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Abandoned 'ghost gear' kills sea life. A Myanmar nonprofit is turning the tide.

Anne Pinto-Rodrigues

November 13, 2024 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: Myanmar

The nonprofit Myanmar Ocean Project is working to raise awareness of and remove ghost gear, abandoned fishing gear that kills marine life, from the country’s waters. Volunteer drivers remove the gear from the water and create public awareness campaigns.

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Your lawn could host an endangered ecosystem

Kylie Mohr

November 01, 2024 |

High Country News |

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Response Location: United States, Pullman, Washington

The Phoenix Conservancy is restoring the critically endangered Palouse Prarie across Washington and Idaho one small plot of land at a time. Using native species, the group plants and maintains micro-prairies in yards, school parking lots, roadcuts, and any piece of land they can access.

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The Futures of Right Whales and Lobstermen Are Entangled. Could High-Tech Gear Help Save Them Both?

Kiley Price

October 20, 2024 |

Inside Climate News |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Provincetown, Massachusetts

Lobster is a crucial economic resource in New England, but entanglements with the fishing line from lobster traps are a major cause of death for endangered North Atlantic right whales. Scientists and lobstermen are testing ropeless, on-demand gear that minimizes the risk for whales and allows fishing to continue in areas that would otherwise be closed for months as the whales pass through.

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Biobanking Corals: One Woman's Mission to Save Coral Genetics in Turks and Caicos to Rebuild Reefs of the Future

Teresa Tomassoni

October 15, 2024 |

Inside Climate News |

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Response Location: Turks and Caicos Islands

The Turks and Caicos Reef Fund coral lab houses a living biobank of coral species at risk of being lost to climate change impacts and disease. Researchers collect the corals from the ocean and plan to keep them on land until the oceans are a suitable habitat again.

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Migrating birds find refuge in pop-up habitats

Natalia Mesa

October 11, 2024 |

High Country News |

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Response Location: United States, California

A network of conservation organizations prompts the creation of tens of thousands of acres of “pop-up” wetland habitat for migrating birds each year with a program called BirdReturns. It pays rice farmers in California’s Central Valley to flood their fields earlier in the fall and keep them flooded longer in the spring so the birds have a place to rest and feed.

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On the trail of the jaguar: Population growth a success in Sonora. Can the U.S. do the same?

John Washington

September 30, 2024 |

Arizona Luminaria |

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Response Location: Mexico, Sahuaripa, Sonora

Conservationists at the Northern Jaguar Reserve in Sonora, Mexico, are successfully increasing the jaguar population by giving them plenty of room to roam and educating the public about their importance. The organization pays ranchers for photos of the cats, giving them a way to earn additional income other than selling their pelts.

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The Poachers Who Could Save Mexico's Vaquita

Daniel Shailer

September 24, 2024 |

Hakai Magazine |

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Response Location: Mexico, San Felipe

Seeking to protect the endangered vaquita, a charity in San Felipe, Mexico, is encouraging fishers who poach totoaba, another endangered species, to swap their gillnets for cimbra. The hook-and-line style fishing equipment allows them to target totoaba that are worth more, meaning they can catch less while making the same or more income and keep other species out of the often harmful nets.

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From wastelands to wetlands: The fight to save Sri Lanka's natural flood buffers

Zinara Rathnayake

September 21, 2024 |

BBC |

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Response Location: Sri Lanka, Colombo

Sections of the massive network of wetlands in Colombo, Sri Lanka, went from being overwhelmed by garbage to biodiverse ecosystems that are a critical part of urban planning and flood prevention. The government and community groups worked to clean them up, and keep them clean, so the wetlands can do what they’re naturally good at.

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Giant 'living tractors' are bringing nature back to post-industrial wastelands

Matthew Ponsford

August 28, 2024 |

BBC |

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Response Location: Turkey

Water buffalo are becoming a crucial species in many conservation projects. Their natural habits like grazing and wallowing in water and the spreading of seeds through their dung increase biodiversity and create microhabitats for other important species.

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New funding could help Indigenous communities disproportionately impacted by climate change

Rachael Schuit

August 02, 2024 |

VNN (Verified News Network) |

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Response Location: Nooksack Indian Tribe, United States, Washington

The Nooksack Tribe and the Lummi Nation are working with farmers who are building new floodgates to ensure the systems benefit farmland and local salmon. Farmers are adding gates that protect salmon during flooding and give them safe passageways.

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