International Opportunity for Young Sustainable Development Professionals
Application deadline 1 September 2025 The Norec Grant for Work Exchange Cooperation gives young professionals the chance to gain international experience and expertise about sustainable development. Norec aims for a wide variety of work exchange projects, considering diversity in themes, competencies, locations, participants, and partnerships. Norec supports the goals of Norwegian development policy to achieve…
Ensuring the Intact Forest Landscape (IFL) Guidelines
Consolidated and compiled By Happy Tarumadevyanto | Independent Consultant | Environmental Asia | happy.devyanto@environmental.asia Ensuring the Intact Forest Landscape (IFL) Guidelines don’t lead to excessive interpretation and can be applied effectively, we need to make them more specific. Here are some areas we can clarify: More Detailed Boundaries and Definitions Hasbillah, Tropical Forest Foundation, Member of FSC…
Social Forestry and Future Challenges
Compiled by Happy Tarumadevyanto | Independent Consultant | Environmental Asia | happy.devyanto@environmental.asia Around 120.3 million hectares of state forest area, almost half (46.5% or 55.93 million hectares) is not managed intensively. Among these areas are 30 million Ha of forest under the authority of the Regional Government. Only around 64.37 million Ha (53.5%) of forests…
Applications open for Turtle Conservation Fund Grant Program 2025
Application dateline 1 June 2025 The Turtle Conservation Fund is currently accepting applications for its grant program to support pilot conservation initiatives for tortoise and freshwater turtle species. Priority for funding is given to projects that focus on tortoises or freshwater turtles that are already highly threatened according to the IUCN Red List or the…
Reflective Preface
By Farhan Helmy Reflective Preface This reflection note is both personal and professional. As a mentor, reviewer, and researcher deeply engaged in environmental issues, climate change, and over the past five years, the intersecting fields of GEDSI (Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion) and technology, I find myself constantly seeking ways to understand complexity more…
Travel Grants Program
To adapt to the changes brought about by COVID-19, SEARCA will be implementing a modified Travel Grants Program (STGP) starting fiscal year 2021-2022. SEARCA STGP will now be accepting applications for participation in scientific events held online in order to support continued scientific/intellectual discourse and information dissemination relevant to agriculture and rural development (ARD) in…
Forests Management and Communities
By Happy Tarumadevyanto | Independent Consultant | Environmental Asia| happy.devyanto@environmental.asia Happy Devyanto Image courtesy Forest management and communities living in and around the forests are a unique relationshp and they have harmonious interaction. Good relationships between creatures in and around the forest have provided a good example for building an ecosystem that is environmentally friendly. Forests,…
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