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Chance encounter with reclusive golden cat renews calls for Ugandan park protection
A rare sighting of a mysterious African feline highlights the need to protect one of the cat’s last remaining natural habitats: the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwest Uganda.
Institutions with clear focus more likely to achieve conservation goals
Institutions that focus on fewer activities strictly targeting conservation or development are more likely to achieve their goals, according to a new book looking at both successes and failures of conservation and development...
What open access science research could mean for the developing world
The British government recently unveiled plans to make all publicly funded scientific research available to anyone by 2014 – for free. This signals a dramatic change for British universities, whose current scientific...
The world’s shrinking food basket: why it is critical we increase crop diversity
In the 1970’s a fungal blight outbreak ravaged cornfields across the United States, destroying 50 percent of the country’s maize crops and shaking the stock market as the most economically devastating field crop disease of the...
Açaí: could the wonder fruit also be wonderful for forests?
The increased cultivation of açaí — the purple fruit that dangles from palms in the Brazilian rainforest and is touted by many celebrities as the number one superfood for ‘age-defying beauty’ – may be one of the reasons for...
