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  • The world's best rainforest guardians already live there

    Peter Yeung

    May 01, 2023 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: Indonesia

    Empowering Indigenous peoples in Indonesia with land rights allows them to protect and manage rainforests and biodiversity. One tribe that’s doing so, the Kajang, relies on substance agriculture and does not allow practices like cutting down trees, hunting, or using technology on most of the land.

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  • Up-Close Ecotourism Is Nurturing Gray Whales in Mexico

    Michaela Haas

    May 01, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Baja Sur

    A fishing cooperative at the San Ignacio Lagoon protects gray whales that use the lagoon as a nursery by not fishing at that time of the year. Instead, their income comes from ecotourism which brings people close to the whales during that season.

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  • Counterintuitive conservation: Fire boosts aquatic crustaceans in U.S. savannas

    Ashli Blow

    April 21, 2023 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: United States

    Prescribed burns remove shrubs and invasive plants from habitats that vernal pool fairy shrimp and different species of crayfish live in — making it easier for them to thrive and populations to increase.

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  • Over 2,000 Companies Buy and Sell Recycled Plastic at This Online Marketplace

    Michaela Haas

    April 17, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Germany, Hamburg

    A startup in Germany created an online platform, Cirplus, that connects recycling companies with manufacturers and distributors in the plastic industry. The site encourages the move towards a circular economy by improving transparency for buyers and sellers.

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  • Biological Breaks Helping Improve Fish Production on Lake Kivu

    Germain Nsanzimana

    April 14, 2023 |

    The Chronicles |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    The Rwandan government bans fishing on Lake Kivu during August and September for what they call a “Biological Break.” They pause fishing when the climate is best for fish reproduction and growth to ensure the fish population remains stable.

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  • The Mexican women breathing new life into Yucatán's mangrove forests

    Lorena Arroyo Gladys Serrano

    April 10, 2023 |

    El País |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Yucatan

    A group of women from a fishing village in southern Mexico are restoring mangroves on the Yucatán Peninsula. While the group, known as las chelemeras, is reviving the local ecosystem, the members also find personal empowerment from the work and the pay.

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  • The Flashlight-Wielding, Frog-Taxiing Guardians of Spring's 'Big Night'

    Elizabeth Hewitt

    April 03, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    Volunteers from the Harris Center for Conservation Education in New Hampshire spend spring nights helping amphibians cross the road safely. The volunteers work during mass amphibian migration periods and collect data on the species they see for conservation efforts.

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  • How Planting Grasslands Fights Climate Change

    Michelle Lotker

    April 03, 2023 |

    PBS North Carolina |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    In North Carolina, planting native grassland plants instead of typical turf for lawns, landscaping, and roadside areas can create a carbon sink as the plants trap carbon underground in their long root systems.

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  • Venice Is Saved! Woe Is Venice.

    Jason Horowitz Emma Bubola

    April 01, 2023 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Italy, Venice

    Venice, Italy, spent 50 years building 78 underwater seawalls that can be filled with air and brought to the surface to hold back high tides and prevent the city from flooding. The system, dubbed MOSE, was designed to rise up and down to maintain the passage of boats and water between the sea and the lagoon on the edge of the city of canals. It has been raised 49 times so far.

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  • Is There Anything 'Solar Meadows' Can't Do?

    Elizabeth Hewitt

    March 31, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Ramsey, Minnesota

    Pollinator-friendly solar arrays, also called solar meadows, feature meadows of native flowers around the solar panels instead of turf or gravel to support pollinators.

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