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					<title>Communities join global push to protect European, Arctic &#038; US peatlands</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/local-communities-join-global-push-to-protect-european-arctic-us-peatlands/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Feb 2026 16:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sonam Lama Hyolmo]]>
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						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Arctic, Canada, Europe, Finland, Minnesota, and North America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, boreal forests, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Culture, Environment, food security, Indigenous Peoples, Land Use Change, Landscape Restoration, Peatlands, Restoration, Rewilding, Rivers, Wetlands, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[After her father’s death, Bigga-Helena Magga and her sister were determined that their ancestral homeland, Alttokangas, a Sámi boreal forest and peatland in Finland’s Inari municipality, would not be turned into a commercial forestry operation. “We chose to take care and protect our inherited site located along the Ivalojoki river, which held great significance to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[After her father’s death, Bigga-Helena Magga and her sister were determined that their ancestral homeland, Alttokangas, a Sámi boreal forest and peatland in Finland’s Inari municipality, would not be turned into a commercial forestry operation. “We chose to take care and protect our inherited site located along the Ivalojoki river, which held great significance to Sámi culture and way of life,” said Magga, a Sámi leader from the Ivalo community. What began as a personal restoration project gained momentum in 2024, when it was formally recognized as the first Indigenous and community conserved area (ICCA) in Sámi lands located in Finland. That same year, they joined an effort to create what may be the world’s first coordinated restoration hubs across boreal and Arctic peatlands in Europe and North America. A key goal is for communities across Canada, the U.S. and Europe’s Arctic to work simultaneously to find a shared framework for restoration that conserves peatlands’ rich soil carbon and mitigates climate change. Kunnijänkkä intact peatland facing Northeast, the Pallas-Ounas National Park visible on the horizon. Image courtesy of Mika Honkalinna / Snowchange Cooperative. The initiative, part of the Climate Breakthrough Award program, builds on peatland conservation and restoration work led by Snowchange Cooperative, a Finland-based organization that launched its first landscape rewilding project in 2018. At the time, the effort restored peatlands from eight sites totaling 8,800 hectares (21,745 acres) to 188 sites in 2024, affecting up to 62,000 hectares (153,205 acres) in Finland. The program expands on this initiative&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/local-communities-join-global-push-to-protect-european-arctic-us-peatlands/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Oil pipeline on Native lands ramps up as Canada honors its Indigenous people</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/oil-pipeline-on-native-lands-ramps-up-as-canada-honors-its-indigenous-people/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 Sep 2021 10:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Alberta, Canada, Minnesota, North America, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Conservation, Environment, Environmental Law, Ethics, Governance, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Oil, Oil Drilling, Oil Spills, Politics, Pollution, Rivers, Social Justice, and Water Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[Canadian oil company Enbridge is just hours away from completing its thousand-mile pipeline from Alberta through north Minnesota to Wisconsin, with oil set to flow the day after Canada’s first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Almost five years after initially receiving approval from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to carry the thick tar sands [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Canadian oil company Enbridge is just hours away from completing its thousand-mile pipeline from Alberta through north Minnesota to Wisconsin, with oil set to flow the day after Canada’s first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Almost five years after initially receiving approval from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to carry the thick tar sands oil, the Line 3 pipeline zigzags between Indigenous Anishinaabe reserves in the northeastern U.S. and crosses over hundreds of biodiverse wetlands and wild rice beds. The new “substantially complete” pipeline runs 1,765 kilometers (1,097 miles) and continues to face protests and criticism on both sides of the border, as appeals and lawsuits from Indigenous, environmental and climate action groups were heard and declined over the years. “Line 3 is a crime against the environment and Indigenous rights, waters and lands,” said Winona LaDuke, executive director of Indigenous rights organization Honor the Earth. “Enbridge has raced to build this line before the Federal court has passed judgment on our appeals about the line.” The new pipeline is a replacement for the previous Line 3, built in 1961 and operating today with severe corrosion anomalies and at reduced pressure. The old pipeline was built and operated by Lakehead Pipeline Co., one of Enbridge’s previous corporate incarnations, and was the source of the largest inland oil spill in U.S. history. In that incident, in 1991, 7.7 million liters (1.7 million gallons) of oil spilled into the Prairie River in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission has yet to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/oil-pipeline-on-native-lands-ramps-up-as-canada-honors-its-indigenous-people/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Conservation’s best kept secret (database)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/01/conservations-best-kept-secret/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Jan 2017 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global and Minnesota]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Conservation, data, DNA, Education, Ex-situ Conservation, Law Enforcement, Research, Technology, Wildlife, Wildtech, and Zoos]]>
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							<![CDATA[A small NGO, Species360, manages a database that stores records on thousands of species around the world, with countless potential applications.]]>
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							<![CDATA[There are only 200 southern warrus left. Warru is the wonderfully Australian name for the black-footed (or black-flanked) rock wallaby, whose southern subspecies – Petrogale lateralis lateralis – lies perilously close to extinction. Since 2011, conservationists working with the Monarto Zoo have successfully released 23 captive-born individuals back into the wild, giving the southern warru a chance for survival. But the success of this conservation mission has depended in part on an NGO thousands of miles away, in the U.S. state of Minnesota, that stores data collected on the warrus, including which wallaby should mate with which, given their low genetic diversity. A curious warru, or black-footed rock-wallaby. Photo credit: Thomas Schoch, Wikipedia Species360 is one of conservation’s best-kept secrets. Founded in 1974, this NGO runs an internet-based software known as ZIMS or Zoological Information Management Systems, which aggregates and shares data on animals in zoos and aquariums around the world. In all, the group – which recently changed its name from the International Species Information System, or ISIS, for obvious reasons – has hundreds of millions of records on 6.8 million animals in 21,000-plus species. “We don’t believe anyone else has even a fraction of this amount of data on wild or captive species,” Jim Guenter, the CEO of Species360, said. “Some of this data is very structured. Some of it is unstructured like images, notes and comments. Some of this data we are able to aggregate, assess, visualize and provide back to our members in very useful ways.” In the case&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/01/conservations-best-kept-secret/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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