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  • Bird-friendly maple syrup boosts Vermont forest diversity & resilience

    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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  • The slow recovery of millennial-old salt marshes in Spain

    In Spain's Bay of Cádiz, locals have spent years collaborating with universities, scientists, and government entities to restore their bay's traditional salt marshes. The results? A revived economic sector, a community adapted to rising sea levels, and protected migratory birds.

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  • One of Europe's Most Endangered Birds Is Bouncing Back

    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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  • Project Puffin: A 50-year triumph that brought puffins back to Maine

    Project Puffin started 50 years ago as a way to replenish and sustain the Atlantic Puffin population. The techniques pioneered years ago are now being used around the world as the standard practice for aiding seabird populations. With the help of Project Puffin, the area seabird population is now thriving after almost being completely wiped out across the state.

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  • For two brothers, saving Delhi's kites brings fame but not enough financial support

    A Delhi-based rescue and rehabilitation center for birds of prey, called Wildlife Rescue, is run by two brothers who believe every living thing has the right to be treated when injured — including the black kites many locals see as bad luck. The center treats more than 3,300 birds every year.

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

    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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  • How Mass Bird Death In Philadelphia Catalyzed A Local Lights-out Program

    A light pollution mitigation pledge in Philadephia called Lights Out Philly asks building managers to agree to turn off their lights late at night during bird migration periods to decrease bird collisions with windows.

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  • Just add water and stir — Owens Lake shows Utahns that even when salty lakes hit their lowest point, they can recover

    To adjust from L.A. regularly draining Owens Lake for its water supply, locals have found that they can recover the dry lake by simply re-adding water to it, which prevents it from creating toxic dust storms. When water is added to the lake, the environment wakes up and becomes home to several plants and animals, specifically millions of birds, which depend on habitats like Owens Lake when traveling around the world.

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  • Great Salt Lake managers raise causeway berm in effort to stave off rising salinity

    Engineers with the Division of Water Resources created a new berm in the Great Salt Lake to help protect the lake’s ecosystem and slow the water exchange and reduce rising salinity between the north and south arms of the lake. Initial findings after the berm’s construction have shown a significant decrease in high-salinity waters, as well as improvements in the lake’s brine shrimp population.

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  • Conservation Group Tries One More Thing to Preserve an African Woodland: Prayer

    A Rocha Kenya is an environmental organization that connects Christian conservationists around the world to protect endangered habitats and species with the both the power of prayer and practical conservation efforts. Today, the group is also working to train local farmers in new methods to protect the forest, focusing on topics like promoting soil health, increasing crop yields and reducing water usage.

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