There’s a common narrative around girls’ education in some parts of India that goes something like this: families are uneducated and don’t value schooling, so we need to educate them about why education matters. The problem with that narrative isn’t that it’s entirely wrong — it’s that it’s incomplete in a way that makes solutions less effective than they could…
We spent years watching conservation fail. Not because the science was wrong, not because the money wasn’t there, but because the people who lived with the ecosystems every single day were treated as obstacles rather than partners. You can map biodiversity hotspots, write compelling grant proposals, and deploy all the satellite imagery you want, but if the family clearing forest…