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					<title>A Nigerian teen is turning agricultural waste into biodegradable sanitary pads</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/a-nigerian-teen-is-turning-agricultural-waste-into-biodegradable-sanitary-pads/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 May 2026 07:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Aimable Twahirwa]]>
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						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Nigeria, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Circular Economy, Innovation, Prizes, Waste, and Women In Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[For many Nigerian women, access to sanitary pads remains a challenge. Even those who can obtain them, the prevalence of single-use menstrual products creates problems of its own. They contain plastics and chemicals and are not eco-friendly generating large amounts of waste. After learning that many traditional sanitary pads used contain up to 90% plastic [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[For many Nigerian women, access to sanitary pads remains a challenge. Even those who can obtain them, the prevalence of single-use menstrual products creates problems of its own. They contain plastics and chemicals and are not eco-friendly generating large amounts of waste. After learning that many traditional sanitary pads used contain up to 90% plastic and can take hundreds of years to decompose, Nigerian teenager Raheema Auwal-Panti saw an opportunity to support women while helping the environment. The 15-year-old decided to use low-grade agricultural waste to make sanitary pads. She was motivated by a desire “to sweep up plastic pollution” in Nigeria. “[Even] if no one does something about it, I could do something about it,” said Auwal-Panti, who hails from Minna, the capital of Niger state in Nigeria. She founded ‘PantiPads’ in 2025. Auwal-Panti’s project was selected in a shortlist of 35 global teams for the 2026 Earth Prize, organized by the Earth Foundation, a Switzerland-based nonprofit that empowers, educates and inspires young people to tackle environmental challenges. In northern Nigeria, cassava processing generates significant agricultural waste, which poses environmental risks, particularly to soil quality. The waste includes solid and liquid components, such as cassava peelings, dried with non-dried banana leaves and corn husks. The biomass-rich waste, if poorly managed, can lead to environmental degradation, including organic pollution of water bodies and soil contamination. “Using these wastes to develop eco-friendly pads is currently helping to address menstrual stigma which remains a significant public health challenge that affects girls&#8217; education and overall well-being&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/a-nigerian-teen-is-turning-agricultural-waste-into-biodegradable-sanitary-pads/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>2023’s top ocean news stories (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/2023s-top-ocean-news-stories-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Jan 2024 18:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Ana SpaldingDavid OburaDiva AmonMinna EppsRhett BennettU. Rashid Sumaila]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global and Tropics]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biocultural Diversity, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Coastal Ecosystems, Commentary, Conservation, Coral Reefs, Deep Sea Mining, Ecosystems, Elasmobranchs, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Law, Environmental Policy, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Impact Of Climate Change, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Marine Protected Areas, Ocean Warming, Oceans, Politics, Prizes, Saltwater Fish, Sharks, Subsidies, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[1. Record heat in 2023 2023 is widely regarded as the hottest year on record, with monthly, seasonal and annual records spiking in the ocean and atmosphere, and repeated headlines in global media. The graph of last year’s global average temperatures (see below) shows a step-change increase from the temperature records of the last 10 [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[1. Record heat in 2023 2023 is widely regarded as the hottest year on record, with monthly, seasonal and annual records spiking in the ocean and atmosphere, and repeated headlines in global media. The graph of last year’s global average temperatures (see below) shows a step-change increase from the temperature records of the last 10 years, themselves clearly separated from the cooler preceding decades. Ocean temperatures through the Northern Hemisphere summer reached record highs, with global sea surface temperatures 0.99° Celsius (1.78° Fahrenheit) above average in July through August due to El Niño development in the eastern Pacific that strengthened and intensified to the end of the year. Mass bleaching of coral reefs is one of the most immediate indicators of ocean heat impacts, and record levels of bleaching occurred in the wider Caribbean from July through September. Reports of coral bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef soon followed, as its summer season began in late 2023, potentially a harbinger of another multiyear bleaching event that could outdo the last one in 2014 through 2017. As we come out of a relatively stable global temperature regime capped by the three-year La Niña from 2020 through 2022, will the coming years represent a step toward or even past potentially irreversible tipping points in the global climate system? This unprecedented increase in warming formed the backdrop to countries and a wide range of stakeholders gathering at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai in early December to negotiate whether to turn off the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/2023s-top-ocean-news-stories-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-277703</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Mongabay wins prestigious 2023 Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/mongabay-wins-prestigious-2023-biophilia-award-for-environmental-communication/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Oct 2023 11:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
