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Oman's mountain oases offer ancient farming lessons for a warming future

Ruth Kamnitzer

March 18, 2024 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Oman

Ancient farming techniques are helping locals to preserve the environment and agroecology while still managing to sustainably grow food in the midst of climate change and other outside challenges. Moreover, the ancient farming practices are a major attraction for agritourism, helping bring money to local communities.

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Mini radio tags help track ‘murder hornets' and other invasive insects

Claudia Geib

March 14, 2024 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: United States, Washington

Scientists are using radio tracking technology to track invasive species like “murder hornets” to prevent them from overrunning the environment. The tagged hornet leads scientists to their nest, allowing them to eliminate the hive before an invasion occurs. Neither the U.S. nor Canada has had a giant hornet sighting since the last nest was destroyed in 2021, but this technology allows researchers to be prepared.

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Culture and conservation thrive as Great Lakes tribes bring back native wild rice

Spoorthy Raman

March 04, 2024 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, United States

Native tribes and First Nations in the Great Lakes Region are successfully reviving wild rice, a native crop that is deemed “extremely vulnerable” to climate change and lost much of its wetland habitat. The tribes’ restoration projects involve seeding lakebeds, monitoring water levels and quality, educating others on the importance of the crop, and harvesting it by hand.

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Rewilding in Argentina helps giant anteaters return to south Brazil

Sarah Brown

February 12, 2024 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Argentina

A rewilding project at Iberá National Park in Argentina is reintroducing giant anteaters where they were previously considered extinct by bringing orphaned pups onto wild, protected land and allowing them to roam freely.

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Traditional healers in Philippines keep their 'forest pharmacy' standing

Keith Anthony S. Fabro

February 09, 2024 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Philippines, Siquijor

A community of mananambal, or healers, in the Philippines are helping to conserve the forests around their community by practicing their sustainable, healing traditions and spiritual beliefs. They protect the nature around them because it is considered a source of healing and home to spirits, and they only prune trees and gather herbs in ways that promote growth.

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Do carbon credits really help communities that keep forests standing?

John C. Cannon

January 05, 2024 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Cambodia, Sen Monorom

Despite some support for the forest conservation strategy REDD+, which uses carbon credits to incentivize reducing emissions, many Indigenous organizations and communities say the strategy and general carbon market need improvement. They say the programs don’t lead to the purported benefits and must be more inclusive of those proactively protecting forests and local communities, among other things.

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Bird-friendly maple syrup boosts Vermont forest diversity & resilience

Nina Foster

December 18, 2023 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: United States, Vermont

Several organizations in Vermont banded together to create the Bird-Friendly Maple Project. The program encourages maple syrup makers to safeguard their forest habitats for birds using agroecology practices like keeping a diverse variety of native trees. Operations that meet the requirements receive an official label for their products.

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To keep track of salmon migrations in real time, First Nations turn to AI

Spoorthy Raman

November 06, 2023 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Canada, Kitwanga, British Columbia

In partnership with Indigenous-led fisheries, researchers in British Columbia deployed an artificial intelligence system to automate the counting of Pacific salmon during their migration. The AI-based tool, which analyzes underwater video, can identify some species of fish with 90 percent accuracy, and Indigenous stewards who participated in the pilot project said not having to count salmon manually freed them up for other important projects.

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A mobile solution for Kenyan pastoralists' livestock is a plus for wildlife, too

David Njagi

November 06, 2023 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Kenya

Pastoralists who range on the Enonkishu Conservancy use mobile bomas, portable corrals that allow them to move freely and protect their herds from predators at night. Moving the herds around puts less stress from grazing on fragile vegetation, reduces the risk of disease, leverages livestock to graze invasive species, and allows the land to double as a destination for wildlife tourism rather than being developed by private property owners.

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How the United Nations, kids and corporations saved the Red Sea from an oil disaster

Elizabeth Fitt

October 09, 2023 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Yemen

A coalition of governments, oil companies, and individual donors funded the effort to prevent a million-barrel oil spill in the Red Sea from the deteriorating shipping boat the FSO Safer. The funds allowed the United Nations to buy another container ship and transfer all the oil onto that instead.

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