</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/how-silk-caterpillars-became-a-tool-for-conservation-in-madagascar/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Jun 2026 18:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa and Madagascar]]>
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							<![CDATA[Books, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Environment, Forests, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Interviews, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[When Catherine Craig first went to Gombe in 1972, she was not thinking about silk. She was an undergraduate in a four-seat plane with Jane Goodall, flying over the Tanzanian forest where Goodall’s work on chimpanzees was changing how scientists understood animals. Craig spent six months there, learning to recognize individual chimpanzees and helping track [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When Catherine Craig first went to Gombe in 1972, she was not thinking about silk. She was an undergraduate in a four-seat plane with Jane Goodall, flying over the Tanzanian forest where Goodall’s work on chimpanzees was changing how scientists understood animals. Craig spent six months there, learning to recognize individual chimpanzees and helping track mothers and infants through the steep woodland above Lake Tanganyika. The forest stayed with her. So did the sight of people living nearby with few choices, and the later realization that even forests thought to be protected could disappear. Her path back to conservation was indirect. Craig became a biologist of spiders and silk, earning a Ph.D. in ecology and evolution from Cornell and later joining the biology faculty at Yale. For two decades, she studied webs, foraging behavior, insect flight, and the properties of silk. It was work at the level of fibers, mechanics, and evolution. Yet the question that had formed at Gombe remained: how could habitat be protected where people had few ways to earn money? The answer she pursued was both plain and difficult. If farmers could earn income from native silk-producing caterpillars and the plants that fed them, then habitat might become something worth tending. The idea drew on her scientific expertise, but it also required skills that science had not taught her: product design, marketing, patience, and the ability to listen across languages, cultures, and expectations shaped by past disappointments. Borocera cajani Vinson, 1863 family Lasiocampidae. Adult moth, caterpillar&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/how-silk-caterpillars-became-a-tool-for-conservation-in-madagascar/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-320878</doi>				</item>
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					<title>How small actions can become planetary forces</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/how-small-actions-can-become-planetary-forces/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Jun 2026 00:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Bioacoustics, Biodiversity, Books, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Ecology, Ecosystems, Forests, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Rainforests, Reforestation, Restoration, Solutions, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Thomas Crowther begins his book with a snakebite that was not, in any conventional sense, dangerous. The danger came from interpretation. A misidentified species, a surge of fear, and a body that responded as if the threat were real: numbness spread, panic intensified, and the situation escalated until a second opinion dissolved it almost instantly. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Thomas Crowther begins his book with a snakebite that was not, in any conventional sense, dangerous. The danger came from interpretation. A misidentified species, a surge of fear, and a body that responded as if the threat were real: numbness spread, panic intensified, and the situation escalated until a second opinion dissolved it almost instantly. The episode is more than an anecdote. It sets the terms of Nature’s Echo, a book that treats cause and effect not as linear sequences so much as loops that can amplify themselves in either direction. Thomas Crowther That idea—feedback loops as the underlying architecture of the natural world—is the organizing principle of the book. Crowther traces it from cosmology to ecology to human psychology, moving across scales with considerable ambition. The early chapters move outward from the origin of matter, suggesting that the same reinforcing processes that allowed stars to form also underpin biological evolution and social behavior. It is an ambitious framing. At its best, it brings a sense of coherence to subjects that are often treated separately. At times, the scope of the framework requires readers to travel across very different domains and scales of thought. The structure reflects that expansiveness. The table of contents alone signals the range: from “Cause and Effect” and “Feedback Loops” through “Resilience and Tipping Points” and into “The Story We Tell Ourselves.” The progression is deliberate. Crowther starts with physical systems, moves into ecological stability, and then into the social and psychological domains where perception begins&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/how-small-actions-can-become-planetary-forces/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-320350</doi>				</item>
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					<title>New book offers tips to translate climate science into political gains</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/new-book-offers-tips-to-translate-climate-science-into-political-gains/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Jun 2026 15:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[David Akana]]>
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						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
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							<![CDATA[United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Books, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, Earth Science, Governance, Politics, and Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[At a time when climate politics in the United States and globally remain deeply polarized, Will Hackman, a climate advocate and political operative, argues that the climate movement needs a new language — one rooted less in doom, guilt and abstract planetary crisis, and more in people’s everyday lives, health, safety, costs and communities. In [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[At a time when climate politics in the United States and globally remain deeply polarized, Will Hackman, a climate advocate and political operative, argues that the climate movement needs a new language — one rooted less in doom, guilt and abstract planetary crisis, and more in people’s everyday lives, health, safety, costs and communities. In his new book, Radically Reframing Climate Change: A Guide to Saving Ourselves, he makes the case that climate advocates have too often spoken to those who already agree with them, while failing to reach people who may be cautious, doubtful or simply disconnected from the issue. The challenge, he says, is not only scientific or technological. It is political, cultural and communicative. In the United States, climate change remains politically polarized, with surveys showing that Republicans are less likely than Democrats to view it as an urgent threat, making climate messaging particularly challenging across ideological divides. Mongabay spoke with Hackman over video call about climate messaging, grassroots activism, fossil fuels, political polarization, and why he believes the climate movement must rebuild, creating a broader and more hopeful constituency. Mongabay: You write in your book that much of climate messaging has been framed around fear, guilt and apocalypse. Is that still the right way to talk about climate change? Will Hackman: I think the nature-based messages — polar bears, melting glaciers, “there is no planet B,” “save the planet,” “world on fire” — work for people who already care about climate change. But they do not&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/new-book-offers-tips-to-translate-climate-science-into-political-gains/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>When protest works: Examples where activists have successfully pushed for change</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/when-protest-works/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Apr 2026 01:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Books, Civil Disobedience, Climate Change, Environment, and Protests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Protest arrives with a clear sense of purpose. Annie Leonard and André Carothers avoid constructing a grand, unified theory of dissent and offer no rigid framework to explain why movements live or die. Instead, they have assembled a curated history: a series of episodes of resistance, each functioning as both narrative and instruction. The perspective [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Protest arrives with a clear sense of purpose. Annie Leonard and André Carothers avoid constructing a grand, unified theory of dissent and offer no rigid framework to explain why movements live or die. Instead, they have assembled a curated history: a series of episodes of resistance, each functioning as both narrative and instruction. The perspective reflects the authors’ own backgrounds. Annie Leonard spent nearly two decades with Greenpeace US, including a period as executive director, and has been involved in campaigns on climate, waste, and environmental justice. André Carothers has worked as an organizer and adviser across a range of social movements, including time with Greenpeace and as cofounder of the Rockwood Leadership Institute, which trains activists. Both have operated within the kinds of campaigns the book describes. That experience shapes the selection and framing of the case studies, which lean toward movements where sustained organizing and nonviolent pressure are central. At its core, the book rests on a simple claim: protest works. From abolitionism to climate strikes, from labor organizing