Tropical Conservation & Development Program
UF Center for Latin American Studies
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TCD students and alumna working together to improve tourism and conservation in the Brazilian Amazon
For a week, TCD students Igor Vianna and Ana Luiza Violato Espada, worked with TCD alumna Paula Pinheiro, to prospect new activities related to canoeing, ecotourism, and naturally protected areas in the Western Brazilian Amazon. Every year, since 2017, Igor Vianna and Ana Luiza organize outrigger paddling expeditions in the Amazonian rivers as a strategy
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It is not only the Amazon that is burning…
The expanding extractive frontier is leading to the rapid deforestation of the Paraguayan Chaco, creating fragmented forests and raising questions about socio-environmental justice. Photo by Joel E. Correia, 2019. TCD & LAS Faculty, Joel Correia recently published the article “South America’s second-largest forest is also burning – and ‘environmentally friendly’ charcoal is subsidizing its destruction” in
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TCD students co-authors paper in Science about tropical montane rivers
College or Unit Name UF PhD and TCD student Suman Jumani and her co-authors argue that tropical montane rivers serve as sentinels of regional and global change threatened by infrastructure development, pollution, biodiversity loss, conflict over water use, among other human disturbances. Suman is in UF’s Soil and Water Science Department and was part of
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TCD student organizes workshop in Peru on community-based conservation
Last summer with the support of a local grass-root organization, Red AMA, Vanessa Luna organized a 2-day workshop in Chachapoyas, Peru to promote collective discussion on the factors that limit and facilitate the effective management of community-based conservation areas in the northern Peruvian Andes. She brought together leaders from 10 communities and through use of
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Remembering Dr. Wendy Townsend
It is with great sadness that we share the news that Dr. Wendy Townsend, an alumna of the University of Florida (UF)’s Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation and the Center for Latin America’s Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD) Program, passed away on 10 August 2019 after a courageous battle against cancer. For the past
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SNRE & Amazon Dams Network (ADN) joint Seminar on the Grand Inga Dam in the DRC
Please see below the flyer for an upcoming talk on October 14 from 1:55 – 2:45 by UF MDP student Ange Asanzi titled ‘A socio-economic analysis of the world’s largest planned hydropower project: the Grand Inga Dam in the Democratic Republic of Congo’, presented by the Amazon Dams Network and the University of Florida School
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