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Ecotourism offers new hopes for Bhutanese youth — and local environments

Choki Wangmo

September 06, 2024 |

Mongabay |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Bhutan

Local communities in Bhutan are developing ecotourism sites to create jobs, generate income, and protect endangered species and ecosystems. They’ve created ecolodges and campsites, host traditional dining experiences with food from local farmers, and host nature-based activities, all while leading conservation efforts on the land they use.

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Giant 'living tractors' are bringing nature back to post-industrial wastelands

Matthew Ponsford

August 28, 2024 |

BBC |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Turkey

Water buffalo are becoming a crucial species in many conservation projects. Their natural habits like grazing and wallowing in water and the spreading of seeds through their dung increase biodiversity and create microhabitats for other important species.

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How coastal communities are adapting to sea level rise with 'living shorelines'

Mike Digirolamo

August 27, 2024 |

Mongabay |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Maine

Coastal communities in Maine are building living shorelines to adapt to sea level rise and address erosion concerns. This nature-based solution uses native plants and materials, or even discarded holiday trees, to bolster shorelines against strong storms and higher tides. And they get stronger as nature takes its course over time.

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How an international effort is keeping North America free of a deadly amphibian disease

Mike Digirolamo

July 30, 2024 |

Mongabay |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States

Bsal is a fungal pathogen that causes a deadly disease in salamanders. Experts from Mexico, Canada, and the United States came together to create the volunteer-based North American Bsal Task Force to prevent it from spreading further and prepare a plan of action for when the pathogen reaches the continent.

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All hands on deck — The social enterprise deploying young people to protect our seas

Carla Parks

July 25, 2024 |

Pioneers Post |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Netherlands

A social enterprise that started in the Netherlands and is spreading to countries around the Celtic Sea is training young people to work in marine industries while restoring ocean biodiversity. The young trainees work on projects like marine mammal observation and planting seagrass.

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How Ecotourism Became an Unexpected Climate Solution in an At-Risk Guatemalan National Park

Jorge Rodríguez Isabella Rolz

July 15, 2024 |

Sentient |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Guatemala

The community living in Northern Guatemala’s Sierra del Lacandón National Park monitors the landscape for fires set by people looking to clear the forest illegally and is trained to prevent them from spreading. They’re focusing on ecotourism as an alternative way to earn a living.

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How the Nez Perce are using an energy transition to save salmon

Emily Senkosky

July 01, 2024 |

High Country News |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Nez Perce Reservation, United States, Lapwai, Idaho

The Nez Perce Tribe is installing solar panels on homes and community buildings across their reservation with the goal of producing enough energy to replace the hydroelectric dams on the Snake River responsible for the diminishing salmon and steelhead populations.

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With prayers and well wishes, students release thousands of salmon fry in Okanagan waters

Aaron Hemens

June 27, 2024 |

IndigiNews |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Okanagan Nation, Canada, Penticton, British Columbia

The Okanagan Nation Alliance leads a Fish in Schools program that donates fish spawn and the equipment to raise them to elementary and secondary schools near their territory. Thousands of fish raised by the students are released into local waterways during ceremonies at the end of the school year as a part of their efforts to bring salmon back to the area.

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Could the Mississippi River benefit from Chesapeake Bay's strategy to improve water quality?

Bennet Goldstein

June 21, 2024 |

Wisconsin Watch |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

A unique regional cleanup program was designed to reduce the nutrient runoff in the Chesapeake Bay using a legally-enforceable pollution quota across six U.S. states.

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The Fish In The Sea

Baratunde Thurston

June 19, 2024 |

PBS |

Video |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Scotland

Nonprofits and coastal communities are popularizing sustainable fishing practices and fishery management to allow ocean ecosystems to bounce back from overfishing and sustain the fishing industry long-term. For example, a community-led organization in Scotland campaigned to create the country’s first “No Take Zone” marine reserve, and a nonprofit in Hawaii is restoring fishponds to revive traditional Hawaiian aquaculture.

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