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					<title>&#8216;Birds are messengers&#8217;: Q&#038;A with BirdLife&#8217;s Patricia Zurita</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/birds-are-messengers-an-interview-with-birdlifes-patricia-zurita/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Aug 2022 01:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Nature conservation Influencers]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[30x30 conservation target, Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Green, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Marine, Protected Areas, transforming conservation, Wildlife, and Women In Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[Next month BirdLife International, a global partnership of 115 organizations working to protect birds and their habitats, will mark its 100th anniversary by holding the BirdLife World Congress in London. The event will bring together scientists, conservationists, and other stakeholders from around the world. BirdLife has a lot to celebrate on its 100th birthday. It [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Next month BirdLife International, a global partnership of 115 organizations working to protect birds and their habitats, will mark its 100th anniversary by holding the BirdLife World Congress in London. The event will bring together scientists, conservationists, and other stakeholders from around the world. BirdLife has a lot to celebrate on its 100th birthday. It counts more than 2.5 million members across its partner organizations, which include the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the National Audubon Society, and the American Bird Conservancy, among others. It has also identified and documented more than 13,000 Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs) – “places of global significance for the conservation of birds and other biodiversity&#8221; – and helped protect 2,000 high priority conservation sites around the globe. BirdLife has further established itself as the go-to place for scientific information on the conservation status of birds, providing the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) with data for its Red List of Threatened Species, which underpins much conservation decision-making and policy. According to a paper published in 2019 in the journal Science, the world has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. Image courtesy of BirdLife International. But with bird populations and habitats declining worldwide, BirdLife still has much to do. BirdLife&#8217;s CEO Patricia Zurita told Mongabay that one of its key priorities is to support conservation efforts along major global bird migration routes called flyways. Last year BirdLife launched the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership, a $3 billion effort with the Asian Development&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/birds-are-messengers-an-interview-with-birdlifes-patricia-zurita/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-258961</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Disappointment and a few wins, Indigenous leaders react to Nairobi biodiversity talks</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/07/disappointment-and-a-few-wins-indigenous-leaders-react-to-nairobi-biodiversity-talks/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Jul 2022 18:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Laurel Sutherland]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Kenya]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[30x30 conservation target, Activism, Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Endangered Environmentalists, Environment, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Solutions, and transforming conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Finalizing the new Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) is taking longer than expected and yet another round of negotiations – this time in Nairobi, Kenya – ended without much progress, say members of the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB). Indigenous leaders part of the fourth working group meeting are disappointed that the inclusion of language [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Finalizing the new Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) is taking longer than expected and yet another round of negotiations – this time in Nairobi, Kenya – ended without much progress, say members of the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB). Indigenous leaders part of the fourth working group meeting are disappointed that the inclusion of language recognizing Indigenous and traditional territories in the final GBF is still up for debate after years of negotiations – as is majority of the IIFB’s proposals. Joji Carino, IIFB member &amp; advisor at Forest Peoples Programme at a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya. Image courtesy of the Convention on Biological Diversity via Flickr (CC BY 2.0). Negotiations for the new global agreement to preserve and protect nature were supposed to be finalized in 2020 but faced delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The first official draft was released in July 2021 and was expected to undergo further refinement for a final meeting in spring 2022 but faced more debates and pandemic-related restrictions in the host country, China. A final agreement is now set to take place at COP15 in December in Montreal, Canada. In preparation for these final talks, government officials from 195 countries, Indigenous leaders and civil society organizations met in Nairobi last week to discuss the draft. Securing land rights and strengthening the text’s language to recognize Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) as ‘stakeholders’ or ‘vital actors’ rather than ‘participants’ is seen by its proponents as critical to achieving the goals and targets of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/07/disappointment-and-a-few-wins-indigenous-leaders-react-to-nairobi-biodiversity-talks/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-257922</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Traditional knowledge guides protection of planetary health in Finland</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/traditional-knowledge-guides-protection-of-planetary-health-in-finland/</link>
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					<pubDate>31 Mar 2022 18:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jane Palmer]]>
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						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Covering the Commons, Indigenous Peoples and Conservation, and Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[Arctic, Europe, and Finland]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Biodiversity, carbon, Climate Change, Climate Science, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Culture, Ecology, Ecosystems, Environment, Forestry, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Indigenous Peoples, Innovation, Landscape Restoration, Nature-based climate solutions, Protected Areas, Reforestation, Restoration, Soil Carbon, Solutions, Traditional Knowledge, Traditional People, transforming conservation, and Wetlands]]>
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							<![CDATA[Traditional and Indigenous peoples in the Arctic are joining with scientists to successfully rewild mining-degraded peatlands and other sites.]]>
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							<![CDATA[On any given autumn day, 100,000 geese visit the Linnunsuo wetland in North Karelia, Finland. Their raucous honks and squawks drown the cries of the 200 or so other bird species that swoop and surge above the restored bog and forest while moose, otters and wolverines forage amid the pandemonium. The noisy scene bears a stark contrast to the wetland 10 years ago. In the aftermath of peat mining it stood relatively lifeless, with few animals able to find homes or food in the mutilated naked landscape that seeped carbon into the atmosphere, worsening climate change. Then, in 2012, a Finnish nonprofit, the Snowchange Cooperative, started to restore the wetland and, in 2017, launched an ambitious project to rewild it. The Snowchange team didn’t work alone to achieve this feat, but invited local traditional villagers to teach them about the locale, its wetland ecosystem, and how to best care for it. Vladimir Feodoroff, a Skolt Sámi elder (left), and Snowchange staff member Tero Mustonen restore boulders to rewild stream hydrology in the Näätämö area, 2018. Image courtesy of Snowchange. Guided by this vital traditional knowledge, the collaborators rewilded Linnunsuo successfully, creating a haven for biodiversity while also, over time, transforming the wetland from a carbon source into a carbon sink. Healthy peat bogs store 10 times more carbon on average than any other ecosystem. But when mining churns them up, the carbon dioxide escapes. Before 2017, the disturbed 110-hectare (272-acre) Linnunsuo peatland released about 400 metric tons of carbon dioxide&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/traditional-knowledge-guides-protection-of-planetary-health-in-finland/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Supporting more holistic approaches to conservation: an interview with Kai Carter</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/supporting-more-holistic-approaches-to-conservation-qa-with-kai-carter/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Oct 2021 16:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Finding Common Ground, Indigenous Peoples and Conservation, and Nature conservation Influencers]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ethiopia, Global, and Indonesia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Climate Justice, Conservation, Conservation leadership, COVID-19, Gender, Health, Indigenous Peoples, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, philanthropy, Planetary Health, Public Health, Sustainability, and transforming conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[For at least the past 20 years, there has been regular talk about the need to break down silos in conservation. The argument is straightforward: to be successful, the field must be interdisciplinary and inclusive to address the myriad issues that impact a range of stakeholders. For example, protecting an area is rarely as simple [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[For at least the past 20 years, there has been regular talk about the need to break down silos in conservation. The argument is straightforward: to be successful, the field must be interdisciplinary and inclusive to address the myriad issues that impact a range of stakeholders. For example, protecting an area is rarely as simple as putting a fence around a tract of land; for conservation to be sustainable in the long term, it needs, at the very least, to address the needs of wildlife and local people who live in and around the area. But in practice, the conservation sector as a whole has been slow to bring the necessary voices and expertise into the conversation. That hesitancy, or inertia, has at times left the sector open to criticism that it hasn’t moved beyond its colonial roots and, in some contexts, isn’t doing enough to address the root drivers of threats to the very places and species it aspires to protect. It can also mean missed opportunities to broaden conservation’s constituency: Connecting conservation with other positive outcomes, from health to livelihoods, gives more people more reasons to care and get involved. Sungai Utik forest in Indonesia is a source of clean drinking water, food, and medicine for the Dayak Indigenous community that protects it. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler Kai Carter understands this well. As a program officer at the Packard Foundation’s Agriculture, Livelihoods, and Conservation (ALC) strategy, her work focuses on supporting organizations that work at the intersection&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/supporting-more-holistic-approaches-to-conservation-qa-with-kai-carter/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-248350</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Donor agencies should ditch the club and embrace more locals (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/donor-agencies-should-ditch-the-club-and-embrace-more-locals-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Oct 2021 16:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Aida Greenbury]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global and Indonesia]]>
