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					<title>Uncertainty about weakening Atlantic currents isn’t a reason to wait but to act (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/uncertainty-about-weakening-atlantic-currents-isnt-a-reason-to-wait-but-to-act-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Jun 2026 10:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Helen Findlay]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Atlantic Ocean, England, Europe, European Union, and United Kingdom]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Climate, Climate Change, Commentary, Ecosystems, Fisheries, Marine, Marine Conservation, Oceans, and Research]]>
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							<![CDATA[When a scientist says, “We don’t know yet,” it can sound like a shrug. In reality, it often means the opposite: We are worried enough to be careful. The public can reasonably ask why some climate risks, especially tipping points, don’t arrive with alarm and immediate action. George Monbiot recently voiced a frustration many people [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When a scientist says, “We don’t know yet,” it can sound like a shrug. In reality, it often means the opposite: We are worried enough to be careful. The public can reasonably ask why some climate risks, especially tipping points, don’t arrive with alarm and immediate action. George Monbiot recently voiced a frustration many people feel: Why has the possibility of an Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) shift not prompted a bigger political and media response? Climate scientists are trained to avoid overclaiming and, instead, to communicate what the evidence shows, what it suggests, and what remains unresolved. That approach underpins my team’s recent research on ocean acidification, supported by the Frontiers Planet Prize. In that work, published in Global Change Biology, we found that large parts of the global ocean have already crossed into a “zone of risk” for ecosystem change. That caution can serve to downplay the threat, but the latest research on the AMOC should be understood as a warning sign: The potential outcomes could be even more severe than projected, and the uncertainty around timing and thresholds is not a reason to delay, but an argument for action now. Ocean life depends on AMOC The AMOC is often described as a giant conveyor belt of Atlantic currents. Warm, salty surface waters flow north from the tropics to the subpolar North Atlantic. On its way, the water releases heat to the atmosphere, so that by the time it reaches the subpolar region, it has cooled and become&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/uncertainty-about-weakening-atlantic-currents-isnt-a-reason-to-wait-but-to-act-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-320448</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Photos: Kew Gardens&#8217; top 10 newly named plants and fungi for 2025</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/photos-kew-gardens-top-10-newly-named-plants-and-fungi-for-2025/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/photos-kew-gardens-top-10-newly-named-plants-and-fungi-for-2025/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>12 Jan 2026 23:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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							<![CDATA[Botswana, Brazil, Ecuador, England, Namibia, Peru, and South Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Botany, Conservation, Deforestation, Endangered Species, Environment, Forest Destruction, Forests, Fungi, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, New Discovery, Plants, Rainforests, Species Discovery, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Over the past year, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the U.K., officially named 125 plants and 65 fungi. The new-to-science species include a parasitic fungus that turns Brazilian spiders into “zombies,” a critically endangered orchid with blood-red markings from Ecuador&#8217;s cloud forests, and a shrub named after the fire demon from the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Over the past year, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the U.K., officially named 125 plants and 65 fungi. The new-to-science species include a parasitic fungus that turns Brazilian spiders into “zombies,” a critically endangered orchid with blood-red markings from Ecuador&#8217;s cloud forests, and a shrub named after the fire demon from the 2004 Hayao Miyazaki film Howl&#8217;s Moving Castle. Each year, Kew releases a list of its “top 10” new plant and fungal species to showcase nature&#8217;s vast diversity, as well as its fragility, as many newly described species are already in danger. According to Kew’s “State of the World&#8217;s Plants and Fungi 2023” report, three out of four undescribed plants are threatened with extinction. One species described in 2025, Cryptacanthus ebo, a bromeliad from the Ebo Forest in Cameroon, may have already gone extinct. Each year, researchers worldwide officially name about 2,500 new plants and even more fungi. An estimated 100,000 plant species and between 2 million and 3 million fungal species remain to be described and named by science. Many of these unnamed fungi are endophytes that live entirely within plant tissues, making up the plants’ microbiomes. &#8220;Describing new plant and fungal species is essential at a time when the impacts of biodiversity loss and climate change accelerate before our eyes,&#8221; Martin Cheek, a senior research leader in Kew&#8217;s Africa team, said in a press release. &#8220;It is difficult to protect what we do not know, understand and have a scientific name for.&#8221; Although a species may be&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/photos-kew-gardens-top-10-newly-named-plants-and-fungi-for-2025/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>&#8216;Myopic&#8217; fisheries managers toy with a new ‘tragedy of the commons’ (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/myopic-fisheries-managers-toy-with-a-new-tragedy-of-the-commons-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Dec 2025 18:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Charles Clover]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Atlantic Ocean, England, Europe, European Union, Global, and United Kingdom]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Business, Commentary, Ecosystems, Environment, Ethics, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Governance, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Protected Areas, Oceans, Overfishing, and Sustainability]]>
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							<![CDATA[The way the oceans are managed is meant to be like a successful medieval commons. Most medieval commons weren’t open-access, but commoners had distinct rights in law and committees organized the grazing. Commons were saved from overexploitation by the practice of “stinting”: commoners decided how many cows the pastures could stand and limited themselves accordingly. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The way the oceans are managed is meant to be like a successful medieval commons. Most medieval commons weren’t open-access, but commoners had distinct rights in law and committees organized the grazing. Commons were saved from overexploitation by the practice of “stinting”: commoners decided how many cows the pastures could stand and limited themselves accordingly. That way, commoners prevented the tragedy that befell those commons where access was open, where selfishness and lack of governance meant overgrazing prevailed, and the cows died. The ruin of commons that went unmanaged was a phenomenon first described in the 19th century by a fellow of the Royal Society, William Forster Lloyd. His observations were exhumed in the 1960s by a Californian ecologist, Garrett Hardin, who gave them a compelling headline, “The Tragedy of the Commons.” Hardin conceded that there were some well-managed commons, but also, crucially, that a well-managed common could evolve into a tragic one. When commoners perceive that other commoners are cheating, it becomes “every commoner for themselves.” “With an unmanaged common,” he wrote, “ruin is inevitable.” A Dutch super trawler. Image courtesy of Pierre Gleizes/Greenpeace. There are many analogies for a ruined terrestrial common, whether in the atmosphere as a result of carbon dioxide pollution, or in the oceans because of marine plastics. But arguably the largest in the world is caused by overfishing, where the absence of credible regulation endangers whole oceans and the billions of people who depend upon them. It is hard not to recognize several trending tragedies of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/myopic-fisheries-managers-toy-with-a-new-tragedy-of-the-commons-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-310924</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Small grants are key to a successful next generation of conservationists (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/small-grants-are-key-to-a-successful-next-generation-of-conservationists-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Nov 2025 02:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Paul Barnes]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[England, Global, and United Kingdom]]>