to Indigenous land defense, the case studies are familiar yet deliberately eclectic. The authors show that protest is not a singular tactic but an expansive repertoire—a march or a boycott, a blockade or a refusal to comply, spanning large demonstrations and more solitary acts. Waorani leader Nenquimo with the Pekinani, traditional leaders and warriors. In February 2019, they jointly mobilized after filing a lawsuit against the Ecuadorian government to protect their territory from oil drilling in Puyo, Pastaza and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/when-protest-works/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How do you write the life of someone who avoided the spotlight? Miriam Horn on her biography of George Schaller</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/how-do-you-write-the-life-of-someone-who-avoided-the-spotlight-miriam-horn-on-her-biography-of-george-schaller/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Apr 2026 05:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Books, Conservation, Environment, Interviews, Interviews With Environmental Journalists, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Some biographies are built around revelation. Others proceed by accumulation, assembling a life from fragments that resist easy interpretation. Miriam Horn’s Homesick for a World Unknown: The Life of George B. Schaller falls into the latter category. It takes as its subject George Schaller, a figure widely regarded as one of the most consequential field [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Some biographies are built around revelation. Others proceed by accumulation, assembling a life from fragments that resist easy interpretation. Miriam Horn’s Homesick for a World Unknown: The Life of George B. Schaller falls into the latter category. It takes as its subject George Schaller, a figure widely regarded as one of the most consequential field biologists of the twentieth century, yet one who spent much of his career deflecting attention from himself. Writing about such a person presents a structural problem: how to render a life whose central impulse was to look outward. Horn approaches this constraint directly. Her biography draws heavily on field journals, letters, and archival material, allowing Schaller’s habits of observation to shape the narrative without turning the book into a compilation of documents. It is neither a conventional intellectual history nor a purely personal account; instead, it tracks a method of seeing as much as the arc of a career, moving fluidly between landscapes and institutions. That balance reflects Horn’s own trajectory. Before turning to long-form writing, she spent years working within conservation institutions, including the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the United States Forest Service (USFS). Those experiences inform her treatment of Schaller’s work, which rarely fits neatly into disciplinary categories. He is presented both as a scientist and as a practitioner working within systems shaped by politics, funding, and local realities. The biography follows him across multiple regions, but its emphasis is less on cataloguing his achievements than on how knowledge is produced under&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/how-do-you-write-the-life-of-someone-who-avoided-the-spotlight-miriam-horn-on-her-biography-of-george-schaller/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>George Schaller: The field biologist who helped redefine conservation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/george-schaller-the-field-biologist-who-helped-redefine-conservation/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Apr 2026 12:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, Brazil, China, Global, India, and Tanzania]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Apes, Bears, Big Cats, Biodiversity, Books, Cats, Conservation, Conservation Philosophy, Endangered Species, Environmental Heroes, Gorillas, Great Apes, Jaguars, Lions, Mammals, Pandas, Primates, Protected Areas, Research, Snow Leopards, Tigers, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Some lives seem to belong less to a nation or a profession than to a disposition. George B. Schaller’s was one of them. He belonged, above all, to animals—gorillas, lions, tigers, snow leopards, pandas—and to the landscapes that still made room for them. In Homesick for a World Unknown: The Life of George B. Schaller, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Some lives seem to belong less to a nation or a profession than to a disposition. George B. Schaller’s was one of them. He belonged, above all, to animals—gorillas, lions, tigers, snow leopards, pandas—and to the landscapes that still made room for them. In Homesick for a World Unknown: The Life of George B. Schaller, Miriam Horn attempts something both straightforward and unusually difficult: to write a full biography of a man who spent most of his life turning his attention away from himself. Schaller is not obscure. He is widely regarded as the most important field biologist of the twentieth century, a figure whose work reshaped zoology, conservation biology, and the way humans think about animal lives. Yet he remains oddly resistant to biography. He disliked introspection, avoided publicity, and wrote sparingly about his own emotions even when describing moments of extreme danger or revelation. Horn’s achievement is to take this reticence seriously rather than try to overcome it. The result is a book that is expansive without being intrusive, admiring without being reverential, and alert to ambiguity even when recounting an extraordinary career. The arc of Schaller’s life has the shape of an adventure story, though Horn is careful not to write one. Born in Berlin in 1933 to an American mother and a German diplomat father, Schaller’s early years were marked by displacement, war, and a persistent sense of not quite belonging. His childhood moved across Nazi Germany, occupied Europe, and eventually the United States. These experiences&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/george-schaller-the-field-biologist-who-helped-redefine-conservation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How saving birds protects the planet: Interview with author Scott Weidensaul</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/how-saving-birds-protects-the-planet-interview-with-author-scott-weidensaul/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Apr 2026 14:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[North America and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Birds, Books, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Ecosystems, Environment, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Indigenous Peoples, Interviews, Protected Areas, Reintroductions, Restoration, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[Best-selling author Scott Weidensaul&#8217;s new book is a celebration of species recovery efforts led by scientists, conservationists, and Indigenous communities around the world, beginning with the successful rebound of the American oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus), a large and charismatic shorebird which had been declining for decades, until people made a plan and the birds responded. But [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Best-selling author Scott Weidensaul&#8217;s new book is a celebration of species recovery efforts led by scientists, conservationists, and Indigenous communities around the world, beginning with the successful rebound of the American oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus), a large and charismatic shorebird which had been declining for decades, until people made a plan and the birds responded. But it&#8217;s not just a book about oystercatchers, rather, the author centers multiple efforts to revive species in “The Return of the Oystercatcher: Saving Birds to Save the Planet,” across a range of geographies and in his signature style. In it, he travels the U.S. East Coast and Europe, bringing readers stories of hope from Massachusetts to Ukraine. Mongabay caught up with Weidensaul just weeks before the book&#8217;s release on April 21, 2026. His responses have been lightly edited for clarity and brevity. Mongabay: Your new book is about much more than birds, as you say in the intro, &#8220;a world that works for birds will work for all.&#8221; Can you explain? Scott Weidensaul: Birds are at once among the most diverse group of vertebrates on the planet, and arguably the most widely distributed; except for the most remote parts of the central Antarctic plateau, you can’t find a square mile of land or ocean that is not at least seasonally inhabited by birds. Add to that their immense migrations, and you realize that birds are plugged into every ecosystem on Earth. &nbsp; Snow geese are another species that has responded strongly to conservation programs. Image courtesy&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/how-saving-birds-protects-the-planet-interview-with-author-scott-weidensaul/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A journey from student to Amazon “Junglekeeper”: Interview with Paul Rosolie</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/a-journey-from-student-to-amazon-junglekeeper-interview-with-paul-rosolie/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Feb 2026 16:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Books, Conservation, Indigenous Peoples, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Rainforests, and Saving Rainforests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Paul Rosolie has had a career unlike any other. First traveling to the Peruvian Amazon at the age of 18, Rosolie partnered with Juan Julio Durand, a local member of the Infierno Indigenous group. Together, the pair explored the primeval forest of the Las Piedras River, a tributary of the Amazon River and a place [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Paul Rosolie has had a career unlike any other. First traveling to the Peruvian Amazon at the age of 18, Rosolie partnered with Juan Julio Durand, a local member of the Infierno Indigenous group. Together, the pair explored the primeval forest of the Las Piedras River, a tributary of the Amazon River and a place little seen by outsiders. “It’s climax community, untouched, primordial forest, and we have the chance to save it,” Rosolie tells Mongabay in a new interview. When roads began to breach the region, Rosolie and Durand turned from young explorers into “junglekeepers,” the name of both their nonprofit and a new book by Rosolie. Junglekeepers: What it Takes to Change the World is the personal tale of Rosolie’s rise from a wide-eyed student to heading a multimillion-dollar nonprofit devoted to saving part of the western Amazon — and all the challenges in between. The book recently made The New York Times Best Sellers list. Rosolie says he had many ups and downs in the book. From the Eaten Alive documentary debacle to partnering with billionaire Dax Dasilva to fund the Junglekeepers nonprofit; from discovering the floating forest with its giant anacondas to struggling for years with depression and a plaguing sense of failure. “At 22, people are like, ‘Yes, go follow your dream.’ At 29, people are like, ‘OK, that’s cool. It’s been going on for a while’ … Then, at 33, 35, people are like, ‘Hey, man. How’s that going, jungle boy?’” Rosolie says. The&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/a-journey-from-student-to-amazon-junglekeeper-interview-with-paul-rosolie/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>10 notable books on conservation and the environment published in 2025</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/10-notable-books-on-conservation-and-the-environment-published-in-2025/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Dec 2025 08:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Books, Climate Change, Conservation, and Environment]]>
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							<![CDATA[The year 2025 might be seen as one of backsliding when it comes to tackling the environmental crises that face our planet. Political leadership in places like the U.S. and elsewhere chose to throw their support behind the increased use of fossil fuels and cutting protections long put in place for the lands and waters [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The year 2025 might be seen as one of backsliding when it comes to tackling the environmental crises that face our planet. Political leadership in places like the U.S. and elsewhere chose to throw their support behind the increased use of fossil fuels and cutting protections long put in place for the lands and waters that house wildlife and nurture critical ecosystem services. Progressive rules aimed at slowing deforestation, like the European Union’s regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR), met with further delays and attempts to weaken their provisions. And amid a clawback in overseas development aid from wealthy countries, key thought leaders like Microsoft founder Bill Gates played down the threat that humanity faces from climate change. All of that can lead to a feeling of helplessness, as though the world is heading in the wrong direction, particularly as scientists amass ever more telling data about the ill state of Earth’s health. And yet, a bevy of storytellers, from the fields of journalism and science, the law and the visual arts, have put years into the subjects they’ve dissected for Mongabay’s book list this year. They offer a clear-eyed look at the scary situations that we face on this planet. They tell the stories of the people who have made it their life’s work to find solutions, whether the problems they’re confronting are the crash of fisheries, the loss of habitat connectivity for iconic and not-so-iconic species alike, or the dangers of bearing witness to the environmental crimes that happen&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/10-notable-books-on-conservation-and-the-environment-published-in-2025/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Consumed by convenience: The culture of disposability</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/consumed-by-convenience-the-culture-of-disposability/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Sep 2025 01:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Books, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Green, Interviews, Microplastics, Plastic, Pollution, and Waste]]>
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							<![CDATA[When Saabira Chaudhuri began covering consumer-goods companies for The Wall Street Journal, she thought she was writing about marketing campaigns, product launches, and quarterly results. What she found instead was a tale of industrial ingenuity turned liability: a business model built on disposability, dressed up in the rhetoric of sustainability. Her new book, Consumed: How [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When Saabira Chaudhuri began covering consumer-goods companies for The Wall Street Journal, she thought she was writing about marketing campaigns, product launches, and quarterly results. What she found instead was a tale of industrial ingenuity turned liability: a business model built on disposability, dressed up in the rhetoric of sustainability. Her new book, Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic, traces how plastic became indispensable to modern capitalism and why efforts to rein it in have so often failed. Chaudhuri’s route into journalism was neither straightforward nor inevitable. Growing up in Bangalore in the 1990s, she imagined a legal career like her grandfather’s, until she realized her memory may be too poor for the courtroom. A scholarship to Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts opened another path. After earning a sociology degree and submitting more than a hundred job applications, she landed at Forbes as a multimedia producer. That first foothold in journalism led to Fast Company in New York, Mint in New Delhi, Dow Jones, and finally the Journal, where she spent 12 years reporting from New York and London. She stepped down in May 2025, after the publication of Consumed, to work as a freelance journalist. Her book grew out of reporting that began in 2018, as consumer unease about single-use plastics swelled. Bags, bottles, straws, and cups—once symbols of convenience—had become emblems of waste. Companies scrambled to demonstrate environmental responsibility, touting biodegradable packaging or recycled content. Yet Chaudhuri soon noticed a pattern. “The more I reported&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/consumed-by-convenience-the-culture-of-disposability/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>The carbon market paradox: Steve Zwick on why financing forests is more complicated than it looks</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/the-carbon-market-paradox-steve-zwick-on-why-financing-forests-is-harder-than-it-looks/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Sep 2025 03:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Avoided Deforestation, Biodiversity credits, Books, carbon, Carbon Market, Carbon Offsets, climate finance, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Deforestation, Environment, Finance, Forest Carbon, Forests, Green, Interviews, Payments For Ecosystem Services, Rainforests, Redd, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon markets sit at the awkward junction of science, finance, and politics, where the appetite for simple stories collides with a system built on probabilities. Few reporters have spent more time in that junction than Steve Zwick. He came to climate through the trading pits of Chicago, where he watched how information asymmetries reward insiders [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon markets sit at the awkward junction of science, finance, and politics, where the appetite for simple stories collides with a system built on probabilities. Few reporters have spent more time in that junction than Steve Zwick. He came to climate through the trading pits of Chicago, where he watched how information asymmetries reward insiders and mislead the public. That early lesson became a through line in his journalism and in his current work dissecting forest carbon and REDD+, the mechanism meant to make standing forests more valuable than felled ones. “The great tragedy of climate finance,” he has said, “is that those who understand it most have their noses to the grindstone, while those who understand it least have their mouths to the megaphone.” Zwick’s route was circuitous but coherent. He covered European business for TIME and Fortune, produced and hosted Deutsche Welle’s “Money Talks,” and later helped build Ecosystem Marketplace into a reference point for environmental finance. He has advised NGOs, companies, and governments, and worked at Verra—an organization that develops and manages carbon credit standards—on special projects. Since 2016, he has hosted the Bionic Planet podcast to chip away at the very asymmetries that first bothered him on the trading floor. In 2025, he co-founded Carbon Paradox and co-authored The Carbon Paradox with Renat Heuberger and Marco Hirsbrunner. Both efforts argue that carbon credits can finance meaningful mitigation, especially in the Global South, but only if their tradeoffs are faced openly rather than spun away. If that&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/the-carbon-market-paradox-steve-zwick-on-why-financing-forests-is-harder-than-it-looks/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Finishing Dom Phillips’ posthumous book was ‘the hardest thing emotionally’ co-authors say</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/finishing-dom-phillips-posthumous-book-was-the-hardest-thing-emotionally-co-authors-say/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Jun 2025 14:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Global, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Books, Conservation, Environment, Interviews, Interviews With Environmental Journalists, Journalism, Murdered Journalists, Rainforest Destruction, and Rainforests]]>