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						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Climate, Communication, Conservation, Environment, Global Environmental Crisis, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Journalism, Mongabay Conservation Award, Mongabay.org, Prizes, and Rainforests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay has won the prestigious Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication for its “outstanding track record” in communicating issues related to nature and biodiversity, especially in countries in the Global South. The Biophilia Award was launched in 2019 by the BBVA Foundation, the charitable arm of one of Spain’s biggest banks, to recognize the work of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay has won the prestigious Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication for its “outstanding track record” in communicating issues related to nature and biodiversity, especially in countries in the Global South. The Biophilia Award was launched in 2019 by the BBVA Foundation, the charitable arm of one of Spain’s biggest banks, to recognize the work of professionals and organizations working to improve public understanding of ecological issues through the dissemination of scientific knowledge and sharing of new perspectives. The award comes with a cash prize of 100,000 euros (about $106,000). American journalist Rhett Butler founded Mongabay in 1999. Image courtesy of Rhett A. Butler. Award-winning journalist Karla Mendes (right) interviewing sources for a palm oil investigation in Pará, Brazil. Image courtesy of Karla Mendes. The evaluation committee praised Mongabay for successfully making “the connection between science and journalism by disseminating research on environmental protection and making studies available under conditions of maximum access.” These achievements have enabled Mongabay to “highlight specific situations or serious environmental problems affecting communities that tend to be overlooked by mainstream news sources,” the committee said in a statement. Founded in 1999 by U.S. journalist Rhett A. Butler, Mongabay is a nonprofit digital platform that has built up a network of 800 correspondents in 80 countries and publishes original reporting in six languages, including English, Indonesian, Spanish, French, Hindi, and Brazilian Portuguese. Mongabay reports on issues all over the world, but it has a particular focus on tropical regions within Asia and Latin America, which are home&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/mongabay-wins-prestigious-2023-biophilia-award-for-environmental-communication/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Experts pushing for high-seas fishing ban win ‘Nobel Prize for environment’</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/experts-pushing-for-high-seas-fishing-ban-win-nobel-prize-for-environment/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Feb 2023 18:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
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						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Conservation leadership, Deep Sea, Environment, Environmental Law, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Marine, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Overfishing, Prizes, Saltwater Fish, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ocean fisheries experts Daniel Pauly and Rashid Sumaila have been awarded the 2023 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, referred to as a “Nobel Prize for the environment,” in recognition of their scientific achievements. Pauly and Sumaila, who are colleagues at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ocean fisheries experts Daniel Pauly and Rashid Sumaila have been awarded the 2023 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, referred to as a “Nobel Prize for the environment,” in recognition of their scientific achievements. Pauly and Sumaila, who are colleagues at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, have spent decades researching human impacts on marine ecosystems, including overfishing, and their work has been widely used to inform decisions around fisheries management. Both laureates hold positions as University Killam Professors at UBC — the highest possible honor the university can bestow upon a member of faculty. Pauly was born in France, but he was kidnapped as a child to work as a live-in servant for a Swiss family. At 17, he escaped to Germany where he put himself through high school, eventually earning a doctorate in fisheries biology, zoology and physical oceanography from the University of Kiel. He joined the UBC faculty in 1994 as a fisheries scientist, where his research focused on the fast-paced decline of fish species in freshwater and marine environments. In 1995, Pauly coined the term “shifting baseline,” which alludes to a way of measuring environmental change against previous reference points that can mask the true nature of ecological degradation over time. In 1999, Pauly founded the Sea Around Us, an initiative at UBC that identifies and qualifies global fisheries trends, for which he currently acts as the principal investigator. Pauly is also the founder of FishBase.org, an online&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/experts-pushing-for-high-seas-fishing-ban-win-nobel-prize-for-environment/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Mongabay founder wins prestigious 2022 Heinz Award for the Environment</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/mongabay-founder-wins-prestigious-2022-heinz-award-for-the-environment/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Sep 2022 12:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
