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Peru is tackling water scarcity with nature-based solutions, leading the way in Latin America

Kimberley Brown

November 29, 2022 |

Mongabay |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Peru, Moyobamba

Cities in Peru are adopting a nature-based solution project in which they charge residents one Peruvian sol with their water bill each month to fund local watershed and rainforest conservation.

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

Jeremy Hance

November 10, 2022 |

Mongabay |

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1500-3000 Words

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 Mushrooms That Eat Plastic Can Help Fight Pollution

Trevor Greene

September 07, 2022 |

Earth.Org |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Ecuador

Plastic-eating mushrooms that grow in the Amazon and thrive in oxygen-starved environments like landfills could be a tool to help fight issues with plastic pollution. There has been a recent rise in using mushrooms as a plastic alternative to fight pollution in a variety of industries including fashion and mechanical engineering.

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Common goals ensure forest restoration success in northern Thailand

Carolyn Cowan

June 06, 2022 |

Mongabay |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Thailand, Ban Mae Sa Mai, Chiang Mai Province

Collaboration between the Hmong community, researchers, and park authorities in northern Thailand has allowed them to work together to restore the forest in Doi Suthep-Pui National Park. Between 1997 and 2013, they used assisted regeneration to restoring 33 hectares of forest, which also increased the area’s natural flora and fauna. Because of their efforts, their approach is being implemented in tropical forests around the world, including Cambodia, Madagascar, and Tanzania.

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The Brooklyn Bridge needs a makeover. Is rainforest lumber still in style?

Ashoka Mukpo

July 08, 2021 |

Mongabay |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Guatemala, Petén

In the 1990s, Guatemala established the Maya Bisphere Reserve to stop the burgeoning rates of deforestation. However, some communities lived within this region. The organization tasked with overseeing the MBP decided to let the communities stay in the area as long as they agreed to a tight supervision of how they used the forest. The arrangement is known as a forestry concessions. Community-owned concessions must follow strict guidelines or face eviction. It worked. Deforestation rates are low, wildlife is thriving, and communities earn an income without depleting the forest.

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The forest sound detectives

Nick Holland

May 04, 2021 |

BBC |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Papua New Guinea

After remote Indigenous communities in Papau New Guinea set aside some of their land as conservation areas, they wanted to know if it was working. With the help from scientists and The Nature Conservancy, they were able to use bioacoustics or audio recordings of the rainforests to map out the biodiversity. Using 34 recording devices, they were able to record the forest, listen to them, analyze the sounds, and determine that these areas had a healthy biodiversity.

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In pursuit of self-determined development, Borneo's indigenous tribes turn to homegrown renewables

Tim Ha

January 21, 2021 |

Eco-Business |

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Response Location: Malaysia, Kampung Buayan, Borneo

An indigenous-led nonprofit group called Tonibung installed a micro-hydro electrical system for a village deep in Borneo’s rainforests. The project not only supplied much-needed energy for the villagers of Kampung Buayan, but it is also protecting the surrounding ecosystems, creating jobs for people, and encouraging youth to get involved. “We want to advocate for native rights to self-determination and empower indigenous groups to choose the kind of development that meets the aspirations of their people,” says the founder of the organization.

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Cooperation and Chocolate: The Story of One Colombian Community's Quest for Peace

Agostino Petroni

January 14, 2021 |

Yes! Magazine |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Colombia, San José de Apartadó

Plagued by an internal war, a group of villages in Colombia created a “Peace Community,” declaring themselves neutral in the conflict and focusing their efforts on cultivating the 150 hectares of cacao trees in collectively owned plots to sell to global markets. While villagers still experience violence, the earnings from their crops go into a collective pot and the community decides together how to distribute the funds. “To them, this is actually a very profound act of transcending traditional capitalist society models and building something together,” says an anthropologist who has studied the community.

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Indigenous agroforestry revives profitable palm trees and the Atlantic Forest

Xavier Bartaburu

January 13, 2021 |

Mongabay |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Brazil, Sao Paulo

The Jussara Fortress program helped the indigenous Guarani people turn small-scale production of jussara palm hearts, a delicacy, into the main source of income. Sustainable growing techniques protect the jussara, which was endangered by deforestation and over-harvesting. This, in turn, provides for a biodiverse system with environmental and health benefits for the Ribeirão Silveira Indigenous Territory. The program planted more than 100,000 of the trees, which need a decade to yield a small amount of marketable product.

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The bold plan to save Africa's largest forest

Peter Yeung

January 07, 2021 |

BBC |

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Response Location: Democratic Republic of the Congo

Under an innovative scheme in the Democratic Republic of Congo, indigenous communities are obtaining the legal right to own and manage the forests where they reside. This ownership has shown success in slowing deforestation of the Congo rainforest and creating new economic opportunities for residents in these villages. “Rather than just being an add-on, community forestry is now being considered as a mainstream model for forest management,” says a coordinator for the Rainforest Foundation UK.

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