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							<![CDATA[“The journalist should not be part of the story.” Jonathan Watts, British journalist based in Brazil, recalls the words of fellow British journalist Dom Phillips and the challenges they posed to finish his posthumous book. “Dom was not the kind of journalist who wanted to be in the story. He told me, ‘I don’t like [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[“The journalist should not be part of the story.” Jonathan Watts, British journalist based in Brazil, recalls the words of fellow British journalist Dom Phillips and the challenges they posed to finish his posthumous book. “Dom was not the kind of journalist who wanted to be in the story. He told me, ‘I don’t like this journalism where I did this and I did that.’” On June 5, 2022, Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were brutally killed in the Javari Valley region, in the Brazilian Amazon; Phillips was investigating illegal fishing in the region for his book. How to save the Amazon: A journalist’s fatal quest for answers, by Phillips with contributors, is being launched in the United Kingdom, the United States and Brazil, accompanied by dedicated events in the three countries. Watts, The Guardian’s global environment editor and a close friend of Phillips’, led a group of expert writers to finish Phillips’ book. “The really big challenge was how do we balance Dom’s original intentions with the reality that the world has changed and that the story has changed partly because Bruno and Dom were murdered changed the story, they became part of the story,” Watts, who wrote a chapter for Philips’ book, tells Mongabay in a video interview. “In this case, the story was so big, what happened to them, that we could not not write about it.” Despite Phillips’ “in some ways old fashioned or old school” way of thinking about never including the journalist in the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/finishing-dom-phillips-posthumous-book-was-the-hardest-thing-emotionally-co-authors-say/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Dom Phillips’ posthumous book centers on collaborative work for saving the Amazon</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/05/dom-phillips-posthumous-book-centers-on-collaborative-work-for-saving-the-amazon/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 May 2025 17:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Books, Endangered Environmentalists, Environment, Indigenous Peoples, Murdered Journalists, Rainforest Destruction, Threats To Rainforests, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[&#8220;You can&#8217;t stop important, high-quality journalistic work.&#8221; Alessandra Sampaio, widow of British journalist Dom Phillips, says it was the main driver that led her to unite forces with his friends to finish his book after he was killed in 2022. &#8220;As soon as the tragedy happened, it became very clear to me and also to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[&#8220;You can&#8217;t stop important, high-quality journalistic work.&#8221; Alessandra Sampaio, widow of British journalist Dom Phillips, says it was the main driver that led her to unite forces with his friends to finish his book after he was killed in 2022. &#8220;As soon as the tragedy happened, it became very clear to me and also to [Dom&#8217;s] journalist friends, from whom I had a lot of support, that it was important to finish the book,&#8221; Sampaio tells Mongabay in a video interview. On June 5, 2022, Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were brutally killed in the Javari Valley region, in the Brazilian Amazon. The British journalist was investigating illegal fishing in the region, aimed to be the second-last trip for his book, according to Sampaio. Near the Brazil-Colombia-Peru triple border, the Javari Valley region is a hotspot for organized crime, including drug traffickers, illegal loggers and poachers. The region is home to the second-largest Indigenous territory in Brazil — 8.5 million hectares (21 million acres), an area twice the size of Switzerland — and an estimated 17 isolated Indigenous groups live there, with little to no contact with the rest of the world. The cover of the U.S. edition of Dom Phillips&#8217; book, which will be launched in the U.S. on June 9. Three years later, How to save the Amazon: A journalist&#8217;s fatal quest for answers, by Phillips with contributors, will be launched beginning May 31 in the United Kingdom, the United States and Brazil, accompanied by dedicated events&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/05/dom-phillips-posthumous-book-centers-on-collaborative-work-for-saving-the-amazon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Clash of worlds for the Amazon’s Cinta Larga: Interview with author Alex Cuadros</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/clash-of-worlds-for-the-amazons-cinta-larga-interview-with-author-alex-cuadros/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Mar 2025 16:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sam Cowie]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandre de Santi]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Books, Conflict, Conservation, Culture, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Illegal Mining, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Land Conflict, Land Rights, and Mining]]>
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							<![CDATA[Journalist Alex Cuadros’s latest book, “When We Sold God’s Eye: Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon” tells the story of how an Indigenous group in Brazil was forced to reckon with Western culture.]]>
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							<![CDATA[“They got us hooked on Western goods, but never gave us a sustainable way to make a living,” is how Nacoça “Pio” Cinta Larga describes his Indigenous peoples’ relationship with Brazil’s government. This complex and conflicted relationship is the subject of journalist Alex Cuadros’s latest book, When We Sold God’s Eye: Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon, which charts six decades of earth-shattering change on the frontline of nature. As well as Pio, Cuadros tells the stories of Oita and Maria Beleza, two fellow protagonists of the Cinta Larga, an Indigenous group that until the 1960s had totally isolated itself from the rest of the world. The contact, when it came, was forced on them with the plowing of the BR-364 highway through the Amazonian state of Rondônia. The book tells of how the three protagonists were suddenly forced to navigate their way through a new, alien world of capitalism and consumption imposed on them. By the 2000s, some members of the Cinta Larga were running an illegal diamond mine in the rainforest. Confronting clichés while tackling thorny topics of contact policy, assimilation and “pragmatic relationships” with loggers and miners that “frequently devolved into violence,” Cuadros pulls no punches recounting the experience of Brazil’s Indigenous groups surviving — and trying to thrive — on the frontier. Hailing from the U.S. state of New Mexico, Cuadros formerly worked for Bloomberg, covering billionaires in Brazil. He went on to write Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/clash-of-worlds-for-the-amazons-cinta-larga-interview-with-author-alex-cuadros/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>10 notable books on conservation and the environment published in 2024</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/10-notable-books-on-conservation-and-the-environment-published-in-2024/</link>
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					<pubDate>31 Dec 2024 07:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Books, Climate Change, Conservation, and Environment]]>
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							<![CDATA[The weight of the crises our planet faces can feel overwhelming and disempowering. And the books that made Mongabay’s annual list take a hard look at the challenges — deforestation and species loss, climate-driven fires and coral bleaching, and inequality and colonialism — and unflinchingly present the gravity of each situation. But they also examine [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The weight of the crises our planet faces can feel overwhelming and disempowering. And the books that made Mongabay’s annual list take a hard look at the challenges — deforestation and species loss, climate-driven fires and coral bleaching, and inequality and colonialism — and unflinchingly present the gravity of each situation. But they also examine humanity’s place in the fabric, frayed as it may be, of the planet that sustains us all. Those connections are sometimes tangible — the sustenance they provide, for example. But they are also spiritual, leveling with wonder those among us with the courage to engage. And it’s from that wonder that so many draw inspiration to “remain steady in this fight,” Cristina Mittermeier writes in Hope: “Standing with others shoulder to shoulder until there is nothing left to stand for.” 1. The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History By Manjula Martin Image courtesy of Penguin Random House/Pantheon Books. The wildfire crisis in the western United States has sparked several books in recent years examining the tangle of a changing climate, forest management and fire suppression that have led to the mega-blazes that seem to occur every summer in the Northern Hemisphere. But few are as personal as The Last Fire Season. In 2020, the coastal redwoods in California’s Sonoma county, where author Manjula Martin was living, began to burn, as did the forests further south near Santa Cruz, where Martin was born. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and her own health crisis, she and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/10-notable-books-on-conservation-and-the-environment-published-in-2024/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>It’s not the end, we have several possible futures: Interview with Indigenous author Ailton Krenak</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/07/its-not-the-end-we-have-several-possible-futures-interview-with-indigenous-author-ailton-krenak/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 Jul 2024 14:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jaqueline Sordi]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Anthropology, Arts, Books, Conservation, Culture, Development, Environment, Indigenous Peoples, Rainforests, Traditional Knowledge, and Traditional People]]>