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						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Journalism, Mongabay.org, Prizes, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay founder and CEO Rhett Ayers Butler has won the 2022 Heinz Award for the Environment for his efforts to advance environmental journalism worldwide. Butler started Mongabay in 1999 and has since led the effort to expand its coverage and impact by building a global team with staff and contributors in more than 80 countries. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay founder and CEO Rhett Ayers Butler has won the 2022 Heinz Award for the Environment for his efforts to advance environmental journalism worldwide. Butler started Mongabay in 1999 and has since led the effort to expand its coverage and impact by building a global team with staff and contributors in more than 80 countries. In 2012, he guided the organization into nonprofit status to increase its reach and deliver news and inspiration from Nature’s frontline in several languages. “The Heinz Award is an unexpected and humbling honor,” Butler said. “The recognition by Teresa Heinz and the Heinz Family Foundation is a testament to the incredible work being done on a daily basis by the Mongabay team and its dedicated network of contributing journalists. “Now is a particularly critical time for environmental journalism, given the planetary challenges we face and the shrinking of press freedom around the world,” he continued. “Journalism can generate real-world impact by increasing public awareness, identifying problems and solutions, and holding those in power to account.” The Heinz Awards honor late U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III, and have been given annually since 1993 to honor excellence and achievement in areas of great importance to the senator. It’s one of the top awards for science, scholarship and advocacy in the U.S., recognizing people who have demonstrated a “passion for excellence that goes beyond intellectual curiosity; a concern for humanity rooted in a deep sensitivity for the well-being of others; and a broad vision which extends far&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/mongabay-founder-wins-prestigious-2022-heinz-award-for-the-environment/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-260551</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Mongabay founder wins environmental journalism award</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/mongabay-founder-wins-environmental-journalism-award/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Feb 2021 00:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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						<![CDATA[Mongabay User]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay founder and CEO Rhett A. Butler has been awarded a 2020 SEAL Environmental Journalism Award in recognition of his coverage of environmental issues for the website. The honor is presented by the SEAL (Sustainability, Environmental Achievement &#38; Leadership) Awards, an environmental advocacy organization. His fellow winners – at outlets ranging from The Guardian to The New York [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay founder and CEO Rhett A. Butler has been awarded a 2020 SEAL Environmental Journalism Award in recognition of his coverage of environmental issues for the website. The honor is presented by the SEAL (Sustainability, Environmental Achievement &amp; Leadership) Awards, an environmental advocacy organization. His fellow winners – at outlets ranging from The Guardian to The New York Times and The Washington Post – were selected based on each journalist’s work, a data-driven analysis of the impact and reach of their articles, and the bringing of fresh perspectives and social relevance to environmental issues, the organizers said. Butler has been publishing on Mongabay since he founded it in 1999. “I’m humbled to receive a 2020 SEAL Journalism Award,” Rhett said. “I accept this honor on behalf of the Mongabay team and our network of contributors, who work tirelessly to deliver news and inspiration from nature’s frontline.” Butler established Mongabay as a U.S. non-profit news organization in 2012 and has since grown the organization to report on environmental issues in ten languages via five international bureaus – India, Peru, Brazil, Indonesia, and the U.S. – which publish the work of staff writers and a network of about 800 freelance reporters in 80 countries. The outlet’s growth continued in 2020, reaching new heights in terms of readership – 10 million monthly readers on average – and influence despite the challenges of COVID, as he noted: “Despite the pandemic, rising violence against journalists, and other difficulties, Mongabay journalists have done incredible work over the past year, reporting on abuses&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/mongabay-founder-wins-environmental-journalism-award/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Mongabay editor Philip Jacobson wins courage in journalism award</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/mongabay-editor-philip-jacobson-wins-courage-in-journalism-award/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Feb 2021 23:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
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						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environment, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Journalism, Palm Oil, and Prizes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay editor Philip Jacobson has been awarded the 2020 Oktovianus Pogau Award for Courage in Journalism. The award, announced Jan. 31, recognizes Jacobson&#8217;s dedication to environmental reporting in Indonesia, work he has continued even after being imprisoned and deported by Indonesian authorities. Jacobson&#8217;s achievements include leading Mongabay&#8217;s collaboration with The Gecko Project to carry out [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay editor Philip Jacobson has been awarded the 2020 Oktovianus Pogau Award for Courage in Journalism. The award, announced Jan. 31, recognizes Jacobson&#8217;s dedication to environmental reporting in Indonesia, work he has continued even after being imprisoned and deported by Indonesian authorities. Jacobson&#8217;s achievements include leading Mongabay&#8217;s collaboration with The Gecko Project to carry out a series of investigative reports on crimes and corruption linked to palm oil and other industrial agriculture in Indonesia. The award was announced by the Jakarta-based Pantau Foundation, which established the prize in 2017 in honor of Papuan journalist and editor Oktovianus Pogau, who died in 2016 at the age of 23. The award, which is granted by a panel of experts from media and human rights groups across Indonesia, aims to recognize and inspire courageous reporting and to improve the quality of journalism in Indonesia. &#8220;We at Mongabay are exhilarated that Phil Jacobson has been honored with the Oktovianus Pogau Award for Courage in Journalism from the Pantau Foundation,&#8221; said Mongabay founder and CEO Rhett A. Butler. &#8220;Phil&#8217;s reporting on issues that should be of concern to all Indonesians has been exemplary of the vision and mission of this award.