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					<title>Alis Ramírez: A defender of the Colombian Amazon now living as a refugee in New Zealand</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/alis-ramirez-the-defender-of-the-colombian-amazon-now-living-as-a-refugee-in-new-zealand/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Apr 2024 19:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Laila Abu Shihab Vergara]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Illegal Deforestation and Women Defenders of the Colombian Amazon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Colombia, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Conservation, Crime, Endangered Environmentalists, Environment, Environmental Refugees, Forest Loss, Forests, Illegal Logging, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Logging, Mining, Rainforests, Violence, and Women In Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[This story is part of a Mongabay series on female environmental defenders in the Amazon. Read about the lives and work of Soraida Chindoy, Maydany Salcedo, and Etelvina Ramos. “Don’t go to Zabaleta because they’re going to kill you.” “Why are they going to kill me if I haven’t done anything?” “They’re going to kill [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This story is part of a Mongabay series on female environmental defenders in the Amazon. Read about the lives and work of Soraida Chindoy, Maydany Salcedo, and Etelvina Ramos. “Don’t go to Zabaleta because they’re going to kill you.” “Why are they going to kill me if I haven’t done anything?” “They’re going to kill you, please don’t go to your house.” “How do you know that?” “Someone told me: ‘Tell your sister, for the love of God, to not to get involved because they’ve already planned that they’ll kill her when she enters the town.’” This unexpected, hurried, and difficult conversation occurred on August 7, 2018, between María Alis Ramírez, an environmental defender from the southern Colombian department of Caquetá, and one of her nine siblings. Alis Ramírez, 55, lived in a very small jungle town called Zabaleta, which has no more than 300 homes and belongs to the municipality of San José del Fragua. “I was alone; I was working at the edge of Belén de los Andaquíes [another municipality in Caquetá], and when I received that call from my brother, some people helped me run down some slopes and catch a bus that would take me away from there as quickly as possible,” said Alis Ramírez. She now lives in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, which is 12,700 kilometers (over 7,800 miles) from the home she has not been able to return to since that day. As an environmental defender in one of the most dangerous&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/alis-ramirez-the-defender-of-the-colombian-amazon-now-living-as-a-refugee-in-new-zealand/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Divided by mining: Vale’s new rail track fractures an Amazon Indigenous group</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/divided-by-mining-vales-new-rail-track-fractures-an-amazon-indigenous-group/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Jul 2023 10:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Maurício AngeloSarah Sax]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandre de Santi]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation and Land rights and extractives]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conflict, Conservation, Dams, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Refugees, Governance, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Infrastructure, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Logging, Mining, Politics, and Resource Conflict]]>
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							<![CDATA[The mining giant has secured permission to build a second railroad track that cuts through Amazon's Mãe Maria Indigenous Territory, prompting complaints from Indigenous leaders who say Vale applied maneuvers they consider unethical and that the extension will cause greater environmental damage.]]>
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							<![CDATA[PARÁ, Brazil — Deep inside the hills of Parauapebas, a medium-sized city in the Amazonian state of Pará, lies Vale&#8217;s Brazilian Serra Sul mining project. Iridescent pools of blue and green alongside gaping red holes only hint at the wealth that lies beneath. The mining project, known commonly by its abbreviation S11D, is the largest iron ore project in the world. It produces 90 million metric tons of the critical mineral used to make steel, the foundation for everything from bridges to skyscrapers, and is in high demand in industrializing nations like China. Alongside iron ore, copper, manganese, nickel and gold deposits are also found here, guaranteeing Vale&#8217;s position among the five largest mining companies in the world. In recent years, Vale continually broke records for profits: 95.9 billion reais ($19.5 billion) in 2022 and 121 billion reais ($24.7 billion) in 2021. But the success of the project hinges on one crucial component: a train line that runs 892 kilometers (554 miles) from Parauapebas to the Port of Itaqui in São Luís, Maranhão, where it is then loaded into large ships destined for China and Europe. Constructed in 1985, the Carajás Railroad has come under heavy criticism from Indigenous groups, Quilombolas, and other communities that live along the length of the 892 km (554 miles) track. Several people have died crossing the train lines, where kilometers of rail cars screech 35 times a day alongside countless animals whose corpses dot the railway line. The constant rumble has destabilized houses and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/divided-by-mining-vales-new-rail-track-fractures-an-amazon-indigenous-group/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-270935</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Debunking the colonial myth of the ‘African Eden’: Q&#038;A with author Guillaume Blanc</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/debunking-the-colonial-myth-of-the-african-eden-qa-with-author-guillaume-blanc/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Sep 2022 08:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Malavika Vyawahare]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Ethiopia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Books, Colonialism, Colonization, Conservation, Environment, Environmental Law, Environmental Refugees, Governance, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Interviews, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Land Use Change, Politics, Racism, Social Justice, and Tourism]]>
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							<![CDATA[As the clamor to protect vast portions of Earth’s lands and waters grows louder to meet upcoming international goals, a newly translated book critically examines the first principles of global conservation in Africa and ways forward to avoid past pitfalls. According to Guillaume Blanc, author of The Invention of Green Colonialism, one of these pitfalls [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As the clamor to protect vast portions of Earth’s lands and waters grows louder to meet upcoming international goals, a newly translated book critically examines the first principles of global conservation in Africa and ways forward to avoid past pitfalls. According to Guillaume Blanc, author of The Invention of Green Colonialism, one of these pitfalls is the idea of an “African Eden” that casts an entire continent as the site of pristine wilderness instead of a region populated and shaped by humans for millennia. Blanc, who specializes in environmental history at Rennes 2 University in France, lays bare the history and contradictions of the European project to secure and, at the same time, exploit Africa’s land during direct colonial rule. He goes on to show how these contradictions continue to play out into the present. Across the continent, pre- and postcolonialism, people who lived in areas designated as national parks or other conserved areas faced expulsion because they were treated as a threat rather than collaborators in the conservation project. The scope of the challenges we face — from biodiversity loss to climate change — is global, but that doesn’t mean the solutions must originate from a clique of NGOs or international experts, Blanc says. Guillaume Blanc, author of “The Invention of Green Colonialism.” Image courtesy of Guillaume Blanc. Blanc challenges readers not to fall into a conspiratorial mode but rather to be clear-eyed about the past. He proposes a more pronounced and transparent break from conservation’s colonial history. In&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/debunking-the-colonial-myth-of-the-african-eden-qa-with-author-guillaume-blanc/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>As the Horn of Africa heats up, the risks of insecurity are rising (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/as-the-horn-of-africa-heats-up-the-risks-of-insecurity-are-rising-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Mar 2022 16:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Giovanna KuelePeter SchmidtRobert Muggah]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sahel, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Climate Change, Commentary, Disasters, Drought, Environmental Refugees, Food, food security, Resource Conflict, and War]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scholars and political leaders worldwide are fretting over the complex connections between climate and insecurity. Many social scientists theorize that climate disruption is a “conflict multiplier.” To residents of the Greater Horn of Africa, the relationship is not theoretical. Assailed by endemic poverty, food insecurity and armed conflict, the Greater Horn is already facing a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scholars and political leaders worldwide are fretting over the complex connections between climate and insecurity. Many social scientists theorize that climate disruption is a “conflict multiplier.” To residents of the Greater Horn of Africa, the relationship is not theoretical. Assailed by endemic poverty, food insecurity and armed conflict, the Greater Horn is already facing a host of preexisting conditions. With some of the fastest-warming latitudes on the planet, the fortunes and stability of this region of 365 million people now look to be at the mercy of weather-driven mayhem. Yet the threats posed by a changing climate to the world’s poorest countries are still side-stepped in the top-tier of global diplomacy. Even before Russia invaded its neighbor, Ukraine, the Security Council member vetoed the first ever climate security resolution at the United Nations Security Council. China abstained, and while India lacks veto power, it too demurred, apparently in fear of opening a meteorological Pandora’s box to big power intervention. Countries like Ireland, Niger and 113 other UN member states who backed the resolution are likely to keep the issue on the geopolitical agenda. The visualization of the risks facing the Horn was developed by Carnegie Mellon University&#8217;s CreateLab and the Igarape Institute Ultimately, tackling the most significant global threat of our era is being left in large part to those at the sharp end of the climate emergency. Yet that lopsided burden might just be an opportunity. Nearly five months since the COP26 climate communion in Glasgow, some of the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/as-the-horn-of-africa-heats-up-the-risks-of-insecurity-are-rising-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-254218</doi>				</item>
