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🗓️📺🌳On May 24th, join me and 3 exceptional experts to discuss effective strategies for engaging local communities to maximize the success of large-scale forest restoration in MORFO's next webinar [1/5] 👇

Congrats to Prof. Keith Bonin, who became the Richard T. Williams Chair in Physics. Keith is an exceptional scholar, teacher, and mentor who has touched the lives of countless students and faculty. This is also a beautiful tribute to Richard and a way to keep his memory alive.

📣 El Juzgado de Paz Letrado de Río Santiago declaró fundado el requerimiento de prisión preventiva para tres policías y seis civiles, incluyendo ciudadanos ecuatorianos, por 9 meses debido a su participación en #mineríailegal en territorio wampís.

➡nacionwampis.com/gobierno-wampi…

👏 Destacamos el gran trabajo ambiental en #MadreDeDios , donde los ecosistemas devastados por la minería ilegal de oro están siendo revitalizados. France Cabanillas de Pure Earth y #CINCIA lidera estos esfuerzos. Agradecemos a Wake Forest University USAID/Peru 👇
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Just bought LostSharkGuy and Marc Dando's new book from Princeton Nature --spectacular field guide to the some of the neatest creatures in the ocean 👇

Take a deep dive into the world of the #sharks , rays, and chimaeras of the East Coast of North America with David A. Ebert and Marc Dando's incredible new field guide, now available!

Learn more: hubs.ly/Q02vWqcP0 LostSharkGuy @wildnaturepress Marc Dando

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.

rpp.pe/peru/actualida…

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
ojo-publico.com/especiales/lat…
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

news.mongabay.com/2024/04/defore…

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. 🧵