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							<![CDATA[carbon, climate finance, Commentary, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Environment, Governance, Green, NGOs, and transforming conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[I was texting my Scandinavian friend who works for a donor agency, informing him about my plan to write about the role of donors in the global sustainability agenda when news of the recent decision by the Indonesian government to terminate a $1 billion forest conservation deal with Norway broke. Initially I was saddened, but [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[I was texting my Scandinavian friend who works for a donor agency, informing him about my plan to write about the role of donors in the global sustainability agenda when news of the recent decision by the Indonesian government to terminate a $1 billion forest conservation deal with Norway broke. Initially I was saddened, but then realized it’s not really that shocking. I remember what I said publicly many years ago when the program started: The $1 billion incentive is less than 10% of the assets of some large natural-resource-based companies in Indonesia. The Indonesian government even claimed that oil palm plantation sector and the national palm oil industry are the biggest contributors to the Indonesian economy, although World Bank data showed that the combined agriculture, forestry, and fishing industry represented less than 14% of the GDP in 2020.  According to GAPKI, the Indonesian palm oil industry association, the palm oil industry contributes between 10-15% to the total of Indonesian exports. Palm oil exports alone brought in $18.5 billion in 2020. If forestry and mining industries are added to the calculation, as industries which are prone to deforestation and land use change issues, this contribution will be much higher. In a nutshell, against the contribution by these industries, Norway’s $1 billion is not enough to curb deforestation. Exported fossil-fuel (including coal) and non-fossil-fuel (including palm oil and forest products) commodities in Indonesia (in thousand tons), source Indonesian Statistic Centre Agency But despite all of this, I wondered if Norway had&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/donor-agencies-should-ditch-the-club-and-embrace-more-locals-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Conservation will only scale when non-conservationists see its value, says James Deutsch</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/conservation-will-only-scale-when-non-conservationists-see-its-value-says-james-deutsch/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 Oct 2021 13:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Nature conservation Influencers]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Amazon, and Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[30x30 conservation target, Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Environment, Forests, Funding, Indigenous Peoples, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Other effective conservation measures (OECMs), philanthropy, Protected Areas, Rainforests, and transforming conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Last month, nine organizations collectively announced a $5 billion pledge toward biodiversity conservation efforts worldwide. Most of the participants are philanthropic foundations, but one signatory is Rainforest Trust, a conservation group that committed $500 million. The scale of Rainforest Trust&#8217;s commitment was surprising to some in the conservation world: just a decade ago, the Virginia-based [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Last month, nine organizations collectively announced a $5 billion pledge toward biodiversity conservation efforts worldwide. Most of the participants are philanthropic foundations, but one signatory is Rainforest Trust, a conservation group that committed $500 million. The scale of Rainforest Trust&#8217;s commitment was surprising to some in the conservation world: just a decade ago, the Virginia-based group had an annual budget in the low single-digits millions. Now the organization is aiming to raise $50 million a year over the next ten years — an incredible rate of expansion. Rainforest Trust is undertaking that ambitious target just 18 months after undergoing a major leadership transition: In April 2020, it appointed James Deutsch as CEO. Deutsch joined Rainforest Trust after several years at the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, where he oversaw the Great Elephant Census and worked on other biodiversity conservation initiatives under the umbrella of the late Microsoft co-founder&#8217;s personal philanthropy. Before that, he was Africa Director and then Vice President for Conservation Strategy at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Peru. Photo credit: CEDIA Deutsch says the pledge will push Rainforest Trust to double down on its mission of creating and expanding protected and conserved areas through partnerships with other organizations. Rainforest Trust rallies the resources; partners lead the work on the ground. &#8220;We will continue to support land purchases, especially in the centers of endemism so critical for preventing species extinctions. But we will balance that with support for larger-scale park designations and indigenous titling projects, including in vast areas&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/conservation-will-only-scale-when-non-conservationists-see-its-value-says-james-deutsch/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How can philanthropy be more effective in environmental grant making? (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/how-can-philanthropy-be-more-effective-in-environmental-grant-making/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Oct 2021 13:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Byron Swift]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Commentary, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Environment, philanthropy, and transforming conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[How can we maximize the effectiveness of grant-making in the international conservation field? This article is based on my experience in international environmental conservation, both as head of implementing nonprofits for 35 years, and as a foundation grant officer supporting in-country organizations for 15 years. I have witnessed both very effective—and ineffective—grant making practices, and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[How can we maximize the effectiveness of grant-making in the international conservation field? This article is based on my experience in international environmental conservation, both as head of implementing nonprofits for 35 years, and as a foundation grant officer supporting in-country organizations for 15 years. I have witnessed both very effective—and ineffective—grant making practices, and would like to share my perspectives on best practices. I have tried to make my comments generally relevant to non-profit grantmaking, but note that some of the lessons I outline are especially relevant to the international environmental conservation field. For one, international grantmaking is cross-cultural, which gives greater importance to the need for grant makers’ expertise and direct experience in the cultural and political aspects of the recipient’s country. Another is that conservation grantmaking typically tries to accomplish something contrary to the market forces that dictate much of human behavior, and so is more difficult to undertake successfully than most grantmaking, placing greater emphasis on the need for donor expertise, rapid responses, and flexibility. Finally, grantee organizations in the developing world sometimes exist in an environment without laws supporting the social sector, or a tradition of non-profit giving, making it increasingly important for donors to value their time and administrative costs. These are my seven key takeaways from nearly four decades of experience. The Amazon rainforest is a priority for some climate funders. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay. View the implementing organization as the client. Possibly the overarching point I would emphasize concerns&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/how-can-philanthropy-be-more-effective-in-environmental-grant-making/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>&#8216;Conservation should be seen as what communities have always done&#8217;, says John Kamanga</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/john-kamanga-conservation-should-be-seen-as-what-communities-have-always-done/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Sep 2021 03:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation and Indigenous-led conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Kenya]]>
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							<![CDATA[Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Ecotourism, Environment, Green, Indigenous Peoples, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Land Rights, Other effective conservation measures (OECMs), Protected Areas, Solutions, transforming conservation, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Efforts to protect wildlife and landscapes have generally been shifting away from &#8220;fortress conservation&#8221; &#8212; where local people are excluded from the lands they&#8217;ve traditionally managed &#8212; toward more inclusive approaches. Among these latter approaches are community conservancies, which have been expanding around the world, but have especially gained traction in East Africa. According to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Efforts to protect wildlife and landscapes have generally been shifting away from &#8220;fortress conservation&#8221; &#8212; where local people are excluded from the lands they&#8217;ve traditionally managed &#8212; toward more inclusive approaches. Among these latter approaches are community conservancies, which have been expanding around the world, but have especially gained traction in East Africa. According to John Kamanga, the founder and director of the South Rift Association of Land Owners (SORALO), community-based conservation initiatives in East Africa got a boost in the mid-1990s when Kenya Wildlife Service launched its &#8220;Parks beyond Parks&#8221; program, which allowed locals to start directly benefitting from wildlife tourism, and international donors started channeling more funds toward communities. Kamanga said these developments &#8220;really started the conversation around community conservation&#8221; before &#8220;the formal legal legislation came to support the movement.&#8221; Those legal frameworks would culminate in the Wildlife Act of 2016, which &#8220;legally recognizes community conservancies and the community conservation movement&#8221; in Kenya, according to Kamanga, who has been recognized for his efforts with accolades like the Tusk Award for Conservation in Africa. John Kamanga. Photo credit: Johann du Toit: Over that 25-year timeframe, Kamanga said that local peoples&#8217; interest in conservation has grown, while the international community has become more cognizant of the role communities play in protecting and managing wildlife and natural lands. Still, the resources allocated to community conservation have not reached a level commensurate with their impact, said the conservation leader. &#8220;I see a lot of imbalances in investment in conservation,&#8221; he told Mongabay.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/john-kamanga-conservation-should-be-seen-as-what-communities-have-always-done/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Conservation after coronavirus: We need to diversify and innovate (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/after-coronavirus-conservation-needs-diversification-and-innovation-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Sep 2021 11:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Frederic LaunayJonathan Ayers]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Nandithachandraprakash]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa and Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Commentary, Conservation, Conservation Philosophy, Conservation Solutions, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Ecotourism, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Law, Governance, Innovation, Lions, Pandemics, Poaching, Poverty, Protected Areas, Solutions, Sustainability, transforming conservation, Wildlife, and Wildlife Trade]]>
