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Recent News
Women Marine Guards Protect the Underwater “Treasure”
The long stretch of pinkish white sand of Subic Beach in the Philippines’ Calintaan Island has become a popular tourist destination during the past decade. The exquisite waters surrounding the beach are part of the San Bernardino Strait – a…
The Wild Table: Fish, Forests and Food Security
What do chocolate, forests and fisheries management have in common? The answer lies at the intersection of biodiversity conservation and food security.
Symposium Features USAID Research Partnerships on Forests and Watersheds to Solve Complex Challenges to Food Security, Nutrition and Health
A symposium held at the Ronald Reagan Building on October 4 highlighted research that demonstrates linkages between the status of watersheds and forests and health and nutrition outcomes.
Using the Biodiversity Conservation Gateway: The Case of Nepal
The USAID Biodiversity Conservation Gateway is a resource repository created to support the programming and information needs of Agency staff, partners and the global biodiversity community.
Flying Under the Radar: Wildlife Trafficking in the Air Transport Sector
Flying Under the Radar is the most comprehensive report on wildlife trafficking in the air transport sector to date, analyzing ivory, rhino horn, reptile and bird seizures from airports worldwide between 2009-2016.
Food Security and Health Depend on Biodiverse Ecosystems
Taylor Ricketts’ work focuses on the question: How do we meet the needs of both people and nature in an increasingly crowded, changing world?
Biodiversity and Food Security Are Inextricably Linked
Biodiversity underpins the ecosystem goods and services that enable sustainable development.
World Wildlife Day 2017: FRAMEgram Special Edition
This special edition of FRAMEgram is in recognition of World Wildlife Day 2017. Every year March 3rd marks the United Nations World Wildlife Day. This year’s theme is “Listen to the Young Voices.” The U.S. State Department’s theme is “Front…
FRAMEgram January edition
This FRAMEgram highlights community conservation and community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), an effective approach to widely engage local communities in natural resource management. It presents examples of how empowered communities can take ownership to protect their natural resources and what…
How Farmers in Africa are Restoring Degraded Lands and Enhancing Resilience
A webinar on “How Farmers in Africa are restoring Degraded Lands and Enhancing Resilience” was held at the World Resources Institute (WRI) in Washington DC.
FRAMEgram: two major USAID biodiversity projects
This FRAMEgram focuses on information and resources from two major USAID biodiversity projects: the Biodiversity Understanding in Infrastructure and Landscape Development (BUILD) and Sustainable Conservation Approaches in Priority Ecosystems (SCAPES). You will also find many tools and resources in the…
USAID LESTARI Project
USAID LESTARI supports the Government of Indonesia to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and conserve biodiversity in carbon rich and biologically significant forest and mangrove ecosystems. LESTARI applies a landscape approach to reduce emissions, integrating forest and peatland conservation with low…
(ECO) Environmental Communication, Learning and Outreach
USAID’s Environmental Communication, Learning and Outreach (ECO) contract is a five-year project aimed at improving learning and communications in the Environmental and Natural Resource Management and Global Climate Change sectors for USAID staff and the broader development community.
BUILD: Biodiversity Understanding in Infrastructure and Landscape Development
USAID’s support to the Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) through the Biodiversity Understanding in Infrastructure and Landscape Development (BUILD) program (2011-2015) aimed to improve policy, regulatory and planning approaches to avoid or reduce negative impacts of infrastructure development on biodiversity.
SCAPES: Sustainable Conservation Approaches in Priority Ecosystems: 2009- 2014
SCAPES was the flagship program of USAID’s Forestry and Biodiversity Office, and as such played a prominent role in driving innovation across the Agency’s biodiversity conservation portfolio, and ultimately the wider international conservation community.
2016 USAID CLA Case Competition
Building on the success of last year’s CLA Case Competition, we are pleased to announce that we are now accepting submissions for the 2016 Competition!
FRAMEgram: Innovative Knowledge Systems for Improved Land Management - October 2014
Greetings! Land management is the subject of the month on FRAMEweb.
Lost Freetown, a film by Nazia Parvez
LOST FREETOWN: A 30-min documentary unravelling the environmental disaster in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. The film shows how urban migration and displacement caused by the decade long civil war have resulted in a doubling of the population of…
FRAMEgram: Save the Date for Stocktaking Webinar - July 2014
Read updates from the FRAME community in July 2014.
FRAMEgram: Sustainable Land Use and Land Management - November 2014
Greetings! This month's FRAMEgram focuses on sustainable landscapes, land use and land management.