&#8221; &#8220;It feels really special because I think it&#8217;s a really important award,&#8221; said Jacobson, who worked as a copy editor at the Jakarta Globe from 2011-2012, a time when Pogau, founder of  media platform Suara Papua, was the paper&#8217;s correspondent for Indonesia&#8217;s Papua region. Jacobson recalls Pogau&#8217;s dispatches from Papua as &#8220;brave and important.&#8221;&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/mongabay-editor-philip-jacobson-wins-courage-in-journalism-award/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A Malagasy community wins global recognition for saving its lake</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/a-malagasy-community-wins-global-recognition-for-saving-its-lake/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/a-malagasy-community-wins-global-recognition-for-saving-its-lake/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>18 Nov 2020 03:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Malavika Vyawahare]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation in Madagascar]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa and Madagascar]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Community Development, Community-based Conservation, Ecosystems, Fisheries, Freshwater, Freshwater Fish, Governance, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Lakes, Prizes, and Wetlands]]>
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							<![CDATA[For centuries, Lake Andranobe in Madagascar&#8217;s central highlands has nourished the surrounding communities. Over the past 16 years, its dependents have come together to restore the ailing lake. Now, that community-led initiative, the organization Tatamo Miray an&#8217;Andranobe (TAMIA), has won the United Nations Development Programme’s Equator Prize this year in the &#8220;Nature for Water&#8221; category. &#8220;I [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[For centuries, Lake Andranobe in Madagascar&#8217;s central highlands has nourished the surrounding communities. Over the past 16 years, its dependents have come together to restore the ailing lake. Now, that community-led initiative, the organization Tatamo Miray an&#8217;Andranobe (TAMIA), has won the United Nations Development Programme’s Equator Prize this year in the &#8220;Nature for Water&#8221; category. &#8220;I am happy that the efforts of the community have been recognized,&#8221; Henri Rakotoson, a fisher and president of TAMIA, said about the award. &#8220;The prize gives us hope to go on.&#8221; While the accolade has buoyed villagers, what has sustained their campaign are rewards from the lake itself. Fish catches more than doubled, from 8 tons in 2014 to 20 tons in 2019, according to data TAMIA collected. That has allowed Rakotoson, like many in nearby villages, to send their children to bigger towns for higher education. “One of my sons is pursuing a degree in environmental studies,” the 48-year-old told Mongabay. Anchoring the future hasn&#8217;t been easy. When the association was formed in 2004, Lake Andranobe was in dire straits. Fish stocks were falling, the lake&#8217;s watershed had shrunk dramatically, and vanishing green cover meant water levels never recovered. A vote in progress at the general assembly meeting of TAMIA. Image courtesy of TAMIA. To revive the water body, spread over 90 hectares (220 acres), the villagers have had to curtail access to a resource that was once essentially free. They enforced fishery closures and rules on fishing gear and capture of juveniles, and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/a-malagasy-community-wins-global-recognition-for-saving-its-lake/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-236952</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Cook Islands MPA leader fired after supporting seabed mining freeze</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/10/cook-islands-mpa-leader-fired-after-supporting-seabed-mining-freeze/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/10/cook-islands-mpa-leader-fired-after-supporting-seabed-mining-freeze/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>15 Oct 2019 22:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Monica Evans]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Cook Islands, Oceania, and Pacific Ocean]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Activism, Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Deep Sea Mining, Environment, Environmental Heroes, Fish, Fisheries, Governance, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Marine Protected Areas, Oceans, Prizes, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[2163-3717]]>
