Alt Image: Professor Jo Smith measures soil infiltration in a field as a group of children, only feet visible, stand and sit around observing the experiment.

🌱 Soil organic matter decline is threatening livelihoods in Ethiopia - but there’s hope.

🌺In the Bilate catchment, our CROSSROADS project, is testing three under-used plants, and the early findings are promising.

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#Biodiversity #ClimateResilience #SoilHealth

When science and the earth speak: an agroecology student and a farmer explore how the soil breathes. Together, they listen to the sound of hydrogen peroxide reacting - revealing the hidden vitality of organic matter.

🌱🍫In the Ecuadorian Amazon, Kichwa farmers and Oxford researchers explore soil life to grow sustainable cocoa.

🌎Using co-designed tools blending Indigenous and scientific knowledge, they monitor soil, insects, and pests as a collective response to environmental change.

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#IPBES12 #Bizbiodiversity @ipbes.net #biodiversity #natureloss @jamiegordon.bsky.social

🌱Across GCBC projects in Madagascar, Cambodia, Kenya, and Indonesia are exploring how finance mechanisms can empower Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs) as decision-makers and entrepreneurs.

📖 Read our blog from West Kalimantan: Turning Biodiversity into Livelihoods: shorturl.at/e1JxL

The inset image shows Terita Deare, Plan Vivo and Putra from YIARI on location in West Kalimantan. The quote by Terita reads 'closing the climate and nature funding gap depends on practical pathways for the private sector to invest in a nature-positive future – one that incentivises private finance and channels it directly to the communities and landscapes that need it most.'

🌍 As the UK hosts #IPBES12 in Manchester, Business and Finance Day puts the spotlight on the private sector’s role in accelerating #NaturePositive outcomes.

🔑But mobilising capital is only the first step. Real impact depends on who holds power, where finance flows, and how it’s used, by whom.

💧Wetlands are more than just water and reeds; they’re where culture and environment intertwine.

On #WorldWetlandsDay, we spotlight funded project ILWGAWS, working to protect one of Ghana’s most ecologically significant wetlands: the Greater Amanzule🌿

Discover more on ILWGAWS: shorturl.at/goKrm

6. Discover points 6–8 and explore the full article on what our research projects taught us about partnering with IPLCs - link in the post!

📖 Learn to take inclusive action for nature with our Inclusive Nature Action Principles: lnkd.in/eFbW3MGp

#SustainableDevelopment #Conservation #Biodiversity #climatechange

3. Informed Consent Free, Prior and Informed Consent is essential to building trust and long-term collaboration, giving communities time, information, and agency needed to shape research in ways that reflect their knowledge and priorities.

4. Communications and Transparency Clear, inclusive, and transparent communication is vital to research, supporting trust, informed decision-making, social inclusion, and stronger connections with and between local community groups.

5. Power Dynamics Understanding and addressing power dynamics - among researchers, communities, and within households - is essential to ensuring equitable participation, confident engagement, and shared ownership of research outcomes.

🌍 GCBC projects from Panama to Ethiopia, Madagascar to Vietnam show how local partnerships make research equitable, meaningful and grounded in real community needs.

Inclusive engagement boosts conservation success and shared outcomes.

#IndigenousKnowledge #CommunityEngagement #GCBC

Image says: Working with Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs): 8 Lessons from GCBC Research

Image says: 1. Early and Continued Engagement Meaningful partnerships with IPLCs work best when engagement starts early, continues throughout the research, and is built on long-term relationships, ongoing dialogue, and shared evaluation.

2. Community-Led Research Framing Research is most effective when IPLCs help co-create the research questions from the outset, ensuring agendas align with their own priorities, knowledge, and ways of working.

🌿 Working with Indigenous Peoples & local communities: 8 GCBC Research Lessons

📄Read the full article: lnkd.in/edTD3RzK

Effective conservation & sustainable development relies on inclusive research with IPLCs built on trust, shared benefit, and respect for Indigenous knowledge.

#InclusiveResearch

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🌱 The training covered seagrass value, degradation trends, restoration methods, site selection & monitoring, plus a field visit to Cù Lao Chàm.

Partners are now refining plans and turning research into action for livelihoods & seagrass 💪

🗺️ Discover where GCBC is working: www.gcbc.org.uk/projects

The image shows five members of the GCBC project team during their first field survey in Cù Lao Chàm, Vietnam, on 21 August 2025. The team is pictured on a boat (four men and one woman). Photo credit: GCBC project team, Vietnam. The text reads TRIALS: Translating Research into Action for Livelihoods and Seagrass.

🌿 At GCBC, our Technical Assistance Facility (TAF) provides light-touch, on-demand support shaped by partner needs. 🌊

Recently, WWF Viet Nam and Cu Lao Cham Marine Protected Area, joined a 3-day, locally led training to strengthen seagrass restoration capacity.

🌍 Don’t miss the next ENHANCES Global Lectureship Talk
📅 27 Jan | 15:00 GMT

Ms Gaitrie Usha Satnarain, Anton de Kom University of Suriname, will explore how reflexive governance shapes stakeholder engagement in mangrove conservation and coastal resilience.

👉 Register enhancesproject.org/lecture-5/

Two Southern Yellow-Crested Gibbons (mother and child) in a tree in the Keo Seima Wildlife Park, Cambodia. Photo taken by Wildlife Conversation Society, Cambodia.

🌍🌿The Global Centre on Biodiversity for Climate (GCBC) works with partners globally to connect science, policy, and practice to drive conservation action, protect livelihoods, and build climate resilience.

Stay Updated – Explore Now: www.gcbc.org.uk