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

    June 27, 2024 |

    IndigiNews |

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    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?

    June 21, 2024 |

    Wisconsin Watch |

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    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

    June 19, 2024 |

    PBS |

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    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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  • Releasing the Giants: Saving Guyana's endangered Arapaima

    May 20, 2024 |

    News Room |

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    Response Location: Guyana, Apoteri

    Residents of Apoteri Village, an Indigenous community in the rainforests of Guyana, are finding Giant Arapaima in ponds they were trapped in as the river receded, corralling them, and moving them back to the river by hand to save their lives.

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  • Nature's Carbon Sponges: Restoring Meadows in the Sierra Nevada

    May 16, 2024 |

    The Hitchcock Project |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The Nevada Irrigation District is restoring meadows, and therefore their carbon-sequestering abilities, in the Sierra Nevada mountains that were degraded by humans through things like building dams and mining.

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  • Beavers Are Back in London — and They're Thriving

    May 13, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: England, London

    A volunteer-run community organization is reintroducing beavers to London as part of a larger rewilding effort. The beavers are alleviating flooding and helping biodiversity thrive in the eight-hectare public park they live in by building dams and canals.

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  • The 'Save the Oceans' Tax Break: Recycling Oyster Shells

    May 11, 2024 |

    Wall Street Journal |

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    Response Location: United States

    Sometimes bolstered by state tax credits, oyster recycling projects across the United States are encouraging restaurants to save their oyster shells, which are used to restore reefs instead of ending up as waste.

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  • A Peruvian river with rights: the defenders of the Marañón

    May 04, 2024 |

    El Hilo |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Peru

    A group of Kukama women, a native community of the Peruvian Amazon, worked with lawyers from the Legal Defense Institute to sue the Peruvian State. The lawsuit was intended prevent and clean up oil spills and pollution in the Marañón River that they’d been fighting against for years. In a historic ruling, the judge recognized that the river has rights and must be protected.

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  • U.S. East Coast adopts 'living shorelines' approach to keep rising seas at bay

    April 24, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: United States, Blue Hill, Maine

    Contractors and homeowners in Maine are installing living shorelines to deal with the effects of rising sea levels and stronger storms caused by climate change. As opposed to concrete jetties and breakwaters, living shorelines use natural materials like logs, salt-tolerant plants, and coconut fiber to protect the land from erosion and create valuable habitat for local animals.

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  • Plastic-choked rivers in Ecuador are being cleared with conveyor belts

    April 22, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Ecuador, Quito

    The startup Ichthion created a system that skims plastic off of rivers in Ecuador to prevent it from reaching the ocean. A floating barrier stretches across the river to catch the plastic without disrupting fish, and a person manually guides the pollution onto the shore where it’s sorted for recycling.

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