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					<title>What makes a ‘refugee’? It could be a life-or-death question in the climate crisis</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/what-makes-a-refugee-it-could-be-a-life-or-death-question-in-the-climate-crisis/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Oct 2021 11:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Ashoka Mukpo]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Ashoka]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Climate Change, Environment, Environmental Law, Environmental Refugees, Extreme Weather, Human Rights, and Politics]]>
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							<![CDATA[In late 2020, a succession of violent storms slammed into Central America during the worst Atlantic hurricane season on record. The effects were devastating. Flooding and mudslides caused billions of dollars’ worth of damage, killed hundreds of people, and displaced more than half a million more. The storms were part of an ominous trend across [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In late 2020, a succession of violent storms slammed into Central America during the worst Atlantic hurricane season on record. The effects were devastating. Flooding and mudslides caused billions of dollars’ worth of damage, killed hundreds of people, and displaced more than half a million more. The storms were part of an ominous trend across the world. Just over a year earlier, two of the biggest cyclones ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere hit Mozambique in what was one of the worst natural disasters suffered by Southern Africa in decades. Climate change, scientists say, is likely playing a role in the growing frequency of mega storms like these, and there’s reason to think that more are on the way. For people living in the path of those storms, that means danger, suffering, and pressure to move to safer areas. Some may look to cities further inland, and others may choose — or be forced — to migrate to other countries. An analysis by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) says that the world isn’t prepared for a rise in that kind of migration, with international agreements set up to protect refugees almost entirely failing to include people fleeing the impacts of climate change. As atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations reach their highest levels ever, the group says that countries need to establish better systems to take care of people living at the frontier of the crisis sooner rather than later. “As the planet continues to heat, the number of people displaced by&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/what-makes-a-refugee-it-could-be-a-life-or-death-question-in-the-climate-crisis/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-248688</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Children born in 2020 will see spike in climate disasters, study says</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/children-born-in-2020-will-see-spike-in-climate-disasters-study-says/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/children-born-in-2020-will-see-spike-in-climate-disasters-study-says/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>30 Sep 2021 16:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ashoka Mukpo]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Nandithachandraprakash]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Conservation, Disasters, Drought, Environment, Environmental Refugees, Extreme Weather, Fires, Food, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Heatwave, Impact Of Climate Change, Politics, Pollution, Research, and Water]]>
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							<![CDATA[In a world wracked by wildfires, deadly storms, and the now too-familiar drumbeat of dire climate warnings, statistical descriptions of the future humanity faces can seem at once too sterile and too overwhelming to process. What experiences lie in the as-yet-unrealized space between a world that is warming by 1.5° Celsius (2.7° Fahrenheit) and one [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In a world wracked by wildfires, deadly storms, and the now too-familiar drumbeat of dire climate warnings, statistical descriptions of the future humanity faces can seem at once too sterile and too overwhelming to process. What experiences lie in the as-yet-unrealized space between a world that is warming by 1.5° Celsius (2.7° Fahrenheit) and one that is becoming 3°C (5.4°F) hotter for a human being born today? The question is existential and urgent for younger generations, whose lives will be lived in that margin and for whom the answers may come in the form of more concrete questions: “Will there be enough food this year?” “Can I go outside today?” and “Will I have to migrate?” A new study released this week in the journal Science aims to shed some light on what young people should expect, and the picture it paints is an ominous one. At the rate of warming that is projected to take place under current global carbon reduction pledges, a person born in 2020 will live through two to seven times more climate-related disasters than one born in 1960. That includes twice as many wildfires, three times as many crop failures, and seven times as many heat waves. The study’s authors say their projections are conservative, and didn’t measure the severity of those events. “We know very well scientifically that these extreme events are not only increasing in frequency, they’re also increasing in duration and intensity,” Wim Thiery, one of the study’s lead authors, told Mongabay&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/children-born-in-2020-will-see-spike-in-climate-disasters-study-says/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-247706</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Vale told Brazil communities they were in danger. They say Vale wants their land</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/vale-told-brazil-communities-they-were-in-danger-they-say-vale-wants-their-land/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Sep 2021 08:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Isis Medeiros]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Nandithachandraprakash]]>
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							<![CDATA[Land rights and extractives]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Activism, Conflict, Conservation, Dams, Deforestation, Disasters, Environment, Environmental Refugees, Governance, Human Rights, Infrastructure, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Logging, Mining, Nutrient Pollution, Politics, Pollution, public lands, Resource Conflict, Rivers, and Water Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[On Feb. 8, 2019, two weeks after the collapse of a dam holding mining waste killed 272 people and left a trail of destruction in Brumadinho, in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, 458 people were evicted from their land in the nearby town of Barão de Cocais. Vale, the Brazilian mining giant responsible for [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[On Feb. 8, 2019, two weeks after the collapse of a dam holding mining waste killed 272 people and left a trail of destruction in Brumadinho, in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, 458 people were evicted from their land in the nearby town of Barão de Cocais. Vale, the Brazilian mining giant responsible for that disaster, had warned of the risk of collapse of yet another of its tailings dams, Sul Superior. The dam held firm, but in the two and a half years since then, the company has continued to violate basic rights and move families from new areas, they allege. In that fateful week of Vale’s announcement, the international press was all over the story, and Sul Superior went from risk alert 2 to 3, the highest level. A judge, Carlos Pereira Gomes Júnior, ordered all the families in Barão de Cocais’s rural subdistricts of Socorro, Vila do Gongo, Piteiras and Tabuleiro to be immediately removed from their homes to avoid a repeat of the Brumadinho tragedy. Similar steps were taken in other towns where there is at least one dam on highest alert. Thousands of people have been evacuated, becoming refugees from their own territories. Area of ​​the Sul Superior dam at level 3 alert since 2019. The collapse alert prompted the company to evacuate 458 residents from nearby communities. Image by Vale. In November 2020, the risk level for Vale’s Norte Laranjeiras dam was raised to 2 by the National Mining Agency’s (ANM) Integrated Safety&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/vale-told-brazil-communities-they-were-in-danger-they-say-vale-wants-their-land/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>It&#8217;s time to scrutinize who&#8217;s in the room when conservation decisions are made, says Laly Lichtenfeld</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/its-time-to-scrutinize-who-is-in-the-room-when-conservation-decisions-are-made-says-laly-lichtenfeld/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Aug 2021 22:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Finding Common Ground, Indigenous Peoples and Conservation, and Nature conservation Influencers]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Tanzania]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation leadership, Conservation Solutions, Education, Environment, Environmental Refugees, Gender, Human-wildlife Conflict, Indigenous Peoples, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Racism, Solutions, transforming conservation, Wildlife, and Women In Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[The past 18 months have been a time of upheaval around the world, prompting a wide range of companies, institutions, and organizations to re-evaluate how they operate. The conservation sector has been no exception: Worldwide concern about injustice and inequity, the impacts of the pandemic, and the worsening effects of global environmental degradation has accelerated [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The past 18 months have been a time of upheaval around the world, prompting a wide range of companies, institutions, and organizations to re-evaluate how they operate. The conservation sector has been no exception: Worldwide concern about injustice and inequity, the impacts of the pandemic, and the worsening effects of global environmental degradation has accelerated change in a field that has historically been relatively slow