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  • How Native Nations Forced Federal Investment in Salmon Reintroduction

    July 02, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Colville Indian Reservation, United States, Washington

    The Upper Columbia United Tribes are working to reintroduce salmon along the Upper Columbia River after the Chief Joseph and Grand Coulee Dams altered the environment, preventing the salmon from returning. Their research on the impact of the dam on the river, salmon, and their culture has pressured the U.S. government to uphold its obligations to them. So far, it’s committed $200 million for the reintroduction efforts as a result.

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  • How the Nez Perce are using an energy transition to save salmon

    July 01, 2024 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: Nez Perce Reservation, United States, Lapwai, Idaho

    The Nez Perce Tribe is installing solar panels on homes and community buildings across their reservation with the goal of producing enough energy to replace the hydroelectric dams on the Snake River responsible for the diminishing salmon and steelhead populations.

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  • Songs for saving

    June 28, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Nepal

    A nonprofit conservation organization, Greenhod Nepal, works with local musicians to create songs inspired by traditional Nepali music about the consequences of poaching. The songs tell stories of real-life events or use the imagined perspectives of animals to educate the public in an accessible way.

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  • Can Seaweed Save American Shellfish?

    June 27, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Researchers, conservationists, and shellfish farmers on both U.S. coasts are starting and studying seaweed farms as a way to soak up excess nutrients in acidic water to help shellfish survive and grow.

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  • With prayers and well wishes, students release thousands of salmon fry in Okanagan waters

    June 27, 2024 |

    IndigiNews |

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    Response Location: Okanagan Nation, Canada, Penticton, British Columbia

    The Okanagan Nation Alliance leads a Fish in Schools program that donates fish spawn and the equipment to raise them to elementary and secondary schools near their territory. Thousands of fish raised by the students are released into local waterways during ceremonies at the end of the school year as a part of their efforts to bring salmon back to the area.

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  • The Fish In The Sea

    June 19, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Scotland

    Nonprofits and coastal communities are popularizing sustainable fishing practices and fishery management to allow ocean ecosystems to bounce back from overfishing and sustain the fishing industry long-term. For example, a community-led organization in Scotland campaigned to create the country’s first “No Take Zone” marine reserve, and a nonprofit in Hawaii is restoring fishponds to revive traditional Hawaiian aquaculture.

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  • Releasing the Giants: Saving Guyana's endangered Arapaima

    May 20, 2024 |

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    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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  • Beavers Are Back in London — and They're Thriving

    May 13, 2024 |

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    Response Location: England, London

    A volunteer-run community organization is reintroducing beavers to London as part of a larger rewilding effort. The beavers are alleviating flooding and helping biodiversity thrive in the eight-hectare public park they live in by building dams and canals.

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  • Fighting fire with beavers: How dam-building rodents are deployed to prevent megafires, restore scorched wildlands

    April 19, 2024 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Riverscapes inhabited by beavers fare far better than other areas during extreme wildfires because they hold back and spread out water, pushing it further into the ground. These spaces become critical pockets of habitat for animals to shelter in and can function as fire breaks. Restoration experts in Colorado are building structures that mimic beaver dams in hopes of replicating the effect and, if they’re lucky, incentivizing beavers to return.

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  • Carmakers give up on software that avoids kangaroos

    April 02, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Australia, Eurobodalla Shire, New South Wales

    Fence posts that flash blue and yellow lights while emitting a high-pitched noise when they detect oncoming car headlights are preventing car crashes involving kangaroos and wallabies in Australia. The practice is known as virtual fencing.

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