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Nominations open for the Wangari Maathai Award 2012

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The Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF), an international consortium working on international forest issues and chaired by FAO, has launched its inaugural Wangari Maathai Award to honour and commemorate an extraordinary woman who championed forest issues around the world. The USD 20,000 award will be given in recognition of outstanding...

IUCN: Thomson Reuters Environmental Media Award

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For over a decade, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has teamed up with Thomson Reuters Foundation to honor environmental journalism. From 15 May to 15 June 2012, journalists and writers across the world are invited to submit an article on an environmental issue, for the IUCN –...

The mountain needs to remain a wild place

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“Mountains should be left wild. Only in this way we can guarantee the future of alpinism and mountains.” This was basically the conclusion of the round table Quo CLIMBis, which took place on Sunday, 6 May 2012 at Castle Firmian. On invitation of the Messner Mountain Museum, world renowned mountaineers...

Climate change adaptation in Africa's "living places"

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In order to set in motion the development of an enhanced mountain agenda for Africa, international experts, researchers and journalists from Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe met in Mbale, Uganda, for three days (November 2011). Together, they...

Training on Rapid Rural Appraisal

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The Mountain Partnership Central Asia Hub (MPCA) and MSRC/UCA held a one-day introductory training on Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) techniques on April 27, 2012. The objective of the training was to provide participants with an introduction to RRA and its key methodological principles, as well as to familiarize participants with the...