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Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forests under threat from a power plant

World Heritage Centre and IUCN call for relocation of Rampal power plant in Bangladesh, a serious threat to the Sundarbans The Sundarbans in Bangladesh is part of the world’s largest mangrove forests, home to the famous Bengal Tiger and a hotspot for dolphins, turtles, and birds. Millions of peopl

Agriculture has big role to play in curbing greenhouse gas emissions: 2016 State of Food & Agriculture report

Rapid action needed to put smallholders and food systems on sustainable paths: FAO ONE-FIFTH OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS ARE GENERATED BY AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND LAND-USE CHANGE The pledge to eradicate hunger and poverty must go hand in hand with rapid transformations of farming and food systems t

Climate change and the boatman

Teresa Rehman Traditional boatmen and boat builders on the Brahmaputra are essential in Assam, but they are facing new challenges as climate change leads to more siltation and sudden surges of water Ever-smiling Abdul Mazid is the essential link in many lives. Residents of six villages are dependent

A citizen science revolution?

FreshWater Watch At World Water Week, our lead research scientist Professor Steven Loiselle, spoke at numerous seminars to share the achievements of you, our FreshWater Watch citizen scientists, with leaders and experts in freshwater research and protection. Some of the water challenges The world’

Welcome to Masdar City: the ultimate experiment in sustainable urban living

  Susan Lee Masdar City was designed to be zero-carbon and zero-waste, home to a population of 40,000 people Ten years ago in the United Arab Emirates, a new settlement was started from scratch, with the aim of becoming “the world’s most sustainable city”. Masdar City was designed to be z

Can upscale chocolate turn the tide on Haiti’s devastating deforestation?

Meg Wilcox With 98 percent of their trees gone, Haitians eye cocoa-based agroforestry as a way to combat poverty and renew the land When a tiny Quebec chocolate maker won a gold prize at this year’s premier International Chocolate Awards for a bar made with Haitian cocoa beans, it rocked the speci

Paraguay Government defies order to protect un-contacted tribe

The Paraguayan government has failed to act to protect a group of uncontacted tribal people, despite having been ordered to do so in February of this year. Six months ago the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights demanded that the government stop the deforestation of the Chaco, which suffers the

NGO focus: Work of ASODECOM, Burundi

Contra Nocdendi International/NGO partner ASODECOM is a civil society organisation in Burundi that engages in human rights and development issues through programs, advice and advocacy. A significant part of our work done here at Contra Nocendi International is done in collaboration with partner

Drought management: Successes in Solapur, India

Vijay Krishna The Solapur model under a Maharashtra government programme stands as a real example that could be successfully emulated On being urged to by an activist friend in the water sector, I visited the district of Solapur in the state of Maharashtra, India in August of 2016. Maharashtra, in

Reinstating the traditional rainwater harvesting systems in water deficient district of Alwar, India

Shachi Chaturvedi A 2016 interim report done by Sehgal Foundation on the project points out that water harvesting structures under Jaldhaara have conserved 714,431 kiloliters of water, benefiting more than 2,000 people. Kilometers of barren hills with just spare thorny bushes for vegetation speak fo

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