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IDB America April 2005 Roger Hamilton |
`Mico' Mystique Why some of Brazil's big landowners are helping to protect a tiny primate. |
IDB America June 2005 Roger Hamilton |
Brazil's Other Forest Still brimming with biological diversity, the Atlantic Forest needs allies. |
IDB America April 2005 Roger Hamilton |
Winning Hearts and Minds Conservationists and small farmers in Brazil had to get to know each other before they could work together to help save the fate of a little indigenous monkey. |
IDB America April 2005 Roger Hamilton |
The Message of a Little Monkey In Rio de Janeiro and across the globe, natural ecosystems are being altered and simplified to serve burgeoning human demands. If the golden lion tamarin escapes extinction, the world will be a little more habitable for the rest of us. |
IDB America April 2005 Roger Hamilton |
Monkeys vs. People? Brazil's Golden Lion Tamarin Association shows that conservation can be a win-win proposition where both nature and people benefit. |
IDB America June 2005 Roger Hamilton |
On the Trail of the Peripatetic Pathogen Disease microbes make common cause between farmers and conservationists in far western Sao Paulo State, Brazil. |
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton |
Could Environmentalists Learn to Love This Road? An asphalt strip through Brazil's Amazon rainforest is intended to anchor an economy based on a newer, gentler way to use the rain forest. |
IDB America May/Jun 2000 |
Ecological ground zero Seven of the world's most biodiverse---and threatened---areas are in Latin America and the Caribbean. What can be done to protect them? |
IDB America January 2006 |
We Are Trying to Make Dreams Happen The governor of Brazil's Amazonian state of Acre is a passionate advocate of the rain forest and his people's economic future. Here's an interview with Jorge Viana on his government's innovative approach to preserving the rain forest. |
Smithsonian August 2006 Michael Tennesen |
Uphill Battle As the climate warms in the cloud forests of the Andes, plants and animals must climb to higher, cooler elevations or die. |
Outside November 2009 Elizabeth Hightower |
Creating Conservation Communities There's a bold new idea on the front edge of conservation: Let's treat people as well as we treat animals. |
Outside February 2003 Bill Donahue |
Stalk the Monkey The world's best tracker of new primate species shares secrets for finding fuzzy little guys in the woods. |
Scientific American March 2009 David Appell |
Can "Assisted Migration" Save Species from Global Warming? As the world warms up, some species cannot move to cooler climes in time to survive. Camille Parmesan thinks humans should help even if it means creating invasive species |
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton |
New Amazonians Latin America is attempting to create a relationship between man and nature that includes the history, heritage and views of local people. |
Financial Advisor September 2011 Ellie Winninghoff |
Go Hug A Forest Impact investors can foster change while earning handsome returns in one of the only asset classes where there's real growth. |
IDB America July 2005 Roger Hamilton |
Cutting a forest to save it A pioneering experiment in community forestry management in Peten, Guatemala. |
Scientific American November 2008 Barbara Juncosa |
The Role of Random Events in Extinction Chance disaster is a bigger extinction threat than once thought. |
Science News December 5, 2008 Edward O. Wilson |
Protect Biodiversity Hot Spots And The Rest Will Follow The tragedy unfolding in our ignorance, in our preoccupation with strictly physical environments, is that human action is destroying countless species and even ecosystems before we even know they existed. |
Smithsonian September 2005 Daniel Glick |
Back From The Brink Not every endangered species is doomed. Thanks to tough U.S. environmental laws, dedicated researchers, and plenty of money and effort, success stories abound. |
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton |
Rain Forest Protagonist Local people first saw a new reserve in Brazil's rainforest as a threat, but are now optimistic that the change will help them preserve their way of life while offering some economic stability. |
Geotimes August 2003 Greg Peterson |
Hubbard Brook: Making Watershed Links The wollastonite addition at Hubbard Brook is the latest chapter in a rich history of large scale manipulations aimed at understanding how human disturbances impact forests. |
Reason July 2005 Kerry Howley |
Save the Frankenfish! Is the snakehead endangered? Environmental groups are using the Endangered Species Act to lock up land from development rather than save threatened species, and they want some reform from Washington. |
Reason November 2001 Sara Rimensnyder |
Cryptic Biodiversity By examining DNA, scientists have discovered new species of birds, reptiles, whales, and plants. Will this put more pressure on the Endangered Species Act? |