Championing local voices on community forestry
A welcome new chapter for the Congo Basin Forest Partnership as local voices join discussions to preserve the region’s critical ecosystems.
Funding the youth biodiversity movement
Swetha Stotra Bhashyam explains how funding the youth biodiversity movement can empower their global vision.
From primate scientist to youth activist: Meet Swetha Stotra Bhashyam
Synchronicity Earth speaks to Swetha Stotra Bhashyam about her career in youth activism for the global biodiversity movement.
Investing in the people who will save species
We speak to Nerissa Chao, director of the IUCN SSC Asian Species Action Partnership (ASAP), about their new strategy and why investing in the people who will save species is key to conserving Southeast Asia’s rich biodiversity. 80% of Southeast Asia’s Critically Endangered land and freshwater vertebrate species are found nowhere else on the [...]
Why local conservation challenges require local solutions
Sisters Merline Touko Tchoko and Julie Gagoe Tchoko speak about their careers in natural resource management in the Congo Basin.
Towards better climate funding: centring Indigenous Peoples and local communities
“Money earmarked for Indigenous people that sits in a bank because of worries about Indigenous ‘capacity’ is water sitting in a locked fire hydrant while a city burns down because you’re worried the firefighters can’t handle the job.” This is how Tapestry Institute’s Standing Our Ground for the Land: An Indigenous Philanthropy describes a key [...]
How a literature degree prepared me for a career in conservation
Claire Adler came to Synchronicity Earth with a lifelong interest in conservation, a lot of anxiety about climate change—and a degree in medieval English literature. In the following blog, she writes about how studying our past, from peat bogs to the origins of colonialism, taught her the skills and perspectives she needed to start [...]
Meet our Latin America affiliate, Grace Iara Souza
Over the past 18 years, Dr Grace Iara Souza has developed a deep understanding of the impacts of global environmental governance and social policies on local rainforest defenders in the Brazilian Amazon. Her academic training is rooted in Political Ecology, and her professional experience includes project management in the educational, private, and charity sectors, [...]
Snapshots from a global biodiversity conference
The world's largest and most important global gathering on biodiversity convened in Montreal, Canada, in December 2022. As the speeches, pledges and media coverage of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity Conference of the Parties 15 (COP15) fade into memory, we hear from four people who were there. Large, [...]
Indigenous youth at COP27: From the village to the world
Clique aqui para ler este artigo no original em português. Most of the media coverage of COP27, held in November 2022 in Egypt, concentrated on speeches by world leaders, and disappointingly familiar pledges to recommit to the 2015 Paris Agreement. However, there is a strong sense now that the youth movement has an ever-louder [...]