Amazon’s Biocultural Heritage Under Greater Threat Than Expected
Indigenous cultures in the Amazon region will lose up to one-third of the native plant species they use due to climate change. In addition, biocultura…
Category: Protecting Biodiversity
Protecting Pacific Taro: USP Researcher Tackles Climate Challenges
As rising temperatures threaten one of the Pacific’s most treasured staple foods, a University of the South Pacific researcher is racing to deve…
Nature’s hidden connections: Waikato University study reveals what keeps ecosystems healthy
New international research has found that healthy ecosystems depend on more than just having lots of species, they rely on the complex relationships b…
Climate change-fuelled landslides push rarest great ape closer to extinction
New research involving scientists from Nottingham Trent University reveals that climate change-driven extreme rainfall and landslides in Sumatra have …
ESA Mission to Explore Understory Biodiversity
What if satellites could finally see what’s happening beneath the forest canopy? New research involving the University of Zurich and the European Spac…
Landmark mangrove regeneration project in Fiji
UNSW Sydney and the University of the South Pacific (USP) embark on a landmark mangrove regeneration project in Fiji. A groundbreaking five-year mangr…
Forest agriculture and commodity trade (fact) dialogue
One of the events at COP26 that I was most excited to watch was the Leader Event: Action on Forests and Land Use. Before COP26 started I had read abou…