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Filming completed for INTERCEDE short documentary A film that aligns audiovisual and storytelling, brings the concept of market-based instruments to a broad audience is in the making.

🎥 INTERCEDE’s forest documentary is in the can!

Shot in Denmark, it shows how market-based instruments help landowners plant forests that deliver #forestecosystemservices. Coming early 2026.

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#INTERCEDE #Forests #ClimateAction #MBI

Arturo Gómez-Pompa, biologist who revealed the human history in “virgin” forests, has died, aged 90 In the steaming lowlands of Veracruz and the Yucatán, where strangler figs knot the canopy and howler monkeys bellow at dawn, a man with a field notebook kept noticing what others overlooked. Arturo G...

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The genius of trees: how forests have shaped humanity, from chocolate cravings to our ability to dream Since our early ancestors came down from the canopy, we may think we have learned how to live without trees. But our lives remain intertwined in incredible ways

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Can you hear the rhythms of nature? - MedForest New study explores how human-made sounds shape acoustic environments in contrast to natural biophonic and geophonic sounds.

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Are biodiversity credits a truly win-win story? Biodiversity credits are an emerging mechanism that seek to mobilize private finance to address the global biodiversity crisis.

🌿 Can nature and finance truly thrive together?

Designed to fund measurable gains in #biodiversity through #conservation and #restoration , researchers explore how #BiodiversityCredits fit into the broader picture of #NatureFinance

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Culture and spirit belong at the center of wildlife conservation (commentary) Conservation is often framed as a scientific or technical challenge — a matter of policies, protected areas and enforcement. But that lens has led conservation astray. Around the world, biodiversity c...

‘Conservation thrives when it honors local traditions, respects spiritual relationships to species and land, and empowers women and other historically marginalized voices’
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‘Ayahuasca tourism’ is a blight on Indigenous peoples and our environment | Nina Gualinga and Eli Virkina The popularity of ‘healing’ through psychedelics is fueling exploitation of Indigenous peoples and threatening biodiversity, say Nina Gualinga and Eli Virkina, both Indigenous women of the Ecuadorian ...

‘Using Indigenous knowledge and medicine carries deep social and environmental responsibility. Without that responsibility, it becomes nothing more than extractivism, another form of colonialism dressed in spiritual language.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...