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							<![CDATA[For decades, scientists have been warning that the world is heading toward catastrophic scenarios due to climate change. But Ailton Krenak refuses to think about an apocalypse. On the contrary, he argues that there are several possible futures — but they will only be achievable when we realize that “being is more important than having.” [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[For decades, scientists have been warning that the world is heading toward catastrophic scenarios due to climate change. But Ailton Krenak refuses to think about an apocalypse. On the contrary, he argues that there are several possible futures — but they will only be achievable when we realize that “being is more important than having.” For the Brazilian Indigenous leader, environmentalist, philosopher, poet and writer, Western society is facing an urgent need for a paradigm shift that challenges the ideas of progress and development themselves. “I’m not a pessimist, but I’m sure that the only way to move forward in this world is to reconnect with ancient wisdom. We have long been divorced from this living organism that is the Earth,” Krenak said in an interview with Mongabay. Born in Itabirinha, in the state of Minas Gerais, the 71-year-old Indigenous leader has been a prominent figure and an advocate for Indigenous rights for decades. In the late ‘80s, he became famous for his appearance at Brazil’s National Constituent Assembly, where he functioned as a representative of Indigenous peoples in constitutional debates. While giving his speech at the Congress in 1987, he stood on a platform, in front of those who threatened the land rights and culture of Indigenous peoples, and painted his face in black jenipapo paste (from the genipap fruit, Genipa americana). It was a form of protest against the setbacks and violent attacks on his rights and those of his Krenak relatives by the Brazilian dictatorship. The following&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/07/its-not-the-end-we-have-several-possible-futures-interview-with-indigenous-author-ailton-krenak/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Global migratory freshwater fish populations plummet by 81%: Report</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/07/global-migratory-freshwater-fish-populations-plummet-by-81-report/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Jul 2024 16:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Books, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Fish, Freshwater, Freshwater Fish, Habitat Loss, Hydroelectric Power, Interviews, Megafauna, Overfishing, Research, Rivers, Tropics, Water, Water Pollution, Wetlands, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new global report reveals a stark reality: populations of migratory freshwater fish species, including salmon, trout, eel and sturgeon, are declining dramatically. The 2024 update on the Living Planet Index for Migratory Freshwater Fishes shows an average 81% decrease in these fish populations between 1970 and 2020. &#8220;The catastrophic decline in migratory fish populations [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new global report reveals a stark reality: populations of migratory freshwater fish species, including salmon, trout, eel and sturgeon, are declining dramatically. The 2024 update on the Living Planet Index for Migratory Freshwater Fishes shows an average 81% decrease in these fish populations between 1970 and 2020. &#8220;The catastrophic decline in migratory fish populations is a deafening wake-up call for the world,” said Herman Wanningen, founder of the World Fish Migration Foundation and one of the authors of the report. “We must act now to save these keystone species and their rivers.&#8221; The report analyzed data from 1,864 populations of 284 migratory freshwater fish species across the globe. Contributing to the report were researchers from the World Fish Migration Foundation, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Wetlands International and WWF. The researchers found that fish populations had declined significantly more in some regions than in others. For example, Latin America and the Caribbean experienced the most severe decrease at 91%, while Europe saw a 75% decline. North America showed a 35% decrease, and Asia-Oceania reported a 28% decline. Data for Africa were limited, making it difficult to determine conclusive trends for that continent. Snorkeler with cape kurper (Sandelia capensis) in South Africa. Photo courtesy of Jeremy Shelton. Migratory freshwater fish are species that move between different habitats to complete their life cycles, and can include fish that migrate within freshwater systems, such as rivers and lakes, as&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/07/global-migratory-freshwater-fish-populations-plummet-by-81-report/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-284122</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Reconciling conservation agriculture and agroforestry for sustainability</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/reconciling-conservation-agriculture-and-agroforestry-for-sustainability/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Mar 2024 08:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Timothy J. Killeen]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mayra]]>
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							<![CDATA[Perfect Storm in the Amazon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Latin America, Peru, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Agroecology, Agroforestry, Biodiversity, Books, Community Development, Conservation, Deforestation, Development, Environment, Forests, Green, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Sustainable Development, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[There are three fundamental rules of financial planning: (1) save continuously, (2) invest in a diversified portfolio of assets and (3) exercise patience via a long-term strategy. This common-sense advice is at the heart of Conservation Agriculture (CA), a land-management philosophy that seeks to reconcile the technologies of modern agriculture with the time-worn practices of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[There are three fundamental rules of financial planning: (1) save continuously, (2) invest in a diversified portfolio of assets and (3) exercise patience via a long-term strategy. This common-sense advice is at the heart of Conservation Agriculture (CA), a land-management philosophy that seeks to reconcile the technologies of modern agriculture with the time-worn practices of organic farming. These include multi-crop systems that minimise risk from weather, pests and markets, and the spatial and temporal rotation of crops. When integrated, these practices will increase soil organic matter (carbon), which improves the water holding capacity and the nutrient status of soils. Agroforestry systems are particularly advantageous because deep-rooted perennials contribute to evapotranspiration, which supports regional rainfall, while individual farmers benefit by reducing energy and labour costs, as well as locking in a long-term revenues stream. Agribusiness is not unsympathetic to common-sense advice, and most farmers have diversified their choice of crops and adopted minimum tillage technologies. Nonetheless, they almost invariably choose industrial commodities (soy, maize, sorghum, sunflower, cotton) and genetically engineered varieties designed for use with herbicides. Plantations are almost always composed of exotic species (eucalyptus, pine or gmelina). A few corporate entities have allocated a portion of their land to an integrated production model known as ILFP (Integração Lavoura-Pecuária-Floresta), a type of industrial agroforestry that seeks to optimise the benefits from three major production systems (row crops, livestock, tree farms). Nonetheless, the overwhelming majority of large-scale farmers are enamoured with (addicted to) the financial returns from monoculture, and they are not&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/reconciling-conservation-agriculture-and-agroforestry-for-sustainability/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A particular agrarian reform process in Peru &#124; Chapter 4 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/a-particular-agrarian-reform-process-in-peru-chapter-4-of-a-perfect-storm-in-the-amazon/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Feb 2024 17:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Timothy J. Killeen]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mayra]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Perfect Storm in the Amazon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Latin America, Peru, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Books, Community Development, Conservation, Deforestation, Development, Environment, Forests, Green, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Sustainable Development, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[The agrarian reform process in Peru began in 1964. Originally a cautious effort targeting the more egregious examples of peasant exploitation, it was dramatically expanded by a left-wing military government in 1969. Between 1970 and 1975, more than 15,800 landholdings, covering slightly more than nine million hectares, were confiscated and redistributed to more than 370,000 [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The agrarian reform process in Peru began in 1964. Originally a cautious effort targeting the more egregious examples of peasant exploitation, it was dramatically expanded by a left-wing military government in 1969. Between 1970 and 1975, more than 15,800 landholdings, covering slightly more than nine million hectares, were confiscated and redistributed to more than 370,000 campesino families. The original owners were to be compensated by the sale of sovereign bonds, but hyperinflation in the 1980s forced the government into default and the outstanding debt continues to be the object of legal action. The original plan by the military government was to form producer-owned collectives that empowered communities to assume control of their land while preserving the economies of scale. This idea was not embraced by the peasants, however, who divided the land among themselves