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							<![CDATA[The loss of the Mukambi River Pride lioness last June was sobering proof that the shock wave of COVID-19 had reached the heart and wildlife of Zambia’s Kafue National Park. All that remained of this once magnificent animal was her skin, pock-marked from spears and large rocks that had been hurled at her body, lying [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The loss of the Mukambi River Pride lioness last June was sobering proof that the shock wave of COVID-19 had reached the heart and wildlife of Zambia’s Kafue National Park. All that remained of this once magnificent animal was her skin, pock-marked from spears and large rocks that had been hurled at her body, lying next to the poacher’s snare that had wrapped around her paw, and the GPS collar that had unveiled so much about her pride’s contribution to Kafue. Before setting fire to the scene, the poachers took almost every part of her body, presumably to sell through the illegal wildlife trade. Collared for over two years, the Mukambi lioness was a star of the Zambian Carnivore Programme’s scientific monitoring program and a critical breeding member of her pride. Shortly after, another Kafue lioness was snared, just days after being GPS-collared. Both were poached in ‘Intensive Protection Zones,’ where vigorous antipoaching efforts had all but eradicated lion snarings in 2019. As COVID creeped in, however, sweeps of the park boundary recovered 136 snares from May to August 2020, compared to just 25 collected over the same period in 2019. Bushmeat seizures soared from nearly 100 pounds in 2019 to over 3,300 pounds in 2020. Far from an outlier, many formerly secure wildlife homes around the globe have followed suit. Lionesses in Kafue National Park. Image by Mosi Lager via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). When the lockdown began, the lucrative tap of international tourism upon which protected areas, the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/after-coronavirus-conservation-needs-diversification-and-innovation-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Conservation needs more women, says Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/conservation-needs-more-women-says-razan-khalifa-al-mubarak/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 Aug 2021 03:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Nature conservation Influencers]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Middle East and United Arab Emirates]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[30x30 conservation target, Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Endangered Species, Funding, Gender, Global Environmental Crisis, Happy-upbeat Environmental, In-situ Conservation, Indigenous Peoples, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Oceans, philanthropy, Protected Areas, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, transforming conservation, Wildlife, and Women In Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[Few people likely associate the United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven mostly oil-rich emirates on the Western shores of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, with biodiversity conservation. But the next president of one of the world’s most prominent conservation groups, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), could be from [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Few people likely associate the United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven mostly oil-rich emirates on the Western shores of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, with biodiversity conservation. But the next president of one of the world’s most prominent conservation groups, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), could be from the UAE. Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak is in the running to become the first woman from the Arab world to head IUCN. Ms. Al Mubarak is up against two other candidates — Malik Khan from Pakistan and John Robinson from the United States — in the election, which will take place during IUCN’s World Conservation Congress, which starts this week. Having served as the managing director of three prominent institutions — the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi (EAD), a government agency; the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund, the philanthropy funded by the crown prince of Abu Dhabi; and Emirates Nature, an NGO affiliated with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) — Ms. Al Mubarak would bring unique experience to the helm 73-year-old conservation organization. Ms. Al Mubarak has distinguished herself in these roles. In her capacity as managing director of EAD, she persuaded Abu Dhabi to double its protected areas targets and adopt a goal of reducing the state’s greenhouse gas emissions 42% by 2030. At the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund — which she has managed since its 2008 founding — Ms. Al Mubarak has overseen grants distributed to more than 2,250 conservation projects&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/conservation-needs-more-women-says-razan-khalifa-al-mubarak/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>It&#8217;s time to scrutinize who&#8217;s in the room when conservation decisions are made, says Laly Lichtenfeld</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/its-time-to-scrutinize-who-is-in-the-room-when-conservation-decisions-are-made-says-laly-lichtenfeld/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Aug 2021 22:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Finding Common Ground, Indigenous Peoples and Conservation, and Nature conservation Influencers]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Tanzania]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation leadership, Conservation Solutions, Education, Environment, Environmental Refugees, Gender, Human-wildlife Conflict, Indigenous Peoples, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Racism, Solutions, transforming conservation, Wildlife, and Women In Science]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[The past 18 months have been a time of upheaval around the world, prompting a wide range of companies, institutions, and organizations to re-evaluate how they operate. The conservation sector has been no exception: Worldwide concern about injustice and inequity, the impacts of the pandemic, and the worsening effects of global environmental degradation has accelerated [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The past 18 months have been a time of upheaval around the world, prompting a wide range of companies, institutions, and organizations to re-evaluate how they operate. The conservation sector has been no exception: Worldwide concern about injustice and inequity, the impacts of the pandemic, and the worsening effects of global environmental degradation has accelerated change in a field that has historically been relatively slow to evolve. But for the shifts underway to be more than just a passing fad, many would argue that conservation requires fundamental structural changes that put more decision-making power in the hands of people who’ve been traditionally sidelined or ignored and recognize the importance of contributions from a wide range of stakeholders in achieving conservation outcomes. One of the organizations working on both of these fronts is African People &amp; Wildlife, a Tanzania-based NGO founded by Dr. Laly Lichtenfeld and Charles Trout that is headquartered on land donated by a local Maasai community. African People &amp; Wildlife works across six landscapes in Northern Tanzania that are famed for their wildlife populations. The group runs several programs that range from supporting sustainable livelihoods in local communities to reducing human-wildlife conflict to empowering women conservation leaders. Lion cub in Tanzania. Photo credit: Laly Lichtenfeld Lichtenfeld told Mongabay in a recent interview that she’s seen significant changes in the conservation since she started African People &amp; Wildlife in 2005, including recognition that “communities are essential partners in creating sustainable change” and “that we need to embrace diversity, equity,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/its-time-to-scrutinize-who-is-in-the-room-when-conservation-decisions-are-made-says-laly-lichtenfeld/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-246238</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Convergence, community and justice: Key emerging conservation trends of the pandemic era (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/convergence-community-and-justice-key-emerging-conservation-trends-of-the-pandemic-era-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Aug 2021 15:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Fred Nelson]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Indigenous-led conservation]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Business, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Commentary, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Conservation leadership, Conservation Philosophy, Conservation Solutions, Ecosystems, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Indigenous Peoples, Nature-based climate solutions, NGOs, philanthropy, Restoration, Social Justice, Solutions, and transforming conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[2021 continues to be a year like no other. From record heat and wildfires in western North America to the flooding in China, the impacts of climate change and environmental destruction are becoming more and more apparent all around the world. Meanwhile the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, highlighting the connections between human health and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[2021 continues to be a year like no other. From record heat and wildfires in western North America to the flooding in China, the impacts of climate change and environmental destruction are becoming more and more apparent all around the world. Meanwhile the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, highlighting the connections between human health and the environment, as well as fostering a psychological vulnerability to shocks and changes that perhaps makes longer term crises less abstract and more ‘real’.  