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							<![CDATA[Commentary, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Conservation leadership, Conservation Solutions, Environment, Finance, Funding, philanthropy, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[In a meeting room in a head office in London, a handful of early-career conservationists from around the world sat in a circle on the floor to share their challenges of working in conservation. The conversation was sobering. From affording everyday bills, juggling multiple unsecured jobs and dealing with burnout to harassment in the field, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In a meeting room in a head office in London, a handful of early-career conservationists from around the world sat in a circle on the floor to share their challenges of working in conservation. The conversation was sobering. From affording everyday bills, juggling multiple unsecured jobs and dealing with burnout to harassment in the field, threats by extractive industries and abduction by narcotic gangs, the breadth of burdens on these young emerging leaders was astonishing. After three more similar workshops hosted by the project I lead — the Zoological Society of London’s (ZSL) EDGE of Existence program — and fast-forward a year, my inbox holds 1,700 applications for our annual fellowship call, a bewildering demand for perhaps 10 places and all for roles that encounter the burdens described in the workshops. This kind of demand is not unusual; I’ve heard similar ratios for other fellowships and small grant schemes. In the same month, numerous blows to funding pipelines for organizations, both large and small, worldwide, have surfaced. Now, like many others, we find ourselves facing a sharp juxtaposition: an overwhelming demand from talented, dedicated teams working on urgent conservation projects that are ready for implementation, contrasted with decreasing, fragile and unpredictable upstream funding. Many young conservationists like Lucero Vaca, shown here conducting a jaguar study, have struggled to make a career in the sector, yet as she told Mongabay in 2017, &#8220;If we stop underestimating people based on their age and [help] young conservationists [carry] out their innovative ideas, we&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/small-grants-are-key-to-a-successful-next-generation-of-conservationists-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Trial begins in U.K. for victims of Minas Gerais dam disaster</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/trial-begins-in-u-k-for-victims-of-minas-gerais-dam-disaster/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Oct 2024 18:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Maxwell Radwin]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, England, Europe, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Environment, Environmental Law, extractives, Human Rights, Law, Mining, Politics, Pollution, Research, and Threats To Rainforests]]>
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							<![CDATA[A civil trial began October 21 to determine whether several mining companies are liable for the collapse of a dam that released toxic sludge into communities in rural Brazil, resulting in one of the worst environmental disasters in the country’s history. The class action lawsuit, filed in the U.K., will decide whether the Fundão tailings [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A civil trial began October 21 to determine whether several mining companies are liable for the collapse of a dam that released toxic sludge into communities in rural Brazil, resulting in one of the worst environmental disasters in the country’s history. The class action lawsuit, filed in the U.K., will decide whether the Fundão tailings dam collapse was the fault of mining companies Broken Hill Proprietary (BHP) and Miners Vale, which may have to pay billions of dollars in compensation to affected individuals. “Our legal case will publicly hold BHP to account and set a precedent; making it more difficult for multinational corporations more broadly to neglect their responsibility to the communities in which they operate,” said Tom Goodhead, CEO of Pogust Goodhead, the firm that filed the lawsuit. The Fundão tailings dam stored the toxic byproduct from iron ore drilling in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais. When the dam broke on November 5, 2015, it released approximately 50 million cubic meters (1.7 billion cubic feet) of arsenic-laced mud down the Doce river, killing 19 people and destroying the towns of Bento Rodrigues and Paracatu de Baixo. The accident created an economic and public health crisis for millions of people, whose crops and drinking water were poisoned, according to the lawsuit. Many businesses were forced to close. Around 620,000 claimants in the lawsuit could receive around $46 billion in compensation if the court rules in their favor, according to Pogust Goodhead. A recent study found that 15 metals, including iron, nickel,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/trial-begins-in-u-k-for-victims-of-minas-gerais-dam-disaster/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-289298</doi>				</item>
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					<title>What does the decline of natural history museums mean for biodiversity conservation? (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/what-does-the-decline-of-natural-history-museums-mean-for-biodiversity-conservation-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Jun 2023 22:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rajith Dissanayake]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Britain, England, Europe, Global, and United Kingdom]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Commentary, Conservation, Global Environmental Crisis, History, Research, Science, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[With the disappearance of European empires, many associated internationally important natural history museums (NHMs) are struggling to continue. They are being underfunded, short-staffed; collections split up and hived off. Many are, in short, dying, despite much window dressing with specimens being digitally archived away with even less access for naturalists who may need them. Fred [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[With the disappearance of European empires, many associated internationally important natural history museums (NHMs) are struggling to continue. They are being underfunded, short-staffed; collections split up and hived off. Many are, in short, dying, despite much window dressing with specimens being digitally archived away with even less access for naturalists who may need them. Fred Naggs, previously of London’s NHM, recently provided a review of such trends in the science journal Megataxa in a wide-ranging, 27 page article addressing global biodiversity problems, with several suggested solutions. Given that firsthand observations about museum culture are rarely articulated, such observations should interest all those interested in institutions that are often publicly funded to support biodiversity research and conservation including zoos, societies and botanic gardens. Although Naggs’s article concentrates on the Natural History Museum in London, its remit is much wider (uncredited quotations below are taken from it). Despite declines, many museums and institutes still seem to thrive – these include NHMs in Copenhagen, Sydney and at Harvard, and also the British Museum and Kew Gardens – perhaps the best-known botanical institute in the world. I’ve been fortunate to visit at least a dozen important NHMs around the world, including a tiny one in Riga, Latvia, and expanding modern ones such as in Singapore. A natural history museum in Latvia with a diorama of taxidermies of Asian wildlife. Image courtesy of the author. Several museums and their collections have been severely damaged or destroyed by fires such as the Lisbon NHM in 1978,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/what-does-the-decline-of-natural-history-museums-mean-for-biodiversity-conservation-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-270263</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Kew Gardens joins local partners to save tropical plants from extinction</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/kew-gardens-joins-local-partners-to-save-tropical-plants-from-extinction/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/kew-gardens-joins-local-partners-to-save-tropical-plants-from-extinction/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>15 Feb 2023 14:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Branford]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Cameroon, England, Ethiopia, Global, Guinea, Mozambique, Tropics, and United Kingdom]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Botany, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Forestry, Forests, Fungi, Global Environmental Crisis, Mass Extinction, Plants, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Research, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Species Discovery, Trees, Tropical Deforestation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[A worldwide international collaboration is locating tropical areas with high concentrations of plants not yet identified by science, then working with local communities to conserve those plants and their habitats.]]>
