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  • Designing the Butterfly-Friendly City

    May 13, 2019 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    As the monarch butterfly nears endangerment, cities across the US are integrating butterfly-friendly spaces into their urban environments. Such spaces reside in schools, firehouses, parks, and more, and they enable the butterfly to rest, feed, pollinate, and procreate at any stage in their lifecycle. St. Louis in particular already has over 400 monarch gardens and have ample evidence of public support for the projects.

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  • Community Cats: How El Pasoans are using TNR to live alongside feral cats

    May 13, 2019 |

    Borderzine |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, El Paso, Texas

    The city of El Paso, Texas has implemented a successful trap, neuter, return strategy to deal with the large numbers of feral cats in the city. The cost effective and more humane model replaced the previous euthanasia method, which only left a "vacuum effect" for other feral cats to move in from outside areas where the euthanized cats used to live. When the neutered cats are returned to the city, they protect their living spaces due to their territorial nature.

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  • The Indigenous Guardians of the Amazon Rainforest

    May 13, 2019 |

    Thomson Reuters Foundation |

    Video |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Brazil

    The Guardians of the Forest is an indigenous volunteer group who patrols protected areas of the Amazon rainforest being destroyed by illegal logging. Volunteers seek out and destroy logging camps, chase loggers off the land, educate locals about the harms, and advocate for government resources. The loggers use violence, but the Guardians use non-violent techniques to protect uncontacted tribes, stop deforestation and species extinction, and protect indigenous culture. Despite federal obstacles, some local officials express a desire to integrate the work of the Guardians into official conservation efforts.

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  • Coastal Recovery: Bringing a Damaged Wetland Back to Life

    May 09, 2019 |

    Yale Environment 360 |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Milton, Delaware

    A coastal recovery project in Delaware Bay is using a technique that they call "engineering with nature" to bring back the 4,000 acres of wetlands from the disastrous effects of human interference and climate change. They use a multitude of strategies, such as stabilizing the dunes and replanting native grasses, and although they approach the project as a research study without progress yet, they have already begun to see a return of wildlife including birds, eels, and crabs. Similar efforts to restore wetlands are also taking off across the globe.

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  • In Indonesia, bigger catches for a fishing village protecting its mangroves

    May 03, 2019 |

    Mongabay |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Indonesia, Sungai Nibung

    Offering ecosystems a short break from extractive practices can stave off environmental degradation and overfishing. In Indonesia, regions of the Nibung River are closed for several months to allow populations of fish and crabs to recover. The fishing moratoriums not only increase yields and ecosystem resilience, they also improve the quality of life of fishermen. Planet Indonesia, a nongovernmental organization, works enroll locals into the environmental reforms through literacy promotion and education.

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  • pH7

    May 02, 2019 |

    Ohio University School of Media Arts & Studies |

    Video |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Appalachia, Ohio

    After the legacy of acid mine drainage from abandoned coal mines in Appalachian Ohio, there are several initiatives working to clean up the rivers and streams. Change-agents from universities, local organizations, and the government joined together in the 1990s to use both active and passive methods of neutralizing the pH level of the streams. Since then, they've brought the pH acidity down from 4.5 to 7 and grown the number of fish species from 4 to 37, and efforts are still ongoing and optimistic.

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  • Probiotics help humans stay healthy. Can they benefit other animals, too?

    May 02, 2019 |

    Ensia |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Boulder, Colorado

    Across the world, research is being done to figure out if probiotics – live bacteria that hold numerous health benefits – can help animals other than humans. Thus far, such treatments have yielded success in labs working with amphibians, brown bats, and coral, demonstrating that humans can help treat wildlife diseases. While the research continues to show success, many are now figuring out how to give this sort of treatment in nature and on much larger scales.

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  • In Uganda, Threatened Chimps Find Protection in Former Poachers

    May 01, 2019 |

    Undark |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Uganda, Budongo forest

    In Western Uganda’s Budongo forest, the Budongo Conservation Field Station is saving chimpanzees by giving poachers the opportunity to do something different. The organization operates on two levels: First, employing former poachers to help scour the forest in search of traps, and second, by giving poachers goats in an effort to provide them with enough livelihood to stop poaching.

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  • How scientists are giving Fraser River salmon a fresh chance

    April 30, 2019 |

    The Narwhal |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Canada, Richmond, British Columbia

    A group of scientists have discovered a way to help chinook salmon survive at the mouth of the Fraser River, in the Sturgeon Bank. They’ve devised a trap of special netting that catch and funnell these salmon, many of whom have not yet grown to full size, into the Bank, rather than being sent out to the Strait of Georgia. The project, funded by Canada’s coastal restoration fund, will likely have other impacts as well, like providing more salmon for the endangered killer whale to feed on, and trapping sediment that could protect Richmond from sea-level rise.

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  • Creating a high-tech island to save one of the world's rarest birds

    April 25, 2019 |

    Mongabay |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: New Zealand, Little Barrier Island

    After a rare flightless parrot called kākāpō almost went extinct in 1995, scientists in New Zealand created a high-tech sanctuary for the birds on three nearby islands. They eliminate all possible predators from the island, use data-tracking tags for health information, and supplement their efforts with artificial insemination to ensure that the birds' species starts to grow again. 2019 is already a record year for kākāpō breeding, and the scientists' methods are even being replicated elsewhere to bring back other endangered species.

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