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Emiel de Lange

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Conservation Impact Technical Advisor @ WCS Cambodia

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Emiel de Lange @emieldelange.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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Cash for conservation? Integrating basic income support into biodiversity and climate finance
This article outlines the idea of a Basic Income for Nature and Climate (BINC) as a novel mechanism for funding biodiversity conservation and climate …
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Emiel de Lange @emieldelange.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
At ICCB next week? Learn more about how we've built a social science team at WCS Cambodia, conducting innovative research with community and partners, spanning across disciplines and the research-practice gap. Tue 17th, 2pm in Great Hall 2.
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Emiel de Lange @emieldelange.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
At ICCB next week? Learn more about how we've built a social science team at WCS Cambodia, conducting innovative research with community and partners, spanning across disciplines and the research-practice gap. Tue 17th, 2pm in Great Hall 2.
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Yann Bigant @yannbigant.com · 01/05/2025
Hunting birds is rampant throughout Cambodia. w/ Vutha Srey, we joined hunters catching birds at night and dug into the reasons behind the trade for @dialogueearth.bsky.social With support from @anticorruption.bsky.social Cambodia dialogue.earth/en/nature/bi... #birds 🌏
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Bird hunting in Cambodia driven by poverty and lax enforcement
Conservationists are raising the alarm on an overlooked crisis across the country and Southeast Asia
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Emiel de Lange @emieldelange.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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Bird hunting in Cambodia driven by poverty and lax enforcement
Conservationists are raising the alarm on an overlooked crisis across the country and Southeast Asia
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Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science @iccs.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
“Conservation is as much about relationships as it is about data,”...“If we want real impact, we need to rebuild trust and truly collaborate.” www.nature.com/articles/d44...
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The future of conservation lies in listening, not just science
A new approach calls for Indigenous knowledge to take centre stage in environmental research
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E.J. Milner-Gulland @ejmilnergulland.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
A useful compilation of social science resources for conservation researchers and practitioners, and an analysis of gaps - take a look! Led by Diane Detoeuf, @emieldelange.bsky.social Harriet Ibbett with many others conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec... @society4conbio.bsky.social
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Turns out that the poor old US has been "looted, pillaged, raped and plundered" by Cambodia, Lesotho and Madagascar.
Global map of 'Reciprocal' tariff rates announced by Donald Trump on 2 April
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Blue Action Fund @blueactionfund.org · 29/03/2025
3x 1-year fellowships for African NGO, government and business employees working on biodiversity conservation to engage with researchers based at the @ox.ac.uk , join trainings etc... iccs.org.uk/fellowship-p...
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A. G. Leventis African Biodiversity Fellowship Programme - ICCS
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Emiel de Lange @emieldelange.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
When I asked 'how are you?', three Phnom Penh tuk tuk drivers in two days have responded, 'fine, but I have no money to spend'.
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Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 18/03/2025
Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
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Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Thirty USAID Contracts Cease in Cambodia; Civil Society Find Ways to Survive, Gov’t Unfazed
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Thirty USAID Contracts Cease in Cambodia; Civil Society Find Ways to Survive, Gov't Unfazed | CamboJA News
Hope turned to shock and despair as a leaked document detailed the US government’s permanent cancellation of funding for 30 USAID programs in Cambodia, dashing expectations that the Trump administrati...
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 12/03/2025
Come on down to the White House Tesla Auto Mall!
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.
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sokummono khan @mono24.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Currently some program staff has to run campaigns for public donation for survival of their staff members. e.g. Stimson Center, which has done an important work on monitoring Mekong Dams. For those who consider supporting the project: www.stimson.org/support/?fbc...
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Supporting Stimson • Stimson Center
The Stimson Center is a non-partisan nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization that promotes international security and shared prosperity through applied research and independent analysis. Today, as shifting ...
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Emiel de Lange @emieldelange.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I just deactivated my X account - feels like a relief to be gone from that place
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Emiel de Lange @emieldelange.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
I'm excited to share a 2-year post-doc opportunity to conduct impactful research on benefit sharing with leading academics and practitioners. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... Project is funded by SNAPP and co-led with WCS, RECOFTC, and TNC. Please share!