to evolve. But for the shifts underway to be more than just a passing fad, many would argue that conservation requires fundamental structural changes that put more decision-making power in the hands of people who’ve been traditionally sidelined or ignored and recognize the importance of contributions from a wide range of stakeholders in achieving conservation outcomes. One of the organizations working on both of these fronts is African People &amp; Wildlife, a Tanzania-based NGO founded by Dr. Laly Lichtenfeld and Charles Trout that is headquartered on land donated by a local Maasai community. African People &amp; Wildlife works across six landscapes in Northern Tanzania that are famed for their wildlife populations. The group runs several programs that range from supporting sustainable livelihoods in local communities to reducing human-wildlife conflict to empowering women conservation leaders. Lion cub in Tanzania. Photo credit: Laly Lichtenfeld Lichtenfeld told Mongabay in a recent interview that she’s seen significant changes in the conservation since she started African People &amp; Wildlife in 2005, including recognition that “communities are essential partners in creating sustainable change” and “that we need to embrace diversity, equity,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/its-time-to-scrutinize-who-is-in-the-room-when-conservation-decisions-are-made-says-laly-lichtenfeld/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Overcoming community-conservation conflict: Q&#038;A with Dominique Bikaba</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/overcoming-community-conservation-conflict-qa-with-dominique-bikaba/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Jul 2021 00:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Central Africa, Congo Basin, and Democratic Republic Of Congo]]>
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							<![CDATA[Community Forests, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Ecotourism, Endangered Species, Environmental Refugees, Forests, Gorillas, Great Apes, Indigenous Peoples, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Land Rights, Mammals, Mining, National Parks, Parks, Primates, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Subsistence Agriculture, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Kahuzi-Biega National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is renowned for its biodiversity, including Grauer&#8217;s gorilla &#8212; an endemic subspecies &#8212; and around 350 bird species. The area is also home to the Batwa people, who are highly dependent on its forests for their livelihoods and cultural traditions. But forests in this region [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Kahuzi-Biega National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is renowned for its biodiversity, including Grauer&#8217;s gorilla &#8212; an endemic subspecies &#8212; and around 350 bird species. The area is also home to the Batwa people, who are highly dependent on its forests for their livelihoods and cultural traditions. But forests in this region are embattled by long-running civil strife, poverty, and market demand for materials from minerals to charcoal. Efforts to protect these forests are challenged by conservation&#8217;s mixed record: Kahuzi-Biega&#8217;s expansion in the 1970s forced the displacement of thousands of local people, turning them into conservation refugees and sowing distrust in conservation initiatives, especially those led by &#8220;outsiders&#8221;, whether the central government or foreign NGOs. Mining companies and other extractive industries further complicate the situation by exacerbating pressure on community forests. Grauer&#8217;s gorilla troop in Kahuzi-Biega National Park. Photo credit: Strong Roots Congo. One of the local organizations leading efforts to overcome these challenges is Strong Roots Congo, which was co-founded by Dominique Bikaba in 2009. Strong Roots Congo puts the needs of local people at the center of its strategy to protect endangered forests and wildlife in eastern DRC. These efforts include helping local communities and Indigenous peoples secure collective land tenure, restoring native vegetation to create a habitat corridor, and supporting education and the strengthening of sustainable livelihoods at the village level. &#8220;Strong Roots’ approach to conservation is bottom-up, collaborative, and inclusive,&#8221; Bikaba told Mongabay in a recent interview. &#8220;We learned long ago that conservation&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/overcoming-community-conservation-conflict-qa-with-dominique-bikaba/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>In Guatemala, refugees find new calling as park rangers</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/in-guatemala-refugees-find-new-calling-as-park-rangers/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Oct 2020 10:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Antonio José Paz CardonaAshoka Mukpo]]>
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						<![CDATA[Ashoka]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Guatemala]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Environmental Refugees, Human Migration, Migration, National Parks, Poverty, Protected Areas, Wildlife, and Wildlife Rangers]]>
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							<![CDATA[At night in Mirador National Park in northeastern Guatemala, Raul Gomez falls asleep surrounded by the calls of nocturnal animals padding their way through the jungles of the Maya Biosphere Reserve. Gomez is a ranger there, helping to keep poachers and loggers out of the remote park — one of Guatemala’s most pristine — which [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[At night in Mirador National Park in northeastern Guatemala, Raul Gomez falls asleep surrounded by the calls of nocturnal animals padding their way through the jungles of the Maya Biosphere Reserve. Gomez is a ranger there, helping to keep poachers and loggers out of the remote park — one of Guatemala’s most pristine — which is home to jaguars, harpy eagles, and the sprawling ruins of once-mighty Mayan cities now enveloped by vines and greenery. It’s a far cry from Gomez’s life as a bricklayer just two years ago, when he had to go on the run from his village in Honduras after local maras (gang members) delivered him an ultimatum: join us, or die. Gomez, whose real name is not being used to protect his identity, is one of hundreds of thousands of migrants to have arrived in Guatemala in recent years, a key transit country along the journey to the U.S., where they hope to find safety and new lives. Some, like Gomez, are fleeing violence or political persecution. Others are being pushed north by climate change or seeking better economic opportunities. For decades, the U.S. had a system in place to sift through asylum claims and determine which ones met the legal criteria under the 1951 Refugee Convention. But harsh immigration restrictions imposed by the Trump administration have made the process nearly impossible, and a new rule issued in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic essentially closed U.S. borders to migration of any kind. For many&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/in-guatemala-refugees-find-new-calling-as-park-rangers/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>For Philippines’ displaced indigenous students, COVID-19 is one of many threats</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/for-philippines-displaced-indigenous-students-covid-19-is-one-of-many-threats/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Apr 2020 15:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Leilani Chavez]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Leilani]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Atlantic Forest, Philippines, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Agriculture, Biodiversity Hotspots, COVID-19, Culture, Diseases, Education, Endangered Environmentalists, Environment, Environmental Refugees, Human Rights, Illegal Logging, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Logging, Mining, Plantations, Politics, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[MANILA — Facing armed conflict in their hometowns in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, dozens of indigenous students moved to Manila to continue their education. But with the new coronavirus pandemic sweeping through the country and hitting the Philippine capital particularly hard, their safe zone has become a more ominous place. A group of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[MANILA — Facing armed conflict in their hometowns in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, dozens of indigenous students moved to Manila to continue their education. But with the new coronavirus pandemic sweeping through the country and hitting the Philippine capital particularly hard, their safe zone has become a more ominous place. A group of 68 indigenous students and their teachers have been in Manila since 2017, displaced by violent clashes in their native communities. That was the same year President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to bomb lumad (indigenous) schools for being alleged hotbeds of subversion and fronts for the outlawed New People’s Army. The students, ranging in age from 11 to 22, are ensconced in a state university in Quezon, one of the cities that make up Metro Manila, where the COVID-19 outbreak has cast a long shadow: it has the highest recorded number of infections in the country with 464 confirmed cases and 33 deaths as of April 3. “We are prone to coronavirus because we are evacuees,” Beverly Godofredo, a teacher, tells Mongabay. As a precaution, they have begun stockpiling vitamin C, something that was once low on their list of priorities. “Our only fighting chance is to strengthen our immune system.” Indigenous students from Mindanao and their teachers. Image courtesy of Save our Schools network Godofredo has four bottles on hand, each with 100 tablets, which she says is enough for the students and teachers for five days. The group occupies a basement that doubles, triples even,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/for-philippines-displaced-indigenous-students-covid-19-is-one-of-many-threats/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indonesian flooding disaster bears the hallmarks of agriculture and mining impacts</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/08/in-sulawesi-floods-bear-the-hallmarks-of-agriculture-and-mining-impacts/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Aug 2019 22:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Ian Morse]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Southeast Sulawesi, and Sulawesi]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Corruption, Deforestation, Disasters, Environment, Environmental Law, Environmental Policy, Environmental Refugees, Flooding, Forestry, Forests, Governance, Green, Logging, Mining, Palm Oil, Plantations, Politics, Rainforests, Remote Sensing, Satellite Imagery, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[TAPUWATU, Indonesia — Muhammad Arfa says he thinks a miracle saved his home. A wave of mud that swept through this riverside village on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi when floods ravaged the area last June razed dozens of his neighbors’ houses down to the foundations. Today there’s little left but upturned trees, scattered roofing [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[TAPUWATU, Indonesia — Muhammad Arfa says he thinks a miracle saved his home. A wave of mud that swept through this riverside village on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi when floods ravaged the area last June razed dozens of his neighbors’ houses down to the foundations. Today there’s little left but upturned trees, scattered roofing material, and muddy marks high up the trunks of the coconut trees, a reminder of the height of the water. “It was the very end of Idul Fitri, the rain didn’t stop,” the 46-year-old said from his porch, referring to the holiday that marks the end of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan. At first, the 2-meter-high (6-foot) stilts holding up his house kept the water from entering. But as the waters rose and fell, the rain persisted for three days. “Then the water starting rising again, so I told my family to grab their clothes and get in a boat.” When Arfa returned a week later, after the floods had receded, the mud line had reached the ceiling of his home, some 4 meters above the ground. Most of the other houses in the village lay in ruins. Almost 20,000 people were affected by the floods that struck North Konawe, a hilly district in Southeast Sulawesi province, according to government figures. No one is known to have died, but thousands were displaced. When Mongabay visited the area with the national disaster agency last month, refugees living in makeshift tarpaulin shelters were salvaging what they&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/08/in-sulawesi-floods-bear-the-hallmarks-of-agriculture-and-mining-impacts/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>In India’s Sundarbans, communities shrink as their island sinks</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/07/in-indias-sundarbans-communities-shrink-as-their-island-sinks/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Jul 2019 19:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Erin StoneLisa Hornak]]>
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						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, India, South Asia, and Sundarbans]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Environment, Environmental Refugees, Mangroves, Oceans, Poverty, and Sea Levels]]>
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							<![CDATA[MOUSUNI ISLAND, West Bengal &#8211; Ashida watched the rising tide fearfully. Lifting her baby son onto her hip, the 24-year-old took a break from her morning duties and stood outside her house in the village of Baliara on a small island in the Indian Sundarbans, one of the most vulnerable areas to climate change in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[MOUSUNI ISLAND, West Bengal &#8211; Ashida watched the rising tide fearfully. Lifting her baby son onto her hip, the 24-year-old took a break from her morning duties and stood outside her house in the village of Baliara on a small island in the Indian Sundarbans, one of the most vulnerable areas to climate change in the world. It was the first day of the full moon, and the seawater slowly spilled over cultivation barriers that 15 years ago surrounded small farms. The water gradually filled the muddy fields, lifting fishing boats from where they rested on the ground. By 6:30 a.m. the new ponds were like a mosaic of mirrors reflecting the sky. Twice a month, the tide comes in ripples, swelling the rivers that characterize the Sundarbans, a region of about 200 low-lying archipelagos in the Bay of Bengal and the largest delta in the world. Straddling India and Bangladesh, the Sundarbans is most known, and studied, for its extraordinary biodiversity: mangrove forests, Bengal tigers, and hundreds of other wildlife species. But global heating has caused the islands to become known for something else: climate refugees. Despite the fact that this delta region is home to some 7.5 million people, the challenges the people of the Sundarbans face have received little attention in global climate talks. Ashida sits outside her home in the village of Baliara, on the sea-facing side of Mousuni Island. The village is in one of the areas of the island most devastated by rising sea&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/07/in-indias-sundarbans-communities-shrink-as-their-island-sinks/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>‘Not doing anything is no longer acceptable’: Q&#038;A with Alice Thomas, climate refugee expert</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/not-doing-anything-is-no-longer-acceptable-qa-with-alice-thomas-climate-refugee-expert/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Aug 2018 10:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Bhanu Sridharan]]>
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						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Development, Drought, Environmental Refugees, Interviews, Poverty, and Sea Levels]]>
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							<![CDATA[In many ways, 2018 is the year of the refugee. At U.S. borders, Mediterranean shores and Asian cities, millions are fleeing war, hunger and persecution in search of safety and shelter. And scientists believe things will only get worse due to climate change. The Office of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In many ways, 2018 is the year of the refugee. At U.S. borders, Mediterranean shores and Asian cities, millions are fleeing war, hunger and persecution in search of safety and shelter. And scientists believe things will only get worse due to climate change. The Office of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that rising seas, intensifying droughts and other extreme weather events will uproot 250 million people by 2050. Like most other refugees, climate refugees are expected to come largely from developing nations in Africa, Asia and South America. But unlike those escaping war and persecution, climate refugees have few legal protections. “The 1951 Refugee Convention’s definition of ‘refugee’ does not include people who are fleeing environmental stress,” says Alice Thomas, the climate displacement program manager at the nonprofit group Refugees International (RI). To date, no individual has been able to successfully claim asylum on the grounds that they are fleeing climate change, Thomas says, though some have tried. And there is another climate reality, according to Thomas, that is rarely recognized: the fact that most climate-affected migrants will not be leaving their countries. “International migration is really complex. Most people, the poorest people, can’t afford to migrate internationally,” she says. “There needs to be focus on these what we call ‘trapped populations’; people who are too poor to even move and escape climate effect.” A 2018 World Bank report suggests that these trapped populations might number over 140 million people by 2050. That’s why Thomas says&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/not-doing-anything-is-no-longer-acceptable-qa-with-alice-thomas-climate-refugee-expert/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-209349</doi>				</item>
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					<title>On India’s Kerala coast, a man-made solution exacerbates a natural problem</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/06/on-indias-kerala-coast-a-man-made-solution-exacerbates-a-natural-problem/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Jun 2018 02:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Haritha John]]>
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						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, India, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Coastal Ecosystems, Environmental Refugees, Erosion, Extreme Weather, and Oceans]]>
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							<![CDATA[KERALA, India — Sixty-five-year-old Maria sits at the doorstep of her demolished house. The only thing that remains is a wall attached to the door. Every morning, she comes “home” and sits there until evening, reminiscing about the times going back to when she and her family started to build their new house. “My family [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[KERALA, India — Sixty-five-year-old Maria sits at the doorstep of her demolished house. The only thing that remains is a wall attached to the door. Every morning, she comes “home” and sits there until evening, reminiscing about the times going back to when she and her family started to build their new house. “My family and I lived in this house just for two years. One night there was an announcement for us to go to a relief camp as the sea was rough. When we returned the next morning the house was ruined by the waves. We were heartbroken,” she said. Maria lives in the coastal area of Valiyathura in Thiruvananthapuram district, in southern India’s Kerala state. Officially, 110 families have lost their houses in Valiyathura alone because of coastal erosion and rough seas. Another 100 homes have been damaged in the nearby fishing villages of Poonthura, Panathura and Bimapalli, all in the past five years. About 200 fisher families now live in government schools that function as temporary relief camps. Three or four families live in a single classroom, sleeping on the floor and cooking inside the same room. Many of them go to the shoreline regularly in the mornings to see the remains of their houses. “We are living in this school for the last five years,” Mini, one of the refugees, said tearfully. “My child does not know how to live in a house, he was born here. We had a three-bedroom house there in the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/06/on-indias-kerala-coast-a-man-made-solution-exacerbates-a-natural-problem/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Environmental costs, benefits and possibilities: Q&#038;A with anthropologist Eben Kirksey</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/02/environmental-costs-benefits-and-possibilities-qa-with-anthropologist-eben-kirksey/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Feb 2017 08:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Southeast Asian infrastructure]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, New Guinea, Papua, Southeast Asia, and West Papua]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Agriculture, Anthropology, Community Development, Conservation, Corporations, Culture, Deforestation, Economics, Environment, Environmental Refugees, Forests, Fragmentation, Gold Mining, Governance, Human Rights, Hunting, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Infrastructure, Insects, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Logging, Mining, Montane Forests, Old Growth Forests, Palm Oil, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Primary