Category: Indigenous Communities
A Quest at the Center of the Salmon Universe
Written by Dustin Solberg | February 18th, 2010
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Take a journey with the Conservancy’s Dustin Solberg to Alaska’s Bristol Bay, where a healthy ecosystem brims with wild salmon and rich tradition.
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, January 19
Written by Darci Palmquist | January 19th, 2010
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The top 5 green news links you’ll want to read today:
- The latest issue therapists are hearing about from bickering couples? Green disputes. (NY Times)
- A critic of nuclear power finds reason to argue in its favor: France. (Green Inc.)
- New insights into why birds migrate such long distances. (Bright Green Blog)
- Who needs casinos? The new source of wealth for Indian tribes could be solar power. (Christian Science Monitor)
- Just how fast are the Himalayan glaciers melting? (NY Times)
Cool Green Morning: Friday, January 8
Written by Darci Palmquist | January 8th, 2010
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Dive in! The top 5 green news links on the web are at your fingertips:
- Why are meteorologists more likely to be skeptical of climate change? (Columbia Journalism Review, hat-tip The Vine)
- Refuse is the new fuel of choice for California’s garbage trucks. (The Christian Science Monitor)
- What are the green IT solutions for energy consumption by businesses? (Environmental Leader)
- The EPA has proposed strict new health limits for smog. (Washington Post)
- The latest setback for Massachusetts’ Cape Cod wind farm? A Native American ritual of greeting the sunrise. (The New York Times)
From Drumbeats to Texts & Tweets: Different Ways to Say ‘The River is Rising’
Written by Jeff Opperman | January 5th, 2010
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Reducing floods through dams on rivers like the Zambezi can actually make the floods that do happen catastrophic. How can conservation help?
Home for the Holidays: Sudan the Rhino Lands Safely in Kenya
Written by Jon Schwedler | December 24th, 2009
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Sudan the northern white rhino hasn’t seen home for a very long time.
For the past 36 years, he’s lived in the chilly Dvur Kralove Zoo in Prague, capital of the Czech Republic.
But on Sunday, December 20, Sudan and 3 other northern white rhinos boarded planes and journeyed overnight from Prague to the Ol Pejeta Conservancy [...]
Expedition to the Raja Ampat Islands: Karst Islands and Carnivorous Plants
Written by Alison Green | December 11th, 2009
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(Editor’s note: Conservancy Senior Marine Scientist Alison Green is on an expedition to the Raja Ampat islands in Indonesia — amidst some of the most spectacular and biodiverse coral reef ecosystems in the world. Catch up on all her posts from the expedition.)
Raja Ampat is world-famous for hosting the highest marine diversity on earth. [...]
Measuring Conservation Impacts? First, Get the Question Right
Written by Rebecca Goldman | December 9th, 2009
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Since I started my position as senior scientist at The Nature Conservancy a year and a half ago, I have been outspoken in the crusade to measure the impacts of the organization’s conservation strategies. Sure, I love knowing that the Conservancy has, for instance:
Helped create new marine protected areas which cover hundreds of hectares,
Influenced companies [...]
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, December 3
Written by Darci Palmquist | December 3rd, 2009
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Electric cars, open ocean fish farms, REDD, Google. From California to Denmark and Brazil to Alaska. Yes, we’re covering all the hot issues in all the hot places around this little planet of ours. Check it all out in Cool Green Morning.
Google and Arnold Schwarzenegger make a formidable team: yesterday the Gov of California unveiled a new Google [...]
Solomon Islands: A Community Model for Global Conservation
Written by Eddie Game | November 25th, 2009
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(Above video: Geoff Lipsett-Moore, director of conservation for the Conservancy’s Melanesia program, celebrates along with other Conservancy staff and chiefs from Choiseul province in the Solomon Islands celebrate the community’s support for two Conservancy recommendations at the 2009 annual meeting of the Lauru Land Conference of Tribal Communities (LLCTC). Credit: Richard Hamilton/TNC)
“You and I [...]
Conservation Planning for Extreme Events?
Written by Timothy Boucher | November 12th, 2009
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What am I trying to illustrate in the above photo (a picture of cattle and elephant dung)? That conservation planning is a pile of poop?
No. But this mixture of excrement does show why such planning needs to incorporate extreme events like drought or flooding – especially for the impacts of those events on local people.
In [...]
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