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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)
- Women finding empowerment working with nature’s bounty in Brazil’s Pantanal, news.mongabay.com (Aug 08, 2024)
- ‘It’s nice to help a life to live’: meet Sri Lanka’s turtle guardians, theguardian.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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