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Augusta Dwyer

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ABOUT THE WRITER

Augusta Dwyer is a freelance writer based in Toronto and the author of four books including “Into the Amazon: The Struggle for the Rainforest” and “Broke but Unbroken: Grassroots Social Movements and Their Radical Solutions to Poverty.” She has written for a wide variety of Canadian media and was awarded a Science in Society Award by the Canadian Science Writers Association in 1998.

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A petroglyph from an Indigenous group in the Peruvian Amazon. Tomas Munita, CIFOR

The Amazon unearthed

Tropical forest archaeologists are digging up new learnings from ancient Amazon Indigenous civilizations that can inform modern law.

 
A man tends to his livestock in the Somali region of Ethiopia. UNICEF Ethiopia

To keep animal protein in the global diet, sustainable investment has a role to play

Seven fundamental practices to guide investment in livestock and aquaculture to secure sustainable animal protein.

 

Account for Scope 3 emissions to trace climate impact in food value chains

To lessen Scope 3 emissions across supply chains, experts encourage companies to boost financial incentives for smallholders.

 
Investment in forests can bring up 30 percent returns, but the biological growth time of trees can appear risky. Niko photos, Unsplash

Routes to roots: Forest finance

Forests bring ample return on investment, but the windfall of forest finance needed to jumpstart restoration proves elusive.

 
An aerial view of a mosaic landscape in Java, Indonesia. Kate Evans, CIFOR

Routes to roots: Mosaic landscapes

Forest restoration at scale can happen best when broken into smaller pieces and mixed with other land-uses in mosaic landscapes.

 
Forests are critical to planetary health, but challenges arise when tree-planting efforts aren't followed by care for continued growth. Kasturi Laxmi Mohit, Unsplash

Routes to roots: Tree planting

Tree planting has become one of the most popular pathways to landscape restoration. But does it always work?

 
Natural regeneration is a process in which young plants naturally grow to replace those that have died. Sushobhan Badhai, Unsplash

Routes to roots: Natural regeneration

A powerful way to restore degraded forests is to let them heal themselves through natural regeneration – but it takes time.

 
Blake Weyland, Unsplash

Routes to roots: A series on forest restoration

A critical exploration of the benefits and challenges of different avenues of forest restoration.

 
A herdboy, Loliondo, Tanzania, where Maasai communities have been evicted. Per Harald Olsen, AfricanBioServices

How to keep environmental conservation from doing more harm than good

In Africa and beyond, essences of colonialism in environmental conservation have become a human rights issue.

 

“We cannot just say this can’t happen anymore.”

A lawyer speaks on the murders of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips, calling attention to the dangers of environmental defense.

 
Derek Sutton, Unsplash

Looking to venture into sustainable finance? This digital ‘toolkit’ will help guide

The new Take Action toolkit makes investment opportunities easily navigable for individuals and organizations looking to sustainably invest.

 
A cacao farm in the Peruvian Amazon incorporates agroforestry practices. Marlon del Aguila Guerrero, CIFOR

In the future, expanding the Amazon’s land management systems of the past

Indigenous communities have sustainably managed Amazon land for centuries. Now, it should inform agricultural expansion in the future.

 
Lack of access to healthcare and failure to report COVID-19 occurrences are among the many ongoing struggles of Quilombola communities. Mídia NINJA, Flickr

A word on the rights of the Amazon’s Quilombola peoples

Activist and leader Selma Dealdina shares injustices against Brazil’s Afro-descendant communities.

 
Sámara, Costa Rica

With USD 2.3 trillion to spend, this is how public development banks can help biodiversity

Public development banks can play a vital role in promoting greater investment in biodiversity and nature-based solutions.

 
Lago Agrio, Nueva Loja, Ecuador

Fast facts: the Amazon biome

The Amazon biome is home to up to 30% of the world’s known species. Here’s all you need to know about the world’s most diverse ecosystem.

 

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