Urbanites help sustain Japan’s historic rice paddy terraces

Urbanites help sustain Japan’s historic rice paddy terraces

Rural–urban cooperation and branding initiatives aim to reinvigorate a traditionally important rice-growing region. >>
Yakihata Fire - Keeping the flame of tradition

Farming with fire: Revaluing a Japanese agricultural tradition

Researchers are finding merit in a traditional practice that uses fire to prepare and enrich soil. >>
Bee-harming pesticides banned in Europe

Bee-harming pesticides banned in Europe

In an effort to protect bee populations, Europe will implement a continent-wide ban on some commonly used insecticides. >>
Hunting for a solution

Hunting for a solution

For a growing number of people living in tropical forest regions, wild animal meat, also called bushmeat, is increasingly becoming a dietary staple. >>
The Gross Domestic Problem

The city as urban reef

In this contest-winning essay, a young scholar spotlights the dichotomy between city and reef. Need there be such a sharp division, when sea and shore actually share flows of resources? >>
Beekeeping relieves land degradation in Kyrgyzstan

Beekeeping relieves land degradation in Kyrgyzstan

With PALM project support, community-led honey production is helping to reduce the environmental impacts of animal grazing. >>
A morning in the life-giving Bangweulu swamps

A morning in the life-giving Bangweulu swamps

Descended from hunter-gatherer-fisher tribes, the people of Zambia's Bangweulu swamps still live interlinked with their environment. >>
India’s Auroville shows the way in green living

India’s Auroville shows the way in green living

In the Indian township of Auroville, people from more than 40 nations aim to live in harmony with nature and protect the environment as a community. >>
Securing human rights through private sector standards?

Securing human rights through private sector standards?

Forest Peoples Programme’s Sophie Chao outlines a comparative review of private sector sustainability certification schemes. >>
Eco-villages instead of eviction: a new approach in Indonesia

Eco-villages instead of eviction: a new approach in Indonesia

Eco-villages may be an alternative to evicting communities who have long lived within Indonesia's parks. >>
Crunching the numbers to preserve fertile farmland

Crunching the numbers to preserve fertile farmland

The European Commission supports data collection to help protect soil and its resources from climate change impacts. >>
Restoring the Nanao Bay ecosystem

Restoring the Nanao Bay ecosystem

A calm bay on Japan’s Noto Peninsula, long a marine haven for fishers, is the site of new integrative approaches to resource management. >>
Biocultural resilience for systems change

Biocultural resilience for systems change

To ensure our own and our planet’s wellbeing, our actions must be guided by a holistic worldview based on valuing biocultural diversity and resilience. >>
Bushmeat stories: Voices from the Congo Basin

Bushmeat stories: Voices from the Congo Basin

Commercial, illegal and unsustainable hunting for the meat of wild animals is causing widespread local extinctions in Asia and West Africa. >>
A world of life in a single cubic foot

A world of life in a single cubic foot

Photographer David Liittschwager captured the beauty of biodiversity by placing a cube in a variety of habitats and recording whatever moved through it. >>
Re-creating eelgrass beds in the Seto Inland Sea

Re-creating eelgrass beds in the Seto Inland Sea

A videobrief in our satoumi series looks at how fishers and experts are restoring the ecosystem that nurtures coastal fish. >>