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					<title>A South African reserve shows how carbon can catalyze rewilding conservation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/a-south-african-reserve-shows-how-carbon-can-catalyze-rewilding-conservation/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 Mar 2026 17:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, South Africa, and Southern Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, carbon, Carbon Credits, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Conservation, Environment, Forest Carbon, Payments For Ecosystem Services, Private Reserves, Rewilding, Savannas, Soil Carbon, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[TSWALU KALAHARI RESERVE, South Africa — From high on a promontory in the Korannaberg Mountains, a mountain zebra (Equus zebra hartmannae) peers down to the west across the green-dappled plain below, the sun rising behind. In the distance, wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) hunt in the veld, verdant after early rains. And nearby, white rhinos (Ceratotherium [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[TSWALU KALAHARI RESERVE, South Africa — From high on a promontory in the Korannaberg Mountains, a mountain zebra (Equus zebra hartmannae) peers down to the west across the green-dappled plain below, the sun rising behind. In the distance, wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) hunt in the veld, verdant after early rains. And nearby, white rhinos (Ceratotherium simum) graze among thorny thickets. These species, and dozens more, persist here thanks to a decades-long effort to rewild a sliver of Southern Africa’s great desert and dry savanna. The Tswalu Kalahari Reserve has become a sanctuary for rare and threatened animals, drawing in a steady stream of well-heeled tourists from around the globe. More recently, the reserve’s managers have embarked on a quest to increase the carbon stored in its soils — a quest that relies heavily on the reserve’s animals. At first glance, places like Tswalu might not seem suited for stockpiling carbon. The Tswana people call this part of the world Kgalagadi — “the waterless place.” Fickle precipitation in the Kalahari averages a scant 10-50 centimeters (4-20 inches) annually, and much less in some years. That means the comparative lushness here in late 2025 could evaporate if the rains don’t carry on throughout the austral summer of the Southern Hemisphere. To date, most nature-based carbon storage efforts have focused on fast-growing tropical forests, expanding native or plantation tree cover that draws carbon out of the atmosphere. Soil carbon, by contrast, is slower to accumulate, and it’s more laborious and expensive to monitor.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/a-south-african-reserve-shows-how-carbon-can-catalyze-rewilding-conservation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>In Colombia, bird-watching brings tourism and a love for conservation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/in-colombia-bird-watching-brings-tourism-and-a-love-for-conservation/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Jun 2025 13:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Charlie Cordero]]>
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						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Colombia, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Birding, Birds, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Ecosystems, Ecotourism, Global Environmental Crisis, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Private Reserves, Protected Areas, Solutions, Tourism, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[It was 3 in the morning when Lorenzo Mora, 41, was getting ready to go bird-watching. This wasn’t just any birding trip: he’d meticulously prepared his boots, clothes, jacket, recorder, speaker, laser pointer, vehicle and binoculars days in advance. “I went to bed at 6 last night,” he said, as I hopped on the back [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[It was 3 in the morning when Lorenzo Mora, 41, was getting ready to go bird-watching. This wasn’t just any birding trip: he’d meticulously prepared his boots, clothes, jacket, recorder, speaker, laser pointer, vehicle and binoculars days in advance. “I went to bed at 6 last night,” he said, as I hopped on the back of his motorcycle. We began a two-hour journey in the darkness, navigating muddy trails to La Cuchilla de San Lorenzo, 2,600 meters (about 8,500 feet) above sea level, near the peak of Cerro Kennedy, in the heart of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta range. It was May 11, also known by the bird-watching community as the Global Big Day, an annual event organized by Cornell University’s Lab of Ornithology in the U.S., during which thousands of people across the world aim to record as many bird species as possible in a single day.  Using the eBird platform, the event promotes citizen science and conservation. Mora was hoping to beat his personal best and make it into the ranks of Colombia’s top 10 birders. His family has been growing coffee on the Biscanieves farm in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in the northern department of Magdalena, for more than 60 years. From a young age, Mora was always drawn to birds. Lorenzo Mora, 41, rides along the rugged road from Minca to La Cuchilla de San Lorenzo, at 2,600 meters above sea level, to begin his Global Big Day journey. Image by Charlie Cordero. “My&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/in-colombia-bird-watching-brings-tourism-and-a-love-for-conservation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-301214</doi>				</item>