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							<![CDATA[KEW GARDENS, U.K. — There have been five known mass extinctions in Earth’s history. Today, most scientists agree we are in the midst of the sixth. “Species are going extinct at an unprecedented rate,” attests Meryl Westlake, senior digital content manager at Britain’s Kew Gardens, “with some estimates that we are [now] losing 135 plants, animals and insects every day, compared with the baseline extinction rate — the rate … before humans had a big impact on the planet — of 1-5 species every year.” Humankind, being the driving force behind this rapidly escalating extinction crisis, may have a chance of halting it, or at least slowing it down, at least in theory and hopefully in practice. Which is where the U.K.’s Royal Botanic Gardens, popularly known as Kew Gardens, enters the picture. While the London-based internationally renowned botanical research institute is best known for its vast collection of tropical plants kept under glass against the U.K’s harsh climate since 1840, today its researchers are working with partners around the globe in a race to slow the pace of extinction. Mongabay went to London at the start of 2023 to see how the effort is progressing. Saxicolella deniseae is a member of the Saxicolella genus, a group of plants highly adapted to survive in very specific whitewater environment, with some species only encountered at a single waterfall. In 2022, scientists identified several new species within this genus, including S. deniseae on the Konkouré River in Guinea. Dams need to have solid&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/kew-gardens-joins-local-partners-to-save-tropical-plants-from-extinction/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Wildlife lover and artist records 5 decades of change on iconic U.K. river</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/wildlife-lover-and-artist-records-5-decades-of-change-on-iconic-u-k-river/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Sep 2022 16:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rebecca BranfordSue Branford]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Covering the Commons and Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[England, Europe, and United Kingdom]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Animals, Arts, Biodiversity, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Freshwater, Habitat Degradation, Rivers, Water Pollution, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[England’s Itchen River and other chalk rivers have been dubbed the nation’s coral reefs due to high biodiversity, but like small watersheds worldwide, they’ve gotten little attention, despite threats. That’s where Janet Marsh steps in.]]>
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							<![CDATA[“I was a teenager, 14, when I first visited the valley. My father was a dead-keen fisherman, so he was in his camouflage,” Janet Marsh tells us. “I didn’t want to fish — and still don’t. But I did like to draw. And I had hours and hours of time to observe the wildlife.” Marsh, now 69, is relating her first encounter with the Itchen River, a rare chalk stream in the southern U.K. county of Hampshire, where her love of painting and illustration blossomed in the 1960s — as did her love of all things wild. One of her Itchen paintings (the banner image for this article) was featured by a local newspaper, eliciting interest from art book publishers. Janet then decided to create an illustrated nature diary as part of her degree in art. It was published in 1979. Decades on, this visual chronicle provides a vivid ecological record: a time capsule of flora and fauna along the Itchen, a 42-kilometer (26-mile) river that rises east of the historic city of Winchester and flows to the English Channel in Southampton. Her long association with the valley also provides an evolving view of ecosystem change, including a major motorway extension, which disturbed the stream’s sleepy course. Janet Marsh at work in her London apartment beside the Thames River. Image courtesy of Sue Branford. Some 85% of the world’s 200 chalk streams are found in England, and WWF, the conservation organization, says those watersheds make a big contribution to U.K.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/wildlife-lover-and-artist-records-5-decades-of-change-on-iconic-u-k-river/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-260038</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Sea restoration projects quilt a ‘mosaic of habitats’ with striking results</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/sea-restoration-projects-quilt-a-mosaic-of-habitats-with-striking-results/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Jun 2022 15:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[England, Europe, Scotland, and United Kingdom]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Fish, Global Environmental Crisis, Habitat, Habitat Degradation, Marine, Marine Conservation, NGOs, Oceans, Research, Restoration, Saltwater Fish, and Seagrass]]>
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							<![CDATA[After years of scallop dredging and fish farming, Loch Craignish, a coastal inlet near Argyll, Scotland, was in disrepair. The dredging had destroyed parts of the seafloor, effluent had polluted the water, and the biodiversity was noticeable only by its absence. But in 2020, members of community group Seawilding began to restore the loch by [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[After years of scallop dredging and fish farming, Loch Craignish, a coastal inlet near Argyll, Scotland, was in disrepair. The dredging had destroyed parts of the seafloor, effluent had polluted the water, and the biodiversity was noticeable only by its absence. But in 2020, members of community group Seawilding began to restore the loch by laying cages of native oysters in the shallow waters. As they worked to build back the shellfish, they noticed a few plots of seagrass speckled across the seafloor, close to where oyster reefs had once grown. “We were finding tiny patches of seagrass all the way around, and areas where it looked as if there should be seagrass but there isn’t,” Danny Renton, director of Seawilding, told Mongabay. The realization led members of Seawilding to add another species to their restoration plan: seagrass. They began to collect seeds from the existing plants, which they brought onto land to bundle into hessian bags before replanting them into the seabed. Now, in addition to restoring about 300,000 native oysters (Ostrea edulis), there is also about a quarter of a hectare (0.6 acres) of seagrass. Renton said he and other members are already noticing a boost in biodiversity across the integrated habitat of oyster reef and seagrass, as fish and other species gravitate there to feed, spawn and shelter. “The two just went hand in hand,” Renton said. “It was by ecological accident, in a way.” Members of community group Seawilding began to restore the loch by laying&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/sea-restoration-projects-quilt-a-mosaic-of-habitats-with-striking-results/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-257249</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Ambitious English rewilding project aims to give 20% of land ‘back to nature’</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/ambitious-english-rewilding-project-aims-to-give-20-of-land-back-to-nature/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Nov 2021 15:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rebecca BranfordSue Branford]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Agroecology and Covering the Commons]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[England, Europe, and United Kingdom]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Agroecology, Biodiversity, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Ecosystems, Environment, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Land Use Change, Landscape Restoration, Nature-based climate solutions, Plantations, Protected Areas, Reforestation, Restoration, Rewilding, Solutions, and Temperate Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[WildEast hopes to rewild large, interconnected tracts in East Anglia and also introduce regenerative farming practices on farmland still in use, but some local farmers complain the project lacks consultation.]]>
