Tasi Ne’ebé Sustenta Ita – The Sea That Sustains Us

“Tasi Ne’ebé Sustenta Ita” (The Sea That Sustains Us) is a film by USAID/Timor-Leste that serves as a celebration of the marine environment around East Timor, it’s beauty, diversity and sustaining power for people here. It also serves as a warning the environment faces from plastic and other pollution. Finally, it is a call to action to the Timorese and all who visit the island to respect and preserve this precious resource.

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Power and Potential: Governments Fail to Protect Indigenous and Rural Women’s Land Rights

Equal rights and opportunities for women are not only matters of justice and dignity. When women and girls have equal rights in law and practice, their communities and countries also benefit. Indigenous and rural women make up more than half of the 2.5 billion people who customarily own and use the world’s community lands, yet they have been largely absent from discussions of women’s property rights and broader development agendas.

A new analysis from RRI provides an unprecedented assessment of 80 legal frameworks regulating indigenous and rural women’s community forest rights in 30 developing countries comprising 78 percent of the developing world’s forests. .

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Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge: New England Aquarium is tackling wildlife trafficking at ports

The Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge rewards science and tech innovations that fight wildlife crime.

Congratulations to the New England Aquarium, one of the Challenge’s four Grand Prize Winners! They share a more than $900,000 Grand Prize to accelerate their exceptional innovation, which leverages “smart invoice” technology to help port inspectors find illegal wildlife trade hidden in plain sight.

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Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge: New York University is tackling online wildlife trafficking

The Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge rewards science and tech innovations that fight wildlife crime.

Congratulations to New York University, one of the Challenge’s four Grand Prize Winners! They share a more than $900,000 Grand Prize to accelerate their exceptional innovation, a secure, web-based interface that leverages the power of machine learning to identify online wildlife trafficking.

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Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge: The Uni. of Washington is using DNA tech to protect pangolins

Congratulations to the University of Washington, one of the Challenge’s four Grand Prize Winners! They share a more than $900,000 Grand Prize to accelerate their exceptional innovation, a genetic analysis tool that will reveal where pangolins, some of the most trafficked mammals in the world, are being poached.

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