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					<title>An Ecuadorian hotspot shows how forests can claw back from destruction</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/an-ecuadorian-hotspot-shows-how-forests-can-claw-back-from-destruction/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Feb 2025 15:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Ruth Kamnitzer]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Forest Restoration Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ecuador, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Deforestation, Ecosystems, Environment, Forest Destruction, Forest Regeneration, Forests, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Private Reserves, Protected Areas, Research, Restoration, Solutions, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Can a tropical forest mend itself? After trees are cut down and wildlife flees, do microbes on the dank, leafy floor and woody giants with epiphyte-laden crowns come back; do the pollinators, seed dispersers and entangled webs of predator and prey return? And how, exactly, does it happen? A new ambitious research project is trying [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Can a tropical forest mend itself? After trees are cut down and wildlife flees, do microbes on the dank, leafy floor and woody giants with epiphyte-laden crowns come back; do the pollinators, seed dispersers and entangled webs of predator and prey return? And how, exactly, does it happen? A new ambitious research project is trying to find out. Based out of the 15,000-hectare (37,000 acre) Canandé Reserve in Ecuador’s Chocó Forest, the aptly named Reassembly Research Unit is documenting how the forest recovers after clearing. The results, by a joint German and Ecuadorian team, so far indicate that many species assemblages return within a few decades, though the full forest community, including mature trees, takes longer to reestablish. These answers shed light on intricate ecosystem processes. They are also of immense conservation value, potentially in the tropics worldwide. “Unfortunately, most of the tropical forests are becoming secondary forest, especially in this part of the tropics,” says María-José Endara, a researcher with Reassembly and associate professor of ecology at the University of the Americas in Quito. “If we want to keep having a forest, then we have to be prepared to let this forest regenerate. And we need the knowledge and the understanding of how this process will go.” The lush forests of the Ecuadorian Chocó. Image courtesy of Reassembly. Ecuador’s Chocó The Chocó ecoregion is astounding, one of the 10 most biodiverse spots on Earth. Lying west of the Andes, it stretches through Panama, Colombia and Ecuador, covering a huge&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/an-ecuadorian-hotspot-shows-how-forests-can-claw-back-from-destruction/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-294903</doi>				</item>
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					<title>How a group in Ecuador protects 10% of the world&#8217;s bird species</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/how-a-group-in-ecuador-protects-10-of-the-worlds-bird-species/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Dec 2023 00:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Andes, Choco Forest, Ecuador, Galapagos, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Environment, Forests, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Indigenous Peoples, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Private Reserves, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Solutions, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 1997, ornithologist Robert S. Ridgely discovered a previously undocumented bird species, the Jocotoco Antpitta (Grallaria ridgelyi), in the tropical montane forests on the Amazonian slope of the Andes in southeastern Ecuador. This ground-dwelling bird was immediately recognized as critically endangered due to its very small range and the threats to its habitat, which led [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 1997, ornithologist Robert S. Ridgely discovered a previously undocumented bird species, the Jocotoco Antpitta (Grallaria ridgelyi), in the tropical montane forests on the Amazonian slope of the Andes in southeastern Ecuador. This ground-dwelling bird was immediately recognized as critically endangered due to its very small range and the threats to its habitat, which led to the establishment of the Jocotoco Foundation in 1998 and the subsequent purchase of land for the creation of the Tapichalaca Reserve. Since then, Jocotoco has established a network of 15 reserves across Ecuador. Each reserve has been selected to protect areas that are globally significant for bird conservation, ranging from the lowlands of the Amazon rainforest to the Galapagos Islands. These reserves safeguard a vast number of regionally endemic and globally threatened plants and animals, including 10% of the world&#8217;s bird species. Jocotoco antpitta (Grallaria ridgelyi). Photo credit: Franco Mendoza Mountain tapir in Tapichalaca reserve. Photo credit: Nicolas Devos Beyond preserving habitats critical for endangered bird species and other wildlife, Jocotoco has integrated ecotourism, community engagement and education, and scientific research and monitoring into its conservation strategy. The organization works closely with local communities to promote conservation awareness and sustainable practices. Additionally, its ecotourism programs generate employment opportunities and revenue for people living around their reserves. Martin Schaefer, Jocotoco&#8217;s head, discussed the group&#8217;s adaptive approach with Mongabay: &#8220;For each species, we analyze its threats, assessing whether Jocotoco can make a difference and to what extent. Then, we determine the best approach. Sometimes, working with&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/how-a-group-in-ecuador-protects-10-of-the-worlds-bird-species/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-276508</doi>				</item>