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							<![CDATA[“Folklore has it that the last great bustard in the U.K. was shot here, where we are standing, in 1832,” says Olly Birkbeck, as he surveys Massingham Heath, a large tract of open land in eastern England. “They&#8217;re almost like a small ostrich — crested and rather peculiar looking.… They make an extraordinary clucking noise and they&#8217;re just the most gorgeous things you&#8217;ve ever seen. They&#8217;re rather cumbersome-looking creatures and they used to stalk around here in the hundreds in the old days. I think they were used to decorate ladies’ hats quite a lot as well. “The next project, potentially, is to bring them back.” This may not be wishful thinking. It was clear to the Mongabay reporting team standing with Birkbeck on the heath in mid-September that far-reaching change is underway. As afternoon sunlight penetrated billowing clouds, tall grasses swayed in a gentle breeze. Birkbeck was taken aback by what happened on the heath last spring, change that he attributes to his rewilding project. “Whoosh! It all came to life … this extraordinary sort of alchemy happened,” he recalls. Flowers bloomed in an explosion of color. “Skylarks, stone curlews and turtle doves, all desperately endangered, are proliferating!” The great bustard (Otis tarda). It became locally extinct in the mid-19th century when the bird was overhunted, partly to provide feathers for ladies’ hats. It was recently reintroduced onto Salisbury Plain, a move that Olly Birkbeck hopes to copy in Massingham Marshes. Image by Andrej Chudý via Wikimedia Commons (CC&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/ambitious-english-rewilding-project-aims-to-give-20-of-land-back-to-nature/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-249136</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Honey bees find food more easily in cities, thanks to abundant urban gardens</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/honey-bees-find-food-more-easily-in-cities-thanks-to-abundant-urban-gardens/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Nov 2021 10:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jude Coleman]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[England, Europe, and United Kingdom]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Cities, Ecology, Environment, Green, Insects, Pollinators, and urban ecology]]>
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							<![CDATA[Despite living in a concrete jungle, London’s urban bees fly shorter distances to feast on nectar-rich flowers than their neighbors in the countryside—a counterintuitive discovery explained by the many lush gardens in the city, researchers reported recently in the Journal of Applied Ecology. Urban beekeeping has become more popular, as city residents look for ways [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Despite living in a concrete jungle, London’s urban bees fly shorter distances to feast on nectar-rich flowers than their neighbors in the countryside—a counterintuitive discovery explained by the many lush gardens in the city, researchers reported recently in the Journal of Applied Ecology. Urban beekeeping has become more popular, as city residents look for ways to support bee populations. However, established beekeepers in London now claim that flower food stops are overcrowded. Questioning whether this is true, biologist Ash Samuelson at Royal Holloway University and their team set out to compare the distances traveled by urban honey bees on their foraging flights with the flights of rural bees. Worker bees come and go from an urban hive. Photo by Jude Coleman To do so, the scientists translated nearly 3,000 “waggle dances,” the unique body language sequences bees use inside the hive to advertise foraging successes—like insect Yelp reviews. Full of nectar, a returning worker lands on the honeycomb, flies forward a short distance, cuts to the left, and loops back to the starting point. She then repeats this choreography, this time cutting to the right, while other bees watch from the crowd. Previous researchers converted the lengths and angles of these dances into distances and directions to food sources. Through a glass-sided beehive, the team observed western honey bees (Apis mellifera) describe foraging flights to workers in 20 colonies—10 in London, and 10 in rural farmland. Translating the “conversations” allowed the scientists to compile an array of food sites. Samuelson&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/honey-bees-find-food-more-easily-in-cities-thanks-to-abundant-urban-gardens/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-249469</doi>				</item>
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					<title>To save salt marshes, researchers deploy a wide arsenal of techniques</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/to-save-salt-marshes-researchers-deploy-a-wide-arsenal-of-techniques/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 Aug 2021 07:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Lisa Golden]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[England, Europe, and United Kingdom]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, carbon, Climate Change, Climate Science, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Environment, Erosion, Estuaries, Forest Recovery, Impact Of Climate Change, Invasive Species, Landscape Restoration, Nature-based climate solutions, Ocean Warming, Oceans, Research, Sea Levels, Soil Carbon, Solutions, and Wetlands]]>
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							<![CDATA[On one of the first dry, hot days of summer, Rachel Langley walks past farmhouses and tractors, heading for the edge of the Colne Estuary in Essex, U.K. She’s on her way to see how her “salt marsh sausages” are doing. Six years ago, the U.K. government’s Environment Agency broke through the seawalls on the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[On one of the first dry, hot days of summer, Rachel Langley walks past farmhouses and tractors, heading for the edge of the Colne Estuary in Essex, U.K. She’s on her way to see how her “salt marsh sausages” are doing. Six years ago, the U.K. government’s Environment Agency broke through the seawalls on the west side of the estuary that dated back to the medieval period. The breach allowed the tide to flow in and create 22 hectares (54 acres) of new salt marsh and mudflats. It was part of the government’s “managed realignment” program to fortify suitable coastal sites against the erosive effects of rising seas and stronger storms that are becoming more common as climate change unfurls. On the other side of the estuary, however, an existing salt marsh was showing signs of erosion. In 2018, Langley and her team introduced the sausages, 3-meter (9-foot) bundles of coconut coir, to try to stabilize the degrading habitat. Coir rolls are commonly used into restore riverine habitats, and restoration projects, but Langley and her team wanted to test their usefulness in the more energetic estuarine environment with higher energy levels than a river. Could the sausages, installed across narrow channels running through the marsh, help raise the marsh, slow the water flooding it with each tide, and ultimately prevent it from succumbing to the sea? The chestnut-wood spikes holding stacked coir rolls in place stick out of the fine mud. As Langley approaches, crabs skitter in and out of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/to-save-salt-marshes-researchers-deploy-a-wide-arsenal-of-techniques/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-245821</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Overworked, underpaid and lonely: Conservationists find a new community online</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/overworked-underpaid-and-lonely-conservationists-find-a-new-community-online/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/overworked-underpaid-and-lonely-conservationists-find-a-new-community-online/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>23 Mar 2020 07:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Saving Life on Earth: Words on the Wild]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Australia, Britain, England, Europe, European Union, United Kingdom, and United States]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Citizen Science, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Controversial, Economics, Education, Environment, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Innovation, Research, Science, and Women In Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[Last year, Jessie Panazzolo, like many young conservationists (and some middle-aged ones too), didn’t so much feel her career had stalled as that it had been cut out by the root and lit afire. On paper, the then 26-year-old Australian looked quite successful: she had an honors degree from Adelaide University and a good decade [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Last year, Jessie Panazzolo, like many young conservationists (and some middle-aged ones too), didn’t so much feel her career had stalled as that it had been cut out by the root and lit afire. On paper, the then 26-year-old Australian looked quite successful: she had an honors degree from Adelaide University and a good decade of experience; she’d been volunteering in conservation since she was 14. She’d worked on a research project studying tourism impacts