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  • What Hawai'i's 'Blue' Fee Tells Us About The New Green Fee

    June 27, 2025 |

    Honolulu Civil Beat |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    The Aloha i ke Kai Ocean Stewardship User Fee ($1 per ocean activity per person) was passed by legislators in 2021 to create dedicated resources for marine–focused projects with support from the state’s Division of Aquatic Resources. While still in its early stages, the program raised $2 million, with 55% to 60% compliance in its first year.

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  • What's needed to get spring Chinook back to Walla Walla? Cooperation — and patience

    June 24, 2025 |

    Northwest Public Broadcasting |

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    Response Location: Umatilla Indian Reservation, United States, Milton, Oregon

    The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation worked to restore extinct Chinook salmon populations by building their own fish hatchery, establishing legislation, and creating a consensus-based advisory committee that brings government, agriculture, business, and conservation groups together to coordinate water management. Salmon returns have dramatically increased from about 60 fish in 2023 to over 900 in 2025.

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  • Out of the Wild: How A.I. Is Transforming Conservation Science

    May 19, 2025 |

    Yale Environment 360 |

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    Response Location: Canada

    Using artificial intelligence, scientists and conservationists can rapidly analyze vast environmental data sets—from audio recordings of nocturnal birds to millions of camera trap images—which has led to quicker and more efficient wildlife monitoring and decision-making, while also growing concern about ecological knowledge biases and decreased field engagement.

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  • Indigenous conservationists lead the fight to save Mentawai's endangered primates

    May 15, 2025 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, West Sumatra

    An Indigenous-led grassroots organization, Malinggai Uma Tradisional Mentawai, works to protect endangered primates in Indonesia's Mentawai Islands by reviving traditional hunting practices, forest patrols, and conservation education; initial qualitative evidence suggests incremental community mindset shifts, though broader systemic impacts remain limited by socioeconomic challenges.

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  • Paying ranchers to host elk? Novel approach could help wean Wyoming off its feedground habit.

    March 31, 2025 |

    WyoFile |

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    Response Location: United States, Wyoming

    A novel initiative in Wyoming pays ranchers to voluntarily host elk on their private lands, decreasing dependence on disease-spreading public feedgrounds, reducing ranchers' costs, and providing promising results, though scalability and funding challenges remain significant obstacles.

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  • How a young beekeeper's initiative brought hope and profit to Sierra Leone communities

    March 31, 2025 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Sierra Leone

    Bangs Circular practices sustainable beekeeping across eight communities, launching the Tiwai Honey Project, which builds hand-made beehives to support the native bee population. This practice allows beekeepers to closely monitor the bees’ well-being, thus leading to more honey production and reforestation efforts. So far, the group has trained more than 400 local beekeepers.

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  • Bridges and Tunnels in Colorado Are Helping Animals Commute

    March 25, 2025 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Colorado built wildlife crossings, like highway overpasses and underpasses, to safely funnel wildlife across dangerous roads, successfully reducing animal-vehicle collisions by over 80%.

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  • How mock beaver dams could help restore Wisconsin wetlands

    December 26, 2024 |

    Wisconsin Watch |

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    Response Location: United States, Wisconsin

    Several projects in the U.S. are proving beaver-inspired structures could limit flooding and benefit wildlife habitat, but state permitting is arduous.

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  • Abandoned 'ghost gear' kills sea life. A Myanmar nonprofit is turning the tide.

    November 13, 2024 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Myanmar

    The nonprofit Myanmar Ocean Project is working to raise awareness of and remove ghost gear, abandoned fishing gear that kills marine life, from the country’s waters. Volunteer drivers remove the gear from the water and create public awareness campaigns.

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  • Your lawn could host an endangered ecosystem

    November 01, 2024 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Pullman, Washington

    The Phoenix Conservancy is restoring the critically endangered Palouse Prarie across Washington and Idaho one small plot of land at a time. Using native species, the group plants and maintains micro-prairies in yards, school parking lots, roadcuts, and any piece of land they can access.

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