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					<title>New guidebook draws on real-world experiences for running private nature reserves</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/new-guidebook-draws-on-real-world-experiences-for-running-private-nature-reserves/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Dec 2023 16:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Environment, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Private Reserves, Protected Areas, and Rainforests]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new guidebook provides practical guidance for creating and managing sustainable private nature reserves. The &#8220;Sustainable Nature Reserves: Guidelines to Create Privately Protected Areas&#8221; offers step-by-step recommendations for individuals, nonprofits, communities, and other groups interested in purchasing and managing land for conservation purposes. The guidebook, released by the IUCN National Committee of the Netherlands (IUCN [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new guidebook provides practical guidance for creating and managing sustainable private nature reserves. The &#8220;Sustainable Nature Reserves: Guidelines to Create Privately Protected Areas&#8221; offers step-by-step recommendations for individuals, nonprofits, communities, and other groups interested in purchasing and managing land for conservation purposes. The guidebook, released by the IUCN National Committee of the Netherlands (IUCN NL) and the American Bird Conservancy, distills lessons learned from a global survey of more than 50 reserve managers in 22 countries. &#8220;Although effective, fulfilling, and proactive, the creation of private reserves has many challenges that should be considered in advance,&#8221; the guidelines state. &#8220;It differs from most other conservation projects in its &#8216;foreverness&#8217;, requiring a greater concern about economic sustainability in the long term.&#8221; The publication covers key questions on motives, readiness, sustainability, costs, maintenance, proposals, community engagement, restoration, and management tools. Each section includes checklists, survey results, practitioner testimonials, and how-to guides. “The nine steps outlined in this practical guide represent many decades of collective knowledge from real on-the-ground conservation organizations,&#8221; Ryan Lynch, director of Third Millennium Alliance, which manages a private reserve in Ecuador, told Mongabay. “It is a must-read for anyone that is considering establishing their own private protected area, and will prove extremely useful over the years as they face challenges to scaling up and maintaining their efforts in perpetuity.” Best practices highlighted include starting community engagement and fundraising early, finding local champions, aiming for self-sufficiency, monitoring progress, and weaving in traditional knowledge. Gender inclusion and social equity are also emphasized&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/new-guidebook-draws-on-real-world-experiences-for-running-private-nature-reserves/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Top 10 notable Indigenous stories of 2022</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/12/top-10-notable-indigenous-stories-of-2022/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Dec 2022 13:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon and Arctic]]>
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							<![CDATA[30x30 conservation target, Animals, Biodiversity, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Conservation Philosophy, Conservation Solutions, Crime, Culture, Environment, Environmental Law, Environmental Policy, Forests, Funding, Gold Mining, Human Rights, Hunting, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Law, Mining, Murdered Activists, Murdered Journalists, Oil, Oil Drilling, Organized Crime, Politics, Private Reserves, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Social Justice, Solutions, and Trophy Hunting]]>
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							<![CDATA[This year ended with a big bang for many Indigenous leaders, communities and activists around the world. During the U.N. biodiversity conference, known as COP15, Indigenous traditional lands and rights were successfully incorporated into the final global agreement to halt and reverse biodiversity loss after more than two years of campaigning. Indigenous leaders fear being [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This year ended with a big bang for many Indigenous leaders, communities and activists around the world. During the U.N. biodiversity conference, known as COP15, Indigenous traditional lands and rights were successfully incorporated into the final global agreement to halt and reverse biodiversity loss after more than two years of campaigning. Indigenous leaders fear being evicted and losing more of their traditional lands to newly created protected and conserved areas through the agreement’s infamous ’30 by 30’ target protecting 30% of land and marine areas by 2030. Once the agreement was cinched on December 19, Indigenous delegates were among the attendees celebrating what they dub a “major shift” in recognizing their rights and role as among the world’s most effective environmental stewards. “It&#8217;s historic. It&#8217;s a moment to celebrate,&#8221; said Jennifer Tauli-Corpuz, a representative of the Indigenous caucus (IIFB) at COP15. However, this was not the only notable story that marked Indigenous communities around the world in 2022. As Indigenous peoples gain more global attention and the climate and biodiversity crises advance onto their territories, Indigenous communities, along with their struggles, conservation successes and conflicts are further thrust into the spotlight. From a historic number of Indigenous candidates elected in Brazil’s elections to a new cycle of investigations into Indigenous people killed in a national park, Mongabay presents its 10 most notable Indigenous news stories from 2022. 