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Emiel de Lange
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Conservation Impact Technical Advisor @ WCS Cambodia
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Fantastic insight from @emieldelange.bsky.social “Integrating social science research into the WCS Cambodia program,” demonstrating where SNAPP support for collaborative science on Sharing the Benefits of Conservation contributes to broader program achievement. #ICCB2025

@iccb2025.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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At ICCB next week?

Learn more about how we've built a social science team at WCS Cambodia, conducting innovative research with community and partners, spanning across disciplines and the research-practice gap.

Tue 17th, 2pm in Great Hall 2.
June 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
At ICCB next week?

Learn more about how we've built a social science team at WCS Cambodia, conducting innovative research with community and partners, spanning across disciplines and the research-practice gap.

Tue 17th, 2pm in Great Hall 2.
June 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Hunting birds is rampant throughout Cambodia. w/ Vutha Srey, we joined hunters catching birds at night and dug into the reasons behind the trade for @dialogueearth.bsky.social

With support from @anticorruption.bsky.social Cambodia

dialogue.earth/en/nature/bi... #birds 🌏
Bird hunting in Cambodia driven by poverty and lax enforcement
Conservationists are raising the alarm on an overlooked crisis across the country and Southeast Asia
dialogue.earth
May 1, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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“Conservation is as much about relationships as it is about data,”...“If we want real impact, we need to rebuild trust and truly collaborate.”

www.nature.com/articles/d44...
The future of conservation lies in listening, not just science
A new approach calls for Indigenous knowledge to take centre stage in environmental research
www.nature.com
April 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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A useful compilation of social science resources for conservation researchers and practitioners, and an analysis of gaps - take a look! Led by Diane Detoeuf, @emieldelange.bsky.social Harriet Ibbett with many others conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec... @society4conbio.bsky.social
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Turns out that the poor old US has been "looted, pillaged, raped and plundered" by Cambodia, Lesotho and Madagascar.
April 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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3x 1-year fellowships for African NGO, government and business employees working on biodiversity conservation to engage with researchers based at the @ox.ac.uk , join trainings etc...
iccs.org.uk/fellowship-p...
A. G. Leventis African Biodiversity Fellowship Programme - ICCS
iccs.org.uk
March 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
When I asked 'how are you?', three Phnom Penh tuk tuk drivers in two days have responded, 'fine, but I have no money to spend'.
March 19, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
March 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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RFA and VOA eliminated by Trump administration in a big win for dictators and transnational criminal gangs across Asia in particular. www.rfa.org/english/chin...
www.rfa.org
March 16, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Thirty USAID Contracts Cease in Cambodia; Civil Society Find Ways to Survive, Gov’t Unfazed
Thirty USAID Contracts Cease in Cambodia; Civil Society Find Ways to Survive, Gov't Unfazed | CamboJA News
Hope turned to shock and despair as a leaked document detailed the US government’s permanent cancellation of funding for 30 USAID programs in Cambodia, dashing expectations that the Trump administrati...
cambojanews.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Come on down to the White House Tesla Auto Mall!
March 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.
March 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Currently some program staff has to run campaigns for public donation for survival of their staff members. e.g. Stimson Center, which has done an important work on monitoring Mekong Dams.

For those who consider supporting the project: www.stimson.org/support/?fbc...
January 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I just deactivated my X account - feels like a relief to be gone from that place
January 14, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I'm excited to share a 2-year post-doc opportunity to conduct impactful research on benefit sharing with leading academics and practitioners.

sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

Project is funded by SNAPP and co-led with WCS, RECOFTC, and TNC. Please share!
SNAPP Benefit Sharing Research Fellow - Wildlife Conservation Society - Job Details
Job Details: Position:
sjobs.brassring.com
August 26, 2024 at 7:17 AM
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So, how much deforestation would occur without a carbon project?

“The fundamental issue with all of these things is that there is no reality you can measure to confirm that alternative baseline.”

4th in @john-cannon.bsky.social's new 5-part series on forest carbon credits & the voluntary market 🌎
Leveraging the hypothetical: The uncertain world of carbon credit calculations
This is the fourth article in our five-part series on forest carbon credits and the voluntary market. Read Part One, Part Two and Part Three. Part Five will be published later this month. SEN MONOROM,...
news.mongabay.com
January 12, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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Here's the 1st article in a new 5-part series on forest carbon credits, climate & the voluntary carbon market 🌎

Our @john-cannon.bsky.social reports:
Forest carbon credits and the voluntary market: A solution or a distraction?
This is the first article in our five-part series on forest carbon credits and the voluntary market. Read Part Two, Part Three, Part Four and Part Five later this month. At the outset of 2023, the vol...
news.mongabay.com
January 4, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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This week for World Politics Review, I take a look at what attacks by Yemen's Houthi movement on shipping in the Red Sea tell us about how vulnerable the foundations of the global economy have become to disruption through armed conflict
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/yemen-houthi...
The Houthis Mean Business in the Red Sea
Attacks by Yemen’s Houthi movement on merchant shipping in the Red Sea are the latest sign of complacency by policymakers.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com
January 3, 2024 at 2:15 PM
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Areas of Apurinã territory in Brazil's southern Amazonas state were sold under an NFT project that promised to preserve forest & generate carbon credits 🌎

Indigenous communities were not properly consulted

The company claims it's not “properly demarcated Indigenous land” but prosecutors disagree:
Company sells Indigenous land in Amazonas as NFTs without community’s knowledge
Areas of the Apurinã territory in the Lower Seruini area, in southern Amazonas state, were sold by Nemus under an NFT project that promises to preserve the forest and generate carbon credits.
news.mongabay.com
December 26, 2023 at 4:25 PM
Global Development Professionals for a ceasefire.

Sign now

sites.google.com/view/globald...
GlobalDev4Palestine
We work in global development. We support justice and liberation. We are done being silent. We demand a ceasefire now. Join us in taking action.
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December 26, 2023 at 12:09 PM