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  • The islands that went from whale hunting to whale watching

    Anne Pinto-Rodrigues

    October 12, 2023 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: Portugal

    The Azores archipelago transitioned from hunting whales to whale conservation and eco-tourism that support research by implementing whale watching guidelines and building up the new industry after whaling was banned.

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  • Mar Menor: cleaning Europe's largest saltwater lagoon

    María Elorza Saralegui

    October 11, 2023 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Spain

    Local authorities in Spain are introducing restoration measures to clean up the Mar Menor lagoon, which is suffering from years of nitrate and phosphate contamination. Their methods include mandating hedges are planted as barriers on farmland, collecting rain on farms so it doesn’t flow into the water, and limiting fertilizer use.

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  • How the United Nations, kids and corporations saved the Red Sea from an oil disaster

    Elizabeth Fitt

    October 09, 2023 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Yemen

    A coalition of governments, oil companies, and individual donors funded the effort to prevent a million-barrel oil spill in the Red Sea from the deteriorating shipping boat the FSO Safer. The funds allowed the United Nations to buy another container ship and transfer all the oil onto that instead.

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  • PFAS Shut Maine Farms Down. Now, Some Are Rebounding.

    Kirsten Lie-Nielsen

    October 02, 2023 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: The Mi'kmaq Nation, United States, Maine

    Since testing by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection found shockingly high levels of PFAS and PFOS — also known as forever chemicals — on land across the state, researchers and locals have been working on remediation. In one example, the Aroostook Band of the Mi’kmaq found that hemp grown on contaminated land extracts large amounts of the chemicals from the soil.

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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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    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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    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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  • Clean Water? We've Got a Mussel For That

    Courtney Duchene

    September 06, 2023 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Scientists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, are propagating common species of mussels to restore the once-thick mussel beds in local waterways. The mussels work as filters that purify the water and improve the health of the ecosystem.

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  • Volunteers spring to survey water in Patagonia Mountains before mine begins pumping

    Daniel Shailer

    September 01, 2023 |

    Tucson Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Patagonia, Arizona

    In the race to survey and catalog natural springs in Patagonia, Arizona, before they dry up, the Sky Island Alliance created an app-based volunteer program to collect more information. Locals can pick out coordinates to search for a spring and fill out a survey about what they find.

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  • Replenishing the San Juan River

    Sara Van Note

    August 30, 2023 |

    Santa Fe Reporter |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    The Jicarilla Apache Nation is leasing its water rights, up to 20,000 acre-feet of water per year, to the State of New Mexico. The state’s Strategic Water Reserve can then designate that water to conservation projects like ensuring endangered fish species can migrate through the San Juan River.

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  • In Baltic Sea, citizen divers restore seagrass to fight climate change

    Sarah Marsh

    July 26, 2023 |

    Reuters |

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    Response Location: Germany, Kiel

    The SeaStore Seagrass Restoration Project in Kiel, Germany, is teaching locals to harvest and replant the underwater grasses. The project is restoring areas these plants used to inhabit because they store large amounts of carbon.

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