Perhaps as a result, climate and environment have risen to near the top of the public and media agendas in a way that, while slow and late, is still a welcome change. The upshot is that the environmental and conservation field is changing more rapidly than at any time since the dawn of the modern environmental era in the early 1990s (symbolized by the Rio Earth Summit in 1992). Part of this rapid pace of change is just a reflection of other wider changes in societies around the world- in technology, economic and social relations, and wider trends, many of which have been disrupted or distorted by the effects of the pandemic. But for anyone working in environmental conservation, it is a critical time to lift one’s head up from the fray and day-to-day crises and reflect on the major shifts taking place. The context for conservation is changing in important ways, and all organizations—particularly more local groups that may have a harder time tracking important global shifts—need to be cognizant&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/convergence-community-and-justice-key-emerging-conservation-trends-of-the-pandemic-era-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Betting big on bioacoustics: Q&#038;A with philanthropist Lisa Yang</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/betting-big-on-bioacoustics-qa-with-philanthropist-lisa-yang/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/betting-big-on-bioacoustics-qa-with-philanthropist-lisa-yang/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>22 Jul 2021 16:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence, Bioacoustics, Biodiversity, Business, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Conservation Technology, data, Disability rights and inclusion, Environment, Indigenous Peoples, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Monitoring, philanthropy, Remote Sensing, Solutions, Technology, transforming conservation, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Last month, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology announced the receipt of a $24 million donation to catalyze the field of conservation bioacoustics, which uses sound data to to understand and monitor species, habitats, ecological processes, and environmental health. The benefactor is Lisa Yang, an investor and philanthropist, who serves on several boards and has degrees [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Last month, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology announced the receipt of a $24 million donation to catalyze the field of conservation bioacoustics, which uses sound data to to understand and monitor species, habitats, ecological processes, and environmental health. The benefactor is Lisa Yang, an investor and philanthropist, who serves on several boards and has degrees from Columbia University and Cornell University. Yang’s gift established the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, which will support several strategic initiatives led by an institution that has been at the forefront of the sector for more than 30 years. Yang told Mongabay that she focused on bioacoustics due to the great potential for scaling the effectiveness of conservation efforts. “When arrayed on a large scale, bioacoustics can capture huge amounts of sound data in nature, which when combined with machine learning and AI to make sense of the meta data, can be an incredibly powerful tool to guide conservation decisions,” Yang told Mongabay during a recent interview. “The technology can provide an effective way of assessing conservation practices. By lowering the barriers to monitoring and comparing habitats, bioacoustics makes it possible to identify, and assess, how different conservation strategies affect species and habitats, as well as invest in the most effective conservation measures.” Soundscape of forest in East Kalimantan in Indonesian Borneo. Image credit: Queensland University of Technology. Yang cites the power of bioacoustics to monitor elusive species, build “an enduring record of an ecosystem”, and monitor human activities to enable near real-time&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/betting-big-on-bioacoustics-qa-with-philanthropist-lisa-yang/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Gabon becomes first African country to get paid for protecting its forests</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/gabon-becomes-first-african-country-to-get-paid-for-protecting-its-forests/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Jul 2021 12:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jim Tan]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Evolving Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Central Africa, Congo Basin, and Gabon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Business, carbon, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, climate finance, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Conservation Philosophy, Conservation Solutions, Environment, Forest Carbon, Forestry, Forests, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Innovation, Nature-based climate solutions, Politics, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Redd, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Sustainable Forest Management, transforming conservation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2019, Norway committed to pay $150 million to Gabon to protect its forests under the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI). After independent verification of the country&#8217;s deforestation rates in 2016 and 2017, Gabon recently received its first $17 million payment, making it the first African country to receive a results-based payment for reducing emissions [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2019, Norway committed to pay $150 million to Gabon to protect its forests under the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI). After independent verification of the country&#8217;s deforestation rates in 2016 and 2017, Gabon recently received its first $17 million payment, making it the first African country to receive a results-based payment for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). “I think it’s good news,” said Denis Sonwa, senior scientist for the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Cameroon. “It shows that REDD+ is technically possible, but for it to become a reality we need some sort of dynamic domestic policy.” CAFI was founded in 2015 as a collaborative agreement between six central African countries — the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon — and six financial partners: the European Union, France, Norway, Germany, South Korea and the Netherlands. CAFI is based around the REDD+ mechanism developed by the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The idea that underpins REDD+ is that developing nations should be able to financially benefit from the ecosystem services that their forests provide, such as carbon storage and as reservoirs of biodiversity. The REDD+ concept has been around since 2005 and trialed in various forms, with varying degrees of success. With 88% of the country covered in tropical rainforest and an average deforestation rate of less than 0.1% over the last 30 years, Gabon is what’s known as&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/gabon-becomes-first-african-country-to-get-paid-for-protecting-its-forests/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Hotter and drier: Deforestation and wildfires take a toll on the Amazon</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/hotter-and-drier-deforestation-and-wildfires-take-a-toll-on-the-amazon/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/hotter-and-drier-deforestation-and-wildfires-take-a-toll-on-the-amazon/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>20 Jul 2021 11:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ignacio Amigo]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Genevieve Belmaker]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, carbon, Climate Change, Conservation, Deforestation, Drought, Environment, Extinction, Extreme Weather, Fires, Forest Carbon, forest degradation, Forests, Global Warming, Impact Of Climate Change, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Research, Threats To Rainforests, transforming conservation, Tropical Conservation Science, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[The climate in the Amazon has been changing over the last few decades. The average temperature in the basin rose about 1º Celsius (1.8° Fahrenheit) between 1979 and 2018, with increases of up to 1.5ºC (2.7°F) in some regions. And there have been three “one-in-a-century” episodes of extreme drought in the last 15 years: in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The climate in the Amazon has been changing over the last few decades. The average temperature in the basin rose about 1º Celsius (1.8° Fahrenheit) between 1979 and 2018, with increases of up to 1.5ºC (2.7°F) in some regions. And there have been three “one-in-a-century” episodes of extreme drought in the last 15 years: in 2005, 2010 and 2015. When the forest becomes too hot, trees need more water to cope. Extreme temperatures have a huge impact on the forest: When temperatures exceed 32.2°C (90°F), forests begin to lose biomass and release carbon, a large international study has found. The authors estimate that these temperatures will affect most of the Amazon by mid-century, even if greenhouse gas emissions are curbed. As the region becomes hotter and drier, the forest is beginning to adapt. Recent research shows that trees that thrive in moist environments are dying and being replaced by species that are more adapted to dry conditions. “If you stop to think that forests that don’t have a direct human action are changing in such a drastic way that we can detect them with data from 30 years, that by itself is something worrying to me,” says Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert, an ecologist at the University of Birmingham who was the lead author of the study. She also notes that these new species grow faster and die earlier than the ones they are replacing. “With that increased turnover rate their carbon stocks will likely be much lower because they are smaller and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/hotter-and-drier-deforestation-and-wildfires-take-a-toll-on-the-amazon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How to make conservation more effective: Q&#038;A with Nick Salafsky</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/how-to-make-conservation-more-effective-qa-with-nick-salafsky/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Jul 2021 10:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Business, Conservation, data, Environment, Forests, Green, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Remote Sensing, and transforming conservation]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[Determining the success of a conservation project is rarely as simple as measuring how well forest cover has been maintained or the headcount of an endangered species. The multifaceted nature of most conservation projects means that many factors need to be monitored and evaluated using a range of metrics to determine whether a real impact [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Determining the success of a conservation project is rarely as simple as measuring how well forest cover has been maintained or the headcount of an endangered species. The multifaceted nature of most conservation projects means that many factors need to be monitored and evaluated using a range of metrics to determine whether a real impact has been achieved and can be sustained into the future. Approaches for measuring impact in conservation continue to evolve, especially with the emergence of new ideas, practices, and technologies. One of the organizations at the forefront of these efforts over the past twenty years has been Foundations of Success, which has its roots in the 1990s when Richard Margoluis, Nick Salafsky, and Janice Davis identified a need to develop ways to gauge the success of U.S. government-funded conservation projects. Today Foundations of Success works with actors across the conservation sector to develop mechanisms to measure the effectiveness of conservation projects and strategies. These efforts help achieve a range of objectives, from improving conservation outcomes to making a case for conservation investments. From his position as the co-founder and Executive Director of Foundations of Success, Salafsky has seen firsthand how organizations and institutions are responding to the growing preponderance of data and the emergence of new technologies and tools in the conservation space. He says that an organization’s receptiveness to change when more effective pathways are identified is important to achieving conservation success. “Perhaps the most important predictor of success is the attitude of the people&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/how-to-make-conservation-more-effective-qa-with-nick-salafsky/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>The Brooklyn Bridge needs a makeover. Is rainforest lumber still in style?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/the-brooklyn-bridge-needs-a-makeover-but-is-rainforest-lumber-still-in-style/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Jul 2021 12:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ashoka Mukpo]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Genevieve Belmaker]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Finding Common Ground]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Central America, Guatemala, Latin America, New York, and North America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Community Forests, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation Philosophy, Conservation Solutions, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Governance, Innovation, Logging, Politics, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Timber, Traditional People, transforming conservation, Tropical Forests, and Tropical hardwoods]]>
