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Workshop on conservation economics held at a TEEB initiative event

Courtney Lewis Cheng (staff)| 20 Mayo 2011

On March 29th and 30th, 2011, CSF Brazil Technical Manager Leonardo Fleck led a conservation economics workshop at an event organized by the TEEB initiative (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) from the United Nations Environment Program. The event was held in Corrientes, Argentina, and was co-sponsored by the Avina Foundation. The workshop aimed to promote the use of economics in environmental conservation with a focus on climate change.

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Courtney Lewis Cheng (staff)| 1 Abril 2011
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Marcos Amend featured on the North Bay's KRCB

Courtney Lewis Cheng (staff)| 17 Marzo 2011

For Conservation Strategy Fund's Brazil Executive Director Marcos Amend was featured on Santa Rosa, California's KRCB, discussing economic development as an alternative to deforestation in the Amazon basin. He also explores the work CSF does to prevent destructive roads from being built through the rainforest.

To hear what Marcos has to say, click here.

Economic Tools for Conservation - 2011 International Course

Conservation Strategy Fund successfully completed its 13th annual training course Economic Tools for Conservation, August 15-26, 2011 at Stanford University. This course was offered in partnership with the Center for Conservation Biology and the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford.

Over the last decade, this course has become recognized as the premier applied economics training event for conservation professionals from around the world.

Op-ed by CSF Presdient John Reid published in Press Democrat

Courtney Lewis Cheng (staff)| 11 Febrero 2011

John Reid discusses California's Proposition 23 and what it would mean for the fate of rain forests in an op-ed featured in Santa Rosa's Press Democrat. "California has always led on environmental policy, but never in the wrong direction." To read the article, click here.

Herramientas Económicas para la Conservación en los Andes Tropicales

Este curso es dirigido a profesionales trabajando en temas de conservación y desarrollo en la región amazónica de los paises andinos (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia), y es ofrecido por Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) en colaboración con la Alianza Andes Tropicales (ATT) y la Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Medellín, y cuenta con el apoyo financiero de la Fundación Betty y Gordon Moore.

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CSF Featured in Mogabay online

Courtney Lewis Cheng (staff)| 27 Octubre 2010

Who is CSF and how do we use economics to protect nature? Mongabay conducted an interview with CSF Founder John Reid to find out. You can click to read the article here.

New course offered in Economics of Tiger Conservation

Courtney Lewis Cheng (staff)| 3 Septiembre 2010

Conservation Strategy Fund and the Duke Environmental Leadership (DEL) Program are pleased to announce the course Economics of Tiger Conservation in partnership with the World Bank Institute and the Global Tiger Initiative.

CSF President John Reid is Featured in EcoAmericas

Courtney Lewis Cheng (staff)| 29 Julio 2010
July 2010 EcoAmericas cover

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

Courtney Lewis Cheng (staff)| 7 Mayo 2010

The May 8th - 14th, 2010 edition of The Economist published a letter by President John Reid and CSF course graduate and Fellow Wilson Cabral about the Belo Monte dam. The letter pointed out that the shaky economics of the dam will create pressure for even more dam development upstream of Belo Monte. Construction of the Belo Monte on the Xingu River is rapidly moving forward. But there are positive aspects to this story. A delay in the project of several years, partly due to CSF's 2006 study of the dam, has given time for protected areas and a big new carbon project to be consolidated.