while managing tenure communally according to traditional highland customs. The military regime ended in 1980 with the election of Fernando Belaunde, an advocate of Amazonian development and the original proponent of the Carretera Marginal de la Selva. Among his first actions was to create the Instituto Nacional de Desarrollo (INADE), an autonomous agency affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture; INADE organized Proyectos Especiales, which included settlements in the tropical lowlands, irrigation systems on the coast and mechanized agriculture in the highlands. The six lowland projects were analogous to the colonization projects in Brazil that distributed land adjacent to highways then under construction, largely, as in Bolivia, to Indigenous migrants from the Andean highlands. The piedmont between&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/a-particular-agrarian-reform-process-in-peru-chapter-4-of-a-perfect-storm-in-the-amazon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>New guidebook supports U.S. tribal nations in adopting rights-of-nature laws</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/new-guidebook-supports-u-s-tribal-nations-in-adopting-rights-of-nature-laws/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Feb 2024 14:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation and Indigenous-led conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[North America and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Books, Conservation, Debt-for-nature, Environment, Environmental Law, Fish, Freshwater Fish, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Law, Protected Areas, Rivers, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2023, a group of small communities in Ecuador ousted the world&#8217;s largest copper mining company from their community forest reserve, asserting that the company was violating the &#8220;rights of nature&#8221; enshrined in the Ecuadorian constitution. In recent years,  countries like Ecuador, New Zealand, and India have passed rights-of-nature laws. This growing “rights of nature” [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2023, a group of small communities in Ecuador ousted the world&#8217;s largest copper mining company from their community forest reserve, asserting that the company was violating the &#8220;rights of nature&#8221; enshrined in the Ecuadorian constitution. In recent years,  countries like Ecuador, New Zealand, and India have passed rights-of-nature laws. This growing “rights of nature” movement protects the environment by legally acknowledging its inherent right to exist and thrive independent of human use. This represents a profound shift from existing environmental law that views nature as property that can be owned. In the U.S., Tribal nations are leading the way in incorporating the rights of nature into their governance structures. A newly published guidebook is the latest contribution to this effort. Published by the Native-led Bioneers Indigeneity Program, the Guide to Rights of Nature in Indian Country provides strategies and resources for Indigenous communities interested in enacting laws granting ecosystems, landscapes and species legal rights and personhood. &#8220;As a coalition of Native and Native-descended authors, we wrote this guide by and for American Indian/Alaska Native community members who are interested in learning about how the Rights of Nature can bring Tribal values into contemporary law,&#8221; the Bioneers Rights of Nature website states. “If you are interested in bringing this movement to your community, we would be happy to brainstorm with you.” Cover of Guide to Rights of Nature in Indian Country. Photograph by Cara Romero. Image courtesy of Bioneers Indigeneity Program. The 30-page guidebook presents real-world challenges and pathways for&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/new-guidebook-supports-u-s-tribal-nations-in-adopting-rights-of-nature-laws/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A coalition created by a demand for land is splintered by a competition for territory &#124; Chapter 4 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/a-coalition-created-by-a-demand-for-land-is-splintered-by-a-competition-for-territory-chapter-4-of-a-perfect-storm-in-the-amazon/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Feb 2024 23:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Timothy J. Killeen]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mayra]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Perfect Storm in the Amazon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Latin America, Peru, South America, Suriname, and Venezuela]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Books, Community Development, Conservation, Deforestation, Development, Environment, Forests, Green, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Sustainable Development, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[The political movement that brought Evo Morales to power incorporated a latent conflict between highland and lowland Indigenous communities. The lowland nations are intent on recuperating their ancestral territories, which had been appropriated by families of European extraction or, more recently, allocated to timber companies as long-term forest concessions. The promise of recovering these lands [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The political movement that brought Evo Morales to power incorporated a latent conflict between highland and lowland Indigenous communities. The lowland nations are intent on recuperating their ancestral territories, which had been appropriated by families of European extraction or, more recently, allocated to timber companies as long-term forest concessions. The promise of recovering these lands was the reason lowland Indigenous groups overwhelmingly supported Evo Morales in 2005. In contrast, highland Indigenous groups believe they have a constitutional right – as Bolivian citizens – to settle unoccupied public lands, particularly the forest concessions that were rescinded in the early days of the Morales’ administration. The highland and lowland Indigenous groups are competing for the same land. This conflict is manifest in the evolving self-identity of the Andean migrants, who for decades referred to themselves as colonizadores. Since about 2000, however, they have self-identified as interculturales, a term that recognises their status as Indigenous people who have left their ancestral homeland. They are politically powerful, in part because they maintain familial and commercial ties with a large population of urban migrants, but also because they have organised militant syndicates skilled in the tactics of economic blockade. They exercise their electoral power by demanding that INRA, which is controlled by the central government, distribute land via settlement associations affiliated with the Confederación Sindical de Comunidades Interculturales Originarios de Bolivia (CSCIOB) or the Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia (CSUTCB). The alliance among the highland and lowland Indigenous groups was fractured in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/a-coalition-created-by-a-demand-for-land-is-splintered-by-a-competition-for-territory-chapter-4-of-a-perfect-storm-in-the-amazon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How Bolivia pioneered agrarian reform in South America</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/bolivia-pioneer-of-agrarian-reform-in-south-america-chapter-4-of-a-perfect-storm-in-the-amazon/</link>
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					<pubDate>31 Jan 2024 11:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Timothy J. Killeen]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mayra]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Latin America, Peru, South America, Suriname, and Venezuela]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Books, Community Development, Conservation, Deforestation, Development, Environment, Forests, Green, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Sustainable Development, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Bolivia was a leader in the agrarian reform movement in South America. A defining moment in its modern history was the national revolution of 1952, which started as an uprising against the feudal system that bound Indigenous communities to estates owned by wealthy families. The revolutionary government created the Instituto Nacional de Reforma Agraria (INRA) [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Bolivia was a leader in the agrarian reform movement in South America. A defining moment in its modern history was the national revolution of 1952, which started as an uprising against the feudal system that bound Indigenous communities to estates owned by wealthy families. The revolutionary government created the Instituto Nacional de Reforma Agraria (INRA) in 1958 to provide legal status to the lands occupied and claimed by Indigenous peasants. The revolution largely occurred in the Andean highlands and eventually led to the proliferation of extremely small (micro) landholdings that motivated many campesinos to migrate to urban areas or the eastern lowlands. Large estates in the Bolivian Amazon avoided confiscation but their owners were forced to bequeath a fraction of their properties to the Indigenous communities upon which they depended for labour. In 1965, Bolivia established the Instituto Nacional de Colonización (INC) to foster the migration to the lowlands and, in the process, created a parallel and overlapping bureaucracy for granting land titles. Both agencies distributed land in the Bolivian Amazon to the growing stream of Indigenous migrants from the Andean highlands. Organised colonisation projects in the 1970s created smallholder landscapes in the Chapare, Cochabamba (Human Modified Landscape or HML #32); Alto Beni, La Paz (HML #33); and San Julián, Santa Cruz (HML #31). Japanese immigrants also arrived in the 1960s and established colonies in Santa Cruz at Yapacaní (HML #32) and Okinawa (HML #31), landscapes with unusually fertile soils uniquely suited for the cultivation of irrigated rice. Mennonites