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  • Meet the shrines holding together remnants of Africa's largest coastal forest

    January 09, 2020 |

    Earth Journalism Network |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Kilifi County

    The Mijikenda community, an indigenous group in Kenya, is playing an outsized role in preserving the Kaya Kauma forest. Traditional practices around building shrines generates respect for the land, and outsiders are even required to pay a fine to support forest cleanup after visiting the land. In an area facing severe deforestation, the native traditions have been one way to combat climate change.

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  • Minneapolis Activists Ask Local Leaders to Invest in Communities, Not Cops

    January 09, 2020 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    In Minneapolis, Minnesota, a coalition of organizers and community members called Reclaim the Block advocates for divestment from the city's police force and into more community-based initiatives and services. Advocates for the group argue that rather than solving issues like homelessness, opioid addiction, and mental health crises, policing can actually make the situation worse off. The broad coalition successfully petitioned the city to move funds out of the police force and into the newly created Office of Violence Prevention.

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  • To safeguard their future, Pacific Islanders look to the past

    January 07, 2020 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: Micronesia, Yap

    Canoes have long been used to navigate the seas, but navigators in the state of Yap in Micronesia are making modifications to the practice to make it more efficient and climate-thinking forward. The canoes, which run on biodiesel produced from coconuts and come equipped with solar panels, are helping to fill a gap for providing resources to isolated communites and also help decrease the complete reliance on trans-ocean freighters.

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  • Microlending Sparks Hope and Renewal in Rochester, N.Y.

    January 07, 2020 |

    Governing |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New York

    In 2016, the city of Rochester, NY partnered with Kiva—a crowd-funded microlender—to serve aspiring or established small-business owners. Their partnership offers interest-free loans, and already 20 of the loans have been fully repaid. This article looks at six different case studies of residents who have benefitted from the program.

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  • Restoring Harmony in Haida Gwaii

    January 03, 2020 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: Canada, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia

    Scientists from the Haida Nation, Parks Canada, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada, researchers from academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, and representatives from the commercial fishing sector, are all collaborating to help restore the two large reserves in Canada. This collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people alike is helping to create statistical models that target the most beneficial conservation efforts.

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  • Exiled journalists in Germany find 'hope' with a magazine that speaks their language

    January 02, 2020 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Germany, Berlin

    One newsroom in Berlin is giving exiled journalists a chance to not only continue practicing journalism but to do so in their native language. With so many journalists forced to start careers anew, Alma Magazine is tapping into the rich skill set of many refugees who have arrived in Berlin over the past few years to cover their own communities.

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  • Papua New Guinea's Meri Seif Bus Program Provides Safe Transport to Women and Girls

    January 01, 2020 |

    Stanford Social Innovation Review |

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    Response Location: Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby

    A public transportation system just for women has been developed in New Guinea in response to the extreme harassment that women face. Launched in 2014, the program called "Meri Seif (“Woman Safe”) now serves 170,000 female riders annually and has more than 10 buses. The program is still growing, as more buses get donated, but women already praise the program for increasing their sense of safety.

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  • Cambodian “bat man” bolsters the fight against dengue fever

    December 26, 2019 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Cambodia, Pursat

    In Cambodia, farming bats has provided a new way to fertilize crops and could potentially help decrease the presence of dengue fever-infested mosquitoes. Although definitive research is yet lacking about the impact of reducing a significant number of mosquitoes, the benefits of using the bats to improve soil quality has proven successful.

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  • No Sex For Fish: How Women In A Fishing Village Are Fighting For Power

    December 26, 2019 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Nduru Beach

    Along Kenya's Lake Victoria, the practice of jaboya - where fishermen guarantee that day's catch to a woman fish trader in exchange for sexual favors - is all too common, in part due to a lack of economic opportunity in small villages. Kenya's fishing communities also have rates of HIV prevalence between 30% and 40%. To combat these issues, local women and non-profits teamed up to start No Sex for Fish, an organization committed to providing women fish traders their own boats so they could catch the fish themselves. While initial results were promising, the initiative ultimately has not yet succeeded.

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  • Community conservation agreements a lifeline for Uganda's grey crowned cranes

    December 24, 2019 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Kabale

    Working with communities to develop alternative forms of livelihood helps to curb unsustainable practices and land degradation. In Uganda, the destruction of wetland habitat by farmers had had a serious impact on the population of grey crowned cranes in recent decades. The Cranes and Wetlands conservation project provides support to local communities, working to find alternatives to draining wetlands and promoting habitat restoration.

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