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							<![CDATA[PETÉN, Guatemala — Once or twice a year, a jaguar visits Uaxactun at night. It slinks under the great stone pyramids built by the ancient Mayans and past the moonlit trunks of fallen mahogany trees, looking for a stray chicken or unsuspecting dog to ambush. Eventually, the town’s dogs take note and raise the alarm, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[PETÉN, Guatemala — Once or twice a year, a jaguar visits Uaxactun at night. It slinks under the great stone pyramids built by the ancient Mayans and past the moonlit trunks of fallen mahogany trees, looking for a stray chicken or unsuspecting dog to ambush. Eventually, the town’s dogs take note and raise the alarm, barking and chasing the intruder until it retreats back into the dark forest it came from. A jaguar cameo is a minor annoyance for the residents of Uaxactun, a small town nestled in the Guatemalan jungle, but it’s also symbolic of one of their greatest accomplishments: the forest that surrounds them is healthy and full of wildlife. This might surprise visitors if their first sight was the piles of newly cut timber stacked in a clearing next to the town’s sawmill, which screeches as it spits out lumber destined to become furniture and construction material. Industrial timber harvesting and healthy forests don’t usually co-exist well. But that’s exactly what’s happened in the northeastern region of Petén, where a 25-year-old experiment in conservation is playing out in the rainforest amid ancient ruins and cocaine-trafficking airstrips. Uaxactun is one of 12 forestry concessions in Petén that were granted to community-based organizations in the years after Guatemala&#8217;s civil war. Erwin Maas, auxiliary mayor of Uaxactun, sits on logs in the town&#8217;s lumber yard. Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay. The concessions gave those organizations the right to manage large tracts of forest — including the authority to extract logs and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/the-brooklyn-bridge-needs-a-makeover-but-is-rainforest-lumber-still-in-style/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Reckoning with elitism and racism in conservation: Q&#038;A with Colleen Begg</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/reckoning-with-elitism-and-racism-in-conservation-qa-with-colleen-begg/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Jun 2021 03:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Mozambique, and Southern Africa]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Carnivores, Cats, Colonialism, Community-based Conservation, Conservation leadership, COVID-19, Culture, Ecotourism, Education, Gender, Human-wildlife Conflict, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Lions, Mammals, Racism, Social Justice, transforming conservation, Wildlife, and Women In Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s killing last year, long-running concerns about discrimination, colonial legacy, privilege, and power dynamics in conservation have gained prominence, forcing many organizations in the sector to reckon with their origins and how they operate. Current and historic injustices against Indigenous Peoples and local communities in the name of establishing protected [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s killing last year, long-running concerns about discrimination, colonial legacy, privilege, and power dynamics in conservation have gained prominence, forcing many organizations in the sector to reckon with their origins and how they operate. Current and historic injustices against Indigenous Peoples and local communities in the name of establishing protected areas, racism and abusive practices within institutions, representation in leadership, and disparities in funding and advancement opportunities are but a few of the areas that have drawn particular attention over the past year. But while there is certainly an uptick in reflection and discussion, it&#8217;s unclear whether this period will result in lasting, meaningful change or if the sector will revert back to business-as-usual. Colleen Begg, a South African conservationist who co-founded the Niassa Carnivore Project in Mozambique, says she isn&#8217;t sure either, but meaningful transformation won&#8217;t come on its own &#8212; it will require dedicated and sustained efforts to drive real change. &#8220;I have had more conversations about privilege, racism, and sexism in conservation in the last three years than before but there is still such a long way to go,&#8221; Begg told Mongabay during a recent interview. &#8220;To me conservation really is one of the last bastions of racism and exclusion on the continent and it is very resistant to change.&#8221; Colleen Begg As a white South African who has never lived outside Africa and has worked in conservation for 30 years, Begg has seen how race, gender, and privilege play out in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/reckoning-with-elitism-and-racism-in-conservation-qa-with-colleen-begg/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>&#8216;Listening to communities must go beyond ticking compliance boxes&#8217;, says Peter Kallang, a Kenyah leader</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/listening-to-communities-must-go-beyond-ticking-compliance-boxes-says-peter-kallang-a-kenyah-leader/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Jun 2021 15:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, Sarawak, and Southeast Asia]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Activism, Conservation, Culture, Dams, Deforestation, Energy, Environment, Environmental Law, Forestry, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Logging, Palm Oil, Plantations, Protected Areas, Protests, Rainforests, Renewable Energy, Traditional People, transforming conservation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Community-led conservation approaches are working, says Peter Kallang, a Kenyah leader in Sarawak who led a successful campaign to block a mega-dam project.]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Malaysian state of Sarawak was until recently home to some of the last truly nomadic peoples of Borneo, who roamed its wild and rich rainforests as they had done since time immemorial. Starting in the early 1980s, industrial logging companies moved deep into Sarawak’s hinterland, tearing down forests, forcing forest peoples from their traditional lands, and laying the groundwork for large-scale conversion of biodiverse ecosystems into monoculture plantations. Mines and large-scale dams proliferated across the landscape, affecting rivers and further displacing forest-dependent communities. This orgy of ecological devastation was coupled with astounding levels of corruption: campaigners allege that Abdul Taib bin Mahmud, the Chief Minister of Sarawak from 1981 to 2014, amassed billions of dollars in wealth during his reign, despite earning a modest civil servant salary. Satellite image showing large-scale forest clearance in Sarawak in 2013. Courtesy of Google Earth. Sarawak’s Indigenous peoples put up resistance against these state-backed incursions into their traditional territories, blockading logging roads, protesting in Malaysian cities, establishing NGOs, filing legal challenges, and forming alliances with local and international groups like the Bruno Manser Fund and The Borneo Project. They were met with intimidation and violence, ongoing destruction of their forest home, and criminalization of their activities. Protest sign and logging in the Baram Peace Park area in November 2019. Photo credit: The Borneo Project Indigenous peoples in Sarawak continue to face these challenges, including a current battle against Malaysian forestry giant Samling, which recently threatened legal against Penan and Kenyah communities for alleging&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/listening-to-communities-must-go-beyond-ticking-compliance-boxes-says-peter-kallang-a-kenyah-leader/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>&#8216;Inspiring behavior change so people and nature thrive&#8217;: Q&#038;A with Rare&#8217;s Brett Jenks</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/inspiring-behavior-change-so-people-and-nature-thrive-q-with-rares-brett-jenks/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Jun 2021 14:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Business, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Coral Reefs, COVID-19, Environment, Fishing, Funding, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Oceans, philanthropy, and transforming conservation]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[Efforts to maintain protected areas and safeguard wildlife can at times feel futile given the persistent onslaught of encroachment, poaching and extractive activities. At the extremes, top-down conservation approaches may tend toward militarization, while bottom-up conservation can seem to lack the scale needed to have meaningful impact. But at the root of many conservation challenges, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Efforts to maintain protected areas and safeguard wildlife can at times feel futile given the persistent onslaught of encroachment, poaching and extractive activities. At the extremes, top-down conservation approaches may tend toward militarization, while bottom-up conservation can seem to lack the scale needed to have meaningful impact. But at the root of many conservation challenges, big and small, is the need to change behavior, whether it’s throwing plastic in the ocean, consuming products that drive deforestation, or fishing unsustainably. Rare, a conservation group that got its start as an outreach campaign to persuade people on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia to save an endangered parrot in the 1970s, puts behavior change at the center of its work. Rare combines design thinking and social marketing to drive conservation outcomes. “Rare is decidedly different from other conservation organizations: We are highly focused on one thing — inspiring behavior change so people and nature thrive,” Rare president and CEO Brett Jenks told Mongabay. “So, while we might be working on fisheries or agriculture or climate change, our approach is behavior-based — appealing to people’s emotions, shifting social norms, or redesigning the environment in which people make decisions to make the green choice the easy or default choice.” Jenks got his start working as a journalist and then in film production, before becoming an ecotourism entrepreneur in Costa Rica. It was in Costa Rica in his mid-20s when he was first introduced to conservation. “I never studied conservation,” he said. “I didn’t even&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/inspiring-behavior-change-so-people-and-nature-thrive-q-with-rares-brett-jenks/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-243099</doi>				</item>
