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Meet the Millennium Forest: A unique tropical island reforestation project

Jeremy Hance

November 02, 2022 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

The community on St. Helena’s two-decade reforestation initiative is successfully revitalizing rare native species through a community-driven approach. The project began with the intention to create a public place for island residents and that sense of ownership has allowed the project to keep moving forward despite obstacles.

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To get young Filipinos into farming, initiatives reach them via TikTok, school

Janine Peralta

October 27, 2022 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Philippines

Kids Who Farm, an initiative co-founded by a 12-year-old in the Phillippines, is working to teach young people how to start micro-farms and grow the waning youth interest in agriculture.

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How ecotourism in Konkan promotes climate-friendly tourism

Vinaya Kurtkoti

September 28, 2022 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: India

In India, experience-based tourism promotes sustainability and conservation awareness while supporting local economies. For this style of tourism, tourists experience life like local indigenous communities in everything from eating to helping in agricultural fields.

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Lebanese research preserves heat-adapted seeds to feed a warming world

Marta Vidal

September 20, 2022 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Lebanon, Terbol

The International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) preserves genetic diversity and breeds climate-resilient varieties of staple crops to improve livelihoods and strengthen food security — specifically in dry, climate-change-affected areas — by creating seed vaults. Through breeding programs over the past four decades, ICARDA has released more than 30 improved varieties of wheat, barley, chickpeas, lentils, and fava beans.

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Healthy mangroves build a resilient community in the Philippines' Palawan

Keith Anthony S. Fabro

August 29, 2022 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Philippines, Palawan

The Philippines’ National Greening Program combined with ongoing outreach initiatives, partnerships with local communities, and Indigenous cultural practices that emphasized the importance of preserving mangroves helped the area’s coastal forests and fisheries start to recover after decades of deforestation.

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Au Cameroun, des réfugiés nigérians ayant dégradé leur camp sont maintenant à l'avant-garde du reboisement

Amindeh Blaise Atabong

July 21, 2022 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Cameroon

Au Cameroun, le camp de Minawao accueille plus de 50 000 réfugiés fuyant Boko Haram. Pour subvenir à leurs besoins, les bois clairsemés autour du camp ont été coupés pour du bois de chauffe ou pour construire des abris. Le projet « Reverdir Minawao », soutenu par les Nations-Unies, permet d'impliquer les réfugiés dans le reboisement de la zone et le choix des espèces plantées. Environ 400 000 arbres se dressent maintenant dans le camp. Le projet a aidé à réduire la tension avec les habitants alentours.

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Common goals ensure forest restoration success in northern Thailand

Carolyn Cowan

June 06, 2022 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Thailand, Ban Mae Sa Mai, Chiang Mai Province

Collaboration between the Hmong community, researchers, and park authorities in northern Thailand has allowed them to work together to restore the forest in Doi Suthep-Pui National Park. Between 1997 and 2013, they used assisted regeneration to restoring 33 hectares of forest, which also increased the area’s natural flora and fauna. Because of their efforts, their approach is being implemented in tropical forests around the world, including Cambodia, Madagascar, and Tanzania.

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Entre succès et nouveaux défis : entretien avec un coordinateur des aires protégés en Afrique

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy

May 30, 2022 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Senegal

Au Sénégal, l’aire du patrimoine autochtone et communautaire (APAC) Kawawana est née en 2008 de l’initiative de pêcheurs autochtones Jola en Casamance. Cette aire côtière et maritime de 9 665 hectares est entièrement gouvernée, gérée et conservée par les communautés locales. En presque dix ans, ils ont réussi à restaurer une biodiversité presque disparue. Mais avec l'épidémie de Covid-19 elle a dû faire face aux braconniers peu contrôlés par l'Etat et ces espaces naturels sont affectés par le changement climatique.

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Training on pasture recovery is a win-win for Brazil's cattle ranchers and forests

Sarah Brown

May 12, 2022 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Brazil

Providing cattle ranchers in Brazil with training and monthly technical assistance in sustainable pasture restoration reduces carbon dioxide emissions while increasing productivity and revenue for ranchers.

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In Burundi, one-time combatants who razed forests now raise seedlings

Dieudonné Ndanezerewe

April 21, 2022 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Burundi

Communities that experienced decades of war worked together with the government, military, and police on a vast national reforestation program that planted at least 150 million trees over four years. The groups conducted a census and established nurseries where they grow saplings of the appropriate trees to plant.

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