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…
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First Christmas & First Loss
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from A Cowgirl’s Conservation Journey by Heidi Redd with Larisa Bowen, published by The Nature Conservancy. After she graduated college, Redd joined her…
Brazilian Family Farmers Use Agroforestry to Improve Their Lands
Around the world, natural climate solutions, including agroforests, can help protect biodiversity and contribute to a third of the emissions reductions needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.…
How Communities Are Leading the Way in Agroforestry
A spider monkey swings between leafy branches with a mouthful of ripe fruit. Nearby, cows graze in a pasture shaded by caimito de montaña (Chrysophyllum sp) and other broadleaf trees…
New Study Finds People and Nature Thrive With Diversified Farming
A new global study finds that the benefits of diversified agriculture are abundantly clear, whether for food security, biodiversity or the bottom line. The Gist Agricultural diversification—those that intentionally diversify…
Can Regenerative Agriculture Benefit Potato Farming?
When someone asks me that most routine of questions – “Where are you from?” – I can predict what comes next. “Idaho potatoes!” I’ve experienced this automatic reaction to my…
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…
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.…
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…
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…