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							<![CDATA[This story is part of a series on Marae Moana, the massive, recently enacted multiple-use marine protected area covering the Cook Islands’ entire exclusive economic zone. Other stories in the series: Building the world’s biggest MPA: Q&#38;A with Goldman winner Jacqueline Evans Will a massive marine protected area safeguard Cook Islands’ ocean? Paradise, polluted: Cook [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This story is part of a series on Marae Moana, the massive, recently enacted multiple-use marine protected area covering the Cook Islands’ entire exclusive economic zone. Other stories in the series: Building the world’s biggest MPA: Q&amp;A with Goldman winner Jacqueline Evans Will a massive marine protected area safeguard Cook Islands’ ocean? Paradise, polluted: Cook Islands tries to clean up its tourism sector Give it back to the gods: Reviving Māori tradition to protect marine life For somebody who’d just been fired from a prestigious government post, Jacqueline Evans sounded remarkably upbeat. “I knew it was going to come,” she laughed during a phone interview with Mongabay. “I was surprised about what I was being sacked over, though: it was essentially just giving my opinion.” On Sept. 20 Evans was dismissed from her position as director of the Cook Islands’ world-renowned Marae Moana marine protected area (MPA), a position she’d held since the MPA was enshrined into law in 2017. Evans, a marine scientist and 2019 winner of the prestigious international Goldman Prize for grassroots environmentalists, played a key leadership role in the seven-year campaign to establish Marae Moana, the biggest mixed-use MPA in the world at nearly 2 million square kilometers (772,200 square miles). Jacqueline Evans. Image courtesy of Goldman Environmental Prize. Ben Ponia, Prime Minister Henry Puna’s chief of staff, dismissed Evans. Evans said she’d seen it coming since Ponia, who had opposed Marae Moana since its inception, was appointed to the role a year ago. “I was&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/10/cook-islands-mpa-leader-fired-after-supporting-seabed-mining-freeze/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>$750,000 prize seeks solutions to challenges from small-scale mining</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/10/750000-prize-seeks-solutions-to-challenges-from-small-scale-mining/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/10/750000-prize-seeks-solutions-to-challenges-from-small-scale-mining/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>08 Oct 2019 17:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Artisanal Mining]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Africa, Amazon, Asia, Global, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Gold Mining, Green, Mining, Prizes, and Water Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[While the devices we carry around in our pockets everyday provide us with unprecedented convenience and levels of access to information, the materials they contain are often linked to the destruction of some of the planet&#8217;s richest ecosystems. Extracting metals and minerals like gold from the Amazon, coltan from the Congo, and nickel from Indonesia [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[While the devices we carry around in our pockets everyday provide us with unprecedented convenience and levels of access to information, the materials they contain are often linked to the destruction of some of the planet&#8217;s richest ecosystems. Extracting metals and minerals like gold from the Amazon, coltan from the Congo, and nickel from Indonesia can take a heavy on local peoples, wildlife, rivers, and forests. Gold mining is a major threat to the forests and biodiversity of the Peruvian Amazon, including protected areas. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. One of the most complicated aspects of addressing the issue is the disparate nature of small-scale and artisanal mining, which accounts for a significant share of production of some of the most critical materials that go into mobile phones, tablets, and laptops as well as jewelry: 15-20 percent of diamonds, 15-20 percent of gold, 20 percent of cobalt, and 70-80 percent of colored gemstones. Much of this mining is informal, unregulated, or even illegal, putting it beyond the reach of authorities. And some of the companies that sell products to consumers may have very little knowledge of what raw materials ultimately end up in their supply chains. Yet small-scale mining is an important source of income more than 40 million people worldwide, generating livelihoods and, in some cases, creating paths to escape poverty. So outright crackdowns on the activity can have a downside. Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon. The launch event for the Artisanal Mining Grand Challenge featured a talk&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/10/750000-prize-seeks-solutions-to-challenges-from-small-scale-mining/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Building the world’s biggest MPA: Q&#038;A with Goldman winner Jacqueline Evans</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/building-the-worlds-biggest-mpa-qa-with-goldman-winner-jacqueline-evans/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/building-the-worlds-biggest-mpa-qa-with-goldman-winner-jacqueline-evans/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>30 Apr 2019 12:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Monica Evans]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Cook Islands, Oceania, and Pacific Ocean]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Environment, Environmental Heroes, Fish, Fisheries, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Marine Mammals, Marine Protected Areas, Oceans, Prizes, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[2163-3717]]>
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							<![CDATA[This story is part of a series on Marae Moana, the massive, recently enacted multiple-use marine protected area covering the Cook Islands’ entire exclusive economic zone. Other stories in the series: Will a massive marine protected area safeguard Cook Islands’ ocean? Paradise, polluted: Cook Islands tries to clean up its tourism sector Give it back [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This story is part of a series on Marae Moana, the massive, recently enacted multiple-use marine protected area covering the Cook Islands’ entire exclusive economic zone. Other stories in the series: Will a massive marine protected area safeguard Cook Islands’ ocean? Paradise, polluted: Cook Islands tries to clean up its tourism sector Give it back to the gods: Reviving Māori tradition to protect marine life Cook Islands MPA leader fired after supporting seabed mining freeze The South Pacific archipelago of the Cook Islands might seem a diminutive site from which to launch and manage the largest multi-use