Environment and natural resources
Biodiversity
New report shows slowdown in mangrove losses–providing a ‘last best chance’ for global action to protect coastal forests
On July 26 2021, the Global Mangrove Alliance released their inaugural report, The State of the World’s Mangroves, a compilation of the most current information available on what we know about mangrove forests and what’s being done to reverse the downward trends impacting the forests and the ...
Tiisetso Mathole
Launch of the State of the World's Forests - Forests, Biodiversity and People
As the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity 2011–2020 comes to a close and countries prepare to adopt a post-2020 global biodiversity framework, this edition of The State of the World’s Forests (SOFO) examines the contributions of forests, and of the people who use and manage ...
WLE: Solutions for Thriving Ecosystems
Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) is a global research-for-development program connecting partners to find these solutions. Through the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and 12 other core partners, WLE ensures thriving ecosystems go hand-in-hand with agricultural development, food system resilience and human ...
Conservation Workshop Grants
Conservation Workshop Grants fund organizations to train communities, stakeholders, park guards, and others on local and regional conservation issues. These grants support training workshops with a strong hands-on learning component that will build capacity for people living in WWF priority places in select countries in ...
WWF
Proposals of Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Fund - Asia
The Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Fund (RTCF) – Asia is soliciting proposals for the conservation of rhinoceroses and/or tigers throughout their ranges. Eligible applicants are small businesses, private institutions of higher education, for profit organizations other than small businesses, public and state controlled institutions of higher ...
Grants.gov
Call For Applications: Women For The Annamites Grant
Wildact Vietnam announce that we are joining force with the Saola Working Group to provide a small grant to support capacity building of women in Vietnam and Laos for biodiversity conservation and sustainability in the Annamite Mountains.Recognizing that in Indochina ‘forest’ (i.e., conservation) work is ...
Wildact Vietnam
Disasters and Ecosystems: Resilience in a Changing Climate
Disasters have multiple impacts e.g., losses of lives, devastating impacts on infrastructure, damage to ecosystems and undermining development. On top of this, climate change is expected to aggravate existing disaster risks in many regions of the world. There is a need for increased awareness amongst ...
SERVIR-Mekong
First Regional Workshop on the 1st Draft of the MRC’s Preliminary Guidelines for Wetland Inventory, WEFASAM and WBIA
First Regional Workshop on the 1st Draft of the MRC’s Preliminary Guidelines for Wetland Inventory, WEFASAM and WBIA will be held on January 4-5, 2018 at the Office of the Mekong River Commission Secretariat in Vientiane, Lao PDR.The two-day workshop is to discuss ten-selected international/sensitive wetland sites ...
Mekong River Commission
Lower Mekong Policy Forum on Energy, Agriculture, and Natural Resources
The Lower Mekong Public Policy Initiative (LMPPI) is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and jointly managed by Fulbright University Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, and the Vietnam Program of Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation in the ...
Lower Mekong Public Policy Initiative
TERN publishes open archive of bioacoustic sensor data
Australia’s Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Network (TERN) has publicly released their archive of bioacoustic sensor data — almost 45,000 files of acoustic data recorded at 21 monitoring sites around Australia. From their announcement: ‘Bioacoustic sensors do much more than simply capturing the beautiful, calming soundscapes of our natural environment. ...