17 12, 2017

Alagoas curassow: generating identity value from a species asset

By |2017-12-17T00:11:10+00:00December 17th, 2017|21st Century conservation, Blog, Extinction, Natural Assets, People & nature, Protected Areas, Technology empowered conservation|Comments Off on Alagoas curassow: generating identity value from a species asset

It is a thoughtful moment looking into the eye of a bird that nearly went extinct.  As I crouched and observed an Alagoas curassow my first thought was a sense of deep gratitude to Pedro Mario Nardelli who in the late 1970s acted to rescue the last wild specimens and establish a captive population in

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8 12, 2017

Brazil’s Cerrado forests won’t be saved by corporate pledges on deforestation

By |2019-07-20T10:37:25+00:00December 8th, 2017|Blog, Natural Assets, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Brazil’s Cerrado forests won’t be saved by corporate pledges on deforestation

This article by Sergio Carvalho and myself was published in The Conversation on 8 December 2017. Header image via www.shutterstock.com To the south of the Amazon basin lies a huge savannah known as the Cerrado. Once a mix of grassland and forest, much of the Cerrado has now been transformed into the vast soy farms

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