#livelihood-transition

In rural regions where grazing, farming, and population are declining, maintained open areas that once interrupted vegetation continuity are closing with combustible growth, connecting forest, shrubland, and settlements across broader landscapes while removing the local labor nee

Northern textile collection is funded by exporting the reusable fraction — historically ~half of sorted EU volume — to African markets. That outlet is closing: importing countries increasingly buy cheap new Asian garments instead, and several destinations now restrict secondhand

Enforcement reaches the act of clearing but not the economics behind it. Illegal miners and smallholders often clear because it is their only livelihood, so crackdowns without alternatives push activity underground and cause hardship rather than keeping forest standing.

Co-design practical livelihood, prevention and compensation measures with affected communities so coexistence does not impose unacceptable local costs or lead to killing threatened animals.

Provide crops, practices, finance and market access that let communities use wet peat without drainage and open burning.

Pay and support livestock keepers to reduce combustible vegetation in strategically selected areas while sustaining viable rural livelihoods.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service began releasing captive-bred red wolves at Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in 1987. More than 60 adults were released from 1987 to 1994, wild breeding followed and the populat…

PACE-Vaquita sought to eliminate vaquita bycatch by enforcing gillnet restrictions, withdrawing fishing effort, testing alternative gear and compensating fishers. The IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group reports that 230 arti…

Van Long Nature Reserve protects the largest known population of Delacour's langur through reserve management coordinated between the Ninh Bình Forest Protection Department, community-led patrol teams (including former…

Following the 2015 peat-fire crisis, Indonesia established a dedicated Peatland Restoration Agency to implement canal blocking, rewetting, and community-based restoration across priority peatland regions. Implementation…

Ramats de Foc connects livestock grazing with strategically selected vegetation management and markets products associated with fire prevention, operating as an ongoing network in Catalonia rather than a completed proje…