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  • Pramila Bisoyi's journey from protecting India's national bird to the corridors of power

    January 20, 2020 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: India, Aska, Odisha

    Pramila Bisoyi, a Member of Parliament hailing from the Indian state of Odisha, has shown the power of women in protecting the environment. She has created and led multiple Women Self Help Groups, who work together to protect forests, plant trees, and encourage native peacocks to come back to the land, all in the hopes of creating a more sustainable future for their children.

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  • This startup is using geo-tagging and blockchain to fight deforestation in Africa

    December 24, 2019 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: Ethiopia, Addis Ababa

    The My Roots in Africa Project is an initiative of a group called the Most Influential People of African Descent, which seeks to build connection between Africans in Africa and elsewhere around the world through the act of having trees planted in their honor to combat deforestation, especially in West and East Africa. The project will complement the mission of the Great Green Wall and the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative, both of which also aim to plant large numbers of trees across Africa.

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  • Community conservation agreements a lifeline for Uganda's grey crowned cranes

    December 24, 2019 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Kabale

    Working with communities to develop alternative forms of livelihood helps to curb unsustainable practices and land degradation. In Uganda, the destruction of wetland habitat by farmers had had a serious impact on the population of grey crowned cranes in recent decades. The Cranes and Wetlands conservation project provides support to local communities, working to find alternatives to draining wetlands and promoting habitat restoration.

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  • In Borneo, healthy people equals healthy forests

    November 12, 2019 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, Borneo

    Those who live on the island of Borneo understand that their well-being comes from the Gunung Palung National Park, but logging remained rampant because it was the only way to make money to pay for healthcare. Thus, an organization named "Health in Harmony" was borne through "radically listening" to locals to find out what they needed. This organization accepts creative forms of payment for healthcare and offers incentives to cease logging, including a chainsaw buyback program. As a result, ten years later they saw a 90% drop in logging households and a re-growth of 52,000 acres of forest.

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  • Drone Swarms and Gene-Altered Corals Fight Climate Change

    October 29, 2019 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Replanting and replenishing damaged ecosystems is crucial to mitigating further adverse effects of climate change. From the forests of the American Pacific Northwest, to the coral reefs around the globe, startups and scientists are working to increase the resilience of natural systems. DroneSeed, in Seattle, WA, leverages drone technology to increase reforestation efforts. Meanwhile, biologists in Thailand are working to cultivate hardy corals.

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  • Can planting billions of trees save the planet?

    June 19, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: England

    Across the world, TreeSisters is partnering with local organizations to help reforestation efforts. The nonprofit is centered on bolstering local, community-based, and usually women-led initiatives in countries like Kenya and Madagascar. The organization cites the fact that women are most often the ones interacting with the environment, and so raising awareness and taking action in such a gendered way can leverage the most impact.

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  • A prayer for trees: For Kenyan tribes, saving forests is a sacred duty

    May 29, 2019 |

    Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Forole

    Communities around Kenya address national deforestation by relying on individuals to make changes in the way they use timber as well as to plant trees to repopulate suffering forests. Many towns set strict guidelines about timber sourcing, requiring residents to source from specific groves outside community boundaries; others teach children from a young age that trees are sacred and not to be cut down.

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  • An (Even More) Inconvenient Truth: Why Carbon Credits For Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing

    May 22, 2019 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Rio Branco, Acre

    This story examines the well-publicized climate-change strategy of carbon credits: the idea that a CO₂-emitting company could offset its emissions by funding anti-logging efforts, effectively "saving" the equivalent amount of carbon. However, as it turns out, despite its popularity, most carbon credit programs do not actually work or, worse, may do more harm than good. This article details the shortcomings of this attempted solution to the effects of global warming.

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  • Cash for trees: Homegrown carbon offset program bears fruit

    May 21, 2019 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Rubirizi District

    Trees for Global Benefits is a carbon offset program that aims to partner with, rather than displace, locals in countries that have space to plant forests. For instance, in the Rubirizi District in Uganda, locals are getting paid to plant trees on their land. This hopes to eliminate the negative ramifications of other carbon offset programs that have displaced native people. Still, companies should be looking for ways to reduce carbon emissions beyond bringing their problems to other countries.

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  • A southwest Florida fishing apparel business plants a mangrove for every product sold

    April 24, 2019 |

    Changing Florida |

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    Response Location: United States, West Palm Beach, Florida

    A Florida Gulf Coast University graduate and his brother started a fishing apparel company where they plant a mangrove tree for every item sold. Mangroves are a key species to combatting climate change, providing a habitat for wildlife species, and filtering water. The company has planted about 30,000 mangroves in Florida, Madagascar, Mozambique, and Honduras.

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