marine protected area (MPA) on Earth. The country’s land area is only 240 square kilometers (92.7 square miles), and fewer than 15,000 people live there full-time. But the ocean these islands sit within is immense, and their exclusive economic zone (EEZ) spans almost 2 million square kilometers (772,200 square miles) — an area similar in size to the landmass of Mexico. And in Polynesian cultural imaginaries, this ocean is not seen so much as a barrier or boundary, but a source of connection, expansion and sustenance. Seen that way, the country&#8217;s bold bid to convert its entire EEZ into a mixed-use MPA in July 2017 — the world&#8217;s largest to date — is perhaps less of a surprise. Called Marae Moana, or “sacred ocean,” the initiative is angling for a paradigm shift in how Pacific peoples manage their ocean. Rather than setting aside pockets of protection in an expanse of industry, Marae Moana’s&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/building-the-worlds-biggest-mpa-qa-with-goldman-winner-jacqueline-evans/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-217960</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Renowned wildlife conservationist Russell Mittermeier awarded 2018 Indianapolis Prize</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/06/renowned-wildlife-conservationist-russell-mittermeier-awarded-2018-indianapolis-prize/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/06/renowned-wildlife-conservationist-russell-mittermeier-awarded-2018-indianapolis-prize/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>13 Jun 2018 16:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Apes, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Conservation, Environment, Interviews, Monkeys, Primates, Prizes, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Tropical Forests, Turtles, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[It was announced yesterday that Dr. Russell Mittermeier has been awarded the 2018 Indianapolis Prize. Mittermeier, a primatologist, herpetologist, and highly accomplished conservationist, is the seventh recipient of the prestigious prize, which has been awarded by the Indianapolis Zoological Society along with $250,000 in prize money every two years since 2006 to “the most successful [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[It was announced yesterday that Dr. Russell Mittermeier has been awarded the 2018 Indianapolis Prize. Mittermeier, a primatologist, herpetologist, and highly accomplished conservationist, is the seventh recipient of the prestigious prize, which has been awarded by the Indianapolis Zoological Society along with $250,000 in prize money every two years since 2006 to “the most successful animal conservationist in the world,” according to the Indianapolis Prize website. “It’s a huge honor to get this prize,” Mittermeier told Mongabay. “I’ve gotten other recognition before, but this is by far and away the greatest award that I’ve ever received. And it’s not just because it’s a significant chunk of funding, but because of the other people who’ve gotten it before me. The other six people are really conservation heroes. I mean someone like George Schaller, who’s the greatest large mammal biologist ever — there will never be anybody like George Schaller again.” Speaking with Mongabay in Manhattan earlier this week, Mittermeier, who was born and raised in the Bronx, New York, said that he first became fascinated with turtles and primates while visiting the Bronx Zoo as a kid. Some of the monkeys at the zoo, in particular, reminded him of the fictional tribe of apes that adopted Tarzan, the character created by author Edgar Rice Burroughs in a series of books that a young Mittermeier read avidly. Those early experiences, Mittermeier said, put him on the path he’s tread to this day. He spent 11 years at WWF–U.S. before becoming president of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/06/renowned-wildlife-conservationist-russell-mittermeier-awarded-2018-indianapolis-prize/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-207423</doi>				</item>
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					<title>2018 Tyler Prize awarded to two US-based biological oceanographers</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/02/2018-tyler-prize-awarded-to-two-us-based-biological-oceanographers/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/02/2018-tyler-prize-awarded-to-two-us-based-biological-oceanographers/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>06 Feb 2018 13:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming, Oceans, and Prizes]]>
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							<![CDATA[It was announced today that the 2018 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement will go to two biological oceanographers based in the United States: Paul Falkowski, a professor of Geological and Marine Science at Rutgers University in the U.S. state of New Jersey; and James J. McCarthy, professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard University in the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[It was announced today that the 2018 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement will go to two biological oceanographers based in the United States: Paul Falkowski, a professor of Geological and Marine Science at Rutgers University in the U.S. state of New Jersey; and James J. McCarthy, professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard University in the state of Massachusetts. Julia Marton-Lefèvre, chair of the Tyler Prize Committee, said that the two scientists were receiving the award in recognition of their pioneering work aimed at understanding and communicating the impacts of human activities on the global climate. “Climate change poses a great challenge to global communities. We are recognizing these two great scientists for their enormous contributions to fighting climate change through increasing our scientific understanding of how Earth’s climate works, as well as bringing together that knowledge for the purpose of policy change,” Marton-Lefèvre said in a statement. “This is a great message for the world today; that U.S. scientists are leading some of the most promising research into