Forests, Rainforests, Resource Conflict, Social Conflict, Social Justice, Traditional People, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[DFFF2019]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesian New Guinea holds some of the largest remnants of old-growth tropical forest on the planet. Yet the region faces increasing pressure to share its riches with the rest of the world. Mining companies have dug for gold and copper, leaving scars visible from space. Loggers have razed rainforest and built highways into previously remote [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesian New Guinea holds some of the largest remnants of old-growth tropical forest on the planet. Yet the region faces increasing pressure to share its riches with the rest of the world. Mining companies have dug for gold and copper, leaving scars visible from space. Loggers have razed rainforest and built highways into previously remote areas. And with Indonesia as a whole producing half the world’s palm oil, the hunt for new plantation sites threatens to fragment what’s left of the region’s standing forest. These development projects have taken place as Indonesia has divided the territory, splitting the western half of the island of New Guinea into West Papua and Papua in the 2000s. Map of West Papua and Papua (in red) in the Indonesia-controlled part of the island of New Guinea. Map courtesy of Eben Kirksey Eben Kirksey, an anthropologist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, has spent nearly two decades investigating what the push for natural resources has meant for the people of Indonesian New Guinea. His own discipline has left him uniquely positioned to dig deeper into the crossroads of changes to the ecological environment and to our ways of life. “Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences, and the most scientific of the humanities,” Kirksey said, quoting cultural anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber. But Kirksey is also a leader in the emerging discipline known as the environmental humanities, drawing from the tools of both anthropologists and biologists. Mongabay spoke with Kirksey to discuss&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/02/environmental-costs-benefits-and-possibilities-qa-with-anthropologist-eben-kirksey/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Harsh treatment for indigenous Botswanans ousted from Kalahari wildlife reserve</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/08/harsh-treatment-for-indigenous-botswanans-ousted-from-kalahari-wildlife-reserve/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Aug 2015 17:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Michael Schwartz]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Endangered Environmentalists]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa and Botswana]]>
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							<![CDATA[Community-based Conservation, Endangered Environmentalists, Environment, Environmental Refugees, Human Rights, Hunting, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Poaching, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 1997, the government of Botswana began evicting San and Bakgalagadi people from their homelands in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve out of concern that the groups&#8217; hunter-gatherer way of life was harming wildlife. Since then, local and international advocacy groups have been engaged in an arduous struggle to enable the groups to return. Domestic [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 1997, the government of Botswana began evicting San and Bakgalagadi people from their homelands in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve out of concern that the groups&#8217; hunter-gatherer way of life was harming wildlife. Since then, local and international advocacy groups have been engaged in an arduous struggle to enable the groups to return. Domestic activists face harsh consequences from the state, including arrest, beating, and alleged torture, while foreign activists on their behalf face arrest, visa restriction, and expulsion from the country. As the San and Bakgalagadi and their advocates prepare their next legal offensive under the threat of government reprisals, they are raising questions not only about the value of human rights in Botswana, but also about how best to steward the country&#8217;s rich natural resources. They argue that the indigenous groups, making their living on the land with traditional hunting and gathering lifestyles, are far better able to preserve biodiversity than contemporary conservation approaches, such as wildlife-only parks. A place called home The Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR), a massive wilderness roughly twice the size of Massachusetts, was established in 1961 under the Fauna Conservation Proclamation in what was then the British-controlled Bechuanaland Protectorate. Map of Botswana shows Central Kalahari Game Reserve and New Xade, a resettlement camp for people displaced from the reserve. Map credit: Google Maps. The reserve was set up prior to Botswana’s political independence in 1966 to ensure that the indigenous San and Bantu Bakgalagadi populous would remain stable after power was ceded&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/08/harsh-treatment-for-indigenous-botswanans-ousted-from-kalahari-wildlife-reserve/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-67004</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Saving one of Africa&#8217;s most stunning parks through biomass briquettes and fuel-efficient stoves</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/06/saving-one-of-africas-most-stunning-parks-through-biomass-briquettes-and-fuel-efficient-stoves/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Jun 2013 21:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Uganda]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Biochar, Community Development, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Deforestation, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Environmental Refugees, Forests, Fuelwood, Green, Interviews, Parks, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Reforestation, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[The 2013 Zoos and Aquariums: Committing to Conservation (ZACC) conference runs from July 8th&#8212;July 12th in Des Moines, Iowa, hosted by the Blank Park Zoo. Ahead of the event, Mongabay.com is running a series of Q&#38;As with presenters. For more interviews, please see our ZACC feed. Locals investigating a biomass briquette. Photo courtesy of New [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The 2013 Zoos and Aquariums: Committing to Conservation (ZACC) conference runs from July 8th&#8212;July 12th in Des Moines, Iowa, hosted by the Blank Park Zoo. Ahead of the event, Mongabay.com is running a series of Q&amp;As with presenters. For more interviews, please see our ZACC feed. Locals investigating a biomass briquette. Photo courtesy of New Nature Foundation. When Rebecca Goldstone and Michael Stern first arrived in Uganda&#8217;s Kibale National Park in 2000 to study monkeys, little did they know then that they would stay on to kick-start an innovative organization, The New Nature Foundation, connecting locals to the park through videos and visits. Nor did they know they would soon tackle the biggest threat to Kibale: deforestation for cooking fuel wood. Since 2006, the couple&#8217;s organization has implemented a hugely-successful program that provides biomass briquettes for environmentally-friendly fuel for locals, cutting down on the need for forest destruction. &#8220;The old style of conservation&#8212;put a fence around it and keep people out&#8212;does not work everywhere. Kibale was only formally established as a national park in 1993. Some of the people we are currently working with (including one of our staff) were evicted form the park at this time,&#8221; Goldstone and Stern explained in a recent interview with mongabay.com. &#8220;Historically, people in the area took what they needed from the forest, and it was sustainable. The extreme population growth has made things unsustainable, but people still have few alternatives to the traditional way of doing things. By offering people the chance to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/06/saving-one-of-africas-most-stunning-parks-through-biomass-briquettes-and-fuel-efficient-stoves/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-28886</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Infamous elephant poacher turns cannibal in the Congo</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/04/infamous-elephant-poacher-turns-cannibal-in-the-congo/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Apr 2013 14:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Pete Jones]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Central Africa, China, Congo Basin, and Democratic Republic Of Congo]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Conflict, Conservation, Corruption, Crime, Elephants, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Refugees, Green, Indigenous Peoples, Ivory, Mammals, Parks, Poaching, Poverty, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Traditional People, Tropical Forests, War, Wildlife, Wildlife Rangers, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[Early on a Sunday morning last summer, the villagers of Epulu awoke to the sounds of shots and screaming. In the eastern reaches of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, that can often mean another round of violence and ethnic murder is under way. In this case, however, something even more horrific was afoot. The [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Early on a Sunday morning last summer, the villagers of Epulu awoke to the sounds of shots and screaming. In the eastern reaches of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, that can often mean another round of violence and ethnic murder is under way. In this case, however, something even more horrific was afoot. The village was under attack from a feared militia. In this case, the gunmen were motivated not by tribal rivalry but by land, gold and ivory. The village is situated inside a nature reserve in the Ituri rainforest, an area covering 5,000 square miles that is supposed to be off limits to hunters and gold prospectors. The militia, led by a former elephant poacher called Paul Sadala, has terrorised communities inside the reserve since 2012, employing methods brutal even by the grisly standards of this part of the world. &#8220;The attacks were absolutely terrifying,&#8221; said Justin Oganda, a representative of the residents of Epulu who remain displaced in Mambasa, about 50 miles away. By the end of that day in June, the militiamen had murdered, raped, burned people alive and even eaten the flesh and heart of one of their victims. &#8220;To have killed so many people, to burn them alive, the cannibalism … Mentally they cannot be normal,&#8221; Oganda added. As ever with Congo, it is not just a simple tale of victims and villains. Sadala, who goes by the nom de guerre Morgan, and his &#8220;Mai Mai Morgan&#8221; gunmen are thought to have powerful&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/04/infamous-elephant-poacher-turns-cannibal-in-the-congo/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>U.S. Admiral: climate change, not North Korea, biggest threat in the Pacific</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/03/u-s-admiral-climate-change-not-north-korea-biggest-threat-in-the-pacific/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Mar 2013 16:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Kiribati, Pacific Islands, Pacific Ocean, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Environment, Environmental Refugees, Green, Impact Of Climate Change, and Sea Levels]]>