on black lemurs in Madagascar; she’d assessed a newly restored forest in Sumatra; she’d worked with wildlife organizations in Thailand, South Africa and Sri Lanka. Panazzolo had also won awards and presented at conferences. Yet, to her, the reality was different. Many of these jobs weren’t actually paid. Some she paid out of her own pocket to do, a common occurrence for many young conservationists. And some involved distressing and poor working conditions. “Either I was always paying to work or my bosses were treating me [poorly] and every time, I had to leave for another reason and then there was a lag period applying for jobs,” she says. “Then I have to go through it again and again.” A member of the Lonely Conservationists community, Carolina Brunswick, in Costa Rica. Photo courtesy of: Lonely Conservationists. In late January 2019, she hit a moment of crisis. Panazzolo had been volunteering for the past six months at a conservation group with little hope of the position turning into a paid job. Over drinks one night, her&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/overworked-underpaid-and-lonely-conservationists-find-a-new-community-online/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-228105</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Solving the mystery of the UK’s vanishing hen harriers</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/solving-the-mystery-of-the-uks-vanishing-hen-harriers/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 Apr 2019 12:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Lakshmi Supriya]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[England, Scotland, and United Kingdom]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Birds, Conservation, Crime, data, Environment, Human-wildlife Conflict, Hunting, Monitoring, Over-hunting, Predators, Raptors, Remote Sensing, Technology, Tracking, Wetlands, Wildlife Trafficking, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Gliding over the moors of England in search of prey, the hen harrier (Circus cyaneus) may never have suspected it would itself fall prey to a greater predator—man. Scientists have found evidence that the disappearance of a large number of hen harriers in the UK may be linked to their being killed illegally over areas [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Gliding over the moors of England in search of prey, the hen harrier (Circus cyaneus) may never have suspected it would itself fall prey to a greater predator—man. Scientists have found evidence that the disappearance of a large number of hen harriers in the UK may be linked to their being killed illegally over areas managed for grouse hunting. A hen harrier (Circus cyaneus) soars over the landscape. Image by Imran Shah via Wikimedia Commons, CC 2.0. “It has long been suspected that hen harriers were subject to illegal killing on the grouse moors of England,” said Arjun Amar, an avian conservation biologist at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and one of the authors of a recent study that investigated the reasons for hen harrier disappearances. The study was a collaboration among researchers from the University of Cape Town, Aberdeen University, Natural England—the government agency responsible for conservation in England, and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) Scotland. The numbers of breeding hen harriers, raptors that are one of England’s rarest birds and a protected species, dropped sharply in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In response, Natural England launched a study to understand the reasons for this decline. Amar and colleagues worked on a part of this study to understand why so few hen harriers were coming back to their nesting areas, and what was happening to the birds that did not return. Red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica) such as this one are&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/solving-the-mystery-of-the-uks-vanishing-hen-harriers/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-217453</doi>				</item>
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					<title>From galaxies far, far away to endangered species just over the hill</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/04/from-galaxies-far-far-away-to-endangered-species-just-over-the-hill/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/04/from-galaxies-far-far-away-to-endangered-species-just-over-the-hill/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>11 Apr 2018 13:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
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							<![CDATA[England and South Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence, cameras, data, Drones, Monitoring, Remote Sensing, Sensors, Software, Technology, Videos, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[An unlikely group of experts have teamed up to apply software developed to find distant stars to help solve problems in conservation ecology. The “astro-ecology” project at Liverpool Johns Moores University  (LJMU) uses machine-learning algorithms to train the software, normally used to detect distant galaxies, to recognize wild animals in thermal-infrared imagery taken by a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[An unlikely group of experts have teamed up to apply software developed to find distant stars to help solve problems in conservation ecology. The “astro-ecology” project at Liverpool Johns Moores University  (LJMU) uses machine-learning algorithms to train the software, normally used to detect distant galaxies, to recognize wild animals in thermal-infrared imagery taken by a camera attached to an unmanned aerial system (UAS, a.k.a. drone). Project leader Claire Burke, an astrophysicist at LJMU, and her colleague, Maisie Rashman, presented the project at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science last week in Liverpool, U.K. A need for automation How did a group of astrophysicists take on a down-to-earth wildlife and human detection challenge? Team member Serge Wich, professor of ecology at LJMU, has studied wildlife through drone imagery for several years. He and other researchers have begun putting thermal cameras on small drones to find animals and people in the dark. Studying nocturnal animals and finding wildlife poachers, who typically hunt at night, requires special thermal-infrared cameras. These sensors detect heat, not light, so they “see” living organisms, such as birds, rhinos, or people, against a background of cooler vegetation, soil, or water. A project drone carrying a thermal-infrared camera ready to fly over the Karoo desert region of South Africa to search for large and endangered mammals. Photo credit: Claire Burke Drones offer an aerial view of a landscape and, despite their short flight duration, provide access to dangerous or remote areas. They are also relatively inexpensive to run,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/04/from-galaxies-far-far-away-to-endangered-species-just-over-the-hill/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Jane Goodall interview: &#8216;The most important thing is sharing good news&#8217;</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/jane-goodall-interview-the-most-important-thing-is-sharing-good-news/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/jane-goodall-interview-the-most-important-thing-is-sharing-good-news/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>17 Nov 2017 11:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Burundi, California, England, Global, Kenya, Puerto Rico, Somalia, Tanzania, and United Kingdom]]>
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							<![CDATA[Chimpanzees, Climate Change, Conservation, Disasters, Great Apes, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Jane Goodall, Lions, Rainforests, Rhinos, Technology, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[This week’s podcast featured a discussion between Mongabay’s founder and CEO Rhett A. Butler and Jane Goodall, the world’s most recognizable conservationist and one of this media outlet’s esteemed advisory board members (listen to excerpts of it here). Rhett and Jane check in regularly, but given the recent research vindicating her long (six decade) contention [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This week’s podcast featured a discussion between Mongabay’s founder and CEO Rhett A. Butler and Jane Goodall, the world’s most recognizable conservationist and one of this media outlet’s esteemed advisory board members (listen to excerpts of it here). Rhett and Jane check in regularly, but given the recent research vindicating her long (six decade) contention that animals – from the chimps she studied to the everyday animals we are all surrounded by – are individuals with personalities, just like humans, we decided to record and share the conversation. Listen here or read the transcript below: In this context they discuss the idea that trophy hunting is an important component of funding the conservation of species like lions and rhinos (Dr. Goodall calls that “rubbish” for multiple reasons, including the loss of accumulated wisdom and experience held by elder animals). Also