This stage has two objectives – designing the enterprise and forming the team that is going to make it happen. Stage one was about understanding what you have to work with to develop a viable enterprise. Stage two was about understanding the people you are going to need to do influence in order to be … Continue reading Conservation Enterprise Development: Why and What to Collaboratively Design
Conservation Enterprise Development: Choosing your Strategy
Creating a business that conserves culture or protects the environment, sells a product and generates a return isn’t easy – being tied to a particular place offers both constraints and opportunities that are quite different to classic entrepreneurship. Here’s some options for an enterprise development strategy that aims to innovate in value creation beyond the usual suspects … Continue reading Conservation Enterprise Development: Choosing your Strategy
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A conservation enterprise is a business established and run for the purpose of environmental and cultural conservation. It differs from a social enterprise because social enterprises usually have social outcomes as their goals, tending to employ disadvantaged people or sell a product that benefits disadvantaged people. My writing here explores the rationale for the approach, … Continue reading conservation enterprise
Conservation Enterprise Development: Research for Design
Evidence works in two ways - to inform good design within your team, and to persuade others to believe that your conservation enterprise idea is going to work, financially and impact-wise. This post provides an overview of how to understand the two groups of people you need to know intimately to be effective – your … Continue reading Conservation Enterprise Development: Research for Design
Conservation Enterprise Development – getting to know your place
Most conservation enterprises start with an business idea to test, but how do you know that this idea is the best possible strategy? if possible, it's good to step back and choose an idea to develop based on the particular assets and resources of the place and the community dependent upon it. Getting to know … Continue reading Conservation Enterprise Development – getting to know your place
From Hammer to Toolkit: An Overview of Value Creation for Conserving Tropical Diversity
When it comes to using markets for conservation, organisations become adept at applying a particular approach. However, there’s a danger that you end up with a hammer in search of a nail, rather than choosing the right approach that fits the challenges and opportunities of a particular place, culture or landscape. This article provides a … Continue reading From Hammer to Toolkit: An Overview of Value Creation for Conserving Tropical Diversity
Revaluing Tropical Diversity
Why clear vast swathes of rainforest, with up to 75,000 tree species per kilometre, and replace it with a single species of oil palm? Why are custodians of a vast amount of cultural knowledge forced to live in poverty on the sidelines of society? The short answer is because there is a huge difference between … Continue reading Revaluing Tropical Diversity
Madagascar, the Nothing and the Neverending Story
Madagascar feels like a fairy tale. In its varied landscape, around 90% of its 200,000 known species are unique to the island; lemurs, fossas, tenrecs, pygmy chameleons and giant geckos are just some of the wonders. Originally settled by Indonesians, its culture is a strange mix of Indonesia, Africa and France, where people grow rice, … Continue reading Madagascar, the Nothing and the Neverending Story
Sometimes the battle for the future of the Tropics isn’t just a war of words…
Death of Community Member in Sumatra Places Asia Pulp and Paper’s Social Responsibility Commitments in Question Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has recently learned of the tragic news that on Friday, February 27, 2015, Mr Indra Pelani, a resident of Lubuk Mandarsah village in Tebo district, Jambi Provine, Sumatra and a member of the Sakato Jaya … Continue reading Sometimes the battle for the future of the Tropics isn’t just a war of words…
Woodlark Island – a case study for tropical futures?
Woodlark Island (Muyua) is a large island of the coast of Papua New Guinea. It's been isolated for a long time, so it has a lot of unique species. It's also going to be the first virgin area mine in PNG for 10 years, according Kula Gold. But that's not all - it looks like there … Continue reading Woodlark Island – a case study for tropical futures?
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