Earth’s climate, and helping to turn that knowledge into policy change.” Falkowski has published a number of papers on the role played by microbes in shaping Earth’s global climate cycle. Drawing on the fields of biophysics, evolutionary biology, paleontology, molecular evolution, marine ecology, and biogeochemistry, Falkowski’s work has led to a better understanding of how the global climate has evolved over the history of our planet. Dr. Paul Falkowski of Rutgers University. Photo Credit: Katie Voss. “The main message of my work&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/02/2018-tyler-prize-awarded-to-two-us-based-biological-oceanographers/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-203551</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Young journalists win prizes for environmental reporting</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/12/young-journalists-win-prizes-for-environmental-reporting/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/12/young-journalists-win-prizes-for-environmental-reporting/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>30 Dec 2014 15:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.org]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Tiffany Roufs]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environment, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Journalism, and Prizes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay&#8217;s internship program awards prizes for articles published in 2014. This year, Mongabay published over 165 articles written by journalists participating in its internship program. To highlight some of the excellent work, Mongabay held a competition for intern contributions to the site, asking individuals to submit their most compelling pieces. A staff selection panel reviewed [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay&#8217;s internship program awards prizes for articles published in 2014. This year, Mongabay published over 165 articles written by journalists participating in its internship program. To highlight some of the excellent work, Mongabay held a competition for intern contributions to the site, asking individuals to submit their most compelling pieces. A staff selection panel reviewed the selections and chose the winners. The winning article is a piece by contributor Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa with her piece titled: To collect or not to collect? Experts debate the need for specimens. Erkenswick Watsa&#8217;s article reports on the implications of scientific specimen collections in the context of a biodiversity crisis. The first place award is complimented by a $500 prize. Erkenswick Watsa co-founded the long-term research group PrimatesPeru and holds a PhD in biological anthropology. Second place, along with a prize of $300, is awarded to PhD candidate Jenny Isaacs for her compelling, in-depth article on the killing of a iconic jaguar on the U.S. Mexico border. Isaac&#8217;s piece searches for the broader implications of the gruesome death of a mother jaguar who had become a conservation icon, as well as the reaction and response by locals and officials working along the Northern Jaguar Reserve. Jenny joined Mongabay as an intern in 2012 and has continued to write for the site while working towards her PhD at Rutgers University. A tray of Eriocnemis (a genus of hummingbird) specimens, Swedish Museum of Natural History &#8211; Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet,Stockholm, CC BY-SA 3,0 License, Wikimedia. Heather D&#8217;Angelowon the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/12/young-journalists-win-prizes-for-environmental-reporting/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-24279</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Prize exploring the next big idea in rainforest conservation announced</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/11/prize-exploring-the-next-big-idea-in-rainforest-conservation-announced/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/11/prize-exploring-the-next-big-idea-in-rainforest-conservation-announced/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>16 Nov 2013 16:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Tiffany Roufs]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Peru, South America, and Uganda]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environment, Green, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Journalism, Mongabay.org, Payments For Ecosystem Services, Prizes, and Redd]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.org, a non-profit that aims to raise awareness about social and environmental issues relating to tropical forests and other ecosystems, has announced the first winner of its environmental reporting prize under its Special Reporting Initiative (SRI) program. The prize sought proposals to explore the question of &#8220;What&#8217;s the next big idea in tropical biodiversity conservation?&#8221;. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.org, a non-profit that aims to raise awareness about social and environmental issues relating to tropical forests and other ecosystems, has announced the first winner of its environmental reporting prize under its Special Reporting Initiative (SRI) program. The prize sought proposals to explore the question of &#8220;What&#8217;s the next big idea in tropical biodiversity conservation?&#8221;. After a two-month application window and a month of deliberations, this week an independent panel of journalists, conservation practitioners, and tropical forest specialists selected environmental journalist Wendee Nicole as the first recipient of the Mongabay Prize for Environmental Reporting. Nicole&#8217;s reporting will examine the wider topic of innovation in tropical biology conservation, with focus on polycentric governance in Uganda and Peru. Her work will center around the late Nobel Prize-winning economist Elinor Ostrom&#8217;s theories of polycentric governance and decentralization: putting power in the hands of locals. Nicole will spend time in both countries, interviewing on-the-ground actors and looking at the struggle to combat poverty while preserving shared resources like forests and biodiversity. In the process, Nicole will produce a series of articles on what&#8217;s working and what&#8217;s not in the world of forest conservation. A Mountain Gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda where some of Nicole&#8217;s research will take place. