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  • People in forest.

    Who leads the work behind the 30% by 2030 goal

    Nations have committed to protecting 30% of the planet’s land and water by 2030. Meeting that commitment depends on people who can move…

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  • Hands

    A conservation project is also a data project. Who governs that data?

    Indigenous knowledge could sit at the center of conservation, and so does the question of who controls the data behind it. A story…

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  • Image: Alexandrina Agloro facilitating a carbon futures game she designed. Photo by Linsey Wilt.

    Apology is a leadership skill. So is imagining the future.

    Alexandrina Agloro teaches the required course in Conservation Futures Academy’s Professional Certificate in Global Conservation Leadership. Two of her arguments are worth the…

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  • Woman at laptop in office

    The skills needed between conservation funding and conservation work

    Conservation funding moves through proposals, and the budget attached to each one decides how much of the work gets paid for. Two Conservation…

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  • Gary Paul Nabhan between two cactus pads.

    Hope is a practice: 5 lessons from conservation leader Gary Nabhan

    Ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan has spent more than five decades learning what it takes to restore landscapes, and why lasting conservation begins with listening,…

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  • A woman wearing a brown top and a name tag that reads "Karla" speaks into a handheld microphone while facilitating a workshop. Seated participants surround a round table, with one person holding up a collage poster board featuring landscape and lifestyle photos alongside a pink sticky note labeled "ECO PERSONA."

    What one pineapple handbag says about the future of fashion leadership

    ASU’s Conservation Futures Academy gathered leaders across design, sourcing, conservation and investment for its first in-person executive program. One founder’s handbag, made from…

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