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Light at the End of the Tunnel

Benjamin Goldfarb

March 26, 2024 |

Hakai Magazine |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

Communities in the United States are slowly replacing small culverts that alter the flow of streams and block the paths of migratory fish species with wider culverts and bridges, allowing the ecosystems to recover.

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How Southern Africa's Elephants Bounced Back

Veronika Perková

March 05, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Zimbabwe

The once-declining elephant population at Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe is now stable because the rangers use the core-buffer model to keep them safe. To ensure they have enough room to live comfortably, the elephants are allowed to wander far into less-protected zones. But the park has a well-protected core patrolled by rangers that elephants can return to when they feel threatened.

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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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How 'Panda Diplomacy' Led To Conservation Success

Rasha Aridi Aja Drain

December 22, 2023 |

Science Friday |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States

China originally gifted pandas to the U.S. as a diplomatic gesture, but it has evolved into a major conservation effort, protecting pandas, their environments and several other species. Researchers studied the pandas in zoos and used assisted reproduction to help increase the population. In the late ‘70s, there were about 1,000 pandas left in the wild. Now, that number has nearly doubled, including the several hundred in captivity, and pandas moved up from an endangered species to a vulnerable one in 2021, thanks to these conservation efforts.

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One of Europe's Most Endangered Birds Is Bouncing Back

Anne Pinto-Rodrigues

September 14, 2023 |

Smithsonian |

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Response Location: Portugal, São Miguel Island

For two decades, the Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds has restored native trees on São Miguel Island to increase the food and nesting habitat available for the Azores bullfinch. As a result, the population of the bird increased enough to be downlisted from critically endangered to vulnerable.

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Replenishing the San Juan River

Sara Van Note

August 30, 2023 |

Santa Fe Reporter |

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Response Location: United States, New Mexico

The Jicarilla Apache Nation is leasing its water rights, up to 20,000 acre-feet of water per year, to the State of New Mexico. The state’s Strategic Water Reserve can then designate that water to conservation projects like ensuring endangered fish species can migrate through the San Juan River.

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Napa Vineyards Are Pairing Wine With ‘Fish Friendly Farming'

Nicole Gluckstern

August 14, 2023 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: United States, Napa Valley, California

The Fish Friendly Farming (FFF) program aims to alleviate the impacts of farming and ranching on local waterways, specifically local salmon and trout populations. The program works with area farmers to become certified and enact the best practices regarding soil health and erosion management to prevent too much sediment from entering nearby waterways. So far, the program has certified more than 280,000 acres of farms across 10 counties. In Napa Valley alone, about 90% of all vineyards are now FFF certified.

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In the Shadowy World of Animal Poaching, There's a New Cop in Town

Deepa Padmanaban

July 10, 2023 |

Slate |

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Response Location: India, Kerala

HAWK, or Hostile Activity Watch Kernel, is a digital intelligence gathering system for wildlife crime in India. Field staff use HAWK’s app to enter data when they encounter a crime, which generates the documents an officer needs to submit in court. Since HAWK’s 2020 rollout, the criminal investigation process has been streamlined, resulting in fewer errors, quicker processing times, and more transparency. Building off its success, HAWK is now being introduced to more Indian states.

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The black market endangered this frog. Can the free market save it?

Sarah Gonzalez Stan Alcorn Charlotte de Beauvoir Willa Rubin Jess Jiang

June 30, 2023 |

NPR |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Colombia

Ivan Lozano Ortega went from running a wildlife rescue center to breeding and selling critically endangered poison dart frogs, legally. He’s trying to stop poachers from taking the few frogs remaining in the wild in Colombia by making the species readily available to collectors.

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Learning to live with — and love — bears and eagles in Colombia's cloud forest

James Hall

June 08, 2023 |

Mongabay |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Colombia

A group of conservationists created Techo de Agua to engage communities in Colombia with conservation efforts for endangered species like the black-and-chestnut speckled eagles and spectacled bears. The nonprofit educates locals about the importance of these animals and reduces human-wildlife conflict with individualized solutions.

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