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Hall on making most of 'wild wealth'
Content Type: News - Fellows
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Saturday, May 4, 2013
Under the wide green umbrella of the Panamanian rainforest, the only signs of human intrusion are yellow, orange and blue marks painted around some of the tree trunks. Those marks help measure the plants’ water efficiency, as trees are believed to steady the flow of rivers.“We are trying to understand the services provided by forests,” says Jefferson Hall, a Yale-educated forest ecologist with...
H. Bruce Rinker: Cleaning the Beaches of Mahahual
Content Type: Featured Fellows And Collaborations
Posted:
Friday, September 28, 2012
The Los Angeles Times also ran an excellent story on this subject: "An exquisite Mexico beach, cursed by plastic" (January 27. 2012)
Chile's Salmon Aquaculture Industry
Content Type: Switzer Network News
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012
2011 Switzer Fellow Kelsey Jacobsen is currently a masters student at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management in Santa Barbara, California. Her masters research focuses on Chile's Salmon Aquaculture Industry.
Goldsmith quoted on FOX Business about his inspiration to launch his company
Content Type: News - Fellows
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Friday, May 4, 2012
Like the Haugheys, Evan Goldsmith, founder and owner of Hope for Women, was inspired to start his business after multiple trips to India in the 1990s. He worked on a service project in the Himalayas creating pressed-flower greeting cards with local women for a group in the U.K., and said he wanted to stay connected after moving back home.“I realized the market was growing for socially valuable...
The Laundering Machine: How Fraud and Corruption in Peru’s Concession System are Destroying the Future of its Forests
Content Type: Blog Post - Fellow
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
This past week in Lima, EIA launched a new report entitled “The Laundering Machine: How Fraud and Corruption in Peru’s Concession System are Destroying the Future of its Forests”. The full report is available in both English and Spanish as PDFs posted on EIA’s homepage. In addition, we have created a digital version that contains links to many pertinent official documents, news stories, videos...
Johnson quoted about EIA's new report about American role in illegal logging in Peru
Content Type: News - Fellows
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The United States and Puerto Rico account for 80% of the total value of Peruvian timber sales, said Andrea Johnson, forest campaign director of the Environmental Investigation Agency.Read the full story
Rinker quoted in LA Times article about pristine Mexican beach
Content Type: News - Fellows
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
The plastics on Mahahual's picturesque beaches are more than an eyesore. They may threaten the fragile coral reef and mangrove ecosystems of the Yucatan Peninsula, said H. Bruce Rinker, an ecologist at the Maine-based Biodiversity Research Institute and science advisor to Sustenta.com."If we turn our backs, we risk harming the integrity of those systems," Rinker said.Read full story
Leadership Grant: Rogers-Pinchot Institute for Conservation (Year Three - Forest Conservation in the Ecuadorian Choco)
Content Type: Other Switzer Foundation Grant Awards
Posted:
Friday, May 27, 2011
Year Three - Forest Conservation in the Ecuadorian Choco
Leadership Program
$20,000
The Pinchot Institute for Conservation has been awarded a third year of funding for Amy Rogers as Project Director, continuing to develop a conservation program for the Mache-Chindul Reserve in Ecuador focusing on reforestation and, this year, testing the concept of environmental mortgages. Amy has established a conservation program in the Esmeraldas Province in Ecuador focusing on two...
Whale Trust
Content Type: Switzer Network News
Posted:
Friday, March 11, 2011
Whale Trust, co-founded by Switzer Fellow Meagan Jones, supports research on whales and their marine environment. The organization is committed to bridging that research with public outreach, education and conservation.