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July 2010 EcoAmericas cover

CSF President John Reid is Featured in EcoAmericas

EcoAmericas recently published an interview with CSF President John Reid, entitled “Making Economics Part of the Conservation Equation,” which can be found on the last page of the pdf below. John was also quoted in the “Eyes on Watershed as Panama Widens Canal” article, which begins on page 6.

CSF letter published in The Economist

In the May 8th-14th, 2010 edition of The Economist, a letter President John Reid wrote along with CSF's trainee and partner Wilson Cabral, was published on the Belo Monte dam. Belo Monte is moving rapidly toward being constructed on the Xingu River, but there are positive aspects to this story. One, the last few years of delay in the project, to which CSF's 2006 study contributed, gave time for protected areas and a big new carbon project to be consolidated, which will make it harder for more big dams to be built on the Xingu, which is the real threat.

CSF launches YouTube channel

Conservation Strategy Fund has launched a YouTube channel. We will feature videos on CSF projects, courses, staff and student profiles, and informational films. Please subscribe so you can stay up to date with any videos we post.

http://www.youtube.com/user/ConservationStrategy

CSF launches new video on International Training

Watch this short video and hear from our students why they attended our 11th annual International Training in Economic Tools for Conservation at Stanford University in California in August 2009.

The students came from all corners of the globe: Indonesia, Cameroon, Haiti, Bhutan, Colombia, Brazil and beyond.

Watch the video, below, or by clicking here for our You Tube site.

Photos of John Reid, CSF President

CSF President John Reid is Featured in The Katoomba Group Ecosystem Marketplace

Read about how CSF got its start and what inspired John to begin teaching others how to use economics to conserve the environment.

John Reid: Teaching Ecologists the Economics of Nature

Photos of Madden Dam in Panama

CSF launches HydroCalculator Tool

CSF has just developed an innovative online HydroCalculator Tool that empowers citizens to analyze the ecological, social, and financial impacts of hydroelectric dams.

http://www.conservation-strategy.org/hydrocalculator-analyses

Photos of BR-319 Road in Brazilian Amazon

CSF Amazon BR-319 Road study featured in The Katoomba Group Ecosystem Marketplace

New Development and Ecosystem Service Roadkill
by John Reid, Leonardo Fleck, and Marcos Amend

featured in The Katoomba Group's Ecosystem Marketplace

http://ecosystemmarketplace.com/pages/article.opinion.php?component_id=6...

Globo Amazônia logo with photo of amazon river

CSF Amazon BR-319 Road study featured in Globo Amazônia

CSF finds Amazon road BR-319 will lose millions.
http://www.globoamazonia.com/Amazonia/0,,MUL1085850-16052,00-REFORMA+DA+...

Course participants at Golden Gate Bridge

International Economic Tools Course August 10-21, Stanford University, USA

CSF held its 2009 International Economic Tools Course from August 10-12, 2009 at Stanford University in California, USA.

During the two-week course, participants learned to use economics to be more strategic and successful in their conservation work. Participants studied natural resource and environmental economics, practiced communication and negotiation techniques, and got hands-on experience with cost-benefit analysis.

Ecoaméricas cites CSF-supported study

Ecoaméricas cites CSF-supported study on roads in the Maya Forest. The study showed that new proposed roads in remote areas of the forest would increase deforestation, spark fires and cause net economic losses to Guatemala and Mexico. In the Americas, the Maya Forest is the largest intact area of rain forest north of the Amazon. It is home to impressive biodiversity, the largest of the ancient mayan cities' ruins, and thriving forest economies.