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2025
Bees, Community, and Shared Futures, grassecon.substack.com (Nov 20, 2025) - The Cambodian women rising up to protect their communal land, positive.news (Nov 20, 2025)
- COP30 host Brazil creates 10 new Indigenous territories, BBC News (Nov 18, 2025)
- Ecuador’s Voters Protect Rights of Nature, Reject Proposal to Rewrite Constitution, insideclimatenews.org (Nov 17, 2025)
- The surprisingly divisive world of California wildlife policy, latimes.com (Nov 06, 2025)
- One year after a historic dam removal, teens inspire river restoration worldwide: ‘It turns out you can win’, theguardian.com (Oct 25, 2025) — The Klamath River began rebounding almost immediately. Now, Indigenous youth are leading the next chapter of the recovery, inspiring tribes from Brazil to China
- International team calls for a people-first approach to achieving humanitarian, climate, and biodiversity goals, drawdown.org (Oct 21, 2025)
- New South Wales government unveils plans for Great Koala National Park to safeguard 12,000 koalas and dozens of other threatened species, news.mongabay.com (Oct 03, 2025)
- Green to Grey, How Europe is squandering the little nature it has left, greentogrey.eu (Oct 01, 2025)
- Science-backed conservation of Colombia’s wetlands led by Indigenous fishers, news.mongabay.com (Sep 24, 2025)
- The Prairie Farmers Preserving the World’s Most Threatened Ecosystem – Forever, reasonstobecheerful.world (Sep 15, 2025)
- Comeback of the revered Philippine crocodile, Indigenous elders involved in the push, photos, news.mongabay.com (Sep 11, 2025)
- Restoring resilience to fire-prone Spain via Rewilding, Jeremy Hance, news.mongabay.com (Aug 28, 2025) — A project to help stem out-of-control fires and boost the local economy
- The Ancient Woodland Practice Boosting British Biodiversity, reasonstobecheerful.world (Aug 28, 2025)
- There’s a surprising climate solution right under your feet: mycorrhizal fungi. They grab huge amounts of carbon. But they need urgent protection [Grist], Daily Alternative (Jul 26, 2025)
- The Vienna cemetery where endangered species and biodiversity thrive, BBC News (Jul 07, 2025)
- Meet Kerala’s ‘rainforest gardeners’ creating a Noah’s ark for endangered plants, theguardian.com (Jul 01, 2025)
- Helping Bees Find New Homes Across New York City, From Fresh Kills to Street Planters, insideclimatenews.org (Jun 30, 2025)
- Australia’s native bees struggled after the Black Summer fires – but a world-first solution brought them buzzing back, theconversation.com (Jun 25, 2025)
- The regen farmers challenging food system foundations, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jun 05, 2025) — large-scale regenerative farming study renews hope for nature-friendly food producers
- ‘We Are the People of the River’, reasonstobecheerful.world (May 23, 2025) — The Fort Yuma Quechan Tribe is working to heal the ailing Colorado River ecosystem by planting one native seed at a time
- Leading the fight to save Mentawai’s endangered primates, indigenous conservationists, news.mongabay.co (May 15, 2025)
- Turning lawns into meadows can have big benefits for people, wildlife and the climate. Here's why 'meadowscaping' has become the latest gardening craze, BBC Future (Apr 27, 2025)
- The local women saving Yucatán’s mangroves, ‘It has been worth it’, news.mongabay.com (Apr 25, 2025)
- Cooperation and community saving saiga antelope in Kazakhstan, news.mongabay.com (Apr 15, 2025)
- The unlikely comeback of one of Brazil’s rarest parrots, news.mongabay.com (Apr 14, 2025)
- It’s up to each of us to help save life on Earth – I love this challenge, Bob Brown, theguardian.com (Apr 08, 2025)
- How an Ancient Yemeni Tradition Is Reviving Bee Populations, reasonstobecheerful.world (Apr 07, 2025)
