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Ruaha Carnivore Project staff featured in WildAid Campaign

by BAND | Jan 22, 2020 | Grants in Focus, Nature Conservation

Living on the landscape with lions and other large predators can impose significant costs on local communities.  When lions prey on livestock, people sometimes retaliate by killing lions.  Human/wildlife conflict is one of the leading factors contributing to the 50%...

The Myth of the Squirrel: Awakening People to the Grassland Heritage of America’s Southeast

by BAND | Jan 20, 2020 | Grants in Focus, Nature Conservation

When most people think of American grasslands, they imagine the vast open prairies of the Great Plains.  Few recognize that some of the most varied and important grassland habitat actually occurred in the Southeast.  Contrary to popular lore, the Southeast was not an...

Video Showcases the Importance of the Maasai Mara’s Wildlife Conservancies

by BAND | Jan 10, 2020 | Grants in Focus, Nature Conservation

The Maasai Mara ecosystem is one of the world’s most important conservation landscapes.  It is also home to the Maasai people whose pastoralist traditions have allowed wildlife to coexist with humans and livestock for centuries.  Today, this ecosystem is severely...

Video Highlights How Community-Managed Wildlife Areas In Tanzania Serve as Grass Banks for Local Communities

by BAND | Jan 10, 2020 | Grants in Focus, Nature Conservation

Grazing is the lifeblood of Maasai culture in northern Tanzania, and its currency is grass.  Population pressure, agricultural expansion, infrastructure development and land subdivision are placing enormous pressure on savanna grassland resources in this landscape. ...

Video Highlights bioGraphic’s Solutions-based Approach to Conservation Journalism

by BAND | Jan 10, 2020 | Grants in Focus, Nature Conservation

Media coverage of the biodiversity crisis too frequently lends itself to apocalyptic headlines and a sense of hopelessness.  In turn, this can cause people to tune out and feel as though nothing can be done to stem nature’s decline.  It also shortchanges the countless...
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