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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 […]

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    Reconciling forest and tree conservation with food security: A new article on Research Outreach featuring Terry Sunderland

    Forests and trees are a critical resource for human communities. However, conservation efforts to prevent biodiversity loss increasingly conflict with the rights and access of communities using forests for their livelihoods and crucially to meet their nutritional needs. Prof Terry Sunderland of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, has long pointed to the importance of […]

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    Big congratulations to Winy Vásquez for winning the prestigious 2020 John G. Bene Fellowship

    Our lab member Winy just won the 2020 Trees and People: Resilience in a changing climate – John G. Bene Fellowship ! This will support her research on ‘The Right to Food in Contested Spaces: How Food Sovereignty Can Help Alleviate Food Insecurity and Meet Conservation Goals Inside of Protected Areas in the Peruvian Amazon’. […]

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    Communities, conservation, and development in the age of COVID:A Mongabay commentary co-authored by Terry Sunderland

    ‘The global conservation community now faces the added challenge of Covid-19 on top of a longstanding set of complex conservation, sustainability, and development challenges. In the wake of this pandemic, return to business as usual is not a viable option. The existing systems and structures upon which conservation is based must evolve. Climate change, biodiversity […]

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    Deforestation and pandemics. Radio interview with Terry Sunderland by Global News Programme, The Shift

    Chris Gilbert from Global News Programme spoke with Terry Sunderland about COVID-19, biodiversity, food and forests. Listen to the full interview here.

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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