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  • Guatemala: An indigenous community rejects, then accepts, a protected area

    December 12, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Guatemala, Río Sarstún

    After initially not involving the indigenous Q’eqchi community in designating land for the Río Sarstún Multiple Use Area – land that this community lives on – the government and the Q’eqchi since partnered together to advance conservation efforts and land management. Over a decade later, the two stakeholders work together on things like overfishing and ecotourism, part of a larger global trend of governments and local communities working collaboratively toward conservation.

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  • ‘We see its value': Ugandan communities benefiting from agroforestry

    December 11, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Butanda

    Communities across Uganda have been realizing the benefits of agroforestry, an old farming system that mimics natural ecosystems. Apart from creating a diverse, stable local food supply, the practice promotes soil health, bolsters biodiversity, creates wildlife habitat, and sequesters carbon. An NGO is working with communities to spread the practice across the region, with marked effect.

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  • ‘Light for everyone': Indigenous youth mount a solar-powered resistance

    December 10, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Cuetzalán, Puebla

    Tosepan Titataniske, an indigenous cooperative in Mexico's Sierra Norte mountains, emphasizes local control at the heart of solar programs. Over the last four decades, the organization has incorporated 410 community-level cooperatives that serve some 60,000 members, training people to install solar and establishing agricultural cooperatives. With organization, indigenous communities have been able to fight inequitable development projects and make significant gains.

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  • For Ugandan villagers, tradition and tourism help keep the peace with gorillas

    December 05, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

    In Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, where 54 percent of the world's mountain gorillas reside, NGOs and locals are combining efforts to stem human-gorilla conflict. By funneling tourism dollars into community development projects, conflict resolution, and disease control, conservation goals and development goals are starting to align.

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  • Agroforestry ‘home gardens' build community resilience in southern Ethiopia

    December 04, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Ethiopia, Bule

    Farmers in Bule, Ethiopia, are practicing agroforestry, a diverse cropping method that mimics natural ecosystems. A survey found a stunning average of 16 crop species, including 21 species of tree, on farms. The benefits of the practice are myriad: food security, improved soil health, carbon sequestration, diversified revenue streams, and new wildlife habitat, to name several. While the incentive to grow valuable monocultures can be high, many growers stick with agroforestry regardless.

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  • Indian tribe revives heirloom seeds for health and climate security

    November 30, 2018 |

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    Response Location: India, Rayagada

    The women of India's Dongria Kondhs, with some assistance from grassroots organizations, are leading an effort to move away from monoculture and back to lost seed varieties. A community can grow as many as 50 plant varietals on a single farm. Not only do such practices empower growers to navigate pests and climate change, but also to improve health.

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  • The Bangladeshi tribe that's guarding turtles, co-authoring research papers

    November 29, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh, Chittagong

    A conservation researcher from the Creative Conservation Alliance in Bangladesh has formed a partnership with the Mro people by training them to be parabiologists. They have learned to document and save threatened species. The Chittagong Hill Tracts has some of the greatest biodiversity in Bangladesh, and this work has led to the discovery and preservation of some species previously thought to be extinct.

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  • Agroforestry supports food security and conservation in Papua New Guinea

    November 26, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Papua New Guinea

    In Papua New Guinea, agroforestry--an old method of farming that more closely mimics natural ecosystems--has provided the Gildipasi community with diverse crops and greater food security. And in a boom for wildlife, the practice has allowed the community to set aside 4,940 protected acres of forestland, as well as a marine protected area, over the past two decades.

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  • Agroforestry saves soil and boosts livelihoods in Tajikistan

    November 13, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Tajikistan, Faizobod

    To restore degraded lands in Tajikistan, farmers are turning to agroforestry, a traditional cropping method that more closely mimics natural systems. An estimated 45 gigatons of carbon is sequestered by agroforestry systems globally. Add that to the benefits of reforestation, erosion control, and the return of wildlife habitat.

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  • Switching to LPG for habitat recovery and wildlife conservation

    September 25, 2018 |

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    Response Location: India, Karnataka

    In rural communities, firewood extraction hurts both human health and wildlife habitat. In India, a group of conservationists are helping villages switch from wood-burning to liquified petroleum gas. While logistics around refills are still being ironed out, the program has already produced noticeable results.

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