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							<![CDATA[Rising sea levels may force inhabitants of Tarawa to abandon the island by the end of century. The island is home to over 45,000 people. Photo by: NASA. This week, Admiral Samuel J. Locklear II, the head of U.S. military forces in the Pacific, told The Boston Globe that climate change was the gravest threat [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Rising sea levels may force inhabitants of Tarawa to abandon the island by the end of century. The island is home to over 45,000 people. Photo by: NASA. This week, Admiral Samuel J. Locklear II, the head of U.S. military forces in the Pacific, told The Boston Globe that climate change was the gravest threat in the region. While such an assessment may be surprising, given North Korea&#8217;s recent nuclear tests, the U.S. military has long viewed climate change as a massive destabilizing force on global security. &#8220;You have the real potential here in the not-too-distant future of nations displaced by rising sea level,&#8221; Locklear said. &#8220;Certainly weather patterns are more severe than they have been in the past. We are on super typhoon 27 or 28 this year in the Western Pacific. The average is about 17.&#8221; Locklear pointed to plans for Tarawa Island in Kiribati to possibly move the entire population as rising sea levels continues to swamp the low-lying island. Already some people have been relocated from the Carteret Islands due to rising sea levels, and a larger relocation effort is planned. Burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and industrialized agriculture has raised global temperatures about 0.8 degrees Celsius (1.4 degrees Celsius) in the last century. While the world&#8217;s nations have committed to keep temperatures from rising 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, this will likely still mean that many low-lying islands and coastal areas will become uninhabitable. Worse still, nations are far from keeping their&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/03/u-s-admiral-climate-change-not-north-korea-biggest-threat-in-the-pacific/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>&#8220;Don&#8217;t be so silly&#8221; about climate change: Mohamed Nasheed on The Daily Show</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/04/dont-be-so-silly-about-climate-change-mohamed-nasheed-on-the-daily-show/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Apr 2012 14:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Maldives, North America, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Climate Change, Developing Countries, Development, Environment, Environmental Heroes, Environmental Refugees, Film, Governance, Green, Impact Of Climate Change, Islands, Media, Mitigation, Politics, Sea Levels, and Videos]]>
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							<![CDATA[Former president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed speaking to reporters at the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009. Photo by: Adam Welz. Mohamed Nasheed, former president of the Maldives, told the world on The Daily Show Monday night: &#8220;Just don&#8217;t be so silly&#8221; about climate change. Nasheed, who in February was forced to resign his presidency, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Former president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed speaking to reporters at the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009. Photo by: Adam Welz. Mohamed Nasheed, former president of the Maldives, told the world on The Daily Show Monday night: &#8220;Just don&#8217;t be so silly&#8221; about climate change. Nasheed, who in February was forced to resign his presidency, is visiting the U.S. to meet with government officials as well as to push for climate action during the release of a new documentary film about his presidency, entitled The Island President. During his three years in office, Nasheed was arguably the world&#8217;s most impassioned leader on the issue of climate change. The Maldives, an archipelago of around 2,000 islands in the Indian Ocean, includes some of world&#8217;s most low-lying islands. Nasheed has argued that if global society allows the world to warm by 2 degrees Celsius, the current pledge made by governments around the world, it will force the abandonment of the Maldives as the islands sink under rising sea levels. Before its ouster, his government even looked at purchasing land abroad as a home new for his people. In fact, Nasheed told the host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, that the impacts of climate change are already forcing populations to be relocated from some islands. &#8220;Climate change is an issue that is happening now. We have sixteen islands that need relocation; we have water contamination issues; we have fishing problems; the coral bleaching issue&#8230; there&#8217;s a whole list of things that are&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/04/dont-be-so-silly-about-climate-change-mohamed-nasheed-on-the-daily-show/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Africa Wildlife Foundation faces lawsuit from indigenous community in Kenya</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/03/africa-wildlife-foundation-faces-lawsuit-from-indigenous-community-in-kenya/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 Mar 2012 13:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Christina Chauvenet]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa Wildlife Foundation (AWF), the conservation nonprofit based in Washington, DC, is facing a lawsuit by Kenya’s Samburu tribe over alleged unlawful evictions. The hearing, originally scheduled for January 23, has now been postponed to later this month. The dispute is over an area of land in Laikipia District in Kenya, one of Africa’s most [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa Wildlife Foundation (AWF), the conservation nonprofit based in Washington, DC, is facing a lawsuit by Kenya’s Samburu tribe over alleged unlawful evictions. The hearing, originally scheduled for January 23, has now been postponed to later this month. The dispute is over an area of land in Laikipia District in Kenya, one of Africa’s most wildlife rich areas. Until recently, it was also the homeland of some 2,000 semi nomadic members of the Samburu tribe. At least according to the Samburu. In a statement on their website, AWF says that the plaintiffs never actually lived on the land in question. They claim that the Samburu testified that they lived in an area &#8216;neighboring&#8217; to the land. But Travis LeSalle, an Associated Attorney at the Center for International Human Rights Law and Advocacy, who has been to the region, says this couldn’t be further from the truth: &#8220;The Pois and Sukoroi communities&#8230;.occupied the suitland as a permanent settlement since the 1980&#8217;s.&#8221; He also noted that the area had been part of the Samburu&#8217;s ancestral land since the 15th century, though it did not become their permanent residence until the early 80s. This is typical of indigenous communities who relocate frequently within a large area. A displaced Samburu elder from Kenya&#8217;s Laikipia district. The Samburu now live exposed to the elements in makeshift huts in the bush after police evictions forced them from their homes. Photo © Samburu Watch/Survival International. This lawsuit is just the latest in a conflict that began several&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/03/africa-wildlife-foundation-faces-lawsuit-from-indigenous-community-in-kenya/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Innovative conservation: wild silk, endangered species, and poverty in Madagascar</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/02/innovative-conservation-wild-silk-endangered-species-and-poverty-in-madagascar/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Feb 2012 14:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa and Madagascar]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animals, Bushmeat, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Critically Endangered Species, Deforestation, Developing Countries, Development, Economics, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Refugees, Farming, Governance, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Health, Illegal Logging, In-situ Conservation, Insects, Interviews, Invertebrates, Islands, Law, Lemurs, Logging, Mammals, Parks, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Primates, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Reforestation, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Moth larvae munching on a host plant. Photo by: Tom Corcoran. For anyone who works in conservation in Madagascar, confronting the complex difficulties of widespread poverty is a part of the job. But with the wealth of Madagascar&#8217;s wildlife rapidly diminishing&#8212; such as lemurs, miniature chameleons, and hedgehog-looking tenrecs found no-where else in the world&#8212;the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Moth larvae munching on a host plant. Photo by: Tom Corcoran. For anyone who works in conservation in Madagascar, confronting the complex difficulties of widespread poverty is a part of the job. But with the wealth of Madagascar&#8217;s wildlife rapidly diminishing&#8212; such as lemurs, miniature chameleons, and hedgehog-looking tenrecs found no-where else in the world&#8212;the island-nation has become a testing ground for innovative conservation programs that focus on tackling entrenched poverty to save dwindling species and degraded places. The local NGO, the Madagascar Organization of Silk Workers or SEPALI, along with its U.S. partner Conservation through Poverty Alleviation (CPALI), is one such innovative program. In order to alleviate local pressure on the newly-established Makira Protected Area, SEPALI is aiding local farmers in artisanal silk production from endemic moths. The program uses Madagascar&#8217;s famed wildlife to help create more economically stable communities. &#8220;We wanted to try a new approach to conservation that could replace the needs of local populations to harvest forest resources in areas of great biological importance,&#8221; Catherine Craig, founder of CPALI, told mongabay.com in a recent interview with herself and the SEPALI/CPALI team. The local NGO, SEPALI, was founded by M. Ratsimbazafy. &#8220;Madagascar has had a history of extreme poverty, forest loss and hence has a great need for effective conservation. In fact, Madagascar is the 13th most impoverished country in the world according to the Multidimensional Poverty Index and 80 percent of its population is engaged in subsistence agriculture. Despite millions of dollars in aid to protect&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/02/innovative-conservation-wild-silk-endangered-species-and-poverty-in-madagascar/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Når en lillebitte ønation bringer et stort offer, vil resten af verden så følge trop?