Rare Conservation Fellow Duan Honglian’s Pride campaign in Gaoligong, China set out to help this mountainside community use energy-efficient stoves and electric cookers in order to reduce wood harvesting for fuel. Continue reading
Though overfishing has severely depleted coastal fisheries, it’s not to late to reverse the decline. Continue reading
In 2012, Rare and it’s partners successfully completed 11 wateshed protection programs in the Andes. Rare is now repeating what worked in 13 new sites including expansion into Mexico. Continue reading
The popular Green Living program dives into Rare’s work in the Philippines getting Filipino youth involved in local conservation efforts. Continue reading
Every year Rare trains local conservation leaders around the world in methods to inspire change at the local level and shift behaviors that are destructive to the environment. These Rare Conservation Fellows manage campaigns that use traditional marketing techniques to build pride around natural resources and essentially sell conservation. Continue reading
During the annual Raymillacta festival in Peru thousands of people from dozens of surrounding villages come to the city of Chachapoyas in their native dress. Rare Conservation Fellow Maritza Tovar stole the show with a lively interpretation of the importance of riverbank habitat.Tovar’s campaign aims to reduce deforestation and forest fires in the Tilancancha watershed. Continue reading
Rare CEO Brett Jenks gave an entertaining presentation at the 2011 WWF Fuller Symposium, outlining how Rare uses social marketing and community engagement to change behaviors that threaten habitats and livelihoods around the world. Continue reading
Rare Conservation Fellow Heidy Valle is protecting Andean cloud forest, safeguarding her community’s water supply and saving the endangered yellow-eared parrot. Continue reading
“The two factors — thermal history and community composition — were the most important in explaining the variability among the sites in bleaching variability.” If the above embedded video does not display,
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player If the above embedded video does not display, click here to view it. Rare CEO Brett Jenks was at the Aspen Ideas Festival and sat down for a few minutes with genConnect to discuss how … Continue reading