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SNAPP Benefit Sharing Research Fellow - Wildlife Conservation Society - Job Details
Job Details: Position:
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 12/01/2024
So, how much deforestation would occur without a carbon project? “The fundamental issue with all of these things is that there is no reality you can measure to confirm that alternative baseline.” 4th in @john-cannon.bsky.social's new 5-part series on forest carbon credits & the voluntary market 🌎
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Leveraging the hypothetical: The uncertain world of carbon credit calculations
This is the fourth article in our five-part series on forest carbon credits and the voluntary market. Read Part One, Part Two and Part Three. Part Five will be published later this month. SEN MONOROM,...
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 04/01/2024
Here's the 1st article in a new 5-part series on forest carbon credits, climate & the voluntary carbon market 🌎 Our @john-cannon.bsky.social reports:
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Forest carbon credits and the voluntary market: A solution or a distraction?
This is the first article in our five-part series on forest carbon credits and the voluntary market. Read Part Two, Part Three, Part Four and Part Five later this month. At the outset of 2023, the vol...
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
This week for World Politics Review, I take a look at what attacks by Yemen's Houthi movement on shipping in the Red Sea tell us about how vulnerable the foundations of the global economy have become to disruption through armed conflict www.worldpoliticsreview.com/yemen-houthi...
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The Houthis Mean Business in the Red Sea
Attacks by Yemen’s Houthi movement on merchant shipping in the Red Sea are the latest sign of complacency by policymakers.
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Emiel de Lange @emieldelange.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
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“How Can I Care About Wolves When There’s a Genocide Going On?”:
On December 18, 2023 five gray wolves from Oregon were released in Grand County, Colorado — this is the first time since the 1940s that…
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 26/12/2023
Areas of Apurinã territory in Brazil's southern Amazonas state were sold under an NFT project that promised to preserve forest & generate carbon credits 🌎 Indigenous communities were not properly consulted The company claims it's not “properly demarcated Indigenous land” but prosecutors disagree:
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Company sells Indigenous land in Amazonas as NFTs without community’s knowledge
Areas of the Apurinã territory in the Lower Seruini area, in southern Amazonas state, were sold by Nemus under an NFT project that promises to preserve the forest and generate carbon credits.
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Emiel de Lange @emieldelange.bsky.social · 26/12/2023
Global Development Professionals for a ceasefire. Sign now sites.google.com/view/globald...
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We work in global development. We support justice and liberation. We are done being silent. We demand a ceasefire now. Join us in taking action.
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Emiel de Lange @emieldelange.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
This painting by Vann Chhovorn, now hanging above my piano, makes me happy
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Sarah Sax @sarahlsax.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Forested countries want to start trading their UN REDD+ results under the new article 6 emissions trading scheme. Some see it as an ideal place to generate well-needed finance for tropical forests. Others are more skeptical. I delve into the debate here for @mongabay.bsky.social —>
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U.N. carbon trading scheme holds promise and peril for tropical forests
Suriname’s recently announced plans to sell carbon credits under the Paris Agreement’s emissions trading system have been met with both applause and skepticism by climate experts. The South Americ...
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Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་) @dchungyalpa.bsky.social · 23/12/2023
Very grateful to have had a chance to talk with  @npr.org 's All Things Considered about the importance of regulating our emotions and cultivating courage in the face of the climate crisis. (Great way to end the year and start my winter retreat! See you in 2024!) www.npr.org/2023/12/22/1...
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Emiel de Lange @emieldelange.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
The Cambodian Indigenous People's Alliance, representatives of 189 communities, have released an important statement on Cambodia's natural resource and environment code (English below) m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
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Gerry Flynn @geraldrflynn.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
news.mongabay.com/2023/12/new-... Latest from me for @mongabay.bsky.social - Cambodia's government has approved two new hydropower dams in the heart of the Cardamom Mountains that are set to tear up protected old-growth forest, including that in Wildlife Alliance's Southern Cardamom REDD+ project.
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New dams in Cambodia pit ‘green’ hydropower against REDD+ project
PHNOM PENH — Two new hydropower dams approved by Cambodian authorities on Nov. 21 look set to bring further fragmentation to the dense rainforests of the Cardamom Mountains. If built as planned alon...
