Charles Bedford
Charles Bedford is state director of The Nature Conservancy in Colorado. He is responsible for the strategic vision and direction of the chapter, overseeing a diverse staff of professionals across the state and reaching across borders to support the Conservancy's work in other countries. He is blogging for Cool Green Science from China, where he is spending the next year working with new TNC leaders in China, Mongolia and Indonesia on their largest conservation challenges.
Posts by Charles Bedford:
The World’s Oldest National Park: Ghosts of Monks and Red Deer
Bogdkhan Uul, just south of Ulanbator, Mongolia, is the oldest national park in the world. That’s right — it predates Yellowstone by over 100 years. Established by the Mongolian government in 1778, it was originally chartered by Ming Dynasty officials in the 1500s as an area to be kept off limits to extractive [...]
Posted: November 10th, 2009 under Asia Pacific, Conservation Issues, Grasslands, Protected Areas, Sustainable Livelihoods.
Tags: Asia conservation, Asia nature, Asia nature blog, Bogd Khan Uul, Buddhist Pure Land, Charles Bedford, ger camp, Manzushir, mongolia, Mongolia nature, Mongolia protected, Mongolia red deer, Mongolian Buddhism, nature park Asia, red deer, Tsetseegun Mountain, Ulanbator, Yellowstone park
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From China: Entrepreneurs, Conservation and the Future of the World
Editor’s note: Charles Bedford, the state director for The Nature Conservancy in Colorado, is living and working in China for the next year and will be writing about conservation issues there. Read all his posts.
Who’s going to lead the way for conservation in China? Local grass-roots groups? International NGOs? The government?
Here’s another thought: What about [...]
Posted: October 21st, 2009 under Business, China, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: Charles Bedford, China SEE, China business environment, China business nature, China capitalism environment, China capitalism nature, China Central Television, China conservation, China democracy environment, China environment, China green business, China nature, China philanthropy, China philanthropy environment, civil environment China, grassroots conservation China, grassroots environment China, Society-Entrepreneurs-Ecology, Wang Zhi
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Yellowstone in China?
Editor’s note: Charles Bedford, the state director for The Nature Conservancy in Colorado, is living and working in China for the next year and will be writing about conservation issues there. Read all his posts.
How are U.S. perceptions of China sadly out of date? One example lies in how China’s first national park was created.
China [...]
Posted: October 5th, 2009 under China, Conservation Issues, Protected Areas, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: Charles Bedford, China, China national park, China nature, China park, Diquing park, Great Sand Dunes Alamosa, Great Sand Dunes Allard, Great Sand Dunes Salazar, Potatso park, Pudacuo, Pudacuo park, The Nature Conservancy China, Yellowstone, Yunnan nature, Yunnan park
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From China: Earth First–Mine the Other Planets Later
Editor’s note: Charles Bedford, the state director for The Nature Conservancy in Colorado, is living and working in China for the next year and will be writing about conservation issues there for Cool Green Science. Read all his posts.
Everywhere I’ve been outside of the United States in the last few years has a property system [...]
Posted: September 28th, 2009 under China, Conservation Issues.
Tags: biodiversity private property, China, China conservation, China property system, China wildlife, conservation property, Hardin, Indonesia, Indonesia conservation, Indonesia land rights, Indonesia wildlife, mongolia, Mongolia animal, Mongolia conservation, Mongolia wildlife, property rights conservation, Tragedy of the Commons
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