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  • The Poachers Who Could Save Mexico's Vaquita

    Daniel Shailer

    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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  • Facing Climate Gentrification, an Historic African American Community Outside Charleston, S.C., Embraces Conservation

    Daniel Shailer

    July 07, 2024 |

    Inside Climate News |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Ten Mile, South Carolina

    Ten Mile, a community in South Carolina settled by freed slaves after the Civil War, is fighting climate gentrification and flooding by preserving land through forestry projects, land trusts, and greenbelt initiatives. Saving green spaces this way maintains the character of the historic Black neighborhood while promoting flood resiliency.

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  • Volunteers spring to survey water in Patagonia Mountains before mine begins pumping

    Daniel Shailer

    September 01, 2023 |

    Tucson Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Patagonia, Arizona

    In the race to survey and catalog natural springs in Patagonia, Arizona, before they dry up, the Sky Island Alliance created an app-based volunteer program to collect more information. Locals can pick out coordinates to search for a spring and fill out a survey about what they find.

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  • Kelp Me, Kelp You

    Daniel Shailer

    May 04, 2023 |

    Planet A Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The RETI Center, an environmental justice nonprofit, is growing kelp in Booklyns incredibly polluted Gowanus Canal in an effort to remove pollutants from the water and restore the ecosystem. It plans to eventually sell carbon capture credits and sell the kelp to make products like more sustainable cement.

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