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John Cannon @john-cannon.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
Check out a list of 10 interesting books from 2023 on conservation and the environment, now up at @mongabay.bsky.social: news.mongabay.com/2023/12/10-n...
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10 notable books on conservation and the environment published in 2023
Many of the effects of the twin crises of climate change and the loss of biodiversity can feel as though they’re happening to us. They are, journalists often write, forces to be battled, or storms t...
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
Pls watch the segment w/ which @chrislhayes.bsky.social ended his show tonight. “There is no terrorist attack, no matter how horrific—& truly Oct 7 was horrific—that can wash clean what we are seeing in Gaza & what we as Americans & our government are abetting. It must end. We must stop it.” Yes.
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Chris Hayes: The war in Gaza must end
Chris Hayes: “There is no terrorist attack, no matter how horrific—and truly Oct. 7 was horrific—that can wash clean what we are seeing in Gaza and what we as Americans and our government are ab...
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Emiel de Lange @emieldelange.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
Coffee firms turning away from Africa as EU deforestation law looms www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
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Emiel de Lange @emieldelange.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
I imported 14 friends from Twitter to Bluesky
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Emiel de Lange @emieldelange.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
Conservation Basic Income, Apa Itu? www.forestdigest.com/detail/2327/...
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Emiel de Lange @emieldelange.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
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Kuy Community Protest Against Outsiders, Encroachment on Customary Land | CamboJA News
Nearly 200 Kuy indigenous people from Dang Phlet and Narong villages in Preah Vihear province’s Chheb district​​​ gathered to halt an excavator from razing their traditional land or “customa...
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Gerry Flynn @geraldrflynn.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
news.mongabay.com/2023/12/imme... I write a lot on forest loss in Cambodia for @mongabay.bsky.social but researchers Nerea Turreira-Garcia & Dimitris Argyriou spent years documenting flora in Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary and how Indigenous communities depend on it, giving a sense of what's at stake.
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‘Immense body of knowledge’ at stake in Cambodia’s Prey Lang as deforestation soars
PHNOM PENH — “This book won’t stop deforestation, but it can show what’s at stake, what we will lose if we lose Prey Lang,” said Nerea Turreira-Garcia, assistant professor at the University ...
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Emiel de Lange @emieldelange.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
"Exxon’s attendance [at #COP28] is part of Big Oil's decades of efforts to infiltrate and corrupt attempts by policymakers to meaningfully address the climate crisis" - My take in @financialtimes.com on Exxon CEO's absurd comments at UN climate talks today. 1/n www.ft.com/content/2217...
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UN climate talks have focused on renewable energy for too long, Exxon chief says
Darren Woods tells FT that oil and gas major has a role to play in reducing emissions
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Emiel de Lange @emieldelange.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
In this commentary, my colleagues and I argue that upholding the rights of Indigenous People's to manage their lands is essential for the Cambodia to achieve conservation and secure access to further biodiversity and carbon financing. We propose specific reforms and actions the government can take.
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Emiel de Lange @emieldelange.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
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Slash-and-burn agriculture can increase forest biodiversity
The slash-and-burn agriculture practiced by many Indigenous societies across the world can actually have a positive impact on forests, according to a new study done in Belize.
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Emiel de Lange @emieldelange.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
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Indigenous land rights are key to conservation in Cambodia (commentary)
While Indigenous peoples comprise just 6% of the global population, they manage or have tenure rights over at least 38 million km2 in some 87 countries. In many places Indigenous peoples are effective...
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Emiel de Lange @emieldelange.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
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End-of-the-world scare stories have the opposite effect: celebrated
It makes no sense to talk in apocalyptic terms about the environment, insists Dame EJ Milner-Gulland, professor of biodiversity at Oxford and a leading international conservationist. This is not to
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Philip Jacobson @philjaco.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Intrepid reporting by my @mongabay.bsky.social colleagues in Cambodia's northern rainforests, which sadly continue to be eaten away by criminal logging syndicates. Cambodia has long had one of the world's highest rates of deforestation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILy7...
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The truth about Cambodia’s Prey Lang sanctuary | Chasing Deforestation
Cambodia has one of the highest deforestation rates in the world, and the situation in the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary which spans four provinces is emblema...
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