- New Documentary Explores the Natural Wonders of NYC’s Jamaica Bay Through One of Its Most-Beloved Characters, insideclimatenews.org (Apr 05, 2025)
- Here’s how to create a more nature-literate society, theconversation.com (Apr 04, 2025)
- Hope for endangered penguins as no-fishing zones agreed off South Africa, theguardian.com (Mar 18, 2025)
- To help save a species Mountain bongo antelope fly from Florida to Kenya, news.mongabay.com (Feb 27, 2025)
- The rewilded golf courses teeming with life, BBC Future (Feb 16, 2025)
- ‘I felt death in the flames’: how lighting a forest fire inspired one man to transform barren ranches into rainforest, theguardian.com (Jan 22, 2025)
- When golf courses go wild, rewildingmag.com (Jan 21, 2025) — non-profits, trusts and cities converting manicured greens into places where wildlife, plants and people can flourish
- Siberian crane recovering from 'near-extinct' thanks to habitat protection, news.mongabay.com (Jan 09, 2025)
- State of South Australia bans fishing of several endangered or critically endangered sharks and rays in its waters, news.mongabay.com (Jan 02, 2025)
2024
- ‘The dead zone is real’: why US farmers are embracing wildflowers, theguardian.com (Dec 26, 2024)
- Saving the ‘Kidneys’ of the Great Barrier Reef, reasonstobecheerful.world (Dec 17, 2024)
- Ranching to boost grasslands conservation in Bolivia’s flooded savannas, news.mongabay.com (Nov 29, 2024)
- ‘It’s a big lever for change’: the radical contract protecting Hamburg’s green space, theguardian.com (Oct 24, 2024)
- World leaders are gathering in Cali, Colombia, to agree ways to save species from extinction and restore nature. Here are five powerful solutions to halt biodiversity loss, BBC Future (Oct 24, 2024)
- Hope from Nepal’s first community-based red panda conservation area, news.mongabay.com (Aug 29, 2024)
- For South Africa’s amaMpondo fighting to protect nature, ‘Everything is a being’, news.mongabay.com (Aug 19, 2024)
- Ancient Tracking Skills and New Tech Are Protecting Namibia’s Endangered Pangolins, reasonstobecheerful.world (Aug 09, 2024)
- Women finding empowerment working with nature’s bounty in Brazil’s Pantanal, news.mongabay.com (Aug 08, 2024)
- ‘It’s nice to help a life to live’: meet Sri Lanka’s turtle guardians, theguardian.com (Aug 08, 2024)
- African island state embraces the hunters to end turtle hunting, news.mongabay.com (Jul 17, 2024)
- EU passes law to restore 20% of bloc’s land and sea by end of decade, theguardian.com (Jun 17, 2024)
- Herd of 170 bison could help store CO2 equivalent of almost 2m cars, researchers say, theguardian.com (May 15, 2024)
- Fewer wildfires, great biodiversity: what is the secret to the success of Mexico’s forests?, theguardian.com (May 01, 2024) — More than half of the country’s forestry is in community and Indigenous hands – and from CO2 absorption to reducing poverty the results are impressive
- Rio’s dolphins back from the brink of extinction thanks to education and research, news.mongabay.com (Apr 30, 2024)
- Food forests grown by Nile Basin farmers restore wetlands and bring back a turtle, news.mongabay.com (Feb 28, 2024)
- Community seed banks offer hope for the Amazon across Brazil’s soy belt, news.mongabay.com (Feb 15, 2024)
- Low-carbon milk to AI irrigation: tech startups powering Latin America’s green revolution, theguardian.com (Jan 30, 2024)
- Reverse in endangered fish’s slide to extinction helped by Indigenous effort in Bangladesh, news.mongabay.com (Jan 19, 2024)
2023
- Farming support to communities living near wildlife reserve in Cameroon lowers rates of hunting, news.mongabay.com (Dec 19, 2023)
- Collaboration involving local fishing communities helps save manatees stranded in Colombia, news.mongabay.com (Dec 18, 2023)
- Papua New Guinea's two large new marine protected areas “one of the first and most ambitious community-led MPA wins”, news.mongabay.com (Dec 14, 2023)
