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    New Mongabay article featuring Joli Rumi Borah’s research on shifting cultivation in Northeast India

    Secondary forests are gaining importance in the tropics as pristine forests are cleared. And it is vital to understand the impacts of changing patterns of shifting cultivation on carbon storage. The dynamic nature of shifting cultivation, an agricultural system practiced for centuries, results in a landscape mosaic of jhum fields, secondary forests, and old-growth forests. […]

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    Terry Sunderland and team featured on UBC Forestry News

    Terry Sunderland and the team were featured on UBC Forestry News recently for their contribution on the international collaborative book Operationalizing landscape approaches in the tropics, recently launched at the international Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) Biodiversity Digital Conference. Upwards of 600 researchers from around the world attended the GLF Oct. 29, 2020 event that addressed everything […]

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    Diling Liang updates on Tree Inventory project at UBC farm

    Diling Liang, a masters student at Sunderland lab, gave an update on the Tree inventory project at UBC Farm 2021 Research Planning Session on Friday November 20th. Under this project, Sunderland lab is measuring and tagging all trees at the UBC farm forest. Diling’s talk highlighted the progress so far, preliminary results from the 2000 […]

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    COLANDS team at Global Landscape Forum Biodiversity Digital Conference

    Collaborating to operationalize landscape approaches for nature, development and sustainability (COLANDS) team hosted a session at the recent GLF Biodiversity Digital Conference: One World – One Health (Oct 28 – 29, 2020). The session was presented by eight speakers and was attended by more than 700 people. Speakers shared their experiences of conceptualizing, designing and implementing landscape […]

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    COVID-19 pandemic offers opportunity to rethink status quo conservation efforts: Forest News article on work co-authored by Terry Sunderland

    The coronavirus pandemic creates an opportunity to rethink generally accepted underperforming business-as-usual approaches to conservation, say more than 20 conservation and development professionals in an editorial published by environmental news provider Mongabay. Current approaches should prioritize locally managed ecosystems, they state. Initial efforts to address the environmental impacts and origins of COVID-19 are frequently oversimplified and […]

Welcome to the Sunderland Lab at UBC!

Sunderland lab is based in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. The lab is led by Dr. Terry Sunderland, Professor in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences. Our research is focused on applied research, biodiversity, conservation, sustainable resource management, and linkages to levering policy influence. For more details, please visit the ‘Research‘ page. To get recent updates on our work, please follow Sunderland lab and Dr. Terry Sunderland on Twitter!

 

 

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