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- World leaders are gathering in Cali, Colombia, to agree ways to save species from extinction and restore nature. Here are five powerful solutions to halt biodiversity loss, BBC Future (Oct 24, 2024)
- ‘It’s a big lever for change’: the radical contract protecting Hamburg’s green space, theguardian.com (Oct 24, 2024)
- Hope from Nepal’s first community-based red panda conservation area, news.mongabay.com (Aug 29, 2024)
- For South Africa’s amaMpondo fighting to protect nature, ‘Everything is a being’, news.mongabay.com (Aug 19, 2024)
- Ancient Tracking Skills and New Tech Are Protecting Namibia’s Endangered Pangolins, reasonstobecheerful.world (Aug 09, 2024)
- ‘It’s nice to help a life to live’: meet Sri Lanka’s turtle guardians, theguardian.com (Aug 08, 2024)
- Women finding empowerment working with nature’s bounty in Brazil’s Pantanal, news.mongabay.com (Aug 08, 2024)
- African island state embraces the hunters to end turtle hunting, news.mongabay.com (Jul 17, 2024)
- EU passes law to restore 20% of bloc’s land and sea by end of decade, theguardian.com (Jun 17, 2024)
- Herd of 170 bison could help store CO2 equivalent of almost 2m cars, researchers say, theguardian.com (May 15, 2024)
- Fewer wildfires, great biodiversity: what is the secret to the success of Mexico’s forests?, theguardian.com (May 01, 2024) — More than half of the country’s forestry is in community and Indigenous hands – and from CO2 absorption to reducing poverty the results are impressive
- Rio’s dolphins back from the brink of extinction thanks to education and research, news.mongabay.com (Apr 30, 2024)
- Food forests grown by Nile Basin farmers restore wetlands and bring back a turtle, news.mongabay.com (Feb 28, 2024)
- Community seed banks offer hope for the Amazon across Brazil’s soy belt, news.mongabay.com (Feb 15, 2024)
- Low-carbon milk to AI irrigation: tech startups powering Latin America’s green revolution, theguardian.com (Jan 30, 2024)
- Reverse in endangered fish’s slide to extinction helped by Indigenous effort in Bangladesh, news.mongabay.com (Jan 19, 2024)
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- Farming support to communities living near wildlife reserve in Cameroon lowers rates of hunting, news.mongabay.com (Dec 19, 2023)
- Collaboration involving local fishing communities helps save manatees stranded in Colombia, news.mongabay.com (Dec 18, 2023)
- Papua New Guinea's two large new marine protected areas “one of the first and most ambitious community-led MPA wins”, news.mongabay.com (Dec 14, 2023)
- How Jocotoco Foundation, an Ecuadorian non-profit protects 10% of the world’s bird species, news.mongabay.com (Dec 11, 2023)
- Climate change: Saving Uganda's mountain gorillas, BBC News (Dec 01, 2023)
- Blue whales: Ocean giants return to 'safe' tropical haven, BBC News (Nov 23, 2023)
- Boy tells TDs and senators: 'We need more trains now', rte.ie (Nov 21, 2023)
- Pala’wan Indigenous community’s organic farming protecting a Philippine hotspot, news.mongabay.com (Nov 16, 2023)
- Outlaw fisher turns reef marshal in Indonesia’s Sumbawa, news.mongabay.com (Oct 31, 2023)
- The barren island that came back from the dead, positive.news (Oct 18, 2023)
- Flock of California Condors Spotted In Contra Costa County for the First Time in 100 Years., sfist.com (Sep 25, 2023)
- Can ‘road ecology’ save millions of animals?, news.mongabay.com (Sep 19, 2023)
- The Samburu warriors regenerating a Kenyan wilderness, positive.news (Sep 18, 2023)
- Agroforestry chocolate helping save the world’s most endangered rainforest, by Liz Kimbrough, news.mongabay.com (Sep 12, 2023)
- Sundarbans tiger and prey numbers rise amid Bangladesh conservation efforts, news.mongabay.com (Sep 11, 2023)
- A forest gave Cambodia’s captive elephants a new life. Now they’re paying it back, news.mongabay.com (Aug 31, 2023)
- Ecuadorians vote to halt oil drilling in biodiverse Amazonian national park, theguardian.com (Aug 21, 2023)
- UN adopts first ‘historic’ treaty to protect high seas, aljazeera.com (Jun 19, 2023)
- Belize’s co-management framework is a model for community conservation, globalvoices.org (Jun 12, 2023)
- Tiger protection in India also saved 1 million tonnes of carbon emissions – new study, The Conversation (May 25, 2023)
- Inside the world’s first native bee sanctuary (plus, how to really save bees), Positive News (May 19, 2023)
- Community-led coral restoration project is rare hit amid slew of misses in Indonesia, news.mongabay.com (May 04, 2023)
- Costa Rica restored its ravaged land to health. The rich UK has no excuse for such complete failure, George Monbiot, The Guardian (Apr 21, 2023)
- Ocean treaty: Historic agreement reached after decade of talks, BBC News (Mar 05, 2023)
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- Cop15 in Montreal: did the summit deliver for the natural world?, The Guardian (Dec 20, 2022)
- WWF Living Planet Report: Devastating 69% drop in wildlife populations since 1970, wwf.eu (Oct 13, 2022)
- Elephants on the Move: 250 Elephants to be Relocated in Malawi, African Parks (Jun 21, 2022)
- Mountain gorillas: The ripple effect of conservation, BBC News (Jun 20, 2022)
- How Gabon saved its forest elephants, BBC News (Jun 19, 2022)
- The elephant whisperer of Nepal, Global Voices (May 23, 2022) — Saluting a citizen scientist who protects wild elephants
- The wolf: the Italian population is increasing, isprambiente.gov.it (May 17, 2022) — ISPRA estimates over 3000 specimens in Italy
- The return of California's butterflies, BBC News (May 08, 2022)
- Linking protected areas from Yellowstone to the Yukon shows the value of conserving large landscapes, not just isolated parks and preserves, The Conversation (Apr 26, 2022)
- More than 100 animals released back into Colombian wild, BBC News (Apr 07, 2022) — Environmental authority Corporinoquia, in charge of managing sustainable development, released more than 1,200 animals back into the wild last year alone.
- How we discovered that sea turtles in Seychelles have recovered from the brink, The Conversation (Mar 17, 2022)
- Koalas labeled as 'endangered' in eastern states of Australia, Wikinews (Feb 14, 2022) — On Friday, Australia’s federal environment minister Sussan Ley declared the koala an endangered species in Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.
- Iceland whaling: Fisheries minister signals end from 2024, BBC News (Feb 04, 2022)
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