Best Lessons Learned

Valuable advice, solutions and formulas for success from conservation colleagues.

Community tourism is a means to promote conservation and development, but it can also help to alleviate poverty. The Rainforest Alliance is providing support, resources, and training for small- and medium-sized businesses in Mexico and Guatemala to help them take advantage of this unique opportunity.

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Innovative Eco-Initiative

Editors' selections of projects that are on the cutting edge of conservation creativity.

Asociación para el Desarrollo Sostenible San José Rural (ADESSARU) is transforming the management of the Nacientes Palmichal watershed, located in a rural area in the San José province of Costa Rica, into a model of sustainable local development that combines the natural resource protection with tourism.

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Monitoring & Evaluation

How colleagues are monitoring projects to evaluate their success.

Researchers with the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León and Pronatura Noreste share their methodology for determining the fidelity and dependence of long-billed curlew (Numenius americanus) populations on their overwintering habitat in the grasslands of Mexico’s semi-desert regions.

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