settled&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/bolivia-pioneer-of-agrarian-reform-in-south-america-chapter-4-of-a-perfect-storm-in-the-amazon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>INCRA as a regulatory agency &#124; Chapter 4 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon&#8221;</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/incra-as-a-regulatory-agency-chapter-3-of-a-perfect-storm-in-the-amazon/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Jan 2024 11:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Timothy J. Killeen]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mayra]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Latin America, Peru, South America, Suriname, and Venezuela]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Books, Community Development, Conservation, Deforestation, Development, Environment, Forests, Green, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Sustainable Development, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[The third pillar of the institutional mission of the Instituto Nacional de Colonização y Reforma Agraria (INCRA) encompasses both administrative and legal aspects of land tenure and, as such, is the most important agency regulating rural real estate markets. Administratively, the institution is charged with collecting and organizing the records of all rural properties in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The third pillar of the institutional mission of the Instituto Nacional de Colonização y Reforma Agraria (INCRA) encompasses both administrative and legal aspects of land tenure and, as such, is the most important agency regulating rural real estate markets. Administratively, the institution is charged with collecting and organizing the records of all rural properties in Brazil, including their creation and all subsequent sales, subdivisions and unifications. Legally, INCRA functionaries must review and verify that documents are legitimate and validate the spatial attributes of individual land parcels. This is a gargantuan task that would test the governance capacity of any country but is particularly challenging in a nation of continental dimensions undergoing a massive distribution of land. The decision to organize rural properties into a national land registry, Sistema Nacional de Cadastro Rural (SNCR), coincided with policies to transform the Amazon via migration and settlement. That task might have been completed automatically if the smallholder programmes, which distributed about twelve million hectares, had accurately and precisely recorded those transactions. Unfortunately, that did not happen. That missed opportunity was confounded by a collateral decision to facilitate a land rush that was occurring organically across the Southern and Eastern Amazon. After about 1978, the military government became disenchanted by the smallholder settlement framework due to high overhead costs, low economic return and terrible public relations. Instead, they decided to expedite the transfer of public lands to corporations and influential families with the capacity to invest in productive enterprises at economies of scale. Over&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/incra-as-a-regulatory-agency-chapter-3-of-a-perfect-storm-in-the-amazon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>The dynamics of violence in pursuit of land in the Pan Amazon</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/the-dynamics-of-violence-in-pursuit-of-land-in-the-pan-amazon/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Jan 2024 18:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Timothy J. Killeen]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mayra]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Latin America, Peru, South America, Suriname, and Venezuela]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Books, Community Development, Conservation, Deforestation, Development, Environment, Forests, Green, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Sustainable Development, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[The adage ‘possession is nine-tenths of the law’ is not legally true, but the concept reigns supreme on frontier landscapes in the Pan Amazon. Land grabbers and peasant pioneers share a modus operandi: they occupy land that does not belong to them. Historically, this process was condoned by the state, and conflict occurred only when [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The adage ‘possession is nine-tenths of the law’ is not legally true, but the concept reigns supreme on frontier landscapes in the Pan Amazon. Land grabbers and peasant pioneers share a modus operandi: they occupy land that does not belong to them. Historically, this process was condoned by the state, and conflict occurred only when the two groups competed for the same territory – or when either group sought to steal land from forest communities. Smallholders have the advantage of numbers, while land grabbers use their political connections to formalise their claims and label their competitors as ‘squatters’. In Brazil and Bolivia, ranchers use force to clear landholdings, usually by hiring thugs to beat the smallholders and destroy their belongings. The smallholders resist by organising themselves into peasant syndicates associated with the Movimento Sim Terra (MST) and the Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia (CSUTCB). Resistance leads to an escalation of violence. In Brazil, criminal land grabbers contract pistoleiros to murder posseiros who stand in their way. The most famous incidents have involved activists who were assassinated for defending the rights of forest people and smallholder peasants, most notably Francisco Alves (Chico) Mendes, who was ambushed at his home in Xapuri, Acre, in 1988; and Dorothy Stang, who was executed in 2005 on a remote road near Anapú, Pará. These crimes led to high-profile public prosecutions and the incarceration of the men who pulled the trigger, as well as the ranchers who contracted their services. Unfortunately, it is&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/the-dynamics-of-violence-in-pursuit-of-land-in-the-pan-amazon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>[Photos] New book is a stunning glimpse of Asia’s wildlife and landscapes</title>
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					<pubDate>12 Jan 2024 01:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Carolyn Cowan]]>
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						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, South Asia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Books, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, Forests, Interviews, Islands, Mammals, Megafauna, Mountains, Photos, Protected Areas, Wildlife, and Wildlife Trade]]>
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							<![CDATA[For the past two decades, wildlife photographer and writer Bjorn Olesen and travel writer Fanny Lai have published books aimed at raising awareness of conservation in Asia. Beginning in 2012, the husband-and-wife team have spotlighted efforts to save the giant panda; showcased the spectrum of wildlife in Borneo; and provided rare insights in Asia’s forests [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[For the past two decades, wildlife photographer and writer Bjorn Olesen and travel writer Fanny Lai have published books aimed at raising awareness of conservation in Asia. Beginning in 2012, the husband-and-wife team have spotlighted efforts to save the giant panda; showcased the spectrum of wildlife in Borneo; and provided rare insights in Asia’s forests in support of nature conservation organizations. Now, their fourth photo book, Asia&#8217;s Greatest Wildlife Sanctuaries, gives a glimpse of what’s at stake in Asia’s forests, wetlands, islands and mountains, taking the reader to 27 of the region’s most spectacular protected areas across 14 countries. All royalties from the book will go to support BirdLife International in its conservation work in Asia. Throughout the book, intimate images of wildlife and habitats by Olesen and two dozen contributing photographers create an accompaniment to the stories of government, NGO and community efforts that led to some of Asia’s most notable conservation successes. From exquisite birds-of-paradise in Indonesia’s Papua region, to critically endangered ibises confined to tiny pockets of remaining habitat in northern Cambodia, the book is a wonderful portrayal of the region’s birdlife. Other animals, such as snow leopards, red pandas, rhinos, elephants and a plethora of primates, are also warmly depicted. Cover of Asia’s Greatest Wildlife Sanctuaries, written by Bjorn Olesen and Fanny Lai. Narrowing down the wildlife reserves to feature in the book was perhaps the toughest challenge of all, Olesen told Mongabay. The selection “encapsulates our travels, spanning more than 20 years of wildlife sojourns&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/photos-new-book-is-a-stunning-glimpse-of-asias-wildlife-and-landscapes/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>10 notable books on conservation and the environment published in 2023</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/10-notable-books-on-conservation-and-the-environment-published-in-2023/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Dec 2023 00:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Books, Climate Change, Conservation, and Environment]]>