discussed is China’s increasing environmental awareness; the importance of conservation groups working with communities on multiple levels like health and education, and not just the environment; the recent disasters like in Puerto Rico and northern California; news that the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI)’s youth program Roots and Shoots now has perhaps 150,000 chapters worldwide; and an update on JGI’s network of village-level volunteers, which in combination with tech tools like remote sensing, is able to provide the latest observations of what’s happening all over the world, as in the examples she shares from Tanzania and Burundi. The two spoke just before Dr. Goodall set off on her latest speaking tour:&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/jane-goodall-interview-the-most-important-thing-is-sharing-good-news/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-201266</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Soil research aided by citizen scientists, boots and all</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/06/soil-research-aided-by-citizen-scientists-boots-and-all/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/06/soil-research-aided-by-citizen-scientists-boots-and-all/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>09 Jun 2017 13:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[England]]>
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							<![CDATA[Citizen Science, Diseases, DNA, Mobile, Research, Surveying, Technology, Wildtech, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
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							<![CDATA[What lurks in the soil beneath your feet? In the soil beneath us live billions of organisms, ranging in size from one-celled bacteria to gophers. These critters aerate the soil, break down decaying organic matter, enhance soil fertility, and eventually provide food for birds and small mammals. Some of them, including bacteria and viruses, are [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[What lurks in the soil beneath your feet? In the soil beneath us live billions of organisms, ranging in size from one-celled bacteria to gophers. These critters aerate the soil, break down decaying organic matter, enhance soil fertility, and eventually provide food for birds and small mammals. Some of them, including bacteria and viruses, are pathogens, which are organisms that cause disease. Soil bacteria may cause diseases such as tetanus, anthrax, and botulism, as well as gastrointestinal, skin, and respiratory illnesses. Both beneficial and pathogenic bacteria rely on new food sources—such as dung, fertilizers, and other residues—to stay active. In addition to food, soil microbes need water and suitable temperatures to survive. As a result, both their presence and activity level vary from place to place. A British research team combined low-tech and high-tech methods to examine the distribution and pathways used by bacteria in soil. They focused on Campylobacter, a global pathogen and the most common bacterial cause of gastroenteritis in the developed world. This genus of bacteria infects hundreds of thousands of people each year in Europe alone. These bacteria live primarily in the guts of birds and mammals, including livestock, but don’t typically make the animals sick. They are known to infect and sicken people through tainted food (e.g. milk, meat) or water, yet the transmission pathways of up to 50% of human cases are unknown. For example, the bacteria can also reside in soil tainted by animal feces and be transferred from soil to people, but&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/06/soil-research-aided-by-citizen-scientists-boots-and-all/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-196464</doi>				</item>
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					<title>END LOOP: Coding to end wildlife trafficking</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/08/end-loop-coding-to-end-wildlife-trafficking/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/08/end-loop-coding-to-end-wildlife-trafficking/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>24 Aug 2016 20:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Julia John]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Australia, England, Europe, Global, Pacific Ocean, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Law Enforcement, Poaching, Software, Technology, Wildlife, Wildlife Trafficking, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[What’s coding got to do with conservation? The first ever Zoohackathon will convene this October 7-9 across six zoos in the US, Europe, Asia and Pacific. Organized by the US Department of State, Association of Zoos and Aquariums and World Wildlife Fund, the hackathon will address the increasingly rampant global challenge of wildlife trafficking. “The [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[What’s coding got to do with conservation? The first ever Zoohackathon will convene this October 7-9 across six zoos in the US, Europe, Asia and Pacific. Organized by the US Department of State, Association of Zoos and Aquariums and World Wildlife Fund, the hackathon will address the increasingly rampant global challenge of wildlife trafficking. “The idea is simple: bright coding minds will spend a weekend at local zoos,” said US Undersecretary of State Catherine Novelli, officially launching the initiative on this year’s World Wildlife Day.  “There, they’ll consider problems submitted by our partner NGOs and field-professionals and develop tech solutions to address these challenges.” Confiscated wildlife products at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. Photo credit: Steve Hillebrand. Spurred by demand for traditional medicine, delicacies, decorations, accessories and exotic pets, wildlife trafficking has driven species such as elephants, rhinos, tigers, turtles and pangolins to critical threatened status. With destination markets and transit routes spanning most of the world, the trade feeds into a broader consolidated network of organized crime encompassing gun, drug and human trafficking. The US Wildlife Trafficking Alliance hopes the Zoohackathon will help further the National Strategy on Combating Wildlife Trafficking’s objectives by identifying potential technological solutions to increase awareness, improve attitudes, inform choices and reduce demand. The event also aims to reinvigorate and expand the discussion to new audiences worldwide. Participants will include teams of wildlife experts, coders, tech geeks, NGOs and designers who’ll pitch their ideas to an expert judging panel and compete for prizes&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2016/08/end-loop-coding-to-end-wildlife-trafficking/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-188826</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Rare moth vanishing from its last site in England</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/06/rare-moth-vanishing-from-its-last-site-in-england/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/06/rare-moth-vanishing-from-its-last-site-in-england/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>24 Jun 2016 08:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[England, Europe, and United Kingdom]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Habitat, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Insects, and Moths]]>
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							<![CDATA[The dark bordered beauty moth is heading towards extinction at its last known site in England, a new study has found. The rare moth (Epione vespertaria) is found in just a handful of locations. Scotland, for example, hosts a few small populations of the moth. In England, the rare moth was previously found at Newham Bog [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The dark bordered beauty moth is heading towards extinction at its last known site in England, a new study has found. The rare moth (Epione vespertaria) is found in just a handful of locations. Scotland, for example, hosts a few small populations of the moth. In England, the rare moth was previously found at Newham Bog in Northumberland, but is now considered extinct there. Now, the tiny insect is limited to just one English site — Strensall Common, a protected area of lowland heath close to the city of York. And this last English population is declining rapidly, according to the study published Wednesday in PLoS ONE. “The Dark Bordered Beauty is a very special and charismatic moth, which has been observed and admired at Strensall Common for well over a century,” co-author Terry Crawford of the University of York, said in a statement. “It has long been part of the natural history heritage of England and of Yorkshire. Because of the loss of populations elsewhere in England, the loss of the population at Strensall Common would mean extinction of the moth in England as a whole.” Fewer than 100 dark bordered beauty moths may be left in England. Photo courtesy of University of York. Prior to 2007, about 500 to 1,000 dark bordered beauty adults were thought to occur in Strensall Common. But when scientists monitored the northern part of the Common between 2007 and 2014, they found that adult moth numbers were declining by an average of 30-35 percent per year, indicating&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2016/06/rare-moth-vanishing-from-its-last-site-in-england/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Burning coal responsible for over 20,000 deaths a year in Europe</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/06/burning-coal-responsible-for-over-20000-deaths-a-year-in-europe/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/06/burning-coal-responsible-for-over-20000-deaths-a-year-in-europe/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>13 Jun 2013 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Vidal]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Czech Republic, England, Europe, Germany, Greece, Poland, Sweden, and United Kingdom]]>
