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This short animated film, narrated by actor/director/producer and Academy Award winner Sir David Attenborough, highlights the role forests can play in national development, a green economy and climate change. It…
Just south of Afghanistan’s parched capital, Kabul, you can turn off from the clogged and battered traffic of the Logar road, drive through an unimposing metal gate with a faded wooden sign, and suddenly,…
Costa Rica, 8 June 2017 - On World Oceans Day, Costa Rica announces a new marine protected area on the country’s Pacific coast, contributing to the global goal of protecting at least 10 per cent of marine zones…
Modern biotechnology promises remarkable advances in agriculture, medicine and industrial products. The genomes of many plants and animals are being mapped, and techniques are being developed to manipulate genetic…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged Indians to “connect with nature” on World Environment Day and chosen 5 June to launch a massive push to improve waste management in the world’s second most populous country.…
The theme for this year’s International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May is “sustainable tourism and biodiversity”. Biodiversity, the variety of life on Earth, is a large part of what makes tourist…
When the project team surveyed 12 random village councils from across the project’s 34, it found that all of them were using better natural resource management practices. Agricultural production and household…
It’s been 47 years since the first Earth Day on April 22nd 1970 marked the birth of widespread environmental awareness, back in the flowery heyday of social and environmental activism. Since then, we have…
A Global Environment Facility-funded project in the highlands of West Africa is changing lives, behaviour and attitudes, but it’s a drop in the ocean, and much more needs to be done. The Sahel in West Africa is…
The theme for this year’s International Day of Forests on 21 March is “Forests and Energy”. Forest-based energy sources such as biomass, wood and charcoal are well-known sources of energy. In many African countries…
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