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  • What's needed to get spring Chinook back to Walla Walla? Cooperation — and patience

    June 24, 2025 |

    Northwest Public Broadcasting |

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    Response Location: Umatilla Indian Reservation, United States, Milton, Oregon

    The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation worked to restore extinct Chinook salmon populations by building their own fish hatchery, establishing legislation, and creating a consensus-based advisory committee that brings government, agriculture, business, and conservation groups together to coordinate water management. Salmon returns have dramatically increased from about 60 fish in 2023 to over 900 in 2025.

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  • How mock beaver dams could help restore Wisconsin wetlands

    December 26, 2024 |

    Wisconsin Watch |

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    Response Location: United States, Wisconsin

    Several projects in the U.S. are proving beaver-inspired structures could limit flooding and benefit wildlife habitat, but state permitting is arduous.

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  • Abandoned 'ghost gear' kills sea life. A Myanmar nonprofit is turning the tide.

    November 13, 2024 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Myanmar

    The nonprofit Myanmar Ocean Project is working to raise awareness of and remove ghost gear, abandoned fishing gear that kills marine life, from the country’s waters. Volunteer drivers remove the gear from the water and create public awareness campaigns.

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  • The Futures of Right Whales and Lobstermen Are Entangled. Could High-Tech Gear Help Save Them Both?

    October 20, 2024 |

    Inside Climate News |

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    Response Location: United States, Provincetown, Massachusetts

    Lobster is a crucial economic resource in New England, but entanglements with the fishing line from lobster traps are a major cause of death for endangered North Atlantic right whales. Scientists and lobstermen are testing ropeless, on-demand gear that minimizes the risk for whales and allows fishing to continue in areas that would otherwise be closed for months as the whales pass through.

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  • Biobanking Corals: One Woman's Mission to Save Coral Genetics in Turks and Caicos to Rebuild Reefs of the Future

    October 15, 2024 |

    Inside Climate News |

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    Response Location: Turks and Caicos Islands

    The Turks and Caicos Reef Fund coral lab houses a living biobank of coral species at risk of being lost to climate change impacts and disease. Researchers collect the corals from the ocean and plan to keep them on land until the oceans are a suitable habitat again.

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  • The Poachers Who Could Save Mexico's Vaquita

    September 24, 2024 |

    Hakai Magazine |

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    Response Location: Mexico, San Felipe

    Seeking to protect the endangered vaquita, a charity in San Felipe, Mexico, is encouraging fishers who poach totoaba, another endangered species, to swap their gillnets for cimbra. The hook-and-line style fishing equipment allows them to target totoaba that are worth more, meaning they can catch less while making the same or more income and keep other species out of the often harmful nets.

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  • New funding could help Indigenous communities disproportionately impacted by climate change

    August 02, 2024 |

    VNN (Verified News Network) |

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    Response Location: Nooksack Indian Tribe, United States, Washington

    The Nooksack Tribe and the Lummi Nation are working with farmers who are building new floodgates to ensure the systems benefit farmland and local salmon. Farmers are adding gates that protect salmon during flooding and give them safe passageways.

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  • How Native Nations Forced Federal Investment in Salmon Reintroduction

    July 02, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Colville Indian Reservation, United States, Washington

    The Upper Columbia United Tribes are working to reintroduce salmon along the Upper Columbia River after the Chief Joseph and Grand Coulee Dams altered the environment, preventing the salmon from returning. Their research on the impact of the dam on the river, salmon, and their culture has pressured the U.S. government to uphold its obligations to them. So far, it’s committed $200 million for the reintroduction efforts as a result.

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  • How the Nez Perce are using an energy transition to save salmon

    July 01, 2024 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: Nez Perce Reservation, United States, Lapwai, Idaho

    The Nez Perce Tribe is installing solar panels on homes and community buildings across their reservation with the goal of producing enough energy to replace the hydroelectric dams on the Snake River responsible for the diminishing salmon and steelhead populations.

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  • Can Seaweed Save American Shellfish?

    June 27, 2024 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States

    Researchers, conservationists, and shellfish farmers on both U.S. coasts are starting and studying seaweed farms as a way to soak up excess nutrients in acidic water to help shellfish survive and grow.

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