Featured Solutions
- Thailand’s elephant early warning systemby Earth TeamThailand’s elephant early warning system Across four landscapes in Thailand, the boundary between forest and farmland is a nightly negotiation. Wild elephants emerging from protected areas to raid durian and jackfruit orchards, pineapple fields, and cassava plantations bring real economic harm — and sometimes physical danger — to farming communities that have lived alongside them… Read more: Thailand’s elephant early warning system
- Human-Wildlife Conflict: Cheetah Conservation Fund’s Toolbox for Coexistenceby Earth TeamHuman-Wildlife Conflict: Cheetah Conservation Fund’s Toolbox for Coexistence Dr. Laurie Marker, Founder/Executive Director, Cheetah Conservation Fund, [email protected], www.cheetah.org Across Africa, the future of large carnivores depends not only on protecting wildlife but also on supporting the people who share the landscape with them. For livestock farmers, losing even a few animals to predators can threaten… Read more: Human-Wildlife Conflict: Cheetah Conservation Fund’s Toolbox for Coexistence
- Urban Planetary Health: The Komb Green Solutions Storyby Earth TeamUrban Planetary Health: The Komb Green Solutions Story For three decades, a stretch of the Nairobi River was defined by three intersecting crises: environmental degradation, poverty, and crime. Now, reformed young people once involved in crime are greening and feeding their community through regenerative, community-driven restoration. The Problem: A Confluence of Waste and Crime… Read more: Urban Planetary Health: The Komb Green Solutions Story
- Eyes on the Water: Marine Monitor (M2) Is Closing the Surveillance Gap in Nearshore Protected Areasby Earth TeamGetting eyes out on the water, for protection and monitoring, is an ambitious goal on a planet made up of 71% ocean. Satellite systems can track large vessels on the open seas, and AIS technology can follow vessels large enough for a mandatory transponder. But these systems leave significant gaps. In the nearshore waters surrounding… Read more: Eyes on the Water: Marine Monitor (M2) Is Closing the Surveillance Gap in Nearshore Protected Areas
- A Fence for Hopeby Earth TeamHow a Community in Zimbabwe is Alleviating Human-Elephant Conflict and Saving Their Crops By Dr. Niall McCann $300,000. That’s how much the community of Masoka, in Zimbabwe’s Zambezi Valley, loses in income every single year from elephants raiding their crops. And that’s not to mention the lives also lost: Zimbabwe records over 50 human deaths… Read more: A Fence for Hope