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In Mexico's ‘Avocado Belt,' Villagers Stand Up to Protect Their Lands

Fred Pearce, Agustín del Castillo

May 02, 2025 |

Yale Environment 360 |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Mexico, Michoacán

Indigenous communities in Michoacán, Mexico, have implemented traditional collective land management and community-driven governance strategies to sustainably cultivate avocados, successfully protecting local forests and biodiversity, empowering local economies, and resisting cartel violence.

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Where war once raged in Iraq, Yezidi women plant hope

Robert Bociaga

April 14, 2025 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Iraq, Khanke

The Clean Green initiative empowers Yezidi women who escaped the 2014 ISIS genocide to rebuild their lives and enviornment by planting more than 2,000 trees, specifically chosen to withstand Iraq’s shifting climate. The grassroots group started with just five volunteers, but now has more than 40 members.

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How a young beekeeper's initiative brought hope and profit to Sierra Leone communities

Sonam Lama Hyolmo

March 31, 2025 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Sierra Leone

Bangs Circular practices sustainable beekeeping across eight communities, launching the Tiwai Honey Project, which builds hand-made beehives to support the native bee population. This practice allows beekeepers to closely monitor the bees’ well-being, thus leading to more honey production and reforestation efforts. So far, the group has trained more than 400 local beekeepers.

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Community colleges are providing new opportunities for learning on the job in logging and oystering

Kate Rix

March 19, 2025 |

The Hechinger Report |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Shingletown, California

Shasta College partners with timber companies to help train apprentices for the industry, providing pre-apprenticeship coursework and helping to facilitate state and federal funding that offsets the cost of on-the-job training. So far, about 50 people have completed the pre-apprenticeship program, while 15 have completed the full apprenticeship.

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The rough road to sustainable farming in an Amazon deforestation hotspot

Fernanda Wenzel

March 17, 2025 |

Mongabay |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Brazil, Altamira, Pará

In Brazil's Amazon deforestation hotspot BR-163, small farmers and entrepreneurs are working to implement sustainable farming alternatives like agroecology, beekeeping and converting cattle pastures to grow local fruits to create a “bioeconomy,” despite a lack of institutional support.

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As Heat Deaths Rise, Planting Trees Is Part of the Solution

Karen Mockler

March 10, 2025 |

The Revelator |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

To address shade inequality and rising heat deaths, the American Forests launched a digital tool in 2021 that scores geographic areas based on tree canopy and surface temperature, as well as other factors such as income, employment, race, age and health. It then calculates a Tree Equity Score and maps out the regions that have the greatest need for trees. With this information, Tucson aims to plant one million trees by 2030, and has already planted 120,000 over the past four years.

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Some Wisconsin landowners manage beavers with non-lethal ways

Bennet Goldstein

February 06, 2025 |

Wisconsin Watch |

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Response Location: United States, Maine

Advocates and ecological consultants are popularizing flow control devices and tactics as a solution to beaver conflicts. A few are limiting beavers’ damming behavior and reducing beavers impacts on human infrastructure.

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In northern California, the Karuk Tribe is burning its way back to a centuries-old relationship with fire

Murphy Woodhouse

January 27, 2025 |

Boise State Public Radio (KBSX) |

Radio |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Orleans, California

The Karuk Tribe of Northern California is revitalizing its ancient practice of cultural burning as both a proactive wildfire management strategy and a revival of crucial cultural traditions. Through coordinated, culturally-focused prescribed burns called KTREX, the tribe is restoring the ecosystem, improving community wildfire resilience, and strengthening traditional ecological knowledge.

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Early results suggest communities stop logging during basic income pilot project

Sonam Lama Hyolmo

January 27, 2025 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Amazon, Peru

After two seasons, an unconditional cash-transfer pilot project for Indigenous peoples in Peru’s Amazon has resulted in a positive impact on families who, in the past, would turn to unsustainable or illegal forest activities as a response to economic stress and food insecurity. According to the pilot's latest internal assessment, three communities are no longer engaging in illegal forest activities to make ends meet.

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Campus food forest fosters community, offers number of opportunities through regenerative agriculture

Dalia Zamora

October 24, 2024 |

Hilltop Views |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

A food forest uses a stack system in which all plants serve more than one purpose. At St. Edwards, the food forest is still young, but provides organic and locally produced food available for the entire community.

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