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Scientists, conservationists call for more inclusive efforts to save forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Feb 2015

Mapping local communities’ efforts to protect forests in Indonesia

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Feb 2015

Communities create timber company to protect Sumatran forest

Loren Bell 4 Feb 2015

Sulawesi communities build big, unique houses by sustainably managing forests

Loren Bell 3 Feb 2015

Rapid development threatening traditional farms, forests in West Papua

Loren Bell 3 Feb 2015

After 10 years vying for protection, Kalimantan community granted legal rights to community forest

Loren Bell 30 Jan 2015

Sumatran community takes charge to protect its forest, attracts REDD+ attention

Loren Bell 29 Jan 2015

Community tourism fills niche around Tambopata National Reserve

Barbara Fraser 29 Jan 2015

Sumatran community grows crops, aids conservation through ‘village forests’

Loren Bell 23 Jan 2015

Indigenous territories play dual role as homelands and protected areas

Barbara Fraser 22 Jan 2015

Sumatran village protects environment through agroforestry

Loren Bell 21 Jan 2015

Environmental wisdom: keeping indigenous stories alive

Barbara Fraser 21 Jan 2015

A model forest? Regional park balances local needs and conservation

Barbara Fraser 21 Jan 2015

Sulawesi village seeks protection for sacred forest threatened by development

Loren Bell 16 Jan 2015

Farmers help restore degraded forests in Sulawesi

Loren Bell 15 Jan 2015

Forest management by Sulawesi community attracts international attention

Loren Bell 13 Jan 2015

Casting for another job: will fishers take up a new livelihood?

Amy West 12 Jan 2015

Sulawesi community regains access to forest on which it depends

Loren Bell 9 Jan 2015

Kalimantan community maps forest to thwart timber companies

Loren Bell 8 Jan 2015

Sulawesi community vies to maintain rights to forest

Loren Bell 7 Jan 2015

Palm oil threatens community forest in Central Kalimantan

Loren Bell 7 Jan 2015

How black rhinos and local communities help each other in Namibia

Jeremy Hance 7 Jan 2015

Traditional farming technique preserves soil, forest in Kalimantan

Loren Bell 6 Jan 2015

Coffee farmers help protect Flores forest

Loren Bell 6 Jan 2015

New survey finds surprisingly large population of endangered owl

Jeremy Hance 3 Dec 2014

Developing land without approval of local people ‘a human rights issue of grave concern,’ says new report

Dr Liz Kimbrough 20 Nov 2014

An end to unjust conservation? (commentary)

Harry Jonas, Dilys Roe 16 Nov 2014

Local people are not the enemy: real conservation from the frontlines

Heather D'angelo 12 Nov 2014

Local communities rise to the forefront of global conservation practice (commentary)

Fred Nelson 29 Oct 2014

An impossible balancing act? Forests benefit from isolation, but at cost to local communities

Anna Ikarashi 7 Oct 2014

Saving Peru’s sea turtles and marine birds: conservationists and fishermen partner to tackle bycatch

Jeremy Hance 7 Oct 2014

What makes the jaguar the ultimate survivor? New books highlights mega-predator’s remarkable past and precarious future

Jeremy Hance 2 Oct 2014

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