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / mongabay.com Nicole has been a freelance writer for more than 16 years, publishing in National Wildlife, Scientific American, Discover, Nature and other magazines. In April 2013, American Society of Journalists and Authors awarded Nicole top honors for her&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/11/prize-exploring-the-next-big-idea-in-rainforest-conservation-announced/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Iraqi who is bringing back the Garden of Eden wins top environment award</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/04/iraqi-who-is-bringing-back-the-garden-of-eden-wins-top-environment-award/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Apr 2013 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[John Vidal]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Iraq, Middle East, Syria, and Turkey]]>
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							<![CDATA[The vast Mesoptomian marshes in southern Iraq were said to be the site of the original Garden of Eden. On their fringes have risen and fallen 12,000 years of Sumerian, Assyrian, Chaldean, Persian and Arab civilizations. Organized farming is thought to have begun here, as did the first cities and writing. In legend, Gilgamesh fell [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The vast Mesoptomian marshes in southern Iraq were said to be the site of the original Garden of Eden. On their fringes have risen and fallen 12,000 years of Sumerian, Assyrian, Chaldean, Persian and Arab civilizations. Organized farming is thought to have begun here, as did the first cities and writing. In legend, Gilgamesh fell asleep on the water side and let slip from his fingers the plant of eternal youth. Abraham was said to have been born here and explorers like Sir Wilfred Thesiger made their name here. But when Iraqi-born engineer Azzam Alwash returned in 2003 after 25 years away, he found a devastated land. Instead of the vast and unique freshwater world, all that remained was an arid, polluted, dried-out wilderness where reeds did not grow, no one lived and nothing was farmed. Saddam Hussein had drained thousands of square kilometers of the marshland that had once been fed by the rivers Tigris and Euphrates in an effort to punish the people who lived there. It was an ecological and cultural disaster that the UN ranked alongside the destruction of the Aral sea or the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. Alwash is now being honored with a $150,000 Goldman prize&#8212;the equivalent of a &#8220;green oscar&#8221; for environmental activism&#8212;for his part in restoring the ecological gems to much of their former glory. Marsh Arabs poling a traditional mashoof in the marshes of southern Iraq. Photograph slightly enhanced by contributor. April 2003. Photo by: Hassan Janali, U.S. Army Corps&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/04/iraqi-who-is-bringing-back-the-garden-of-eden-wins-top-environment-award/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-29199</doi>				</item>
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					<title>David vs. Goliath: Goldman Environmental Prize winners highlight development projects gone awry</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/04/david-vs-goliath-goldman-environmental-prize-winners-highlight-development-projects-gone-awry/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Apr 2012 20:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Arctic, Argentina, Asia, China, East Africa, Greenland, Kenya, Latin America, Philippines, Russia, South America, Southeast Asia, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Right of left: Evgenia Chirikova, Edwin Gariguez, Ma Jun, Ikal Angelei, Caroline Cannon, and Sofia Gatica. Photo courtesy of Goldman Environmental Prize. A controversial dam, a massive mine, poisonous pesticides, a devastating road, and criminal polluters: many of this year&#8217;s Goldman Environmental Prize winners point to the dangers of poorly-planned, and ultimately destructive, development initiatives. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Right of left: Evgenia Chirikova, Edwin Gariguez, Ma Jun, Ikal Angelei, Caroline Cannon, and Sofia Gatica. Photo courtesy of Goldman Environmental Prize. A controversial dam, a massive mine, poisonous pesticides, a devastating road, and criminal polluters: many of this year&#8217;s Goldman Environmental Prize winners point to the dangers of poorly-planned, and ultimately destructive, development initiatives. The annual prize, which has been dubbed the Green Nobel Prize is awarded to six grassroots environmental heroes from around the world and includes a financial award of $150,000 for each winner. Water Warrior In northern Kenya, Ikal Angelei has been fighting the massive Ethiopian dam, Gibe III, that would plunder Lake Turkana of its water. &#8220;The dam is expected to cause the lake’s water level to drop by as much as 23 to 33 feet within the first five years, depleting fish stocks and depriving communities of a critical source of potable water in this desert environment. Poverty and resource conflicts between communities are likely to increase as a result,&#8221; according to a statement on the Goldman Environmental Prize website. If built the dam would be the largest in Africa and the fourth largest in the world, but Angelei has worked hard to stop it by bringing together the often factious local tribes living around Lake Turkana to put pressure on the Kenyan government as well as the banks financing the project. Today the fate of the dam remains undecided, but even this is largely due to Angelei&#8217;s efforts in making the communities&#8217; voices&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/04/david-vs-goliath-goldman-environmental-prize-winners-highlight-development-projects-gone-awry/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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