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

    Peter Yeung

    May 13, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    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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  • Fighting fire with beavers: How dam-building rodents are deployed to prevent megafires, restore scorched wildlands

    Bay Stephens

    April 19, 2024 |

    The Colorado Sun |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Riverscapes inhabited by beavers fare far better than other areas during extreme wildfires because they hold back and spread out water, pushing it further into the ground. These spaces become critical pockets of habitat for animals to shelter in and can function as fire breaks. Restoration experts in Colorado are building structures that mimic beaver dams in hopes of replicating the effect and, if they’re lucky, incentivizing beavers to return.

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  • Carmakers give up on software that avoids kangaroos

    Sophie Hartley

    April 02, 2024 |

    Ars Technica |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Australia, Eurobodalla Shire, New South Wales

    Fence posts that flash blue and yellow lights while emitting a high-pitched noise when they detect oncoming car headlights are preventing car crashes involving kangaroos and wallabies in Australia. The practice is known as virtual fencing.

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  • Light at the End of the Tunnel

    Benjamin Goldfarb

    March 26, 2024 |

    Hakai Magazine |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Communities in the United States are slowly replacing small culverts that alter the flow of streams and block the paths of migratory fish species with wider culverts and bridges, allowing the ecosystems to recover.

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  • Ratas en el paraíso

    Daniel Alarcón

    March 19, 2024 |

    Radio Ambulante |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Ecuador, Galapagos Islands

    Conservationists are eradicating an invasive species of rat on the Galapagos Islands to protect native species, many of which are endangered, and local agriculture. To do so, they capture native species that could be harmed, then scatter rat poison around the islands by hand, drone, and helicopter.

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  • Florida is paying bounty hunters to control its python population

    Lucy Sherriff

    March 19, 2024 |

    BBC |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Florida

    Python removal agents with South Florida’s Water Management District hunt the invasive Burmese python in the Florida Everglades to prevent the snakes from continuing to destroy the ecosystem. Since launching the program in 2017, agents have removed 8,565 pythons across the state.

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  • Rewilding Japan With Clearings in the Forest and Crowdfunding Campaigns

    James Whitlow Delano

    March 17, 2024 |

    Inside Climate News |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Japan

    Conservationists in Japan are rewilding the country’s vast monoculture plantation forests to restore biodiversity and allow the ecosystem to return to its natural state, deciduous forest. They are doing so by turning the tree plantations into meadows and buying plots of land with private donations to plant native trees on.

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  • Mini radio tags help track ‘murder hornets' and other invasive insects

    Claudia Geib

    March 14, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Washington

    Scientists are using radio tracking technology to track invasive species like “murder hornets” to prevent them from overrunning the environment. The tagged hornet leads scientists to their nest, allowing them to eliminate the hive before an invasion occurs. Neither the U.S. nor Canada has had a giant hornet sighting since the last nest was destroyed in 2021, but this technology allows researchers to be prepared.

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  • How Southern Africa's Elephants Bounced Back

    Veronika Perková

    March 05, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Zimbabwe

    The once-declining elephant population at Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe is now stable because the rangers use the core-buffer model to keep them safe. To ensure they have enough room to live comfortably, the elephants are allowed to wander far into less-protected zones. But the park has a well-protected core patrolled by rangers that elephants can return to when they feel threatened.

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