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  • How Indigenous values inspired the largest network of wildlife crossings in USA

    November 14, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Flathead Reservation, United States, Montana

    The Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes worked to design and implement 42 animal crossings along 56 miles of Highway 93 to reduce wild animal collisions. An average of over 22,500 animal crosses happen per year at just 29 of the structures and collisions have reduced by 71%.

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  • Rat killers in paradise: An eradication program remakes a tropical atoll

    November 10, 2022 |

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    Response Location: French Polynesia, Tetiaroa Atoll

    Conservationists and scientists eradicated invasive rats from Tetiaroa Atoll in French Polynesia with targeted rat poison bates. The island’s wildlife, including endangered species, and its ecosystem have flourished in response.

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  • Amid conflict and chaos, a reforestation project surges ahead in Haiti

    November 10, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Haiti

    Nonprofits and communities in Hati are working together to reforest land with native plants. Using a public-private land approach, the nonprofits bought land around, and in, Grand Bois National Park to create a private reserve and avoid potential bureaucratic complications.

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  • Meet the Millennium Forest: A unique tropical island reforestation project

    November 02, 2022 |

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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

    October 27, 2022 |

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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

    September 28, 2022 |

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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

    September 20, 2022 |

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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

    August 29, 2022 |

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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

    July 21, 2022 |

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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

    June 06, 2022 |

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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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