Community-based conservation

It's said everything in nature is connected, with one thing providing energy and sustenance for another.

The Center for Collaborative Conservation (CCC) at Colorado State University (CSU) invites applications for its Collaborative Conservation Fellowship Program’s fifth cohort of fellows. We welcome applications from CSU graduate students, CSU faculty and research scientists, and conservation practitioners. We plan to award fellowships to about 5 practitioners/faculty members and 8-10 graduate students.

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Article from Guardian Sustainable Business on developing a better investment model to deliver food, fuel and fibre without sacrificing forests, which would benefit the economy, society and environment. 

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Individuals and organizations can now take action on climate change while empowering Malawian smallholder farmers.

Today’s blog is from Edy Setyawan, a scientist with Conservation International (CI) in Indonesia. His post is part of a series chronicling a joint coral reef health monitoring trip in Raja Ampat, Indonesia with CI, The Nature Conservancy and WWF. Blogs from this assessment are being cross-posted on the Nature Conservancy’s Cool Green Science blog. 

An integrated landscape in the works, the World Bank’s Sustainable Production Systems and Biodiversity Project is trying to meld biodiversity conservation with agricultural production. Its goals are to conserve and protect nationally and globally significant biodiversity in Mexico by mainstreaming biodiversity-friendly management practices in productive landscapes in priority biological corridors.

Pastoralist Transformations to Resilient Futures: Understanding Climate from the Ground Up is a project that aims to explore East African pastoralists’ perceptions of climatic changes and their experiences coping with related challenges. Another goal is to engage scientists, pastoralists and policy-makers in co-producing knowledge about local adaptation and solutions to climate change in the rangelands of East Africa. Dr. Kathleen Galvin and Dr.

East African pastoralists have historically coped with seasonal and annual climatic variability. However, as climatic changes are intensifying in the region, their livestock-dependent livelihoods are ever more vulnerable to increasingly frequent droughts and other extreme events.

Maasai pastoralists in East Africa are using video to share their stories and experiences about coping with seasonal and annual climatic variability. As climatic changes intensify in the region, their livestock-dependent livelihoods are ever more vulnerable to increasingly frequent droughts and other extreme events.

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Conflict management in The Nusa Tenggara Uplands, Indonesia. An effort in the province of Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, now into its third decade (initiated in 1991), has brought together a diverse array of stakeholders.