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/10/nar-en-lillebitte-onation-bringer-et-stort-offer-vil-resten-af-verden-sa-folge-trop/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Oct 2010 05:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Kiribati, et lille ø-rige bestående af 33 stillehavsatoler, forudsiges at være blandt de første lande, der bliver oversvømmet pga. stigende vandstande. Ikke desto mindre kom landet for nyligt med et forbløffende løfte: Landet lukkede over 150.000 kvadratmil af sit fisketerritorium, på trods af, at fiskeri er en beskæftigelse, som udgør næsten halvdelen af regeringens skatteindtægter. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Kiribati, et lille ø-rige bestående af 33 stillehavsatoler, forudsiges at være blandt de første lande, der bliver oversvømmet pga. stigende vandstande. Ikke desto mindre kom landet for nyligt med et forbløffende løfte: Landet lukkede over 150.000 kvadratmil af sit fisketerritorium, på trods af, at fiskeri er en beskæftigelse, som udgør næsten halvdelen af regeringens skatteindtægter. Hvad tilskyndede dette lillebitte land til denne storslåede handling? Præsident Anote Tong siger, at Kiribati (”Kir-ee-bas”) sender et budskab til omverdenen: “Vi må bringe et offer for at sørge for en fremtid for vores børn og børnebørn&#8221;. Præsident Tong siger tingene lige ud. Kiribati planlægger, at bringe det ultimative offer omkring midten af dette århundrede, når meget af landet forventes at være stort set ubeboeligt. De stigende have vil forurene ferskvandsforsyningen, ødelægge landbrugsområder og erodere strande og byer, hvilket vil tvinge befolkningen til at flygte. Kiribati har intet gjort for at fortjene denne skæbne – landets udledning af drivhusgasser er ubetydelig, og dets befolkningstal overstiger knap 100.000. Dog ser landet allerede på, at købe jord i andre lande, med henblik på en eventuel genhusning af en væsentlig del af dets befolkning. Anote Tong. Kiribati er et af verdens fattigste lande. Det har ikke mange naturressourcer udover fisk og kopra, det tørrede kød fra en kokosnød. Men landet har nogle af verdens mest uberørte koralrev og den sundeste fiskebestand, som nu er blevet udgangspunktet for dets bidrag til klodens velbefindende: Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA), som med sine 408.250 km2 er den største maritime seværdighed udpeget&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2010/10/nar-en-lillebitte-onation-bringer-et-stort-offer-vil-resten-af-verden-sa-folge-trop/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Ketika Sebuah Pulau Mungil Lakukan Pengorbanan Besar, Akankah Seluruh Dunia Melakukan yang Sama?</title>
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					<pubDate>29 Sep 2010 09:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers ButlerRhett Ayers Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Kiribati, sebuah negara kecil yang terdiri atas 33 pulau karang Pasifik, diramalkan menjadi negara pertama yang terendam akibat kenaikan ketinggian laut. Bagaimanapun, negara ini baru-baru saja membuat sebuah komitmen yang luar biasa: mereka menutup seluas 150.000 mil persegi wilayahnya untuk mencari ikan, sebuah aktivitas yang terhitung hampir separuh dari pendapatan pajak pemerintah. Apa yang menggerakkan [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Kiribati, sebuah negara kecil yang terdiri atas 33 pulau karang Pasifik, diramalkan menjadi negara pertama yang terendam akibat kenaikan ketinggian laut. Bagaimanapun, negara ini baru-baru saja membuat sebuah komitmen yang luar biasa: mereka menutup seluas 150.000 mil persegi wilayahnya untuk mencari ikan, sebuah aktivitas yang terhitung hampir separuh dari pendapatan pajak pemerintah. Apa yang menggerakkan negara kecil tersebut melakukan aksi monumental ini? Presiden Anote Tong mengatakan, Kirabati (&#8220;Kir-ee-bas&#8221;) sedang mengirimkan pesan ke seluruh dunia: &#8220;Kita harus melakukan pengorbanan untuk menyediakan masa depan bagi anak-anak dan cucu-cucu kita.&#8221; Presiden Tong tidak berpura-pura dengan kata-katanya. Kiribati sepertinya akan membuat pengorbanan penghabisan di pertengahan abad ini, ketika kebanyakan dari negara ini diproyeksikan tak berpenghuni. Kenaikan laut akan mengkontaminasi pasokan air tawar, merusak lahan pertanian, dan menikis pantai dan pedesaan, memaksa penduduknya untuk pindah. Kiribati tidak melakukan apa pun untuk mendapatkan nasib seperti ini &#8211; emisi gas rumah kacanya tidak terlalu berarti dan populasinya hampir tidak mencapai 100.000. Namun mereka sedang berencana untuk membeli tanah di negara lain untuk pemukiman akhir dari proporsi populasinya yang cukup substansial. Anote Tong. Foto oleh Lawrence Jackson. Kiribati termasuk di antara negara termiskin dunia. Mereka memiliki sedikit sumber alam selain ikan dan kopra, daging kelapa kering. Bagaimanapun, mereka memiliki beberapa batu karang paling alami dan stok ikan tersehat, yang sekarang telah menjadi dasar dari kontribusinya kepada keberadaan planet: Wilayah yang Dilindungi Pulau Phoenix (Phoenix Islands Protected Area / PIPA), dengan 408.250 kilometer persegi merupakan situs Warisan Dunia kelautan terluas. PIPA adalah bagian dari inisiatif yang lebih besar dan&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2010/09/ketika-sebuah-pulau-mungil-lakukan-pengorbanan-besar-akankah-seluruh-dunia-melakukan-yang-sama/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>As a tiny island nation makes a big sacrifice, will the rest of the world follow suit?</title>
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					<pubDate>15 Sep 2010 05:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Kiribati, a small nation consisting of 33 Pacific island atolls, is forecast to be among the first countries swamped by rising sea levels. Nevertheless, the country recently made an astounding commitment: it closed over 150,000 square miles of its territory to fishing, an activity that accounts for nearly half the government&#8217;s tax revenue. What moved [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Kiribati, a small nation consisting of 33 Pacific island atolls, is forecast to be among the first countries swamped by rising sea levels. Nevertheless, the country recently made an astounding commitment: it closed over 150,000 square miles of its territory to fishing, an activity that accounts for nearly half the government&#8217;s tax revenue. What moved the tiny country to take this monumental action? President Anote Tong, says Kiribati (&#8220;Kir-ee-bas&#8221;) is sending a message to the world: &#8220;We need to make sacrifices to provide a future for our children and grandchildren.&#8221; President Tong isn&#8217;t mincing his words. Kiribati looks to make the ultimate sacrifice by mid-century, when much of the country is projected to be largely uninhabitable. Rising seas will contaminate freshwater supplies, ruin agriculture lands, and erode beaches and villages, forcing its people to flee. Kiribati has done nothing to earn this fate&#8212;its greenhouse gas emissions are negligible and its population barely tops 100,000. Yet it is already looking at buying land in other countries for eventual resettlement of a substantial proportion of its population. Anote Tong. Photo by Lawrence Jackson. Kiribati is among the world&#8217;s poorest countries. It has few natural resources other than fish and copra, the dried meat of coconut. It does however have of some of the world&#8217;s most pristine coral reefs and healthiest fish stocks, which have now become the basis of its contribution to the well-being of the planet: the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA), which at 408,250 square kilometers is the largest marine&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2010/09/as-a-tiny-island-nation-makes-a-big-sacrifice-will-the-rest-of-the-world-follow-suit/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Kenyan community displaced by nature reserve seeks justice</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2008/09/kenyan-community-displaced-by-nature-reserve-seeks-justice/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Sep 2008 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<title>Climate change may increase global conflict</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2008/08/climate-change-may-increase-global-conflict/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Aug 2008 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Worsening climate change will likely lead to increased global conflicts Climate change may increase global conflict Jeremy Hance, mongabay.com August 25, 2008 The signs of a warming world are everywhere: birds are migrating with changing temperatures; coral reefs are dying out due to bleaching; warmer winters are allowing beetles to devour Canadian forests; and the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Worsening climate change will likely lead to increased global conflicts Climate change may increase global conflict Jeremy Hance, mongabay.com August 25, 2008 The signs of a warming world are everywhere: birds are migrating with changing temperatures; coral reefs are dying out due to bleaching; warmer winters are allowing beetles to devour Canadian forests; and the Northwest Passage has opened for the second year in a row. While scientists work to understand how climate change is affecting the world&#8217;s ecosystems, others are attempting to predict how societies may respond. Jurgen Scheffran, a scientist with the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security at the University of Illinois, believes a warmer world will lead to an increase in armed conflicts. He concludes that societies stressed by increased competition for natural resources are more likely to engage in warfare. The most significant cause for conflict would be threats to food and water security. &#8220;Most critical for human survival are water and food, which are sensitive to changing climatic conditions,&#8221; Scheffran said. In his survey, Scheffran noted that the number of areas susceptible to drought will rise, and freshwater sources from glaciers in places such as the Himalayas and the Andes are likely to decrease. In what he calls a &#8220;cascading effect&#8221; resource-stressed societies will be less likely to withstand other climate change fallouts, such as intensifying natural disasters, economic depression, and a rise in environmental migrants. To illuminate this point, Scheffran references both historical and contemporary examples. Turkana children in the arid&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2008/08/climate-change-may-increase-global-conflict/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Could carbon credits-for-forest conservation (REDD) reduce terrorism and global warming?</title>
