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On the Great Green Wall, And Being Useful

Charles Eisenstein — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:23:21 +0000

The Great Green Wall is a reforestation, land healing, peace, water restoration, and anti-poverty project spanning the entire African continent, from Senegal in the west to Eritrea nearly 5000 miles to the east.

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More Than 500 Dams Planned in Protected Areas Around the Globe, Study Finds

The CNCL Team — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 01:13:21 +0000

More than 500 dams are planned or already under construction within protected areas around the world, according to a new study published in the journal Conservation Letters.

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The Top 10 Ocean Biodiversity Hotspots to Protect

The CNCL Team — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 21:41:48 +0000

A new study took a deep dive into critical aspects of ocean life to identify the areas of the high seas most worthy of conservation effort.

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Room to Roam: How Animals Benefit From Wildlife Corridors

The CNCL Team — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 00:49:14 +0000

Development, resource extraction and roadbuilding have fragmented landscapes and reduced wild spaces making it harder for animals to find food, search for a mate and adapt to a changing climate. Ecologists and conservationists have been working for decades to create wildlife corridors — areas of natural habitat that can reconnect fragmented habitats.

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11 Years, 40,000 Trees & a ‘Crazy’ Hero: Meet Chitrakoot’s Tree Man

The CNCL Team — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 23:24:43 +0000

How did a single person’s efforts lead to a forest spanning five acres in Bundelkhand, a region notorious for its arid geography, sparse rainfall, and decade-long droughts?

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In Ecuador, One Man’s Mission to Restore a Piece of the Rainforest

The CNCL Team — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 00:29:54 +0000

Ecuador has lost thousands of square miles of rainforest, the land converted to pasture and crop fields and cleared for oil and gas development. Today, trees cover just 35 percent of the country’s surface, down from more than 90 percent a century ago.

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Planting Trees Is Good. Eliminating Deforestation is Better.

The CNCL Team — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 23:29:53 +0000

Planting more trees is one way to offset deforestation. But now, a report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change finds that to have a shot at combatting the climate crisis, among other efforts, we’ll need to cut down fewer trees to begin with.

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We Can’t Keep Eating as We Are – Why Isn’t the IPCC Shouting This from the Rooftops?

The CNCL Team — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 21:22:44 +0000

The new report on land by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shies away from the big issues and fails to properly represent the science. As a result, it gives us few clues about how we might survive the century.

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Animal Agriculture Is Major Threat to Koalas

The CNCL Team — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 23:04:32 +0000

Koalas in Australia are at risk of becoming extinct. The key threat to koala survival is land clearing, both past and continuing, and the key driver for tree-clearing is the production of animal products.

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Jane Goodall on Climate Change: ‘Something’s Got to Give’

The CNCL Team — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 22:16:34 +0000

At the age of 26, Dr Jane Goodall pioneered new ways of researching animals including by living with them. Now, aged 85 and a UN Messenger of Peace, she travels more than 300 days a year to share the urgency of taking action on climate change on behalf of all living things and the planet we share.

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Ethiopia Plants 350 Million Trees in One Day to Fight Climate Change

The CNCL Team — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 21:59:24 +0000

Ethiopia just broke a world record during its fight against the climate crisis. In a single day, the country planted more than 350 million trees. Previously, India held the record for the most trees planted in one day, planting 50 million trees within 24 hours in 2016.

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The Rights of Nature with Mari Margil and Thomas Linzey

The CNCL Team — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 01:14:47 +0000

Communities are now passing legislation to recognize the legally binding rights of nature. This spreading network is honoring and upholding the personhood of the environment, instead of the personhood of the corporations destroying it. Featuring Mari Margil, Associate Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, and Thomas Linzey, co-founder of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.

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