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							<![CDATA[Coal, Diseases, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Green, Health, and Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[Air pollution from Europe&#8217;s 300 largest coal power stations causes 22,300 premature deaths a year and costs companies and governments billions of pounds in disease treatment and lost working days, says a major study of the health impacts of burning coal to generate electricity. The research, from Stuttgart University&#8217;s Institute for energy economics and commissioned [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Air pollution from Europe&#8217;s 300 largest coal power stations causes 22,300 premature deaths a year and costs companies and governments billions of pounds in disease treatment and lost working days, says a major study of the health impacts of burning coal to generate electricity. The research, from Stuttgart University&#8217;s Institute for energy economics and commissioned by Greenpeace International, suggests that a further 2,700 people can be expected to die prematurely each year if a new generation of 50 planned coal plants are built in Europe. &#8220;The coal-fired power plants in Europe cause a considerable amount of health impacts,&#8221; the researchers concluded. Analysis of the emissions shows that air pollution from coal plants is now linked to more deaths than road traffic accidents in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. In Germany and the UK, coal-fired power stations are associated with nearly as many deaths as road accidents. Polish coal power plants were estimated to cause more than 5,000 premature deaths in 2010. The cumulative impact of pollution on health is &#8220;shocking&#8221;, says an accompanying Greenpeace report. A total of 240,000 years of life were said to be lost in Europe in 2010 with 480,000 work days a year and 22,600 &#8220;life years&#8221; lost in Britain, the fifth most coal-polluted country. Drax, Britain&#8217;s largest coal-powered station, was said to be responsible for 4,450 life years lost, and Longannet in Scotland 4,210. According to the study, Polish coal power plants have the worst health impact in the European Union. The Polish&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/06/burning-coal-responsible-for-over-20000-deaths-a-year-in-europe/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-28840</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Animal photos of the day: elephants in the English countryside</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/03/animal-photos-of-the-day-elephants-in-the-english-countryside/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/03/animal-photos-of-the-day-elephants-in-the-english-countryside/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>14 Mar 2012 17:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Britain, England, Europe, and United Kingdom]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Elephants, Endangered Species, Environment, Ex-situ Conservation, Green, Mammals, Photos, Picture Of The Day, Strange, Wildlife, and Zoos]]>
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							<![CDATA[Calf scott and mother Azizah on their walkabout. Photo courtesy of ZSL Whipsnade Zoo. Elephants have been spotted roaming the pastoral fields of eastern England. Released for a jaunt from the Zoological Society of London&#8217;s Whipsnade Zoo, a herd of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus), including a four-month-old calf named Scott, took in the scenic views [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Calf scott and mother Azizah on their walkabout. Photo courtesy of ZSL Whipsnade Zoo. Elephants have been spotted roaming the pastoral fields of eastern England. Released for a jaunt from the Zoological Society of London&#8217;s Whipsnade Zoo, a herd of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus), including a four-month-old calf named Scott, took in the scenic views of Aylesbury Vale from the Chiltern Hills. The elephants trekked two-and-a-half miles around the Whipsnade Zoo, and keepers said the new calf was tuckered out by the end. &#8220;Scott usually crashes out as soon as he&#8217;s back from the walk. We put piles of hay down in the barn and he’s out for the count,&#8221; Assistant Curator of Elephants Lee Sambrook said in a press release. Asian elephants are listed as Endangered by the IUCN Red List. They are imperiled by habitat loss, poaching for their ivory, and human-wildlife conflict. Four-month-old Scott prancing about. Photo courtesy of ZSL Whipsnade Zoo. Four-month-old Scott on the Chiltern Hills. Photo courtesy of ZSL Whipsnade Zoo. Scott stays close to mom. Photo courtesy of ZSL Whipsnade Zoo. Tired calf. Photo courtesy of ZSL Whipsnade Zoo. Time for a nap. Photo courtesy of ZSL Whipsnade Zoo. Calf scott and mother Azizah on their walkabout. Photo courtesy of ZSL Whipsnade Zoo.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/03/animal-photos-of-the-day-elephants-in-the-english-countryside/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Fact follows fiction: Watership Down land to make way for housing developments</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/02/fact-follows-fiction-watership-down-land-to-make-way-for-housing-developments/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/02/fact-follows-fiction-watership-down-land-to-make-way-for-housing-developments/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>21 Feb 2012 20:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[View Larger Map Google Earth view of Sandleford Park, which inspired the novel Watership Down. In the classic novel, Watership Down, rabbits must flee their countryside home to make way for a new housing development. Now, the land that inspired author Richard Adams&#8217; much-beloved mythic tale is slated to bulldozed for 2,000 new homes. Located [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[View Larger Map Google Earth view of Sandleford Park, which inspired the novel Watership Down. In the classic novel, Watership Down, rabbits must flee their countryside home to make way for a new housing development. Now, the land that inspired author Richard Adams&#8217; much-beloved mythic tale is slated to bulldozed for 2,000 new homes. Located in the UK county of Berkshire, near the town of Newbury, the land in question is known as Sandleford Park. The West Berkshire Council voted 33 to 12 to approve the housing project on the land, saying that it was needed to build 10,500 homes to cater to an increasing population. The housing will cover land that is currently a mix of agriculture, ancient woods, and open park space. &#8220;I am absolutely incensed and horrified by what the council have done,&#8221; Richard Adams, now 90, told the Daily Mail. An organization called Say No to Sandleford is hoping to stop the construction. On its website it notes, &#8220;this is just about the last chance to stop Sandleford Park from being covered in concrete.