Ranked #1
Opportunities & Challenges of Policies for Tropical Forest Restoration
Opportunities & Challenges of Policies for Tropical Forest Restoration
There is a great deal of political momentum behind policy incentives to reduce deforestation and restore tropical ecosys... Read more
12 Jun 2012
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26mins
Ranked #2
Certified Cocoa as a Strategy for Ecosystem Restoration in the Amazon Forest of São Felix do Xingu, Pará, Brazil
Certified Cocoa as a Strategy for Ecosystem Restoration in the Amazon Forest of São Felix do Xingu, Pará, Brazil
The municipality of São Felix do Xingu, in the Brazilian Amazon State of Para is considered a “deforestation Hotspot” du... Read more
12 Jun 2012
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32mins
Ranked #3
The Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact: A Major Effort by Brazilian Society to Restore & Transform Its Most Threatened Biome
The Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact: A Major Effort by Brazilian Society to Restore & Transform Its Most Threatened Biome
The Brazilian Atlantic Forest is one of the five top priority conservation areas in the world, due to its exceptional bi... Read more
12 Jun 2012
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37mins
Ranked #4
Community-Based Monitoring of Mahogany Regeneration & Applications of Hand-Held DNA Timber-Tracking
Community-Based Monitoring of Mahogany Regeneration & Applications of Hand-Held DNA Timber-Tracking
Many of the same criteria apply to forest restoration and community-based forest management--particularly in vulnerable ... Read more
12 Jun 2012
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53mins
Ranked #5
Restoring Landscapes, Governing Space
Restoring Landscapes, Governing Space
Forest landscape restoration seems to have become a new hype. Driven by climate change, there currently are many efforts... Read more
12 Jun 2012
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33mins
Ranked #6
Mechanized Planting of Forests: Innovation and Scale in the Xingu, Central Brazil
Mechanized Planting of Forests: Innovation and Scale in the Xingu, Central Brazil
The Xingu is famous worldwide, not only for the Amazon forest and its border with the Brazilian savannah (called “Cerrad... Read more
12 Jun 2012
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27mins
Ranked #7
Private Sector Investment Model in Mixed Native Species Agroforestry Plantations with Indigenous Communities & Small Landowners
Private Sector Investment Model in Mixed Native Species Agroforestry Plantations with Indigenous Communities & Small Landowners
Two of the main barriers to adoption of small scale forestry by smallholders and indigenous communities in Panama are 1.... Read more
12 Jun 2012
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31mins
Ranked #8
Restoration Initiatives in the Lowland Tropics of Central America
Restoration Initiatives in the Lowland Tropics of Central America
BARCA is a company that works in reforestation and also in restoration in the Central American tropics. Its main restora... Read more
12 Jun 2012
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23mins
Ranked #9
Panel 1 Discussion: Forest Regeneration in Human-Modified Landscapes
Panel 1 Discussion: Forest Regeneration in Human-Modified Landscapes
1st Panel discussion moderated by Cullman Fellow, Alder Keleman.
12 Jun 2012
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32mins
Ranked #10
Subsistence Agriculture Can Foster Forest Restoration in the Tropics: Quintana Roo, Mexico
Subsistence Agriculture Can Foster Forest Restoration in the Tropics: Quintana Roo, Mexico
Quintana Roo, Mexico is more than 70% forested and harbors important populations of jaguar, tapir, monkeys and pumas. Mo... Read more
12 Jun 2012
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34mins