1. Indigenous youths lured by the illegal mines destroying their Amazon homeland Robervaldo a young Yek&#8217;wana that used to work in an illegal&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/12/top-10-notable-indigenous-stories-of-2022/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Maasai protesters shot, beaten as Tanzania moves forward with wildlife game reserve</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/maasai-protesters-shot-beaten-as-tanzania-moves-forward-with-wildlife-game-reserve/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Jun 2022 23:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Latoya AbuluLaurel Sutherland]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Tanzania]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Cattle, Conflict, Conservation, Human Rights, Hunting, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Pasture, Private Reserves, Protected Areas, Protests, Tourism, Violence, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[When 700 members of Tanzania’s anti-riot Field Force Unit (FFU) arrived in the Loliondo division of Ngorongoro on June 6, no one told local Maasai pastoralists about the purpose of their visit. However, a tense atmosphere followed. A few days prior, the minister of natural resources and tourism announced in parliament that a parcel of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When 700 members of Tanzania’s anti-riot Field Force Unit (FFU) arrived in the Loliondo division of Ngorongoro on June 6, no one told local Maasai pastoralists about the purpose of their visit. However, a tense atmosphere followed. A few days prior, the minister of natural resources and tourism announced in parliament that a parcel of village land in the country’s northern division is set to be “upgraded.” The region in question is part of long-anticipated and contested plans to create a wildlife corridor for trophy hunting and safari tourism – which would trigger the eviction of about 70,000 Maasai from ancestral lands. For two days, Maasai villagers waited for an explanation but received none. Then, on June 8, during a public meeting between pastoralists at Ololosokwan village, FFU police officers informed villagers that they were to begin demarcating the land for a game reserve. No further information was given, and the police began erecting beacons. The meeting turned into a protest. Maasai pastoralists at a 2017 protest against evictions in Loliondo, Tanzania. In September 2018, the East African Court of Justice prohibited these communities&#8217; eviction from this area. Image courtesy of Forest Peoples Programme. “It was a peaceful demonstration, just to try to push for police attention,” said a Maasai leader who spoke to Mongabay on the condition of anonymity. In response, the police released tear gas and eventually opened fire on the protesters. Fifteen people were shot and 13 others beaten with weapons during the confrontation, according to the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/maasai-protesters-shot-beaten-as-tanzania-moves-forward-with-wildlife-game-reserve/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Decline of threatened bird highlights planning importance of bison releases</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/decline-of-threatened-bird-highlights-planning-importance-of-bison-releases/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/decline-of-threatened-bird-highlights-planning-importance-of-bison-releases/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>21 Dec 2021 09:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[North America and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Bison, Conservation, Ecology, Ecosystem Engineers, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Grasslands, Habitat, Habitat Loss, Indigenous Peoples, Mammals, Private Reserves, Protected Areas, Research, Restoration, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The story of the American bison is both tragic and uplifting. Once dappling the prairies of North America in the tens of millions, hunting winnowed the number to perhaps a thousand survivors by the end of the 19th century. Nearly wiping out the continent’s largest surviving land animal was a bloody stain on the century-old [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The story of the American bison is both tragic and uplifting. Once dappling the prairies of North America in the tens of millions, hunting winnowed the number to perhaps a thousand survivors by the end of the 19th century. Nearly wiping out the continent’s largest surviving land animal was a bloody stain on the century-old country that had been driven in part by a campaign by the U.S. government to bring the bison-dependent First Nations of the Great Plains to heel. Today, bison dot the vast grasslands once again, though their numbers are nowhere near what they once were. Federally protected herds roam wild in places like Yellowstone National Park, and the practice of releasing small groups, often on privately held lands, has grown in popularity. Through the will of individuals and organizations determined to hang on to this iconic animal — it’s now the United States’ national mammal — the survival of Bison bison is no longer in doubt. “It&#8217;s very exciting because they almost went extinct,” avian ecologist and conservation biologist Nico Arcilla told Mongabay. &#8220;It was purely because of human effort. People said, ‘We&#8217;re going to protect these last animals.’” Bison grazing in Nebraska. Image by Nico Arcilla. Given the bison’s recovery, it might seem that returning the continent’s largest land animal to the landscape at every opportunity would be a logical step toward restoring the