EcoAmericas recently published an interview with CSF President John Reid, entitled “Making Economics Part of the Conservation Equation,” which can be found on the last page of the pdf below. John was also quoted in the “Eyes on Watershed as Panama Widens Canal” article, which begins on page 6.

The May 8th - 14th, 2010 edition of The Economist published a letter by President John Reid and CSF course graduate and Fellow Wilson Cabral about the Belo Monte dam. The letter pointed out that the shaky economics of the dam will create pressure for even more dam development upstream of Belo Monte. Construction of the Belo Monte on the Xingu River is rapidly moving forward. But there are positive aspects to this story. A delay in the project of several years, partly due to CSF's 2006 study of the dam, has given time for protected areas and a big new carbon project to be consolidated. This will make it harder for additional big dams, which are the real threat, to be built upstream of Belo Monte on the Xingu.

Conservation Strategy Fund has launched a YouTube channel. We will feature videos on CSF projects, courses, staff and student profiles, and informational films. Please subscribe so you can stay up to date with any videos we post. http://www.youtube.com/user/numbers4nature

Watch this short video and hear from our students why they attended our 11th annual International Training in Economic Tools for Conservation at Stanford University in California in August 2009. The students came from all corners of the globe: Indonesia, Cameroon, Haiti, Bhutan, Colombia, Brazil and beyond. Watch the video, below, or by clicking here for our You Tube site.

Read about how CSF got its start and what inspired John to begin teaching others how to use economics to conserve the environment. John Reid: Teaching Ecologists the Economics of Nature

CSF has just developed an innovative online HydroCalculator Tool that empowers citizens to analyze the ecological, social, and financial impacts of hydroelectric dams. http://www.conservation-strategy.org/hydrocalculator-analyses

Conservación Estratégica (CSF) convoca a investigadores y analistas a proponer investigaciones aplicadas en el marco del Programa “Construyendo Destrezas Económicas para aportar a la Conservación de los Andes Tropicales del Sur”, con el apoyo financiero de la Fundación John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur. En el marco de este programa, CSF ha diseñado un fondo concursable de becas de investigación para profesionales que trabajan en temas de análisis económico relacionados con el medio ambiente.

New Development and Ecosystem Service Roadkill by John Reid, Leonardo Fleck, and Marcos Amend featured in The Katoomba Group's Ecosystem Marketplace http://ecosystemmarketplace.com/pages/article.opinion.php?component_id=…

CSF finds Amazon road BR-319 will lose millions.http://www.globoamazonia.com/Amazonia/0,,MUL1085850-16052,00-REFORMA+DA…

CSF held its 2009 International Economic Tools Course from August 10-12, 2009 at Stanford University in California, USA. During the two-week course, participants learned to use economics to be more strategic and successful in their conservation work. Participants studied natural resource and environmental economics, practiced communication and negotiation techniques, and got hands-on experience with cost-benefit analysis.