📈 Human Progress
🌳 Special project to assist protection of tropical forests
Indigenous people look after more than 80 percent of the planet’s biodiversity. Science even shows that they know better than many how to protect nature. They are the world’s most knowledgeable and influential conservationists. Sadly, their land and...
🏆 Snow leopard project receives award
Snow Leopard Trust, an organization based in India, recently pioneered a model of conservation which will work with communities in 12 countries to protect the snow leopard. Among other things, it will compensate herders when they lose livestock to snow leopards as a...
🌳 More work to be done on the Great Green Wall
Fifteen years ago, the African Great Green Wall project took off. The project has been stalled during the past two years, and only 4 and 20 percent of the project has been finalized. Researchers now believe they have developed metrics and analyses to get the project...
🦘 Australia returns hundreds of thousands of hectares of land to indigenous peoples
The state government of Queensland in Australia has bought 131,900 hectares of land which they now intend to hand over to the indigenous people. The land will serve as a nature reserve and with other surrounding reservations, it will form almost one million hectares...
