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  • Can Humans Help Trees Outrun Climate Change?

    April 25, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Scituate, Rhode Island

    A dark synergy of extreme weather and emboldened pests could imperil vast stretches of woodland. Foresters are only starting to wrestle with solutions.

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  • Community buy-in stamps out elephant poaching in Zambian park

    April 22, 2019 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Zambia, Luangwa Valley

    In the North Luangwa National Park in Zambia, a conservation team worked with local communities to bring the rate of elephant poaching in the area down to zero in 2018. Poaching had surged in the Luangwa Valley in 2014, and since then the group has protected the elephants by placing the decision-making and benefit-reaping in the hands of the community members. They use financial incentives to stir the economy without depending on poaching money, work with the government to revise policies that redirect any income for the area to benefit the residents, and they patrol the park for any poachers.

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  • Ranchers Try New Tactics Coexisting with Wolves — Endangered or Not

    April 19, 2019 |

    Bitterroot |

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    Response Location: United States, Eureka, Montana

    The gray wolf was on the Endangered Species list when they were first reintroduced to the West in 1995, and although they have made an impressive comeback, there is now a debate between ranchers and environmentalists about the best way to handle the influx of predators to their cattle. Ranchers like Joe Purdy in Montana have found a successful mix of nonlethal tactics to keep them at bay: patrol of the area during the hours of 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., wildlife cameras, inviting campers to stay, building fences, and more.

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  • Mini reefs restore SWFL canals

    April 17, 2019 |

    Changing Florida |

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    Response Location: United States, Florida

    Oceans Habitats, Inc. has built and installed over 1,600 mini-reefs in Florida to bring aquatic life back to the canals and to improve the water quality. Water filters through these artificial reefs made out of propylene pipe and boosts the variety of fish and marine life species. These reefs can help grow over 300 fish a year. The organization is looking to make the reefs out of recycled material to be more environmentally friendly.

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  • Endangered rhinos are now being protected by powerful data analytics

    April 15, 2019 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: South Africa

    To fight a recent surge in endangered rhino poaching, the South African government began utilizing data analytics typically used to study consumers to map out poaching networks. Piecing together data from sources as varied as the serial numbers on guns left behind in parks, police data, intelligence data, and social media posts that show relationships between people, the government was able to isolate a European supplier that supplied most of the poachers' guns.

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  • Decades of wise use pay off for a Kabale wetland

    April 15, 2019 |

    InfoNILE |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Rubaya, Kabale

    In 1980, the Ugandan government signed an agreement with local communities in the Mugandu–Buramba wetland that gave them the right to own, manage, and conserve their own property. Today, the wetlands are thriving —reducing degradation and improving biodiversity— and creating a livelihood for the 276 people that live there. The government says that since they are using the land responsibly, their agreement will continue.

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  • How to Restore a Million Acres of Strip-Mined Land? Bring in the Elk

    April 12, 2019 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Grundy, Virginia

    Strip mining, a method in which the entire top few hundred feet of mountain are blown up to expose coal seams, has left Virginia and other Appalachian states with nearly a million acres of flat, problematic lands. Environmental scientists have released a herd of elk at one of these former strip mine sites to enrich the habitat for diverse animal species and to revitalize the local economies through wildlife tourists and hunters.

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  • Coffee helps protect Uganda's endangered mountain gorillas

    April 09, 2019 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

    For many poachers near Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, hunting is crucial to their livelihoods, even as regulations against the practice have increased. To help combat this, social enterprises like Gorilla Conservation Coffee are working to make coffee farming a sustainable and financially stable alternative. However, the model still needs some tweaks to ensure that farmers are adequately supported and the business can meet demand.

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  • To save the monarch butterfly, Mexican scientists are moving a forest 1,000 feet up a mountain

    April 09, 2019 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Ejido La Mesa

    The monarch butterfly is a migratory species that winters in central Mexico. However, warming temperatures have threatened the forests that house the butterflies. Scientists have responded by creating a greenhouse to grow trees that would shift the monarch’s habitat to a higher altitude, where temperatures are more favorable to helping the butterflies survive.

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  • Trout lovers trek down to Río Grande for native cutthroat

    April 04, 2019 |

    The Taos News |

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    Response Location: United States, Cerro, New Mexico

    On New Mexico's public lands, volunteer effort can go a long way for wildlife restoration. Each year, nearly 200 volunteers hike around 10,000 cutthroat trout to the edge of the Río Grande del Norte National Monument Wild Rivers Recreation Area. For a fish occupying less than 10 percent of its historic range, sparking interest in conservation is an added benefit in helping the species.

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