Stories: People & Ecosystems

In this interview, Crispino Lobo of the Watershed Organization Trust talks about how rural villages can escape poverty by managing their land sustainably.

The World Resources Institute made important contributions on a variety of issues at the IUCN World Conservation Congress discussions.

Blog Action Day— October 15—is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. This year’s aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion on poverty.

The food crises of the present will seem as nothing to those of the future unless the world brings some urgency and intelligence to managing the planet’s nature-based assets.

All eyes are on Wall Street as it completed another roller coaster week of financial turmoil. Can things get worse? Actually, yes.

WRI began working in Central Africa ten years ago and has since built an extensive on-the-ground presence to contribute to the development of sustainable forest management in the region.

With world heads of state gathered in New York to discuss the status of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), climate change and ecosystem destruction brings added pressure to the fight to end extreme poverty.

Two high-level forums recently convened in Washington D.C. to deal with some of the most challenging forestry and climate change issues facing the international community.

Southeast Asia’s scientists, researchers, and political figures are emphasizing the importance of restoring mangrove forests, one of nature’s strongest defenses against natural disasters.

Ecosystems provide a wealth of services to human populations, among them, disease regulation. But narrowly-focused development projects can threaten these ecosystems and put entire populations at risk.