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  • In the Shadowy World of Animal Poaching, There's a New Cop in Town

    July 10, 2023 |

    Slate |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: India, Kerala

    HAWK, or Hostile Activity Watch Kernel, is a digital intelligence gathering system for wildlife crime in India. Field staff use HAWK’s app to enter data when they encounter a crime, which generates the documents an officer needs to submit in court. Since HAWK’s 2020 rollout, the criminal investigation process has been streamlined, resulting in fewer errors, quicker processing times, and more transparency. Building off its success, HAWK is now being introduced to more Indian states.

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  • US Forest Service and historically Black colleges unite to boost diversity in wildland firefighting

    July 07, 2023 |

    Associated Press |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Hazel Green, Alabama

    In an effort to increase diversity in the forestry and fire industry, the U.S. Forest Service partners with several historically Black colleges and universities to run an on-site fire academy that gives students the credentials to start a career. Participating students learn fire fighting and forestry practices in class, then put them to use during instructor-supervised prescribed burn demonstrations.

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  • Transition écologique : une révolution dans l'éducation ?

    July 06, 2023 |

    Sur la Terre |

    Podcast |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: France, Menglon

    Caminando est une école primaire qui privilégie le lien des élèves avec la nature, avec beaucoup de temps passé à l’extérieur et des éléments de la nature incorporés à d’autres matières académiques. Par exemple, les élèves apprennent les mathématiques en s’occupant de leurs propres parcelles de jardin, ce qui les oblige à calculer la surface ou à compter le nombre de tomates qu’ils ont cultivées.

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  • Blowing the air of justice on alleged witches

    July 06, 2023 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Cross River

    The Advocacy for Alleged Witches is working to make all of Nigerian society witch-hunting-free. Advocates in the organization report incidents of witchcraft branding and arrange to help the accused individual by moving them away from the danger, providing medical services, and working with lawyers, police, and government agencies to take legal action against the issue.

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  • These climate advocates don't care about your carbon footprint. They care about whether you vote.

    July 05, 2023 |

    Grist |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    In an effort to fix the climate movement’s voter turnout problem, the Environmental Voter Project’s 6,000 volunteers use behavioral and data science in their outreach campaigns to encourage environmentalists to become consistent voters so the issues they care about are prioritized by politicians.

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  • Trees like women best: Nepal's forests thrive with female bosses

    July 05, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Kathmandu

    The Federation of Community Forestry Users Nepal manages the country’s community forest. For the past 30 years, the organization made a point to ensure half of its employees are women, and that women have access to leadership roles. As a result, a path has opened for more women to work in politics and the forests managed by women are thriving the most.

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  • In India, peace building goes ultimate

    July 05, 2023 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: India, Rowmari, Assam

    The nonprofit Action Northeast Trust organizes youth ultimate Frisbee matches to strengthen social cohesion, promote gender equality, and foster peace among young people from different villages, ethnicities, and mother tongues in Assam, India.

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  • Seeds of hope: the charity helping to replant Peru's rainforest

    July 04, 2023 |

    Pioneers Post |

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    Response Location: Peru

    Plant Your Future is working with Peruvian farmers to reforest the Amazon rainforest by helping them earn an income while growing trees instead of doing so by cutting trees down. The charity does outreach, teaches farmers about agroforestry, intercropping, and the carbon market, and then supports them throughout the transition to those practices.

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  • How a Nigerian NGO is Empowering the Next Generation of Leaders

    July 04, 2023 |

    BONews |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    LEAP Africa is a Nigerian-based NGO that has helped thousands of students (in 26 Nigerian states and 8 African countries) develop leadership skills through a series of programs in partnership with various universities. Many program graduates have gone on to solve problems in their local communities by implementing their newfound skills, but some students struggle with limited internet access.

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  • Once cold, now too hot: Efforts to cut rising temperature in Nigeria's plateau intensifies

    July 04, 2023 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Obanliku, Cross River

    The nonprofit Africa Research Association Managing Development teaches communities in Obanliku, Nigeria, to run their own businesses in things like gardening, soap making, and marketing, and helps establish cocoa cooperatives to keep them from depending on deforestation for income. The program also requires communities to designate parts of the forest for conservation and trains members to protect those areas.

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