BRUCE RICH | AUTHOR | ENVIRONMENTAL LAWYER - Tags | expert on public international finance and the environment

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Aid, Poverty, and Global Biodiversity

Aid, Poverty, and Global Biodiversity

An article by four UK researchers...concludes that despite long-standing strategies that purport to achieve biodiversity protection and poverty alleviation, actual empirical eviden...
Pilgrims to Where Sun Was Born: Culture, Species, and Sustainability

Pilgrims to Where Sun Was Born: Culture, Species, and Sustainability

The Huichol peope of central Mexico still go on long distance pilgrimages to natural sites where for them the sun and world were born. These 'ambulatory weavings of ritual texts'...
Bird Poop and Sovereignty at Bay: The Strange Fate of Navassa Island

Bird Poop and Sovereignty at Bay: The Strange Fate of Navassa Island

Imagine a tiny uninhabited islet in the Caribbean—smaller than Manhattan’s Central Park—where over two decades ago researchers were astonished to identify more than 650 species,Nav...

Pilgrims to Where the Sun Was Born: Culture, Species, and Sustainability

Pilgrims to Where the Sun Was Born: Culture, Species, and Sustainability

December 20, 2019. Earlier this year I visited two of the old silver mining cities of Mexico, Zacatecas and Guanajuato. This area is also the homeland of the Huichol people, one of...