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TCD co-organizes Workshop “Peoples of the Forest” as part of the Belém+30 Congress
Indigenous and traditional peoples share innovative juridical and technological tools for territorial management in the Belém+30 Congress For more information and access to the Workshop’s report, visit the event’s website or watch the event’s video. Last month, in an unprecedented collective effort, the Workshop Peoples of the Forest: Connections and Self-determination – Juridical and Technological Tools
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TCD students and faculty publish on how biases may influence conservation science
Mongabay has recently highlighted a study by TCD students Johanna Espin, Alyssa Cho & others and TCD Faculty Emilio Bruna on how “implicit gender, racial biases may lead to preventing a diversity of perspectives from being heard, and lessen chances of solving pressing conservation problems.
TCD Alumni publish paper on Conservation in the Southern Cone
TCD Alumni from Southern Cone Conservation Leadership Initiative just published a paper discussing the challenges and opportunities to advancing conservation in the Southern Cone; reporting out from multi-stakeholder group working together to find solutions.
2017 Amazon Workshop Report
Amazon Workshop Report The workshop on Tools and Strategies for Conservation and Development in the Amazon: Lessons Learned and Future Pathways took place in Gainesville, Florida on October 3-5, 2017. In a collective learning process of reflection and dialogue, the workshop participants analyzed lessons learned from a wide range of experiences and contexts in order
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Bette Loiselle, TCD Director, was awarded the 2018 Brewster Award!!!
Congratulations to Bette Loiselle!! Dr. Loiselle is the recipient of the 2018 Brewster Award from the American Ornithological Society. The William Brewster Memorial Award is given annually to the author or co-authors of the most meritorious body of work (book, monograph, or series of related papers) on birds of the Western Hemisphere published during the past ten
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Participation as a virtual guest speaker in a K-12 classroom
Participation as a virtual guest speaker in a K-12 classroom The Outreach Office of the Center for Latin American Studies has a special request for your participation as a virtual guest in a K-12 classroom. The Virtual Guest Speaker Initiative through the Center’s Outreach Office is designed to bring an international or national expert into
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