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The presence of roads, even inside protected areas, may pose a significant threat to species.
The pledge to end deforestation holds great potential, but Canada has some work ahead if it is to make meaningful progress on the new goal and stop ongoing forest and carbon loss.
Critics have said that ranching is environmentally unsustainable because it results in land degradation. There are other reasons it’s not the solution.
Elephants avoided areas where others were poached.
To avoid a repeat of one of the worst humanitarian crises of recent times, Ethiopia needs all-inclusive national dialogue.
Humanity is destroying Earth’s ability to support complex life. But coming to grips with the magnitude of the problem is hard, even for experts.
Rural communities are dynamic and complex. Imposing innovations that don’t speak to the needs of these communities will inhibit rural development.
Because the forecast for rainfall in the Rift Valley basin is a rising trend, the lake levels look set to rise even more in the future.
Regreening Africa works directly with 500,000 households to restore one million hectares of agricultural land.
Insects are essential to the functioning of land and freshwater ecosystems but species populations are being lost at a rapid rate globally.
Soil and water conservation projects can create fertile farmlands and change migration patterns linked to land degradation in Burkina Faso.
Building connections and grassroots efforts will sustain conservation over the long term.
Parts of Ethiopia will likely be hotter, drier, and more water stressed - with consequences for human and economic development.
South Africa’s rural communities where mining licenses have been granted are often excluded from consultations and bear the brunt having their environment and livelihoods destroyed.
Four of the five contemporary migrations in East Africa are severely threatened and have virtually collapsed.
South Africa needs to wean itself off coal in a way that protects jobs and the environment.
A Land Degradation Surveillance framework could solve this problem by systematically measuring and tracking indicators of land health in Africa.
A new international report makes for bleak reading on the state of the world’s soils. It predicts that land degradation will displace up to 700 million people worldwide by mid-century.
Top contributors
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Soil Systems Scientist, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
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Białowieża Geobotanical Station, Department of Biology, University of Warsaw
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Professor, Conservation Ecology & Entomology, Stellenbosch University
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Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor of Environmental Engineering, University of Sydney
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Professor Emerita in Sociology and Honorary Research Professor in SWOP, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director, African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town
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Senior Statistician, University of Hohenheim
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Chartered Consultant in Hydrology and Water Resources, Visiting Research Fellow, King's College London
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Research Fellow (Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow), Business School, The University of Queensland
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President, Center for Conservation Biology, Bing Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University
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Senior Scientist and head of the GeoScience lab, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
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Professor Environmental Science, University of South Africa
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Research Associate & Director Mali Elephant Project (WILD Foundation/ICFC), University of Oxford
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University
