Six years as Special Rapporteur, by the numbers:
>500,000 km traveled
>12,000 hours volunteered
>1,000 meetings attended
>500 letters sent to States and businesses
>400 speeches and presentations
-161 States that recognize, in law, the right to a healthy environment

Our team in Bolivia is collecting seeds of this spectacular species, Puya raimondii - queen of the Andes! This endangered plant will be the focus of propagation trials with the outlook developing of a conservation program to save this emblematic plant. MO Botanical Garden Herbario Nacional de Bolivia

📢El Juzgado de Paz Letrado e Investigación Preparatoria de Río Santiago (Amazonas) dictó detención preliminar contra tres policías, un ciudadano peruano y cinco ciudadanos ecuatorianos por el presunto delito de minería ilegal en el territorio Wampís.

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I am so grateful to have joined in celebrating Dean Corey D.B. Walker and the very bright future ahead for Wake Forest Divinity. I have seen Dean Walker’s commitment to creativity, innovation and academic integrity. His leadership will ensure the Divinity School continues to grow and thrive…

The alchemy of crime and corruption allows South American countries to export 3.6x more gold than they produce
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Ian Gary FACT Coalition USAID/Peru The Sabin Center

The strange alchemy of South American gold production:

Ian Gary FACT Coalition The Sabin Center

Hoy nos llena de orgullo a todos los peruanos y peruanas la creación de la Reserva Nacional Mar Tropical de Grau.💙🐟🐬🐢🌊
👉Conoce más sobre esta #ÁreaNaturalProtegida que alberga una de las zonas con más alta biodiversidad del mar peruano entre Tumbes y Piura.
Ministerio del Ambiente 🇵🇪♻️

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Alas! I thought I would never see this day. #Peru has finally a new #marine #protected #area . This area of 115k hectares in northern Peru is a huge opportunity, but comes a usual loaded with challenges. For now, let’s savior the news!

Deforestation haunts top Peruvian reserve and its Indigenous communities

'But in the last few years, Amarakaeri has scaled up in this list of most threatened protected areas in southern Peru' Sidney Novoa

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Conservación Amazónica - ACCA,Amazon Conservation,Aimee Gabay,Mongabay

We are underway at the 2024 WFU Environmental & Epistemic Justice Initiative summit 'Headlines and Footnotes: Environmental Justice in an Age of Planetary Crisis' with a panel on the law and environmental justice. Wake Forest Law The Sabin Center

Happy Administrative Professionals Day!
🌹🌸 Thank you, Mrs. Cindy Davis & Ms. Cara Davis, for everything you both do to support our department! 🌷🌺

#LoÚltimo Los líderes wampis esperan la llegada de la Policía Nacional del Perú y Ministerio Público para que inicien las investigaciones. Kefrén Graña Yagkur, secretario adjunto de la Nación Wampis, pide que se investigue el caso. 🧵

Of course they do. The crazy part was thinking that they didn't. Carl Safina put paid to that in a nice series of books

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Footage of an American woodcock at Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge.

It's mating season for the timberdoodles. This male woodcock was calling and dancing just after dusk. 'PEENT!' is the loud call he makes. His wooing works as a female shows up at the end of the video.

Biden Shields Millions of Acres of Alaskan Wilderness From Drilling and Mining nytimes.com/2024/04/19/cli…

Brazil’s natural grasslands under attack | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Life is so cool...! From endosymbiont to organelle in today's Science Magazine WFU Biology

The nitroplast: A nitrogen-fixing organelle | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

💯 From today's Science Magazine. More important than ever...

Teach philosophy of science | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

On Friday, April 12, at 1pm in Winston 124 & Online, Emma Reder, WFU Biology MS grad student, will give a seminar talk titled 'Big Trees, Bigger Questions: Investigating Diameter and Species Classifications of Trees in the Peruvian Amazon.'
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Email [email protected] for Zoom link.