End of May marked the start of the annual wool-shearing season across the flocks of the Atlas Mountains. To this day, the work is carried out the old traditional way: entirely by hand, using manual shears and no machinery.
The 2025 GDF seed grant-supported projects have been awarded to 5 GEN members and represent locally grounded responses to urgent conservation and cultural challenges across Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon, and Samoa.
A collective publication in the form of a collection of stories, tales, poems and invocations reclaiming our entangled relations to land
Seeds of Resilience Participatory Evaluation of Cereal and Legume Landraces in the Moroccan High Atlas 07 November 2025 PHOTOS COURTESY OF Inanc Tekguc and Louisa Aarrass The Global Diversity Foundation, in collaboration with the Raffaella Foundation, the Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research (PAR), Cadi Ayya
A collaborative essay and conversation between Dr. Carolyn Finney and Akshay Chettri around the current politics and future potentials of the field of conservation.
Guardians of the Argan Forest From soil to legacy: a new best-practices guide charts a regenerative path for Morocco’s argan oil cooperatives By Andrea Worthoff 01 October 2025 PHOTOS COURTESY OF Inanc Tekguc We are pleased to announce the release of Guardians of the Argan Forest, a practical, field-tested gu
Recent Peer-reviewed Articles By Ugo D’Ambrosio 24 SEPTEMBER 2025 PHOTOS COURTESY OF Inanc Tekguc The High Atlas of Morocco, one of the Mediterranean’s most distinctive biodiversity hotspots and a living mosaic of Amazigh cultural landscapes, faces accelerating ecological and socio-economic pressures. This
A journey through Laazib
[title] Our Wild Stories[author] Shona Fernyhough[year] 2025 [category] video essay[keywords] conservation futures, invitation, storytelling, cultural stories for entangled futures https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=q6MQ0TBAN-t2arFD&v=Oa-dyYt7utQ&feature=youtu.be
[title] A resource guide for the newly curious or non-scientific[author] Beth Pantuliano[year] 2025 [category] bibliography, practice, invitation to read[keywords] conservation futures, unlearning, loving nature, environmental & climate change, tools for a more conscious living This resource guide is incomp
