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  • Female Rangers ‘Don't Go All Alpha Like the Men' to Protect a Forest

    November 27, 2023 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, Damaran Baru

    A team of rangers primarily made up of women is protecting 620 acres of forest around their village in Damaran Baru, Indonesia. The rangers' main priority is having conversations with squatters to prevent them from clearing the trees to use the soil, but they also provide important ecological information to researchers and act as environmental stewards.

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

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

    October 19, 2023 |

    Ereb |

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    Response Location: Spain, Bay of Cádiz

    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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  • Tree Keepers: Where Sustaining the Forest Is a Tribal Tradition

    July 24, 2023 |

    Yale Environment 360 |

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    Response Location: Menominee, United States, Wisconsin

    Menominee tribal members are practicing methods of forest management that blend both conservation and Indigenous culture to preserve the viability of the forest long-term. In 2018, it was found that after a century of logging on the reservation, the forest had higher tree volume, higher rates of regeneration, more plant diversity and fewer invasive species than other, nontribal forests.

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  • Agroecology schools help communities restore degraded land in Guatemala

    July 07, 2023 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Guatemala

    Farmer associations and Indigenous and local communities across Guatemala are working together to recover ancestral agricultural practices and educate farmers in agroecology. The collective, called the Utz Che’ Community Forestry Association, is building agroecology schools that are free to attend and facilitate co-learning in which students learn from each other. Their work protects native forests and local livelihoods from the damage caused by intensive monoculture.

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  • Barrages anti-érosion : au Sénégal «on a même vu de l'herbe repousser»

    May 19, 2023 |

    Libération |

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    Response Location: Senegal, Diogué

    L’île de Diogué est le site pilote du système d’épis ­Maltais-Savard, qui installe des barrages avec des matériaux naturels, comme des troncs d’eucalyptus et des feuilles de palmier, pour lutter contre l’érosion. La méthode a permis de récupérer plusieurs mètres de plage.

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  • Indigenous-led farm, Tea Creek, leads the way in food sovereignty

    May 09, 2023 |

    Keremeos Review |

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    Response Location: Tsimshian Nation, Canada

    Tea Creek is a holistic approach to food sovereignty and economic development that provides community, trades training and land preservation, with an emphasis on reaching indigenous people. Tea Creek also provides a Food Sovereignty Training Program that includes courses in horticulture, carpentry, first aid, and more that graduated 108 people in 2021.

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  • Funding the Earth's keepers: The need for Indigenous climate philanthropy

    May 04, 2023 |

    Mashable |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Decolonizing Wealth Project is a network of people working together to create more equitable, capital opportunities for communities of color, with an emphasis on Indigenous land keepers. Through its work with other groups, the project offers a series of grant opportunities like the Indigenous Earth Fund to provide Indigenous-led organizations with the resources needed to target climate and conservation issues.

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  • How India's First 'Green Village' Turned Hunters Into Conservationists

    May 02, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: India, Khonoma

    A community-led conservation project spurred by traditional knowledge allowed the residents of Khonoma, India, to become self-sustaining and earn additional income from ecotourism, as opposed to relying on hunting and logging.

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  • The world's best rainforest guardians already live there

    May 01, 2023 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: Indonesia

    Empowering Indigenous peoples in Indonesia with land rights allows them to protect and manage rainforests and biodiversity. One tribe that’s doing so, the Kajang, relies on substance agriculture and does not allow practices like cutting down trees, hunting, or using technology on most of the land.

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