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					<pubDate>20 Dec 2007 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Avoided Deforestation, climate finance, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Refugees, Forests, Green, Politics, Rainforests, and Redd]]>
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							<![CDATA[Could carbon credits-for-forest conservation (REDD) reduce terrorism and global warming? Could carbon credits-for-forest conservation (REDD) reduce terrorism and global warming? mongabay.com December 20, 2007 Schemes to offer carbon credits for reducing deforestation rates in developing countries could improve American security by providing stable income to disaffected rural groups, argues a new Council on Foreign Relations [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Could carbon credits-for-forest conservation (REDD) reduce terrorism and global warming? Could carbon credits-for-forest conservation (REDD) reduce terrorism and global warming? mongabay.com December 20, 2007 Schemes to offer carbon credits for reducing deforestation rates in developing countries could improve American security by providing stable income to disaffected rural groups, argues a new Council on Foreign Relations report on the impact of climate change on U.S. national security. Report author Joshua W. Busby of the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin says that plans to include Reducing Emissions From Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) mechanisms to international climate change mitigation efforts might have the unintended effect of reducing political instability in rural areas. As an example, Busby cites recent developments in the Indonesian province of Aceh where Governor Irwandi Jusuf, a former rebel who was one of only 40 survivors after the December 2004 tsunami struck the prison where he was incarcerated, has become one of Indonesia&#8217;s leading supporters of forest conservation funded through carbon credits. &#8220;Indonesia&#8217;s political instability has fostered terrorist groups that may have global ambitions,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;Managing forestry payments deftly could help to solidify Indonesia&#8217;s social order and discourage radicals. In Aceh, for example, the provincial government, led by a former rebel, is seeking support for avoided deforestation as a means of persuading former separatists to protect the forests and refrain from picking up their guns; providing him with the resources he seeks could mitigate both climate change and separatism.&#8221; Photo by Rhett A. Butler&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2007/12/could-carbon-credits-for-forest-conservation-redd-reduce-terrorism-and-global-warming/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-38766</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Ecomigration: global warming will increase environmental refugees</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2007/11/ecomigration-global-warming-will-increase-environmental-refugees/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Nov 2007 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Disasters, Drought, Environmental Refugees, Green, Human Migration, Hunger, Impact Of Climate Change, Poverty, and Storms]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ecomigration: global warming will increase environmental refugees Ecomigration: global warming will increase environmental refugees mongabay.com November 28, 2007 Climate change could spawn the largest-ever migration of environmental refugees due to intensifying droughts, storms and floods, according to a new study published in Human Ecology. &#8220;People facing environmental disasters have no choice but to leave the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ecomigration: global warming will increase environmental refugees Ecomigration: global warming will increase environmental refugees mongabay.com November 28, 2007 Climate change could spawn the largest-ever migration of environmental refugees due to intensifying droughts, storms and floods, according to a new study published in Human Ecology. &#8220;People facing environmental disasters have no choice but to leave the affected area,&#8221; states a release from Springer, publisher of Human Ecology. &#8220;The larger the migration and the shorter the period over which it occurs, the harder it is to absorb the migrants, raising the likelihood of conflict.&#8221; Analyzing three case studies &#8212; the US Dust Bowl in the 1930s; Bangladesh since the 1950s; and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 &#8212; Indiana University professor Rafael Reuveny found that while &#8220;climate change can spur large population movements, public policy can alleviate the pressures of ecomigration.&#8221; &#8220;Environmental migrants and residents of the area absorbing them may clash over jobs, resources and way of life, and violent interactions such as theft, beating, armed scuffles, seizure of resources and property, murders, insurgencies, and organized militarized violence are possible and, to the extent that history can tell us something about the future, perhaps even likely,&#8221; Reuveny told mongabay.com. Reuveny says that investments in preventive strategies in areas at risk of environmental problems could help reduce the need to migrate as well at mitigate conflicts in areas receiving migrants. &#8220;Minimizing climate change-induced migration and violent conflict in receiving areas requires an engineered economic slowdown in the developed countries, and population stabilization and economic&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2007/11/ecomigration-global-warming-will-increase-environmental-refugees/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Islands to face water problems as sea levels rise, populations grow</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2007/08/islands-to-face-water-problems-as-sea-levels-rise-populations-grow/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Aug 2007 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Islands to face water problems as sea levels rise, populations grow Islands to face water problems as sea levels rise, populations grow mongabay.com August 15, 2007 Islands in the tropical Pacific may face water problems as sea levels rise and populations grow, warns research published in Vadose Zone Journal. Studying the vadose zone, the critical [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Islands to face water problems as sea levels rise, populations grow Islands to face water problems as sea levels rise, populations grow mongabay.com August 15, 2007 Islands in the tropical Pacific may face water problems as sea levels rise and populations grow, warns research published in Vadose Zone Journal. Studying the vadose zone, the critical area between the soil surface and groundwater, an international team of researchers found that &#8220;both the quantity and salinity of atoll groundwater is extremely vulnerable to frequent ENSO-related droughts.&#8221; &#8220;In long droughts domestic water wells are often too salty too drink and some communities have to rely on large groundwater lenses or on coconuts,&#8221; say the authors, who add that over-pumping or inappropriate methods of pumping can cause groundwater to become salty. The researchers report that due to the high permeablality of coral soils, surface contaminants can reach shallow fresh groundwater within an hour of being split on the soil surface, in some areas. Image courtesy of the Image Science &#038; Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. The paper recommends several steps to help increase the resilience of small island communities to water&#8212;related issues: providing a sound institutional basis for the management of water and sanitation; improving community participation in water and related land planning and management; increasing the capacity of villagers and local agencies to manage water and sanitation under variable climates; improving knowledge of available water resources and demand for them; improving water conservation and demand management and reducing leakages; increasing the use&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2007/08/islands-to-face-water-problems-as-sea-levels-rise-populations-grow/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Floods affect 500 million people per year, will worsen with warming</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2007/08/floods-affect-500-million-people-per-year-will-worsen-with-warming/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Aug 2007 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Floods affect 500 million people per year, will worsen with warming Floods affect 500 million people per year, will worsen with warming mongabay.com August 10, 2007 Floods affect 500 million people a year and cause billions of dollars in damage, said U.N. officials Thursday. Sálvano Briceño, director of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Floods affect 500 million people per year, will worsen with warming Floods affect 500 million people per year, will worsen with warming mongabay.com August 10, 2007 Floods affect 500 million people a year and cause billions of dollars in damage, said U.N. officials Thursday. Sálvano Briceño, director of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, said that floods accounted for 84 per cent of all disaster deaths between 2000 and 2005 and caused $466 billion in losses over the decade 1992-2001, or 65 percent of the total of all disasters. U.N. deputy humanitarian coordinator Margareta Wahlstrom added that the number of floods increased from 60 to 100 per year between 2004 and 2006. &#8220;The problem today is that around the world vulnerability to disasters continues to increase, a situation that will worsen with climate change,&#8221; said Briceño. &#8220;So we need to take action now to reduce the risks of devastating impacts on people and their livelihoods. Disaster risk reduction is not an option, it is an urgent priority.&#8221; &#8220;Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is essential for cutting future disaster risks. But an immediate task is also to prepare for more extreme weather conditions &#8211; through disaster risk reduction programmes that include strengthening public risk awareness, early warning systems and community-based disaster preparedness,&#8221; he added. Flooding resulting from climate change is expected to affect more people in the future. The number affected will be largest in the large delta regions of Asia and Africa and in low-lying islands. Briceño said that &#8220;modest&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2007/08/floods-affect-500-million-people-per-year-will-worsen-with-warming/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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