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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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  • 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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  • Bees in the D

    October 25, 2022 |

    The Food Fix |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    The nonprofit Bees in the D maintains 220 beehives at schools, businesses, and other nonprofits it partners with across Detroit. They are bringing bees back to the city to pollinate urban gardens and support the local ecosystem.

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  • Gluten-free and insect-friendly: buckwheat returns to Dutch farms

    October 14, 2022 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Netherlands

    Farmers in the Netherlands are re-establishing buckwheat farming to promote biodiversity and support pollinators.

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  • Hunting for elk solutions in Devil's Kitchen

    October 13, 2022 |

    Montana Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Montana

    In Montana, landowners, hunters, outfitters, and biologists created the Devil’s Kitchen Working Group to facilitate conversations about elk management which led to a successful management framework that has been relatively unchanged for years.

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  • Group led by a university teacher saves Nigerian vulnerable, endangered pangolins from extinction

    October 12, 2022 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    The Pangolin Conservation Guild Nigeria is a nonprofit educating the public on the importance of the declining pangolin population, the laws against hunting them, and how to keep them from going extinct. The organization also contains a task force to rescue captured pangolins and return them to the wild.

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  • Just add water and stir — Owens Lake shows Utahns that even when salty lakes hit their lowest point, they can recover

    October 12, 2022 |

    The Salt Lake Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Lone Pine, California

    To adjust from L.A. regularly draining Owens Lake for its water supply, locals have found that they can recover the dry lake by simply re-adding water to it, which prevents it from creating toxic dust storms. When water is added to the lake, the environment wakes up and becomes home to several plants and animals, specifically millions of birds, which depend on habitats like Owens Lake when traveling around the world.

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  • Great Salt Lake managers raise causeway berm in effort to stave off rising salinity

    September 23, 2022 |

    The Salt Lake Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    Engineers with the Division of Water Resources created a new berm in the Great Salt Lake to help protect the lake’s ecosystem and slow the water exchange and reduce rising salinity between the north and south arms of the lake. Initial findings after the berm’s construction have shown a significant decrease in high-salinity waters, as well as improvements in the lake’s brine shrimp population.

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  • 'It was critical': Berm raised to help save the Great Salt Lake

    September 23, 2022 |

    KSTU-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Lakeside, Utah

    Utah’s Division of Water Resources raised a berm in a causeway that crosses the Great Salt Lake to level out the salinity and protect brine shrimp by limiting the amount of water passing between both sides.

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