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‘Non-market’ solutions to climate change need more support, advocates say
If funders want to protect the planet’s forests, they should stop focusing on market-based solutions like carbon trading, ...
Mongabay14 h
Bottom trawling in U.K.’s marine reserves, legally, is apparently a thing
In 2023, commercial fishing vessels spent more than 33,000 hours operating in the U.K.’s offshore marine protected areas, ...
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Scientists and farmers restore Aztec-era floating farms that house axolotls
It was the 1980s, and before sunrise, Basilio Rodríguez was ready to work. He was still young, and he’d already helped to ...
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A tiny desert fish hits a 25 year population high in one of Earth’s harshest environments
In a glimmer of hope for one of the world’s rarest fish, scientists have counted 191 Devils Hole pupfish this spring in their ...
Mongabay16 h
From Egypt to Syria, ‘water cancer’ chokes waterways
On the banks of Syria’s Orontes River, a beautiful flower has become a nightmare. Each spring, it creeps out of the soft mud ...
Mongabay15 h
In Belize, flawed conservation measures threaten small-scale fishers’ livelihoods (commentary)
Uneven governance is wrecking the co-management model that is supposed to be the pride of Belize conservation. I’ve been ...
Mongabay17 h
Elusive jaguarundi inspires biologists to share data across Latin America
Few scientists exclusively study the jaguarundi, Latin America’s least studied wildcat. So those that do are reaching out to ...
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Indigenous people and NGO grow a wildlife corridor in the world’s oldest rainforest
Environmental charity Climate Force is collaborating with the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people and rangers to create a wildlife ...
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An ancestral solution ensures water for Peruvian alpaca farmers, but is it enough?
In Ayacucho province in Peru’s southern Andes, a three-hour drive from the provincial capital, Huamanga, stands the ...