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Holly Gibbs featured in The Guardian article highlighting loopholes in Amazon soy moratorium

Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE) and Department of Geography professor Holly Gibbs is featured in a recent article from The Guardian highlighting the challenges surrounding a landmark Amazon soy moratorium. […] Read the full article.

The Pathway Forward: How companies, NGOs, and scientists are collaborating to help save the Amazon

Explore how a new collaboration is helping to address deforestation and its links to meat and leather supply chains during the Sustainable Success Lecture on February 24, 2022, from 5:30-6:30 p.m. CT. Register today to attend the 2022 lecture, “The Pathway Forward: How companies, NGOs, and scientists are collaborating to help save the Amazon”, which …

Gold’s Price: Meeting demand for gold comes at a high cost to the environment

If you’re wearing gold jewelry right now, there’s a good chance it came from an illegal mining operation in the tropics and surfaced only after some rainforest was sacrificed, according to a team of University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers and alumni who stud­ied regulatory efforts to curb some of these environmentally damaging activities in the Amazon. …