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  • Can Fungi Save This Endangered Hawaiian Tree?

    Shi En Kim

    October 30, 2024 |

    Smithsonian |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    Conservationists in Hawaii are growing seedlings of the critically endangered na’u tree alongside mycorrhizal fungi instead of fertilizers and pesticides to mimic their natural growing process. The fungi support the plant in a variety of ways, like sucking up more water and providing mineral nutrients, which helps the seedlings grow at a rapid pace.

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  • Releasing the Giants: Saving Guyana's endangered Arapaima

    Alex Arjoon

    May 20, 2024 |

    News Room |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Guyana, Apoteri

    Residents of Apoteri Village, an Indigenous community in the rainforests of Guyana, are finding Giant Arapaima in ponds they were trapped in as the river receded, corralling them, and moving them back to the river by hand to save their lives.

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  • Traditional healers in Philippines keep their 'forest pharmacy' standing

    Keith Anthony S. Fabro

    February 09, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Philippines, Siquijor

    A community of mananambal, or healers, in the Philippines are helping to conserve the forests around their community by practicing their sustainable, healing traditions and spiritual beliefs. They protect the nature around them because it is considered a source of healing and home to spirits, and they only prune trees and gather herbs in ways that promote growth.

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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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    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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  • Nursing oil palm plantations back to nature in Malaysian Borneo

    Louise Hunt

    July 26, 2023 |

    Mongabay |

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

    Laura Joffre

    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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  • The black market endangered this frog. Can the free market save it?

    Sarah Gonzalez Stan Alcorn Charlotte de Beauvoir Willa Rubin Jess Jiang

    June 30, 2023 |

    NPR |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Colombia

    Ivan Lozano Ortega went from running a wildlife rescue center to breeding and selling critically endangered poison dart frogs, legally. He’s trying to stop poachers from taking the few frogs remaining in the wild in Colombia by making the species readily available to collectors.

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  • Can the bioeconomy replace oil extraction in the Ecuadorian Amazon?

    Gabriela Barzallo

    June 22, 2023 |

    El País |

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    Response Location: Ecuador

    Communities in Ecuador are building a “bioeconomy” through ecotourism and sustainable agriculture instead of relying on oil extraction. This can help protect the country’s biodiversity and increase locals’ incomes.

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  • To Fight Deforestation, Amazon Guardians Embrace a Tech Boom

    Gabriela Barzallo

    May 16, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Indigenous A’i Kofán of Sinangoe, Ecuador

    Members of the A’i Kofán de Sinangoe Indigenous guard keep watch over the part of the Amazon rainforest their community resides in. With the help of technological tools like drones and camera traps, they are able to prevent invasions and illegal activity on their land — which often goes hand-in-hand with preventing deforestation and pollution.

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  • The world's best rainforest guardians already live there

    Peter Yeung

    May 01, 2023 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: Indonesia

    Empowering Indigenous peoples in Indonesia with land rights allows them to protect and manage rainforests and biodiversity. One tribe that’s doing so, the Kajang, relies on substance agriculture and does not allow practices like cutting down trees, hunting, or using technology on most of the land.

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