&#8221; The organization also says there are other options nearby for additional housing developments. The new housing development still has to be approved by a Planning Inspector. Related articles British government throws out plan to sell forests, apologizes (02/17/2011) The British government, headed by Tory Prime Minister David Cameron, has tossed out a controversial proposal to sell off significant sections of its forest to the private sector. The plan came under relentless criticism,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/02/fact-follows-fiction-watership-down-land-to-make-way-for-housing-developments/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indigenous leaders take fight over Amazon dams to Europe</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/03/indigenous-leaders-take-fight-over-amazon-dams-to-europe/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Mar 2011 20:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Three indigenous Amazonian leaders spent this week touring Europe to raise awareness about the threat that a number of proposed monster dams pose to their people and the Amazon forest. Culminating in a press conference and protests in London, the international trip hopes to build pressure to stop three current hydroelectric projects, one in Peru, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Three indigenous Amazonian leaders spent this week touring Europe to raise awareness about the threat that a number of proposed monster dams pose to their people and the Amazon forest. Culminating in a press conference and protests in London, the international trip hopes to build pressure to stop three current hydroelectric projects, one in Peru, including six dams, and two in Brazil, the Madeira basin industrial complex and the massive Belo Monte dam. The indigenous leaders made the trip with the NGO Rainforest Foundation UK, including support from Amazon Watch, International Rivers, and Rainforest Concern. &#8220;These projects will force my people from their land and end our way of life,&#8221; Ruth Buendia Mestoquiari, a leader of the tribe Asháninka from Peru, said, about a series of six dams planned in her tribe&#8217;s region. Peru has entered an agreement with Brazil to build the six massive hydroelectric dams, which will largely provide power to Brazil. One of the dams, the Pakitzapango, will be constructed on a gorge that is the mythological birthplace of the Asháninka people. &#8220;The Brazilian Government is exporting a false development model to my people by pressuring the Peruvian Government to build dams on our lands and using its development bank and its companies to implement these projects that will only bring more poverty, not development,&#8221; added Mestoquiari. It is estimated that 10,000 Asháninka people will be impacted by the dam to be built on the Ene River, a headwater of the Amazon River. Mist rising in the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/03/indigenous-leaders-take-fight-over-amazon-dams-to-europe/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>British government throws out plan to sell forests, apologizes</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/02/british-government-throws-out-plan-to-sell-forests-apologizes/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Feb 2011 20:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[The British government, headed by Tory Prime Minister David Cameron, has tossed out a controversial proposal to sell off significant sections of its forest to the private sector. The plan came under relentless criticism, including 500,000 people who signed a petition against the proposal, and brought together a wide variety of British notables such as [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The British government, headed by Tory Prime Minister David Cameron, has tossed out a controversial proposal to sell off significant sections of its forest to the private sector. The plan came under relentless criticism, including 500,000 people who signed a petition against the proposal, and brought together a wide variety of British notables such as actress Dame Judi Dench, poet Carol Anne Duffy, and the Archbishop of Canterbury to oppose the government&#8217;s plan. Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman was contrite when she appeared in front of members of the British parliament. &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry. We got this one wrong, but we have listened to people&#8217;s concerns,&#8221; she said, as reported by the Guardian adding that, &#8220;if there is one clear message from this experience, it is that people cherish their forests and woodlands and the benefits they bring. My first priority throughout this period of debate has been securing a sustainable future for our woodlands and forests.&#8221; Labour leader Ed Miliband hit back: &#8220;Virtually every person in the country could see selling off our forests was a foolish and short-sighted policy but they went ahead regardless.&#8221; David Babbs, head of 38 Degrees, the campaign group that collected half a million signatures, told Reuters: &#8220;Some say signing petitions and emailing (Members of Parliament) never changes anything. But it did this time. This is what people-power looks like, and over half a million of us are feeling very proud.&#8221; An independent panel will now investigate the future of the UK government-owned forests. The British&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/02/british-government-throws-out-plan-to-sell-forests-apologizes/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Selling the Forests that Saved Britain</title>
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					<pubDate>15 Feb 2011 23:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Glenn Hurowitz]]>
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							<![CDATA[Glenn Hurowitz is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, DC. You can join the campaign to protect England’s forests through the impressive Save Our Woods organization. I confess that British Prime Minister David Cameron’s proposal to auction off all 650,000 acres of England’s national forests to the highest bidder came [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Glenn Hurowitz is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, DC. You can join the campaign to protect England’s forests through the impressive Save Our Woods organization. I confess that British Prime Minister David Cameron’s proposal to auction off all 650,000 acres of England’s national forests to the highest bidder came as a bit of a shock to me – especially as the contained such world-famous national treasures as Robin Hood’s Sherwood Forest, the Forest of Dean and the New Forest. Although warned by my Irish mother that Tories can never be trusted, Mr. Cameron’s passionate pledge to deliver the “greenest government ever” seemed sincere, especially given his ambitious plans to cut Britain’s pollution. Anyway, even if he turned out to be as slippery as his predecessors, his deep green Liberal Democratic coalition partners would, I thought, keep the planet high on his priority list. I should have listened to my mother. Although thousands of Englishmen and women have rushed to the forests and the streets to keep these forests and their creatures safe from the logger, the biomass furnace, and the McMansion, the privatizers seem to have Cameron’s ear. And the Liberal Democrats seem willing to sacrifice these natural wonders as a burnt offering to the gods of coalition. As much damage as this sale will do to the English countryside, its wildlife, and the rights of a free people to the great outdoors, the true consequences of this policy will be felt far from&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/02/selling-the-forests-that-saved-britain/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>UK government plan to sell off half its forests faces stiff criticism</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/11/uk-government-plan-to-sell-off-half-its-forests-faces-stiff-criticism/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Nov 2010 17:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[The UK&#8217;s Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra) has announced plans to sell up to 150,000 hectares of its forest to the private sector—over half of its forests in England—touching off harsh criticism from environmentalists, including the UK&#8217;s Green Party. &#8220;If this means vast swathes of valuable forest being sold to private developers, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The UK&#8217;s Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra) has announced plans to sell up to 150,000 hectares of its forest to the private sector—over half of its forests in England—touching off harsh criticism from environmentalists, including the UK&#8217;s Green Party. &#8220;If this means vast swathes of valuable forest being sold to private developers, it will be an unforgivable act of environmental vandalism. Rather than asset-stripping our natural heritage, government should be preserving public access to it, and fostering its role in combating climate change and enhancing biodiversity,&#8221; Green MP Caroline Lucas said. To combat criticism, Defra has stated that sustainable management systems would remain in place in auctioned lands, and any tree felling would have to be approved by the Forestry Commission. &#8220;We are committed to shifting the balance of power from &#8216;Big Government&#8217; to &#8216;Big Society&#8217; by giving individuals, businesses, civil society organizations and local authorities a much bigger role in protecting and enhancing the natural environment,&#8221; a letter from Defra to British MPs reads. Yet environmental groups and many in the media remain unconvinced. &#8220;All areas of woodland and countryside need careful management to maximize their benefits for wildlife and people, and until the Government is able to show how this will be achieved in private hands, we think they should remain in public ownership,&#8221; Friends of the Earth (FOE) said in a statement. Rumors have mounted that if forests are sold all off to private interests, they could be razed for golf courses or housing&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2010/11/uk-government-plan-to-sell-off-half-its-forests-faces-stiff-criticism/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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