Terry Sunderland spoke to CBC on timber thefts on Vancouver Island
Terry recently spoke to CBC on an interview about the possible factors behind tree poaching on Vancouver island. Since January, approximately 100 trees have been taken from the North Cowichan Municipal Forest Reserve that lies 70 kilometres north of Victoria on Vancouver Island. Terry said he believes rising prices are the main driver for timber theft, […]
Big congratulations to Alida O’Connor for winning the SSHRC Canada Graduate scholarship-Doctoral Program
Alida just won the SSHRC Canada Graduate scholarship-Doctoral Program for 2021! Huge congratulations to her from Sunderland lab. This scholarship will support her doctoral research assessing the implementation of integrated landscape approaches in Ghana and Zambia as a part of the COLANDS initiative.
Terry spoke to CBC Radio on the importance of conserving forests and redefining our food system to prevent future pandemics
Terry Sunderland was recently featured on the Current with Matt Galloway show on CBC Radio to discuss why tackling deforestation is key to avoid future pandemics. Terry emphasized on being proactive instead of reactive as a society and looking at what we can do to avoid these situations in the future. We need to reflect […]
Guest Lecture Series 2021: Michael speaks about Wildlife Crime in West Africa
We had the pleasure to host another guest speaker, Michael Balinga, who is the Biodiversity Conservation Specialist for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded) and implemented by Tetra Tech Biodiversity and Climate Change Project (WA BiCC). Michael has over fifteen years of experience in community forestry and tropical and coastal forest management and he […]
New article featuring Terry Sunderland on the links between forests, food security & nutrition
Terry Sunderland & Amy Ickowitz recently published an article on ‘Open Access Government’ highlighting the links between forests, food security and nutrition. The take-home messages from this article are: • Diverse forest and tree-based production systems offer advantages over monocropping systems because of their adaptability and resilience. • Forest and tree-based production systems most often […]
Alida co-authored new CIFOR briefs assessing potential for integrated landscape approaches in Indonesia, Ghana and Zambia
Alida co-authored three infobriefs that have been published recently by CIFOR assessing the potential for integrated landscape approaches in Indonesia, Ghana and Zambia. These briefs explore the three landscape’s national environment and development policy climate and whether it is conducive to operationalizing an integrated landscape approach (ILA). Some of the important findings from these reviews […]
New article: Does funding to integrate conservation and development go where it is most needed?
Over the past few decades, initiatives that aim to integrate conservation goals and development targets at a landscape scale have become increasingly prevalent. But as more resources are allocated to such initiatives, what are the dominant factors driving funding decisions? Is money going to where it is needed most for biodiversity conservation and/or economic development, […]
New interview with Terry Sunderland discussing the COLANDS initiative
Terry Sunderland was recently interviewed by Markham Hislop from Energi Media on COLANDS initiative. Watch to learn more about the trends, challenges, & opportunities of multi-stakeholder collaboration in Zambia, Ghana, and Indonesia here- Deforestation in Tropics complex, difficult to stop.
Guest Lecture Series 2021: Linda Yuliani speaks on local people’s perspectives and implications to land use decisions and forest cover
We had the pleasure to host another guest speaker, Linda Yuliani from CIFOR Indonesia. Linda has conducted extensive research related to the mechanics of oil palm expansion in Kalimantan in relation to local community management issues. On Monday, she presented her work on ‘Forest or oil palm? Local people’s perspectives and implications to land use […]
Webinar: Innovative applications of rattans and the economic potential of the rattan sector
Prof. Terry Sunderland, Lorenzo Pradella and Dr. Krisdianto Sugiyanto examined the innovative applications of rattan and its economic potential at a webinar hosted by INBAR. Rattans are spiny, climbing palms (Arecaceae) whose long, flexible stems provide the canes of commerce which have unique properties such as strength, lightness, durability, appearance and flexibility. As an important […]