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In Rwanda, the “land of a thousand hills”, frequent landslides and floods caused by erratic rains are literally washing people’s lives away and driving them from their homes. Alexandre Uhere had been growing vegetables on…

“When I was a boy, the lake was beautiful,” Bernardo San Juan says. “In the early 70s we would picnic here and swim in the lake. We would just bring a pot and some rice, we would catch fish to cook and drink the lake water…

Dingiri, The Gambia: When Bundauda Samasa was a boy, everyone knew to the day when the rains would start and stop sprinkling the fields in The Gambia’s Upper River Region, and what harvest of groundnuts, vegetables, rice…

UN Environment, the Global Environment Facility and partners have been helping India develop mechanisms and institutions to deliver biotechnology benefits safely and in a way that doesn’t harm the environment. Modern…

UN Environment will implement the largest natural resource development project in the history of The Gambia to help the West African nation tackle climate change impacts and restore degraded forests, farmland and coastal…

There’s growing awareness in the Islamic Republic of Iran that wetlands are valuable and sustain livelihoods. Ramsar, “the gem of northern Iran”, is the town that gives its name to the Ramsar Convention. The Convention is…

By Joop van Bodegraven, policy adviser on nature conservation for the Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality The Netherlands is a densely populated country, with a high standard of living and a world-…

The Tropical Landscapes Finance Facility, launched in Jakarta in October 2016, has finalized its first investment to help reduce poverty while preserving the habitat of three critically endangered species. Over the past…

27 October 2016 – What happens on land affects our oceans. For example, when rainfall washes fertilizers from agricultural land into rivers, they end up in the sea, where they can cause harm to fish and other marine…

Human mobility has fundamentally altered the make-up and the character of the biological world, as more and more species, relocated from their natural home environments, have – as aliens – been introduced, either…