ecosystem of the Great Plains. But research by Arcilla and her colleagues suggests that reintroducing bison can have unintended consequences. In&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/decline-of-threatened-bird-highlights-planning-importance-of-bison-releases/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Private investors look to high-end tourism to fund conservation in Mozambique</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/private-investors-look-to-high-end-tourism-to-fund-conservation-in-mozambique/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/private-investors-look-to-high-end-tourism-to-fund-conservation-in-mozambique/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>24 Jun 2021 11:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Marlowe Starling]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Ashoka]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Mozambique, and Southern Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Business, Conservation, Ecotourism, Environment, Fellows, Funding, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Lions, Poaching, Private Reserves, Protected Areas, Rhinos, Tourism, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[When COVID-19 started to sweep across the world last year, conservationists feared that it would be a disaster for Africa’s wildlife. Tourism revenues evaporated, causing salary cuts and layoffs for rangers in protected game parks. But after a spike in poaching incidents looked to be confirming those fears at first, in some countries the opposite [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When COVID-19 started to sweep across the world last year, conservationists feared that it would be a disaster for Africa’s wildlife. Tourism revenues evaporated, causing salary cuts and layoffs for rangers in protected game parks. But after a spike in poaching incidents looked to be confirming those fears at first, in some countries the opposite has proved to be the case: harsh lockdown measures instead led to a temporary decline in poaching of rhinos and other large game. Still, the crisis has laid bare one of the central dilemmas for conservation in Africa: who pays for it, and are those funding streams resilient enough to hold up under pressure? In the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area, a patchwork of protected nature reserves along the borderlands of Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe, some investors are saying the answer is the private sector. One example is the Karingani Game Reserve in southwestern Mozambique, which is developing what it says will be a flagship example of private capital-driven conservation in Africa. But with a history of land conflict between the reserve and rural communities living nearby, how will it balance its ambitious plans for high-end ecotourism with the livelihoods and cultural needs of those communities? And will those plans lead to a profitable, sustainable business model that can deliver benefits for wildlife and local people? As the Mozambican government continues to encourage foreign investment into conservation in the wake of COVID-19, Karingani may prove to be a test case for whether private reserves&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/private-investors-look-to-high-end-tourism-to-fund-conservation-in-mozambique/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Brazil ‘Adopt-a-Park’ program may negatively impact traditional peoples</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/brazil-adopt-a-park-program-may-negatively-impact-traditional-peoples/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/brazil-adopt-a-park-program-may-negatively-impact-traditional-peoples/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>08 Jun 2021 13:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mauricio TorresSue Branford]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Land rights and extractives]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Business, Conservation, Corporations, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Policy, Forests, Governance, Green, Indigenous Peoples, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Politics, Private Reserves, Protected Areas, public lands, Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[132 Amazon protected areas have been offered for adoption, with three transnational companies signing on so far (French Carrefour, Dutch Heineken, and U.S. Coca Cola). Activists say traditional peoples are not being consulted. ]]>
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							<![CDATA[In February 2021, the administration of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced the first stage of its “Adopt-a-Park” program, in which 132 of the federal government’s protected areas, all in the Amazon, are being offered up for private companies to “adopt.” The plan is to eventually extend the program to all federally protected areas across the country. The total area currently up for adoption covers 644,000 square kilometers (250,000 square miles), an eighth of the Amazon Basin (a region known officially as Amazônia Legal). The largest preserve offered up for adoption is Montanhas Tumucumaque in Amapá state, encompassing 38,000 km2 (14,670 mi2), but to date no company has shown interest in that park. So far, the program is off to a lackluster start, with only eight protected areas attracting interest from private companies, including five from Brazil and three transnationals — French grocery chain Carrefour, and beverage companies Coca-Cola of the U.S. and Heineken of the Netherlands — with their predicted outlay totaling just over $1million. If all the protected areas in the Amazon are adopted, the program could result in the private sector providing goods and services equivalent to 3.2 billion reais ($600 million) annually to conservation coffers. That’s a sizeable