At a recent roundtable meeting in Singapore, the Secretary-General of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), Darryl Webber, stated his view that “the RSPO is flying”. The great achievement of the RSPO is that it has united a wide variety of…
The Congo Basin contains the second largest expanse of tropical forest in the world, covering 200 million hectares and spanning six countries. These forests support the livelihoods of 60 million people, generate income from timber, store huge amounts o…
Many research efforts focusing on climate change do not take gender considerations into account. But gender matters, says guest blogger Nadia Manning-Thomas in this blog piece published at the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and F…
At least one-third of the species that inhabit the world’s oceans may remain completely unknown to science. That’s despite the fact that more species have been described in the last decade than in any previous one, according to a report published o…
Armed with a spear, machete, and wire for setting traps, Tamanga Ekwayoli is chasing wildlife. Ekwayoli lives in a village near the Lac Tumba-Lediima Forest Reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has been hunting for most of his life. “When…
