Peter Daszak on Nature Insight podcast: Disease X
The Nature Insight podcast features biodiversity expert Peter Daszak, a senior research fellow at the Center for Tropical Research who is a disease ecologist…
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Understanding the coronavirus – a special episode
Peter Daszak, senior research fellow at UCLA Center for Tropical Research and president of the EcoHealth Alliance is featured in a PBS Newshour special podcast…
UCLA and Africa: A history of partnership, a future of shared progress
by Taleen Ananian and Mike Fricano at UCLA Newsroom
The impacts have spanned from health care to ecological preservation
On days when Romeo Kamta has to…
Remembering Africa’s Congo Basin on Earth Day
The rainforests of the Congo Basin are one of the most important centers of biological diversity on the planet and ground zero for climate change. Traditional…
A Battle to Protect Forests Unfolds in Central Africa
Indigenous people, environmentalists and industries vie for control over lands that can offer economic benefits or climate protection — but not always…
The promise of Humboldt’s extraordinary scholarship
Celebrating the 250th anniversary of Alexander von Humboldt’s birth offers an opportunity to reflect on how far we’ve come toward documenting the biodiversity…
Cameroon and Taylor Guitars team up to replant ebony trees
Cameroon is losing forest at a dramatic pace – with ebony trees fast disappearing. Now a Cameroon sawmill has partnered with US instrument maker Taylor…
Congo Basin Institute receives $1 million from Pritzker Family Foundation
Melissa Abraham | August 15, 2019
UCLA has received a $1 million donation from the Anthony & Jeanne Pritzker Family Foundation to support UCLA’s Congo…
Ebony Project Featured in Thomson Reuters Foundation News
YAOUNDE, July 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Companies that use wood grown in Cameroon - from makers of guitars to electricity poles - are helping revitalise…
Ebony Project Featured in National Geographic
Congo Basin Institute and Tom Smith in National Geographic: Cameroon’s embattled ebony trees get a lifeline—from guitar maker
The guitar industry has a…
Ebony Project Featured in Forbes Magazine
Sustainable Guitars - Giving Back To The Trees And Communities That Helped Create Music
The Ebony Project in Cameroon, West Africa, is a partnership between…