contribution, but the success of the program depends on how the resources are used and where, say environmentalists who have little trust in the Bolsonaro administration due to its record of extreme anti-environmental policies. Conservationists say they fear the program will lead to the further dismantling of environmental safeguards&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/brazil-adopt-a-park-program-may-negatively-impact-traditional-peoples/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-243414</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Big dream: NGO leads in creating 1,615-mile Amazon-Cerrado river greenbelt</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/big-dream-ngo-leads-in-creating-1615-mile-amazon-cerrado-river-greenbelt/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Feb 2021 18:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jenny Gonzales]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Cerrado, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Afforestation, Agriculture, Agroforestry, carbon, Carbon Sequestration, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Ecosystem Services, Ecosystems, Environment, Forest Carbon, Forest Recovery, Forests, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Landscape Restoration, Plants, Private Reserves, Rainforests, Restoration, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Trees, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, and Wildlife Corridors]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Black Jaguar Foundation is planning a 1,615 greenway to be planted with 1.7 billion trees. The big challenge: the corridor runs through rural landowners’ properties, and they need convincing.]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Black Jaguar Foundation (BJF) has just one goal, but it’s a very big one: the NGO founded by the Dutch entrepreneur and environmentalist Ben Valks plans to reforest 1 million hectares (2.4 million acres) on either side of Brazil’s Araguaia and Tocantins rivers in the Amazon and Cerrado biomes. Trees grow remarkably fast in the tropics, allowing the Araguaia Corridor to make fast headway. In the image at left, BJF Field Coordinator Carlos Eduardo Oliveira and BJF Project Coordinator Dimitrio Schievenin (right) stand next to a seedling in its first year of growth (4 months). In the righthand image, Schievenin stands beside the same tree in its second year (14 months). Image courtesy of BJF. The 2,600-kilometer (1,615-mile) long natural corridor would, when accomplished, extend 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) outward from both banks of the two streams. It will require the planting of around 1.7 billion trees, according to the organization, and serve a dual purpose of supporting agroforestry production and environmental preservation. The BJF project is already underway, with tens-of-thousands of trees planted. But its biggest stumbling block lies ahead; the planned greenbelt will be established only on private lands, so it will require cooperation from numerous initially resistant landowners. The merit of the project lies not only in its immense scale — the restoration as planned will cross six Brazilian states (Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Tocantins, Pará and Maranhão). It would also go a long way toward protecting and providing wildlife connectivity for Brazil’s&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/big-dream-ngo-leads-in-creating-1615-mile-amazon-cerrado-river-greenbelt/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Combining negotiation, legal backing and orchids to create ecotourism reserve</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/10/combining-negotiation-legal-backing-and-orchids-to-create-ecotourism-reserve/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/10/combining-negotiation-legal-backing-and-orchids-to-create-ecotourism-reserve/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>22 Oct 2019 18:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sarah Foster]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Andes, Ecuador, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Deforestation, Ecotourism, Forests, Private Reserves, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Research, Solutions, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[CSK2019]]>
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							<![CDATA[On the 650-hectare (1,600-acre) El Pahuma Orchid Reserve in Andean cloud forest, you can find over 300 species of orchids, and even a handful of endangered spectacled bears. If you had visited the area, in the northwestern corner of Pichincha, Ecuador, 20 years ago, you might not have imagined that this landscape, heavily affected by [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[On the 650-hectare (1,600-acre) El Pahuma Orchid Reserve in Andean cloud forest, you can find over 300 species of orchids, and even a handful of endangered spectacled bears. If you had visited the area, in the northwestern corner of Pichincha, Ecuador, 20 years ago, you might not have imagined that this landscape, heavily affected by logging and agriculture, would have become part of an ecological corridor. But time and negotiation have had a positive impact. El Pahuma’s owners used to make their living cutting down timber, and they now run a successful ecotourism business. Ceiba&#8217;s founders Catherine Woodward and Joe Meisal (center) with the Lima family at El Pahuma Orchid Reserve in 2000. Image by Catherine Woodward. This unlikely transition came about as the result of a chance encounter. Joe Meisal and Catherine Woodward, (the founders of Ceiba Foundation for Tropical Conservation and biology professors at the University of Wisconsin- Madison) stopped to look at a waterfall that they had spotted during a visit to Ecuador in 1997.  