- How Jocotoco Foundation, an Ecuadorian non-profit protects 10% of the world’s bird species, news.mongabay.com (Dec 11, 2023)
- Climate change: Saving Uganda's mountain gorillas, BBC News (Dec 01, 2023)
- Blue whales: Ocean giants return to 'safe' tropical haven, BBC News (Nov 23, 2023)
- Boy tells TDs and senators: 'We need more trains now', rte.ie (Nov 21, 2023)
- Pala’wan Indigenous community’s organic farming protecting a Philippine hotspot, news.mongabay.com (Nov 16, 2023)
- Outlaw fisher turns reef marshal in Indonesia’s Sumbawa, news.mongabay.com (Oct 31, 2023)
- The barren island that came back from the dead, positive.news (Oct 18, 2023)
- Flock of California Condors Spotted In Contra Costa County for the First Time in 100 Years., sfist.com (Sep 25, 2023)
- Can ‘road ecology’ save millions of animals?, news.mongabay.com (Sep 19, 2023)
- The Samburu warriors regenerating a Kenyan wilderness, positive.news (Sep 18, 2023)
- Agroforestry chocolate helping save the world’s most endangered rainforest, by Liz Kimbrough, news.mongabay.com (Sep 12, 2023)
- Sundarbans tiger and prey numbers rise amid Bangladesh conservation efforts, news.mongabay.com (Sep 11, 2023)
- A forest gave Cambodia’s captive elephants a new life. Now they’re paying it back, news.mongabay.com (Aug 31, 2023)
- Ecuadorians vote to halt oil drilling in biodiverse Amazonian national park, theguardian.com (Aug 21, 2023)
- UN adopts first ‘historic’ treaty to protect high seas, aljazeera.com (Jun 19, 2023)
- Belize’s co-management framework is a model for community conservation, globalvoices.org (Jun 12, 2023)
- Tiger protection in India also saved 1 million tonnes of carbon emissions – new study, The Conversation (May 25, 2023)
- Inside the world’s first native bee sanctuary (plus, how to really save bees), Positive News (May 19, 2023)
- Community-led coral restoration project is rare hit amid slew of misses in Indonesia, news.mongabay.com (May 04, 2023)
- Costa Rica restored its ravaged land to health. The rich UK has no excuse for such complete failure, George Monbiot, The Guardian (Apr 21, 2023)
- Ocean treaty: Historic agreement reached after decade of talks, BBC News (Mar 05, 2023)
2022
- Cop15 in Montreal: did the summit deliver for the natural world?, The Guardian (Dec 20, 2022)
- WWF Living Planet Report: Devastating 69% drop in wildlife populations since 1970, wwf.eu (Oct 13, 2022)
- Elephants on the Move: 250 Elephants to be Relocated in Malawi, African Parks (Jun 21, 2022)
- Mountain gorillas: The ripple effect of conservation, BBC News (Jun 20, 2022)
- How Gabon saved its forest elephants, BBC News (Jun 19, 2022)
- The elephant whisperer of Nepal, Global Voices (May 23, 2022) — Saluting a citizen scientist who protects wild elephants
- The wolf: the Italian population is increasing, isprambiente.gov.it (May 17, 2022) — ISPRA estimates over 3000 specimens in Italy
- The return of California's butterflies, BBC News (May 08, 2022)
- Linking protected areas from Yellowstone to the Yukon shows the value of conserving large landscapes, not just isolated parks and preserves, The Conversation (Apr 26, 2022)
- More than 100 animals released back into Colombian wild, BBC News (Apr 07, 2022) — Environmental authority Corporinoquia, in charge of managing sustainable development, released more than 1,200 animals back into the wild last year alone.
- How we discovered that sea turtles in Seychelles have recovered from the brink, The Conversation (Mar 17, 2022)
- Koalas labeled as 'endangered' in eastern states of Australia, Wikinews (Feb 14, 2022) — On Friday, Australia’s federal environment minister Sussan Ley declared the koala an endangered species in Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.
- Iceland whaling: Fisheries minister signals end from 2024, BBC News (Feb 04, 2022)
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