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  • Migrating birds find refuge in pop-up habitats

    October 11, 2024 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    A network of conservation organizations prompts the creation of tens of thousands of acres of “pop-up” wetland habitat for migrating birds each year with a program called BirdReturns. It pays rice farmers in California’s Central Valley to flood their fields earlier in the fall and keep them flooded longer in the spring so the birds have a place to rest and feed.

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  • On the trail of the jaguar: Population growth a success in Sonora. Can the U.S. do the same?

    September 30, 2024 |

    Arizona Luminaria |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Sahuaripa, Sonora

    Conservationists at the Northern Jaguar Reserve in Sonora, Mexico, are successfully increasing the jaguar population by giving them plenty of room to roam and educating the public about their importance. The organization pays ranchers for photos of the cats, giving them a way to earn additional income other than selling their pelts.

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  • The Poachers Who Could Save Mexico's Vaquita

    September 24, 2024 |

    Hakai Magazine |

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    Response Location: Mexico, San Felipe

    Seeking to protect the endangered vaquita, a charity in San Felipe, Mexico, is encouraging fishers who poach totoaba, another endangered species, to swap their gillnets for cimbra. The hook-and-line style fishing equipment allows them to target totoaba that are worth more, meaning they can catch less while making the same or more income and keep other species out of the often harmful nets.

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  • From wastelands to wetlands: The fight to save Sri Lanka's natural flood buffers

    September 21, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Sri Lanka, Colombo

    Sections of the massive network of wetlands in Colombo, Sri Lanka, went from being overwhelmed by garbage to biodiverse ecosystems that are a critical part of urban planning and flood prevention. The government and community groups worked to clean them up, and keep them clean, so the wetlands can do what they’re naturally good at.

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

    August 28, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    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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  • New funding could help Indigenous communities disproportionately impacted by climate change

    August 02, 2024 |

    VNN (Verified News Network) |

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    Response Location: Nooksack Indian Tribe, United States, Washington

    The Nooksack Tribe and the Lummi Nation are working with farmers who are building new floodgates to ensure the systems benefit farmland and local salmon. Farmers are adding gates that protect salmon during flooding and give them safe passageways.

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

    July 30, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

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    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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  • The indigenous community protecting Himalayan sacred cattle in India

    July 27, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: India, Arunachal Pradesh

    The Indigenous Adi tribe of Arunachal Pradesh, India, builds “living fences” by attaching barbed wire to the trunks of orchid trees to protect the mithun they are rearing, a sacred species of cattle listed as vulnerable by the International Union For Conservation of Nature. Many of the mithuns died from conflict with humans and animal attacks when they were left to free-range graze.

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

    July 25, 2024 |

    Pioneers Post |

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    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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  • A New Wildlife Crossing Provides Safe Passage Over a Busy Interstate

    July 17, 2024 |

    Sentient |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    Environmentalists, biologists, wildlife advocates, and even ski clubs formed the I-90 Wildlife Bridges Coalition to push for wildlife crossings to be a part of a massive construction project on Washington’s heavily trafficked Snoqualmie Pass. The Department of Transportation took notice. It's working with other government agencies and wildlife experts to install bridges and tunnels designed for animals of all sizes to safely cross the road.

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