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					<title>The Nature Conservancy&#8217;s Jennifer Morris is an &#8216;impatient optimist&#8217;</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/the-nature-conservancys-jennifer-morris-is-an-impatient-optimist/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 Apr 2021 15:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Finding Common Ground and Nature conservation Influencers]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Global and United States]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Corporations, COVID-19, Gender, Indigenous Peoples, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Mitigation, Pandemics, Politics, Solutions, transforming conservation, and Women In Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[Like many sectors, conservation has increasingly been reckoning with issues around inclusivity, representation, justice, and equity. Many of these stem from the sector’s origins in the West, where conservation has tended to be the domain of the well-off. Conservation goals were thus often pursued at the expense of peoples who were traditionally the most dependent [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Like many sectors, conservation has increasingly been reckoning with issues around inclusivity, representation, justice, and equity. Many of these stem from the sector’s origins in the West, where conservation has tended to be the domain of the well-off. Conservation goals were thus often pursued at the expense of peoples who were traditionally the most dependent on wild places for their day-to-day survival. Growing recognition of injustices against Indigenous peoples and local communities, social movements like #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter, and the realization that current approaches won’t be sufficient to stave off catastrophic climate change and mass extinction have accelerated the push for change in the conservation sector. As the largest environmental nonprofit in the United States with annual revenue exceeding $1 billion, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has been among the groups grappling with these issues. In 2019, several senior executives left the organization after an internal investigation into sexual harassment. Last year, Jennifer Morris took the helm of TNC as CEO, joining the organization right as COVID-19 lockdowns began across the United States. Morris thus found herself navigating a new role at the top of a large organization trying to recover from an internal crisis at a time when the entire world seemed to be spiraling out of control. The pandemic has since stabilized, but Morris is still faced with the tall order of steering the 70-year-old institution through a turbulent period of change that affects not only the environmental sector, but society as a whole. Morris, however, is no newcomer&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/the-nature-conservancys-jennifer-morris-is-an-impatient-optimist/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>‘There are no silver bullets’ in conservation: Synchronicity Earth’s Jessica Sweidan</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/there-are-no-silver-bullets-in-conservation-synchronicity-earths-jessica-sweidan/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Mar 2021 14:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Nature conservation Influencers]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, COVID-19, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Freshwater, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, philanthropy, transforming conservation, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation is complex. If it were easy, problems like the extinction crisis, human-wildlife conflict, overexploitation of forests and oceans, and habitat degradation and loss would be resolved already. Conservation’s complexity arises from the need to address multiple, often conflicting, objectives that span disciplines from ecology to economics to human welfare. Something that may seem straightforward [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation is complex. If it were easy, problems like the extinction crisis, human-wildlife conflict, overexploitation of forests and oceans, and habitat degradation and loss would be resolved already. Conservation’s complexity arises from the need to address multiple, often conflicting, objectives that span disciplines from ecology to economics to human welfare. Something that may seem straightforward on the surface, like saving orangutans from extinction, actually requires understanding the great apes’ ecological needs, reining in the wildlife trade, encouraging behavior change among hunters, controlling out-of-control fires, and addressing both direct and indirect drivers of deforestation, which may be affected as much by local issues like basic nutritional needs as national issues like corruption and international issues like overseas demand for palm oil. Silver bullets don’t exist. Smoke rising from smoldering peatland in PT Raja Garuda Mas Sejati. Photo credit: Greenpeace. Synchronicity Earth, a U.K.-based charity, recognizes this and incorporates the idea of complexity into its strategy, looking to opportunities to build connections between disparate areas and seeking “overlooked and underfunded species, regions, and ecosystems.” Synchronicity Earth does this through a combination of communications, facilitating and enabling connections between disciplines, and rallying financial resources in support of protecting and restoring nature. Jessica Sweidan, who founded Synchronicity Earth with her husband, Adam, in 2009, says this approach emerged out of the understanding that “there were no silver bullets.” “We started to understand the challenges, and knew that we needed to be supporting a range of interventions: supporting local communities and livelihoods; educating about environmental&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/there-are-no-silver-bullets-in-conservation-synchronicity-earths-jessica-sweidan/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>“Securing Indigenous guardianship of vital ecosystems”: Q&#038;A with Nia Tero CEO Peter Seligmann</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/securing-indigenous-guardianship-of-vital-ecosystems-qa-with-nia-tero-ceo-peter-seligmann/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Feb 2021 15:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Finding Common Ground and Nature conservation Influencers]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon and Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, COVID-19, Forests, FPIC, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, NGOs, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Traditional Knowledge, Traditional People, transforming conservation, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[One of the dominant trends in conservation over the past 20 years has been growing recognition of the contributions Indigenous peoples have made toward conservationists&#8217; goals of protecting biodiversity, wild places, and ecosystem functions. Lands stewarded by Indigenous peoples and local communities sequester at least a sixth of forest carbon and house 80% of terrestrial [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[One of the dominant trends in conservation over the past 20 years has been growing recognition of the contributions Indigenous peoples have made toward conservationists&#8217; goals of protecting biodiversity, wild places, and ecosystem functions. Lands stewarded by Indigenous peoples and local communities sequester at least a sixth of forest carbon and house 80% of terrestrial species. Most of the world&#8217;s largest intact landscapes — from the Amazon rainforest to the island of New Guinea — have a long history of human inhabitation and today have substantial Indigenous populations. This view is a departure from historical conservation approaches, which have tended to marginalize, undervalue, or even criminalize Indigenous peoples, whose traditional homelands were at the same time being bulldozed for plantations and ranches; torn up for ore, minerals, and oil; poisoned by industrial waste and pollution; and invaded by speculators. Historically, Indigenous peoples&#8217; contributions haven&#8217;t been compensated by the outside world; in fact, there are many documented cases where in the name of establishing strict protected areas they have been forced from the lands they&#8217;ve traditionally stewarded or had the activities they&#8217;ve practiced for generations restricted. The transition unfolding across conservation is an important development for the sector, but going from talking about change to actually implementing meaningful reforms will be a challenge. It requires earnestly listening to criticism, engaging and empowering stakeholders who’ve been traditionally ignored or marginalized, reevaluating legacy relationships, and upending power structures, among other measures. For these reasons, Peter Seligmann is an important figure to watch. Seligmann&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/securing-indigenous-guardianship-of-vital-ecosystems-qa-with-nia-tero-ceo-peter-seligmann/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>‘Everything on this planet is connected’: Q&#038;A with WWF’s Marco Lambertini</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/an-interview-with-wwfs-marco-lambertini/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Feb 2021 09:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Covering the Commons and Nature conservation Influencers]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Business, Climate Change, Conservation, Environment, Environmental Policy, Environmental Services, Green, Health, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, NGOs, Planetary Health, Politics, Protected Areas, transforming conservation, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[As the world works to emerge from the devastation and hardship brought by the pandemic, there has been much talk about the recovery being an opportunity to drive transformative change toward a more sustainable, equitable society that recognizes that human well-being is underpinned by a healthy planet. Much of the focus on this concept has [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As the world works to emerge from the devastation and hardship brought by the pandemic, there has been much talk about the recovery being an opportunity to drive transformative change toward a more sustainable, equitable society that recognizes that human well-being is underpinned by a healthy planet. Much of the focus on this concept has been on cutting carbon emissions from transportation and energy production. There’s been less emphasis on protecting and restoring nature. But there’s a growing movement to push governments, corporations and other entities to frame goals around the idea of becoming “Nature Positive,” which goes well beyond achieving carbon neutrality. Nature Positive aims to protect and restore critical habitats, stave off species extinction, and maintain healthy and productive ecosystems. The Nature Positive movement counts several of the world’s most prominent environmental NGOs among its charter supporters, including the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), or the World Wildlife Fund as it is known in Canada and the United States. That WWF is playing a central role in promoting Nature Positive shouldn’t be surprising given its stated mission to protect the natural environment and shift humanity toward a more sustainable future, as well as its considerable clout: With an operational presence in nearly 100 countries via program offices and affiliates, 5 million supporters and 30 million social media followers, and an $800 million annual operating budget globally, WWF is a behemoth when it comes to influencing environmental policy at a variety of levels, from national governments to corporate&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/an-interview-with-wwfs-marco-lambertini/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Backing the stewards of biocultural diversity: Q&#038;A with Indigenous rights leader Carla Fredericks</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/an-interview-with-carla-fredericks/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Feb 2021 16:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Finding Common Ground and Nature conservation Influencers]]>