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							<![CDATA[Many of the effects of the twin crises of climate change and the loss of biodiversity can feel as though they’re happening to us. They are, journalists often write, forces to be battled, or storms to be weathered. Each of the volumes on Mongabay’s year-end book list deals in one way or another. But each [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Many of the effects of the twin crises of climate change and the loss of biodiversity can feel as though they’re happening to us. They are, journalists often write, forces to be battled, or storms to be weathered. Each of the volumes on Mongabay’s year-end book list deals in one way or another. But each also strives to understand how we are as much a part of the world as we are affected by what ails it. We humans bear a hefty dose of the blame (if not all of it) for winnowing away animal and plant numbers to the point that now scientists figure a million species face the threat of extinction. And we’ve done that even to the animals we’ve revered throughout our history, if some of the earliest surviving records our ancestors left behind are any indication. We also know the challenges that changing climates can bring, and yet we continue to quibble over stopping deforestation or ending the use of the fossil fuels that are in large part responsible for the uncertain future that now faces humanity. Amid those puzzling through these contradictions are the group of authors whose work published in 2023 is featured here. All have thought deeply about different aspects of that future, and they’ve traveled the world learning more about the potential solutions to these problems. These authors have focused much of their attention on the actions being taken, and in doing so, found ways to cope and perhaps also leave things&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/10-notable-books-on-conservation-and-the-environment-published-in-2023/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Wolves through the ages: A journey of coexistence, conflict, and conservation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/wolves-through-the-ages-a-journey-of-coexistence-conflict-and-conservation/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Dec 2023 23:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Books, Carnivores, Conservation, Culture, Endangered Species, Environment, Forests, Green, Hunting, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Mammals, Predators, Top Predators, Wildlife, and Wolves]]>
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							<![CDATA[Wolves, with their widespread distribution from North America to Eurasia, are ecologically vital as keystone species, playing a critical role in maintaining the health and balance of ecosystems by regulating prey populations. Their influence extends to increasing biodiversity and reshaping landscapes, thus fostering more robust and diverse natural environments. Culturally, wolves hold a unique place [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Wolves, with their widespread distribution from North America to Eurasia, are ecologically vital as keystone species, playing a critical role in maintaining the health and balance of ecosystems by regulating prey populations. Their influence extends to increasing biodiversity and reshaping landscapes, thus fostering more robust and diverse natural environments. Culturally, wolves hold a unique place in the human imagination, revered and mythologized across various cultures for their intelligence, resilience, and spirit of freedom. In many Indigenous communities, wolves have a prominent role in folklore and spiritual beliefs, often revered as ancestral figures, spiritual guides, and symbols of the untamed natural world. In her new book, Echo Loba, Loba Echo: Of Wisdom, Wolves, and Women, Sonja Swift delves into wolves and their intricate connections with human society, ecosystems, and cultural narratives. Bridging ecological insight with a rich tapestry of cultural wisdom, Swift dives into the multifaceted relationship between humans and wolves, a bond that has been both cherished and challenged throughout history. From childhood recollections to ecological roles, and from colonial impacts to modern conservation efforts, her work is a profound exploration of how wolves mirror our own stories, fears, and hopes. Swift recently spoke with Mongabay about how wolves reflect our existence and the myriad ways they are perceived across cultures. She discussed how Echo Loba, Loba Echo reflects her personal explorations and deep connections with these creatures, and shared observations on the evolving conservation sector&#8217;s recognition of Indigenous and Native interactions with the natural world. Sonja Swift AN INTERVIEW&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/wolves-through-the-ages-a-journey-of-coexistence-conflict-and-conservation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Cultivation and processing of Amazonian coffees</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/cultivation-and-processing-of-amazonian-coffees/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Nov 2023 16:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Timothy J. Killeen]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mayra]]>
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							<![CDATA[Perfect Storm in the Amazon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Latin America, Peru, South America, Suriname, and Venezuela]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Books, Community Development, Conservation, Deforestation, Development, Environment, Forests, Green, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Sustainable Development, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[There are two major cultivated species of coffee: arabica (Coffea arabica) and robusta (Coffea canephora), each with a multitude of varieties adapted to a broad range of ecological conditions. Arabica represents seventy per cent of global production, while robusta represents about thirty per cent. Traditionally, arabica has been cultivated as ‘shade coffee’ grown at higher [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[There are two major cultivated species of coffee: arabica (Coffea arabica) and robusta (Coffea canephora), each with a multitude of varieties adapted to a broad range of ecological conditions. Arabica represents seventy per cent of global production, while robusta represents about thirty per cent. Traditionally, arabica has been cultivated as ‘shade coffee’ grown at higher elevations, while robusta is ‘sun coffee’ cultivated at lower elevations. There are exceptions, including arabica varieties grown without shade at higher elevations and with shade at lower elevations. Both species of coffee are cultivated in the Amazon. Elite coffee varieties tend to come from arabica trees grown under shade at optimum altitudes, which vary by latitude but range between 750 and 1,500 meters above sea level. Harvesting and post-harvest processing practices are also important for maintaining quality in elite coffees. In the Andes, arabica is the predominant coffee cultivar. Colombia is third largest producer of coffee and is well known for its high-quality elite arabicas. However, most Colombian coffee is grown in the Magdalena watershed, while in Venezuela production  is concentrated in the mountains overlooking the Caribbean coast. The largest producer of arabica in the Amazon is Peru (Human Modified Landscapes (HML) #37, #38, #42, #43, #45), followed by Bolivia (HML #33) and Ecuador (HML #48). Robusta was once widely cultivated in Amazonian Ecuador (HML #49 and #$50), but after about 2000, Ecuadorian smallholders began shifting production to oil palm or cacao. Robusta is cultivated sporadically in lowland Peru (HML #40, #41, #44, #46) and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/cultivation-and-processing-of-amazonian-coffees/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Infrastructure in the Pan Amazon: Public-private partnerships</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/infrastructure-in-the-pan-amazon-public-private-partnerships/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 Sep 2023 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Timothy J. Killeen]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mayra]]>
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							<![CDATA[Perfect Storm in the Amazon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Colombia, Latin America, Peru, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Books, Community Development, Conservation, Deforestation, Development, Environment, Forests, Green, Infrastructure, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Roads, Sustainable Development, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[The concessionaire system in Peru is managed by the Organismo Supervisor de la Inversión en Infraestructura de Transporte de Uso Público (OSITRAN), which oversees investments in transportation infrastructure, while the electrical system is administered by the Organismo Supervisor de la Inversión en Energia y Minería (OSINERGMIN). Both of these regulatory agencies supervise joint ventures that [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The concessionaire system in Peru is managed by the Organismo Supervisor de la Inversión en Infraestructura de Transporte de Uso Público (OSITRAN), which oversees investments in transportation infrastructure, while the electrical system is administered by the Organismo Supervisor de la Inversión en Energia y Minería (OSINERGMIN). Both of these regulatory agencies supervise joint ventures that have been organized by the Agencia de Promoción de la Inversión Privada – Peru (ProInversión), a government agency that conceives projects, attracts investment capital and administers the auctions that launch public-private partnerships (PPP). There have been several high-profile PPP projects in the Peruvian Amazon, most notably the two IIRSA interoceanic highways that are operated by construction companies that allegedly co-financed their construction in partnership with the Peruvian state, the IDB and CAF. The term ‘allegedly’ is used because the construction companies didn’t actually invest a significant share of the capital upfront but assumed (partial and limited) liability for repaying debt raised in public capital markets. The northern project (IIRSA Norte) shows the potential to leverage public and private capital for a development project. It was co-financed by the Peruvian state and the IDB, who together paid for feasibility studies, environmental review and the engineering design required to tender the project via a concessionary system. The construction was financed by infrastructure bonds traded in public markets that are to be repaid (in part) by revenues from highway tolls collected by the concessionaire. The concept has been hailed as an innovative financial product because it expands the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/infrastructure-in-the-pan-amazon-public-private-partnerships/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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