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  • A Philippine town and its leaders show how mangrove restoration can succeed

    Mavic Conde

    May 04, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Philippines, Prieto Diaz

    With support from the local government, a community-based program in the Philippines trains residents in mangrove reforestation, then teaches them how to sustainably manage the marine ecosystem. The program also helps them find livelihoods that don’t involve cutting the mangroves down.

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  • Counterintuitive conservation: Fire boosts aquatic crustaceans in U.S. savannas

    Ashli Blow

    April 21, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Prescribed burns remove shrubs and invasive plants from habitats that vernal pool fairy shrimp and different species of crayfish live in — making it easier for them to thrive and populations to increase.

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  • Philippine tribe boosts livelihoods and conservation with civet poop coffee

    Bong S. Sarmiento

    April 18, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Philippines, Mindanao

    Members of the B’laan ethnic group in a community in the Philippines are improving their livelihoods by foraging for coffee beans excreted by wild palm civets. They can sell the beans at a premium price because they are used to make a luxury coffee brew. And the practice encourages the locals to protect the wild animals, which benefits the ecosystem, too.

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  • From scarcity to abundance: The secret of the 'peace farmers' of Colombia

    Sandra Weiss

    April 17, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Meta

    La Cosmopolitana Foundation in Colombia offers courses that teach people to live in harmony with each other and nature. The classes focus on sustainability and helping rural communities to work together to create circular economies. Small fees make the classes largely accessible.

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  • 'Gold library' helps Brazil crack down on Amazon's illegal mining

    Ignacio Amigo Sam Cowie Avener Prado

    April 06, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Porto Velho

    Brazil’s Federal Police created a database of gold samples from different regions of the country to help confirm the origins of gold suspected to be illegally traded. Each sample is analyzed to understand its molecular composition, atomic structure, and morphological features. That information can be cross-referenced for matches with suspicious gold during investigations.

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  • Where Indigenous land rights prevail in Brazil, so does nature, study finds

    Luís Patriani

    April 06, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Peruíbe

    In areas of Brazil where land tenure is formalized, indigenous peoples' reforestation projects are increasing forest cover.

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  • Amid changing climate, Bangladesh farming groups conserve indigenous rice seeds

    Abu Siddique

    April 03, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh

    The Bangladesh Resource Center for Indigenous Knowledge runs a rice breeding initiative to preserve and encourage the planting of indigenous seeds. The program trains farmers how to problem solve, cultivate, and save the different seed varieties.

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  • From ukuleles to reforestation: Regrowing a tropical forest in Hawai‘i

    Jeremy Hance

    March 28, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    Saving Hawai‘i’s Forests plants koa trees and other native plants to reforest plots of land degraded by grazing livestock. As a result, the group has noticed the return of native wildlife to the plot, many of which are endangered or threatened species.

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  • Indigenous youths keep ancient forestry traditions alive in the Philippines

    Keith Anthony S. Fabro

    March 06, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Philippines, Misamis Oriental

    A forest management tradition practiced by the Indigenous Higaonon in the Philippines called panlaoy helps to protect the local ecosystems from threats. In this practice tribal elders teach young volunteers to immerse in, observe, assess, and document the condition of the ecosystem.

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  • Sustainable fish farming & agroecology buoy Kenyan communities

    David Njagi

    February 08, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Gatunga

    Small-scale, onshore fishing allows local farmers to increase their income, as well as their food security. Onshore fishing is also a more environmentally friendly practice as it doesn’t require the use of harmful chemicals, like synthetic fertilizers. So far nine counties have adopted the practice, with about 300 fish farmers in the Gatunga region of central Kenya alone.

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