When they met the landowner along one of the trails, he asked, “Would you like to see my orchids?” He showed the biologists his garden, a small collection of orchids that he had collected from fallen trees, and asked them if they thought tourists would be interested in visiting the forest. Woodward and Meisal agreed to meet with the landowner, Ephraim Lima, a week later. When they arrived at the meeting, they found that four generations of the Lima family had turned&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/10/combining-negotiation-legal-backing-and-orchids-to-create-ecotourism-reserve/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Haiti’s first private nature reserve seeks to protect rare plants and animals</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/haitis-first-private-nature-reserve-seeks-to-protect-rare-plants-and-animals/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Feb 2019 08:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Haiti]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Deforestation, Endangered Species, Environment, Forests, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Private Reserves, Rainforests, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[On an isolated mountain in southwestern Haiti, researchers and conservation groups have purchased land and carved out the island nation’s first ever private nature reserve. The new reserve, created on Morne Grand Bois, overlaps with Grand Bois National Park, established by the Haitian government in 2015. It covers about 5 square kilometers (2 square miles) [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[On an isolated mountain in southwestern Haiti, researchers and conservation groups have purchased land and carved out the island nation’s first ever private nature reserve. The new reserve, created on Morne Grand Bois, overlaps with Grand Bois National Park, established by the Haitian government in 2015. It covers about 5 square kilometers (2 square miles) of mostly primary forest, offering protection to several rare species found nowhere else on Earth. These include the critically endangered Ekman’s magnolia tree (Magnolia ekmanii), known only from Grand Bois, and the Tiburon stream frog (Eleutherodactylus semipalmatus), also known as the foothill robber frog and once thought to be extinct. Recent research has found that Haiti is barely hanging on to its forest cover. The country has less than 1 percent of primary forest left, and many species found only in Haiti have now been lost. But there is some hope. Blair Hedges, director of the Center for Biodiversity at Temple University in Philadephia, U.S., and his colleagues, who have surveyed Haiti over the past nine years, have identified a few remaining biodiversity hotspots where the original forest cover and their species still survive. One of these hotspots is Grand Bois. During their surveys, Hedges’ team encountered several rare tree species on the mountain, including the Ekman’s magnolia that hadn’t been spotted in decades. They also recorded at least 68 species of vertebrates, including three species of frogs and one lizard that were new to science. “Grand Bois was quite unusual in having a substantial amount of primary forest,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/haitis-first-private-nature-reserve-seeks-to-protect-rare-plants-and-animals/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-215065</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Private conservation lands under threat in Peruvian Amazon</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/10/private-conservation-lands-under-threat-in-peruvian-amazon/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/10/private-conservation-lands-under-threat-in-peruvian-amazon/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>30 Oct 2015 18:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Barbara Fraser]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Endangered Environmentalists]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Amazon, Latin America, Peru, and South America]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Illegal Logging, Illegal Mining, Logging, Poaching, Private Reserves, Rainforests, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Murilo Reis was guiding a group of tourists on his private nature reserve in a remote part of northeastern Peru two months ago when he came across more than a dozen people who were digging up turtle nests on the riverbank to steal the eggs. When they refused to leave, he called in the police, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Murilo Reis was guiding a group of tourists on his private nature reserve in a remote part of northeastern Peru two months ago when he came across more than a dozen people who were digging up turtle nests on the riverbank to steal the eggs. When they refused to leave, he called in the police, but the law-enforcement officer sided with the poachers, and Reis told Mongabay he was powerless to stop the pillaging. He worries that illegal logging, hunting, and fishing not only jeopardize his tourism business, but also threaten an area that he is preserving as a refuge for animals fleeing illegal human activity in the forest. He is not alone. Although news reports have highlighted illegal logging and mining, drug crops, squatters, building of unauthorized roads, and poaching in government protected areas and on indigenous lands in the Peruvian Amazon, owners of private conservation areas face similar problems, but get less attention. “Much of the problem has to do with a lack of land-use planning,” Bruno Monteferri, director of the private conservation program of the non-profit Peruvian Environmental Law Society (Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental, SPDA), told Mongabay. That is often aggravated by conflicting land claims and lack of law enforcement. A Monk Saki (Pithecia milleri), one of numerous species of wildlife living on the Tapiche Reserve. Photo by Deborah Chen. Peru has more than 80 legally recognized private and communal conservation areas, covering some 250,000 hectares, Monteferri said. In addition, some landowners, such as Reis, have&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/10/private-conservation-lands-under-threat-in-peruvian-amazon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>In midst of rhino poaching epidemic, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy has happy problem: too many black rhinos</title>