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							<![CDATA[United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Biocultural Diversity, Conservation, Culture, Environmental Law, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Land Rights, philanthropy, Social Justice, and transforming conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[For at least the past 20 years, conservation has been wrestling with some of the darker aspects of its historical relationship with local communities: legacies of colonialism, institutional racism, lack recognition of Indigenous peoples’ rights, and abuses like forced evictions from traditional lands and extrajudicial killings. These issues gained increased notoriety in the aftermath of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[For at least the past 20 years, conservation has been wrestling with some of the darker aspects of its historical relationship with local communities: legacies of colonialism, institutional racism, lack recognition of Indigenous peoples’ rights, and abuses like forced evictions from traditional lands and extrajudicial killings. These issues gained increased notoriety in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing last year when the Black Lives Matter movement forced a public conversation around state violence and social injustice in the United States and beyond. There are signs that the conservation sector is now doing more than just paying lip service to these concerns: Indigenous peoples and local communities are being more actively engaged in decision-making; leadership and boards of conservation institutions are prioritizing diversity and inclusion; and discriminatory practices are increasingly being called out as unacceptable. Issues like free prior informed consent (FPIC) are regularly part of conservation project planning, while conservation groups have taken to promoting local peoples’ land rights as a key component of the battle against climate change and the extinction crisis. But reorienting conservation to put the rights of Indigenous peoples and local communities at the center of strategy and decision-making won’t be easy. Recognizing Indigenous rights as a gap in the philanthropic space in general, the San Francisco-based Christensen Fund recently reoriented its grantmaking approach and adopted a new mission: supporting the global Indigenous peoples’ movement “in its efforts to advance the rights and opportunities of stewards of biocultural diversity.” To deliver on this mission, last year&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/an-interview-with-carla-fredericks/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>With shared knowledge, ‘we could build a new world’: Q&#038;A with Lisbet Rausing</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/with-shared-knowledge-we-could-build-a-new-world-qa-with-lisbet-rausing/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Feb 2021 05:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Nature conservation Influencers]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Environment, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Language, philanthropy, Sustainability, and transforming conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the past decade we&#8217;ve seen an incredible rise in the availability of information, from open-access journals to freely accessible high-resolution satellite imagery to high-quality investigative journalism. But we&#8217;ve also seen the proliferation of misinformation — accelerated by social media and questionable internet sources — which has enabled authoritarian regimes, anti-democratic movements, and corporate actors [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the past decade we&#8217;ve seen an incredible rise in the availability of information, from open-access journals to freely accessible high-resolution satellite imagery to high-quality investigative journalism. But we&#8217;ve also seen the proliferation of misinformation — accelerated by social media and questionable internet sources — which has enabled authoritarian regimes, anti-democratic movements, and corporate actors to erode the people&#8217;s ability to discern fact from fiction, erode public trust in science, and erect new knowledge barriers. These trends have important implications for efforts to stave off environmental catastrophes like climate change, ecosystem degradation, and loss of species: knowledge about the dangers environmental problems pose to humanity&#8217;s quality of life creates an imperative to address them. Recognizing the enabling power of knowledge, the Arcadia Fund has for the past 20 years made access to information one of the guiding principles of its philanthropic strategy, which extends across the U.K. charity&#8217;s three priority areas: preserving endangered culture, protecting endangered nature, and promoting open access. Arcadia, founded in 2001 by Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, supports these priorities in geographies around the world through grants to institutions ranging from universities to NGOs. &#8220;Arcadia serves humanity by preserving endangered ecosystems and cultural heritage and by promoting knowledge sharing through open access,&#8221; Arcadia says on its website. &#8220;We protect complexity and work against the entropy that leads to barren lands, depleted seas and homogenous cultures.&#8221; Rausing, whose work spans disciplines as a science historian, entrepreneur and philanthropist, says this approach arose out of her observation that&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/with-shared-knowledge-we-could-build-a-new-world-qa-with-lisbet-rausing/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Transforming conservation in times of crisis and opportunity (Commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/01/transforming-conservation-in-times-of-crisis-and-opportunity-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Jan 2021 19:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Alasdair HarrisFred NelsonLeela HazzahLúcia G. Lohmann]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Commentary, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation Finance, COVID-19, Funding, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Pandemics, philanthropy, and transforming conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[“Disasters and emergencies do not just throw light on the world as it is. They also rip open the fabric of normality. Through the hole that opens up, we glimpse possibilities of other worlds.” &#8211; Peter Baker, in The Guardian, March 30, 2020 The year of 2020 was envisioned as a potential turning point for [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[“Disasters and emergencies do not just throw light on the world as it is. They also rip open the fabric of normality. Through the hole that opens up, we glimpse possibilities of other worlds.” &#8211; Peter Baker, in The Guardian, March 30, 2020 The year of 2020 was envisioned as a potential turning point for global conservation efforts. Major events such as the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the IUCN World Conservation Congress were expected to raise biodiversity conservation to the top of the global agenda. These and other major events aimed to foster greater links between biodiversity, climate, and development goals. New conservation initiatives and ambitions such as a ‘global deal for nature’ were being advanced to try and increase conservation impact and investment. Now, the world is a very different place as we head into the new year. Over the past nine months COVID-19 has created an unprecedented social, economic, and public health crisis on a global scale. The pandemic’s impacts have been augmented by additional political and social crises encompassing fundamental issues such as race, democracy, and inequality. The events of the past year take place within the wider context of the biodiversity and climate crises, of which conservationists are all too aware. We are living and working in a period of crises layered within crises. But such extraordinary circumstances also create new, unique opportunities, often in unexpected ways, for systemic change. As societies respond and adapt, opportunities emerge for changing&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/01/transforming-conservation-in-times-of-crisis-and-opportunity-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>We&#8217;re approaching critical climate tipping points: Q&#038;A with Tim Lenton</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/01/were-approaching-critical-climate-tipping-points-qa-with-tim-lenton/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Jan 2021 00:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Nature conservation Influencers and Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Antarctica, Global, and Greenland]]>
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							<![CDATA[Business, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Coral Reefs, Drought, Ecology, Energy, Environment, Fires, Forests, Glaciers, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Impact Of Climate Change, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Oceans, Renewable Energy, Sea Ice, Tipping points, transforming conservation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Over the past twenty years the concept of &#8220;tipping points&#8221; has become more familiar to the public. Tipping points are critical thresholds at which small changes can lead to dramatic shifts in the state of the entire system. From a climate standpoint, the melting of Arctic sea ice is a simple example. As sea ice [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Over the past twenty years the concept of &#8220;tipping points&#8221; has become more familiar to the public. Tipping points are critical thresholds at which small changes can lead to dramatic shifts in the state of the entire system. From a climate standpoint, the melting of Arctic sea ice is a simple example. As sea ice melts, less sunlight is reflected into space and more heat is absorbed by the ocean, further hindering the formation of sea ice and thereby leading to more warming. The positive feedback loop is leading toward ice-free summers in the Arctic, which will have dramatic implications for the Arctic ecosystem and knock-on effects for ocean circulation and weather patterns. The effects are already being observed, with Arctic sea ice extent trending sharply downward since the 1970s. Glaciers and icebergs in Antarctica. Photo credit: Mongabay Awareness of climate tipping points has grown in policy circles in recent years in no small part thanks to the work of climate scientist Tim Lenton, who serves as the director of the Global Systems Institute at Britain&#8217;s University of Exeter. In 2008 Lenton was the lead author of an influential Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) paper that identified nine tipping points and ranked them by their near-term likelihood of occurring. These included: Arctic Sea-Ice; the Greenland Ice Sheet; the West Antarctic Ice Sheet; the Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation; the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO); the