Stories From the Field
World Pangolin Day Celebration highlighting the rare life in a box: Birth from a confiscated Chinese pangolin in Nepal
The day is an opportunity for pangolin enthusiasts and the wider human community to join hands in raising awareness about the plight of these unique mammals that play a critical role in their ecosystems by providing the earth with natural pest control.
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Protecting Wilderness Is Protecting Its Inhabitants: Fungi
There are up to 3.8 million species of fungi on Earth but, why should we care about these sometimes-strange-looking eukaryotic organisms?
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Hallowed Ground: How the Montreal Protocol can Guide our Hand at COP15
35 years ago, all 198 UN Member States convened for a historic summit in Montreal. There, they negotiated and signed the world’s most successful environmental accord, the Montreal Protocol, saving our ozone layer and curbing greenhouse emissions. Now, 35 years on, these same parties are poised for another landmark event: the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), wherein will be designed the subsequent decades’ worth of international wildlife and nature targets. The question on everyone’s minds is “How can we follow one historic success in Montreal with another?”
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WiNN Nepal 2022: A Safe and Empowering Space for Women in Nature
Last 3-4 September 2022, two of CoalitionWILD team members, Fátima Gigante and Asmita Rawat, had the honor to join the Women In Nature Network Global Networking (WiNN) Event 2022 held in Kathmandu, Nepal. Learn how WiNN 2022 was able to fulfill its motto of "empowered women, empower women." Read about Fatima and Asmita's experience here: https://wildorgstg.wpenginepowered.com/blog/coalitionwild/winn-nepal-2022/
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Towards long-term coexistence of humans and wildlife: peace and harmony in Lake Jipe
Zacharia Mutinda Muteti wants to see human and wildlife coexisting in peace and harmony, so he decided to pursue a project to help with just that. Learn how this young advocate is helping a community create sustainable livelihood in Eastern Kenya.
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Living Alongside the Yawanawá
The Yawanawá people live in western Brazil, close to the Peruvian border. The Yawanawá culture revolves around their strong relationship with nature.
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A Young Person’s Reflection On Wilderness, And How We Can All Help Protect It
Nature has a way of changing us, reminding us of our roots as human beings. It is a place of equal footing, breaking us down to the bone and reminding us what it means to be alive.
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Nature-based Solutions: Opportunities and Risks
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) was introduced in the late 2000s, primarily by international organizations such as the International Union for Conservation Nature (IUCN) and the World Bank. Its definitions have evolved since then but at its core remain the question: how can we solve human problems using nature?
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Can Developing Countries Afford To Preserve Half?
The Mali Elephant Project illustrates that, to support their people, they can’t afford not to.
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