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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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  • Colorado's latest tool to fight forest fires: Mushrooms

    October 26, 2023 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Gold Hill, Colorado

    The Colorado-based mycology center Boulder Mushroom is spreading fungi mycelium — the underground, root-looking part of a mushroom — across forest floors that were thinned to mitigate wildfires. The mushrooms quicken the pace at which sawdust and other potential fire fuel decays and improve soil health.

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  • Miyawaki: A little forest with a towering task

    September 22, 2023 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Residents of Cambridge, Massachusetts, are planting Miyawaki forests to help regenerate the local ecosystem, sequester carbon, and cool the air. Originally created in Japan, these forests consist entirely of native plants made to mimic a natural forest in a small area of urban land.

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  • How artificial intelligence plus local expertise can promote ‘good fire' in Montana

    September 21, 2023 |

    Montana Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Montana

    The Potential Operational Delineations (PODs) framework combines analytics and local expertise to assess fire risk by marking out locations on a map where fire can best be stopped. The risk is then used to identify where best to suppress the fire and where it can continue to burn to benefit the environment and prevent future fires. From there, experts decide how to respond to a fire in each section of the map in advance, which can also include prevention tactics.

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

    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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  • Nursing oil palm plantations back to nature in Malaysian Borneo

    July 26, 2023 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Malaysia

    In October 2020, the Rhino and Forest Fund in Malaysian Borneo began to buy land once cleared for oil palm plantations, and reforests and rehabilitates the tracts into wildlife corridors. After replanting 40 tree species in the last 3 years, an increase in several threatened species has been documented traveling through the project sites.

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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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  • New Tree Tech: Cutting-edge drones give reforestation a helping hand

    July 12, 2023 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Using drones to drop seeds is becoming a valid option to increase the scale and efficiency of tree-planting projects, especially in locations that are difficult for humans to reach. Seattle-based Mast Reforestation drops seeds in fire-ravaged areas with massive, custom-designed drones, and Australia’s AirSeed Technologies does so with a team of drones that don’t need human supervisors.

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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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  • Trees like women best: Nepal's forests thrive with female bosses

    July 05, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Kathmandu

    The Federation of Community Forestry Users Nepal manages the country’s community forest. For the past 30 years, the organization made a point to ensure half of its employees are women, and that women have access to leadership roles. As a result, a path has opened for more women to work in politics and the forests managed by women are thriving the most.

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