May 21, 2012
May 17, 2012
- The RRI coalition in Liberia is pleased to share an important victory for its team, following several years of hard work by RRI Collaborator Green Advocates and the coalition members on behalf of Liberia’s pit-sawyers (small scale loggers).
The Liberian Forestry Development Authority (FDA) has just adopted regulations to legally recognize pit-sawyers and their right to operate. The pit-sawyers are a promising model for... Africa is at a crossroads. The continent is currently home to a billion people, most of whom are directly dependent on local ecosystems for their survival. Yet as global demand for food, water and energy continue to surge, much of the pressure to provide these resources rests on Africa, which holds more than half of the planet’s available arable land.
On top of existing challenges, Africa is poised to triple its population by the end of this century. Yet the continent’s rich natural...
May 14, 2012
- Monitoring programme provides a rare glimpse of one of the world’s most elusive mammals
- Fauna & Flora International helps to find long-term solutions to the conflict between iron mining and biodiversity protection in the remote mountain range that straddles Liberia, Guinea and Cote d’Ivoire.
- New species discovered in Sapo National Park
- Wide range of decision-makers share views on the innovative climate change mitigation scheme.
May 12, 2012
Melinda Gates has me thinking about the time I became a mother. When the Gates Foundation co-chair recently said that improving family planning for the global poor is...
May 9, 2012
La côtiere—the coastal road. That’s what everyone calls it. But there’s never a view of the coast, and it’s not really much of a road. It heads west from...
April 27, 2012
It is entirely fitting that during the same week an international tribunal in The Hague convicted former Liberian leader Charles Taylor of war crimes, Pulitzer Center...