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Improving livelihoods in Guatemalan landscapes

In Guatemala, IUCN is working through its Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy (LLS) to sustain the flow of goods and services from forest landscapes for the benefit of local people and biodiversity conservation. Wildtalk speaks to Jose Arturo Santos, coordinator of the Biodiversity and Sustainable Use Unit in IUCN’s country office in Guatemala, to learn more. …  

23 Feb 2010 | Audio

Restoring forests to improve livelihoods - four years of success and influence

IUCN's Livelihoods and Landscape Strategy is changing the lives of poor communities around the world by restoring forest services, improving livelihoods and creating means of income. Jamie Gordon of IUCN's Forest Conservation Programme describes a few of those success stories. …  

31 Jan 2010 | Audio
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Drawing the future for forest communities

Forest communities are using art to stake a claim on their future. As part of IUCN's Livelihoods and Landscapes Initiative, Intu Boedhihartono encourages local people to draw how they see the areas that they live in now and how they imagine they could change in a few years' time. …  

01 Feb 2010 | Audio