Indian Summer Monsoon; the Sahara/Sahel and West African Monsoon; the Amazon Rainforest; and the Boreal&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/01/were-approaching-critical-climate-tipping-points-qa-with-tim-lenton/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How to transform systems: Q&#038;A with WRI&#8217;s Andrew Steer</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/01/how-to-transform-systems-qa-with-wris-andrew-steer/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Jan 2021 08:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Finding Common Ground, Nature conservation Influencers, and Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence, Business, Climate Change, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Corporations, Deforestation, Energy, Environment, Environmental Policy, Forests, Green, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Politics, Remote Sensing, Renewable Energy, Satellite Imagery, Technology, transforming conservation, Tropical Forests, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Between the pandemic, rising food insecurity and poverty, and catastrophic disasters like wildfires, storms and droughts, 2020 was a year of challenges that prompted widespread calls for systemic change in how we interact with one another, with other species, and with the environment. Bringing about such changes will require transforming how we produce food and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Between the pandemic, rising food insecurity and poverty, and catastrophic disasters like wildfires, storms and droughts, 2020 was a year of challenges that prompted widespread calls for systemic change in how we interact with one another, with other species, and with the environment. Bringing about such changes will require transforming how we produce food and energy, how we move from one place to another, and how we define economic growth. But it&#8217;s a lot easier to talk about transforming systems than to actually do it. Because real change is hard, we&#8217;re more likely to slip back into old habits and return to business as usual than embrace paradigm shifts. Civil society exists to take on the world&#8217;s greatest challenges, working to drive meaningful impact at all scales on nearly every imaginable issue. That is, of course, an impossible mandate. No single sector, let alone one that&#8217;s dependent on donations and grants, can drive the kind of change necessary to actually transform systems on the time frame and scale necessary to head off a challenge as daunting as climate change or the extinction crisis. Recognizing this limitation, World Resources Institute (WRI), a Washington, D.C.-based organization that operates in 60 countries, works across sectors by creating tools that increase transparency, create a common understanding, and provide data and analysis that enable action. WRI focuses specifically on issues at the intersection of environment and development, applying a three-step approach that the group characterizes as &#8220;Count it, Change it, Scale it.&#8221; In practice, this&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/01/how-to-transform-systems-qa-with-wris-andrew-steer/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Top 10 environmental news stories of 2020</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/top-10-environmental-news-stories-of-2020/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Dec 2020 00:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Business, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Energy, Environment, Extreme Weather, Fires, Forests, Fossil Fuels, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Pandemics, Politics, Renewable Energy, Storms, transforming conservation, Weather, Year-end review, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
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							<![CDATA[2020 is a year that many people would like to forget. Here&#8217;s a look at 10 of the biggest environmental storylines to remember. The COVID-19 pandemic The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic transcended virtually everything in 2020, including the environment, from canceled summits on climate and biodiversity to a temporary dip in air pollution and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[2020 is a year that many people would like to forget. Here&#8217;s a look at 10 of the biggest environmental storylines to remember. The COVID-19 pandemic The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic transcended virtually everything in 2020, including the environment, from canceled summits on climate and biodiversity to a temporary dip in air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, to greater awareness of the link between human health and planetary health. 2020 was supposed to be a landmark year for international meetings that would set the climate and conservation agendas for the next decade. But the pandemic led to many of those being canceled or postponed. Nonetheless, many companies and governments moved forward on establishing commitments to reduce carbon emissions, while researchers and NGOs published a spate of reports on how climate change is already affecting us, and what society needs to do to address the challenge. The pandemic caused shocks to social and economic systems around the world. Lockdowns in March and April triggered a sharp retrenchment in travel and industrial activities, leading to a decline in associated emissions and some of the clearest skies in living memory. Stock markets and the price of many commodities dropped sharply, before roaring back in subsequent months. There was a lot of talk of the pandemic affording an opportunity to accelerate a transition toward greener development, but stimulus resources in many countries went toward emissions-intensive sectors, including fossil fuel production, heavy industry, and agribusiness. Conservation efforts in tropical countries were especially hard hit&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/top-10-environmental-news-stories-of-2020/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Bold sustainability commitments: An interview with Microsoft’s Lucas Joppa</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/bold-sustainability-commitments-an-interview-with-microsofts-chief-environmental-officer-lucas-joppa/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Dec 2020 15:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Nature conservation Influencers and Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[United States and Washington]]>
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							<![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence, Biodiversity, Business, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Footprint, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Conservation Technology, COVID-19, data, Ecology, Green, Green Design, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Mitigation, Solutions, Sustainability, Technology, transforming conservation, Water, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 has been the year of the climate commitment, with a number of companies and governments announcing plans to reduce carbon emissions by a specified level at some point in the future. One of the boldest commitments to date has come from the tech giant Microsoft, which in January pledged to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 has been the year of the climate commitment, with a number of companies and governments announcing plans to reduce carbon emissions by a specified level at some point in the future. One of the boldest commitments to date has come from the tech giant Microsoft, which in January pledged to be carbon negative by 2030. But Microsoft didn&#8217;t stop there, the company also said it would &#8220;remove from the environment all the carbon the company has emitted either directly or by electrical consumption since it was founded in 1975&#8221; by 2050. In other words, Microsoft plans to zero out all of its historical carbon emissions. Microsoft&#8217;s commitments to date apply to land, water, emissions, waste, and biodiversity. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay. Building on this carbon target, this year Microsoft further announced it will replenish more water than it consumes and produce zero net waste by 2030, while protecting more land than it uses by 2025. The company also said it would lend its computing power toward efforts to combat biodiversity loss and use its voice to advocate for public policies that &#8220;measure and manage ecosystems&#8221;. Heading up these ambitious sustainability initiatives is Microsoft’s chief environmental officer Lucas Joppa. Joppa, who earned a Ph.D. in Ecology from Duke University and did two years of service in the Peace Corps in Malawi, got his start at Microsoft at the company&#8217;s research lab in the U.K., where he applied computer science to ecological questions. While&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/bold-sustainability-commitments-an-interview-with-microsofts-chief-environmental-officer-lucas-joppa/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>On a Philippine island, Indigenous women get their say on marine conservation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/on-a-philippine-island-indigenous-women-get-their-say-on-marine-conservation/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Oct 2020 22:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jen Chan]]>
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						<![CDATA[Leilani]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Philippines, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Culture, Ecosystems, Fishing, Gender, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Marine, Marine Conservation, Marine Protected Areas, Oceans, Solutions, transforming conservation, and Women In Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[MANILA — In the Philippines, the fishing industry has long been considered male territory, with fathers, sons and brothers taking their boats out to sea each day in hopes of catching tuna, blue marlin, or sea bass. A closer look, however, reveals that women play an equally significant role. In an analysis of women in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[MANILA — In the Philippines, the fishing industry has long been considered male territory, with fathers, sons and brothers taking their boats out to sea each day in hopes of catching tuna, blue marlin, or sea bass. A closer look, however, reveals that women play an equally significant role. In an analysis of women in select fishing communities in the country, most of the women surveyed say they are active participants in the entire value chain — from fishing, gleaning and picking, to selling and trading. A recent study published in PLOS ONE also shows that catches by women in Asia reach an estimated 1.7 million metric tons per year, which is worth $3 billion. Despite this contribution, women are rarely involved or tapped in important conversations in the community. This is now being challenged in Calawit, an island that’s part of the Calamianes Islands located in the country’s western Palawan province. There, 15 women from the Indigenous and traditionally male-led Tagbanwa group were given more than 130 hectares (320 acres) of ancestral waters where they can harvest cachipay (Placuna spp.), a type of clam known as windowpane oysters. Oysters have long been an important source of livelihood for the community, especially during lean fishing seasons or when the weather doesn’t allow fisherfolk to go out to sea. While harvesting them is a task traditionally shared by both men and women, ownership, and consequently, management of the ancestral waters had always been delegated to men. The fact that the women&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/on-a-philippine-island-indigenous-women-get-their-say-on-marine-conservation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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