What is the Best Type of Farm for Birding?
Farms might not be the first place you think to go birding, but some farms can house a wide variety of wildlife and be important areas for conservation. The perception…
Agriculture Can Be a Solution for Deforestation in Chiapas, Mexico
Like many of the places where The Nature Conservancy works, Chiapas, Mexico, is a biodiversity hotspot under threat: as the fertility of existing agricultural lands decreases, the agricultural sector expands…
Charting a Future for People and Nature in Post-COVID India
India currently (as of July 28, 2020) has the third-highest number of cases of COVID-19, after only the United States and Brazil. This has posed enormous challenges countrywide, with some…
Science Shows Cover Crops Increase Soil Health
In exciting new research published in the journal Nature Food, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the Soil Health Partnership (SHP) set out to answer the questions: How do cover crops…
Rebalancing Water and Land Use for Nature and People in California
A new book from TNC and partners offers lessons and a vision for restoring – rewilding – retired agricultural lands in the San Joaquin Valley in ways that could recover…
Social Considerations for Diffusing Climate-Smart Practices in Regenerative Food Systems
There is wealth in dirt, but only if we collectively recognize and treat our soils as the capital assets that they are. Regenerative agriculture is a set of farming practices…
Conservation-Friendly Farming Can Benefit Both Birds and Crops
I love birds and bird watching – from the aerial twists and turns of the agile barn swallow, to the sally and hover of a flycatcher catching a moth, to…
Edge of Field Practices Enhance Benefits to Farmers and Nature
Ohio farmer takes a whole-farm approach to conservation During heavy spring rains, Allen Dean watched a 60-foot tree float down the creek that crosses through one of his farms in…
A Rancher’s Owls – Cool Green Science
We crouched down, watching the little owls from a couple feet away. They seemed slightly perturbed but made no move to fly away or disappear down a hole. Burrowing owls.…
Small Land Holders Can Lead the Way in Tropical Tree Cover Restoration
Tree cover restoration provides an opportunity to combine climate change mitigation with the pursuit of other sustainable development goals. Unfortunately, most forest restoration studies at global or tropical scales have…