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Drylands occupy approximately 40% of Earth's land area and are home to more than two billion people.

During a meeting held recently at the United Nations in New York, ������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ�� and The Nature Conservancy provided information on policy recommendations on how to improve the management of deep-sea fisheries and ecosystems. The recommendations were developed following a workshop jointly organized by TNC…

This report is the result of the co-operation of seventeen partners from four continents—all of them engaged in activities to improve the livelihoods of mobile livestock keepers. The organizing question of this collaboration was, how do mobile livestock keepers—i.e.

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A Great Oak in Guyana’s Windsor Forest and an observant little tree ‘prepared to care for humanity’ helped 15-year-old Charlée Gittens from Barbados and 13-year-old Wang Sa from China to win gold medals in the Universal Postal Union’s 40th International Letter-Writing Competition for Young…

● Rangelands development and extension services should build on pastoral indigenous rangelands knowledge ● Pastoral rangeland management capacity can be strengthened through support to customary institutions ● Local and global monitoring of rangelands degradation should use local knowledge to…

A unique international project partnership involving ������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ�� Member organizations, the Royal Society for Protection of Birds, The Nature Conservancy and the US Fish & Wildlife Service is helping to restore a series of islands and seabird habitats in the Pacific by removing alien invasive rats…

This scoping study was carried out to identify entry points for building the resilience of livestock systems to climate change and variability.