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TCD Alumni lead Gender workshop in Peru and the Women in Conservation Declaration
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TCD Alumni lead Gender workshop in Peru and the Women in Conservation Declaration
Click here to read the full Declaration in Spanish. Soon to be translated into English and Portuguese. For more information please contact Antonieta Eguren.
TCD alumna publishes work on bats and durian pollination in Indonesia
Check Sheherazade ‘s recent paper from her Masters at UF: ‘Contributions of bats to the local economy through durian pollination in Sulawesi, Indonesia’. Durian is economically important for local livelihoods in Indonesia. Our study investigated the identity of pollinators of semi‐wild durian and subsequently estimated the economic contribution of these pollination services. We conducted pollination
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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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TCDsg Conservation & Development Forum on Burning Forests in South America
A recording of the event will be available on the TCD YouTube channel very soon. Thanks to all that contributed to a great event and discussion.
2018 Schmink Outstanding Dissertation Award Presentation
Co-management of natural resources in the Lower Juruá Extractive Reserve, Central-West Brazilian Amazon Recording of this talk will be available soon Presentation Summary: Paula’s dissertation examined different perspectives of natural resource governance in the co-management of the Lower Juruá Extractive Reserve, in the central-western Brazilian Amazon, involving the federal government (ICMBio) and local communities. Through
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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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