International Conservation & Development

A new report on REDD+ and indigenous peoples, written by PPEL members has been recently published. The report, titled Indigenous Peoples and REDD+: A Critical Perspective was commissioned by Indigenous People’s Biocultural Climate Change Assessment Initiative (IPCCA), a NGO based in Cusco, Peru. IPCCA works closely with indigenous communities around the world to assess local strategies for climate change mitigation and adaptation. The report is deeply informed by political ecology literatures on the commodification of nature, environmental governance, and indigenous rights.

Eunice Blavascunas's documentary film Black Stork, White Stork is now finished and available in its entirety on the Rachel Carson Center's Environment and Society Portal.

In October 2013 Fellows Melissa Nelson and Susannah McCandless convened an event called the North American Community Environmental Leadership Exchange. The event focused on indigenous engagement in efforts to protect and restore biological and cultural resources of Native American lands. Watch a video report about the event, which Switzer helped fund with a $15,000 Network Innovation Grant.

In the middle of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, situated nearly 1,000 miles south of the Hawaiian Islands, Palmyra Atoll is an ocean wilderness teeming with rare animal and plant life.

Tavis Forrester has signed on to an initiative in Costa Rica to create the first regional network of citizen science supported camera traps to monitor big cats and their prey's activities. From National Geographic:

Heather Coleman was recently quoted a The New Yorker article about climate trades.

Dave Kramer and a colleague were recently invited to speak at Darmouth about what it takes to make green development stick in Latin America: Resilience. It certainly wasn’t the first word we ever uttered at Dartmouth as very green undergraduates, but it defined our time there in different ways. From the survival lessons brutally served up by first New Hampshire winters to the taste of a whole new level of academic rigor and competition, Dartmouth has a way of forcing people to step up to the plate.

Resilience. It certainly wasn’t the first word we ever uttered at Dartmouth as very green undergraduates, but it defined our time there in different ways. From the survival lessons brutally served up by first New Hampshire winters to the taste of a whole new level of academic rigor and competition, Dartmouth has a way of forcing people to step up to the plate.

Young researchers could soon be helping to shape science policy in developing nations, with a number of them contributing to the UN's recent prototype Global Sustainable Development Report - a planned one-stop shop for science advice. The report's 'science digest' section provides overviews of subjects such as ocean acidification for senior government officials and policymakers. It was compiled and peer reviewed by young researchers, with input from more experienced scientists.