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					<pubDate>02 Oct 2012 18:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Kenya]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Antelope, Community Development, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Elephants, Endangered Species, Environment, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, In-situ Conservation, Interviews, Mammals, Parks, Photos, Poaching, Private Reserves, Protected Areas, Rhinos, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ungulates, Wildlife, Wildlife Rangers, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[An interview with CEO of Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Mike Watson. Black rhinoceros in Lewa Wildlife Conservancy (LWC). Photo courtesy of LWC. So far this year, South Africa has lost 430 rhinos to poachers, more than one animal a day. The epidemic of rhino poaching, fueled by demand for black-market powdered rhino horn in Vietnam and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[An interview with CEO of Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Mike Watson. Black rhinoceros in Lewa Wildlife Conservancy (LWC). Photo courtesy of LWC. So far this year, South Africa has lost 430 rhinos to poachers, more than one animal a day. The epidemic of rhino poaching, fueled by demand for black-market powdered rhino horn in Vietnam and China, is decimating rhino species worldwide. In fact, last year saw the official extinction of two rhino subspecies: the Vietnamese rhino (Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus), a subspecies of the Javan, and the western black rhino (Diceros bicornis longipes), a subspecies of the black. However there is one place where rhinos still thrive. The Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya has found itself with a unique, but happy, problem: they have so many black rhinos, which are considered Critically Endangered by the IUNC Red List, that they need to move some to stop rhino-fights. In other words, their rhino population has hit its limit for the 25,000 hectare (62,000 acre) nonprofit protected area. &#8220;Since 2000, Lewa’s black rhino population growth rate has averaged 10 percent, higher than the national target of 6 percent,&#8221; the CEO of Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Mike Watson, told mongabay.com in a recent interview. &#8220;However, we are beginning to see signs that the Conservancy has reached its ecological carrying capacity of rhinos. Incidences of fighting between the male rhino for females and terrain are increasing, and younger males are attempting to knock down the perimeter fence lines in hopes of finding their own territory.&#8221; Mike&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/10/in-midst-of-rhino-poaching-epidemic-lewa-wildlife-conservancy-has-happy-problem-too-many-black-rhinos/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30217</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Private reserve safeguards newly discovered frogs in Ecuadorian cloud forest</title>
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					<pubDate>28 Aug 2012 16:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Las Gralarias glass frog is the world&#8217;s newest glass frog. It was discovered by Carl Hutter on the Reserva las Gralarias, after which the researcher subsequently named the new amphibian. Photo by: Jaime Garcia. Although it covers only 430 hectares (1,063 acres) of the little-known Chocó forest in Ecuador, the private reserve of las [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Las Gralarias glass frog is the world&#8217;s newest glass frog. It was discovered by Carl Hutter on the Reserva las Gralarias, after which the researcher subsequently named the new amphibian. Photo by: Jaime Garcia. Although it covers only 430 hectares (1,063 acres) of the little-known Chocó forest in Ecuador, the private reserve of las Gralarias in Ecuador is home to an incredible explosion of life. Long known as a birder&#8217;s paradise, the Reserva las Gralarias is now making a name for itself as a hotspot for new and endangered amphibians, as well as hundreds of stunning species of butterfly and moth. This is because the reserve is set in the perfect place for evolution to run wild: cloud forest spanning vast elevational shifts. &#8220;The pacific slope cloud forests [&#8230;] are among the most endangered habitats in the world,&#8221; explains Reserva las Gralarias&#8217; founder, Jane Lyons, in a recent interview with mongabay.com. &#8220;In South America [these forests were] separated from eastern lowland Amazonia when the Andes were uplifted. The tall mountains formed a long and fairly impenetrable barrier between the Pacific Ocean weather systems and the eastern Amazonian lowlands [&#8230;] All of these barriers and separations led to extensive speciation as entire new ecosystems were born.&#8221; Jane Lyons in her reserve. Photo courtesy of Jane Lyons. A series of scientific surveys in las Gralarias over the last decade have borne this out. To date, Reserva las Gralarias is known to be home to over 450 species of moth and butterfly,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/08/private-reserve-safeguards-newly-discovered-frogs-in-ecuadorian-cloud-forest/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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