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  • The Environmental Collateral Damage of the South China Sea Conflict

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    Guest Contributor  //  October 13, 2020  //  By Ryan McNamara

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    Tensions in the South China Sea increased last April when a Chinese coast guard ship sank a Vietnamese fishing boat near the Paracel Islands—a fiercely disputed territory in the South China Sea. Disputes over island territories in the region have endured for decades, with China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei all making overlapping territorial claims. The region is rich in natural resources and biodiversity, holding vast fish stocks and an estimated 11 billion barrels of oil and 190 cubic feet of natural gas.

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  • Lower Mekong Governments and Development Partners Seek to Improve Water Data Sharing

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    Guest Contributor  //  March 21, 2019  //  By David Bonnardeaux
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    In the Mekong region, there is a general push to strengthen water data management and ultimately make evidence-based infrastructure development and water resources management decisions. The efforts of the region’s governments and development partners will ideally help mitigate the cumulative impacts of infrastructure development on water resources; save lives, livelihoods, and property from potentially devastating floods and droughts; and help natural resources be used sustainably. The challenge will involve navigating potential pitfalls related to technical know-how and harmonization of standards as they develop effective water data sharing platforms.

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  • 8 Rules of Political Demography That Help Forecast Tomorrow’s World

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    Guest Contributor  //  June 12, 2017  //  By Richard Cincotta
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    In a world rapidly churning out unpredictable political shocks, intelligence analysts occasionally need to clear their heads of the daily barrage of newsworthy events and instead work with simple theories that discern the direction and speed of trends and help predict their outcomes. Political demography, the study of population age structures and their relationships to political trends and events, has helped some analysts predict geopolitical changes in a world that, from time to time, appears utterly chaotic.

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  • The Deadly “Humanitarian Ping-Pong” of Refugee Rescue at Sea

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    Guest Contributor  //  May 29, 2017  //  By Chris Psarra
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    In 2013, a boat capsized 61 miles from the Italian island of Lampedusa killing 268 refugees including 60 children. It was another horrific example of the risks taken by so many families fleeing violence in the Middle East and Africa. But recently released tapes of conversations with coast guard authorities reveal a deeper tragedy.

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  • SHARON GUYNUP, MONGABAY

    On the Frontline of India’s Rhino Wars

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    April 6, 2017  //  By Wilson Center Staff
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    The original version of this article, by Sharon Guynup, appeared on Mongabay.

    In the dead of night on February 15, gunshots blasted the guards into action in India’s Kaziranga National Park. Rangers stationed in a nearby camp quickly spread out, searching for the shooters under the light of a nearly full moon – to no avail.

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  • A Survey of the “War on Wildlife”: How Conflict Affects Conservation

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 3, 2017  //  By Bethany N. Bella
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    Over the last 60 years, more than two-thirds of the world’s remaining biodiversity hotspots have experienced armed conflict. The effects have been myriad, from destruction as a result of military tactics to indirect socioeconomic and political changes, like human migration and displacement. This so-called “war on wildlife” has important implications for conservation and peacebuilding efforts, according to a recent literature review published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

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  • Inside ‘The Poachers Pipeline’: Q&A With Al Jazeera’s Jeremy Young and Kevin Hirten

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    China Environment Forum  //  Eye On  //  March 28, 2017  //  By Molly Bradtke

    Rhino horn is the most valuable illegally traded wildlife product in the world, more expensive per pound than either gold or cocaine and much more valuable than elephant ivory. With as few as 25,000 wild rhinos left in Africa, conservationist and law enforcement fight a constant battle with criminal syndicates seeking to kill rhinos and sell their horns to wealthy consumers abroad, many in Asia.

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  • Masculinity Under the Microscope: Better Accounting for Men in Climate Adaptation

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    December 13, 2016  //  By Anam Ahmed
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    “Before the famine my life was better. I was a man in my own country,” Abdi Abdullahi Hussein, a Somali refugee living in Kenya, tells The Climate Reality Project. “When you have livestock and a farm and it all disappears, it feels like falling off a cliff.”

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