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  • Hope in a bottle: A glass recycling project is helping Louisiana reverse the effects of coastal erosion

    November 14, 2022 |

    Gambit |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    Powered by the ReCoast Initiative, Glass Half Full recycles glass to turn it into sand needed to replenish Louisiana’s coastline and regrow native marsh plants like various grasses and willow trees. The group also uses social media to explain topics like coastal erosion and the importance of restoration efforts like Glass Half Full to a wider audience.

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  • Rat killers in paradise: An eradication program remakes a tropical atoll

    November 10, 2022 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: French Polynesia, Tetiaroa Atoll

    Conservationists and scientists eradicated invasive rats from Tetiaroa Atoll in French Polynesia with targeted rat poison bates. The island’s wildlife, including endangered species, and its ecosystem have flourished in response.

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  • Amid conflict and chaos, a reforestation project surges ahead in Haiti

    November 10, 2022 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Haiti

    Nonprofits and communities in Hati are working together to reforest land with native plants. Using a public-private land approach, the nonprofits bought land around, and in, Grand Bois National Park to create a private reserve and avoid potential bureaucratic complications.

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  • How Belize Cut Its Debt by Fighting Global Warming

    November 07, 2022 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Belize

    The Nature Conservancy bailed Belize out of debt with blue bonds. In this practice, the nonprofit lends the country money to pay its bond debts provided Belize commits to using some of the money saved from paying the debts to protect marine resources.

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  • Meet the Millennium Forest: A unique tropical island reforestation project

    November 02, 2022 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

    The community on St. Helena’s two-decade reforestation initiative is successfully revitalizing rare native species through a community-driven approach. The project began with the intention to create a public place for island residents and that sense of ownership has allowed the project to keep moving forward despite obstacles.

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  • How a rare butterfly returned

    November 01, 2022 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: Kalapuya, United States, Oregon

    A recovery plan in Oregon including controlled burns, seed production to increase the number of Kincaid’s lupine plants, and partnerships with private property owners to improve habitat is keeping the Fender’s blue butterfly from going extinct and supporting other plants and animals along the way.

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  • How Decades of Hard-Earned Protections and Restoration Reversed the Collapse of California's Treasured Mono Lake

    October 30, 2022 |

    Inside Climate News |

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    Response Location: Kootzaduka, United States, California

    An ecosystem restoration project that included a conglomeration of cutting water diversions, protection at different governmental levels, research, and stewardship has resulted in enough water reaching Mono Lake to keep the ecosystem alive and healing.

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  • Indigenous activists look to Rights of Nature laws to stop fracking

    October 20, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Ponca Nation, United States

    Indigenous tribes are protecting natural resources and land from harmful practices by passing Rights of Nature laws. These laws set the framework to file legal claims to hold those violating the protections accountable.

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  • After her farm flooded, this B.C. farmer went looking for solutions

    October 18, 2022 |

    The Narwhal |

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    Response Location: Canada, British Columbia

    Local farmers, government officials, and nonprofits, including the faith-based conservation organization A Rocha Canada, partnered to prevent further loss of land due to flooding. They planted fast-growing plants, like willow and cottonwood shoots, into the eroded bank to replicate the ecosystem before agriculture and development cleared the land. The method — low-tech riparian restoration – is a cost-effective approach that has mitigated land erosion due to flooding. The project also helped to bridge longstanding divides between participants.

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  • At Water's Edge: Searching for solutions at the Great Salt Lake's sister lakes across the Great Basin

    October 14, 2022 |

    Deseret News |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    As the communities around the Great Salt Lake face overconsumption of its water and climate change effects, they can look to California’s Owens Lake and Mono Lake to see how they manage dust pollution and water levels from the same issues.

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