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A community-led strategy to save Brazil's dry forests from desertification

Xavier Bartaburu

December 11, 2023 |

Mongabay |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Brazil, Uauá, Bahia

Thirty-five communities in Bahia, Brazil, are working together to restore the Caatinga dry forest by managing goat and sheep herds and fencing areas off to let nature heal itself over time.

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Female Rangers ‘Don't Go All Alpha Like the Men' to Protect a Forest

Muktita Suhartono

November 27, 2023 |

The New York Times |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Indonesia, Damaran Baru

A team of rangers primarily made up of women is protecting 620 acres of forest around their village in Damaran Baru, Indonesia. The rangers' main priority is having conversations with squatters to prevent them from clearing the trees to use the soil, but they also provide important ecological information to researchers and act as environmental stewards.

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Colorado's latest tool to fight forest fires: Mushrooms

Michael Booth

October 26, 2023 |

The Colorado Sun |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Gold Hill, Colorado

The Colorado-based mycology center Boulder Mushroom is spreading fungi mycelium — the underground, root-looking part of a mushroom — across forest floors that were thinned to mitigate wildfires. The mushrooms quicken the pace at which sawdust and other potential fire fuel decays and improve soil health.

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Miyawaki: A little forest with a towering task

Jingnan Peng

September 22, 2023 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Residents of Cambridge, Massachusetts, are planting Miyawaki forests to help regenerate the local ecosystem, sequester carbon, and cool the air. Originally created in Japan, these forests consist entirely of native plants made to mimic a natural forest in a small area of urban land.

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How artificial intelligence plus local expertise can promote ‘good fire' in Montana

Bowman Leigh

September 21, 2023 |

Montana Free Press |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Montana

The Potential Operational Delineations (PODs) framework combines analytics and local expertise to assess fire risk by marking out locations on a map where fire can best be stopped. The risk is then used to identify where best to suppress the fire and where it can continue to burn to benefit the environment and prevent future fires. From there, experts decide how to respond to a fire in each section of the map in advance, which can also include prevention tactics.

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One of Europe's Most Endangered Birds Is Bouncing Back

Anne Pinto-Rodrigues

September 14, 2023 |

Smithsonian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Portugal, São Miguel Island

For two decades, the Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds has restored native trees on São Miguel Island to increase the food and nesting habitat available for the Azores bullfinch. As a result, the population of the bird increased enough to be downlisted from critically endangered to vulnerable.

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The Goal: Tourism That Regenerates Hawai‘i, Not Degrades It

Noelle Fujii-Oride

September 08, 2023 |

Hawaii Business Magazine |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Hawaii

Two nonprofits came together to manage Hawai'i's Kaua‘i’s Hā‘ena State Park in a community-led way, creating a more equitable relationship between the tourism industry and the local community. Native Hawaiians work at the park, lead restoration projects and run educational programs. And to prevent overtourism, tourists must make reservations and pay to enter.

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Planter des arbres, le risque du "greenwashing"

Antoine Boyer

September 07, 2023 |

Sur la Terre |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Cameroon

L’idée des crédits carbone forestiers est que les entreprises financent des projets axés sur la conservation et la reforestation afin de compenser leurs émissions de CO2. Mais en réalité, il y a peu de preuves que ces projets ont un impact, avec moins de 10 % des initiatives examinées dans une étude qui empêchent réellement la déforestation.

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Nursing oil palm plantations back to nature in Malaysian Borneo

Louise Hunt

July 26, 2023 |

Mongabay |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Malaysia

In October 2020, the Rhino and Forest Fund in Malaysian Borneo began to buy land once cleared for oil palm plantations, and reforests and rehabilitates the tracts into wildlife corridors. After replanting 40 tree species in the last 3 years, an increase in several threatened species has been documented traveling through the project sites.

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Tree Keepers: Where Sustaining the Forest Is a Tribal Tradition

Fred Pearce

July 24, 2023 |

Yale Environment 360 |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Menominee, United States, Wisconsin

Menominee tribal members are practicing methods of forest management that blend both conservation and Indigenous culture to preserve the viability of the forest long-term. In 2018, it was found that after a century of logging on the reservation, the forest had higher tree volume, higher rates of regeneration, more plant diversity and fewer invasive species than other, nontribal forests.

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