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Analysis: How Costa Rica reversed deforestation and raised millions for conservation

A Greener Life

The Central American nation has won praise for its conservation efforts, including in reforestation, and continues to attract international finance to support its initiatives. The Central American nation has secured more than US$135 million in finance for nature in recent years, another leaf in its conservation success story.

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Species on the Move: How Climate Change Is Re-Making Ecosystems

Union of Concerned Scientists

We need to better understand these changes, and to adapt biodiversity conservation strategies to take them into consideration. Deforestation and forest fragmentation are making it harder for species to move in response to climate chnage. Photo: T.R. Protea flowering in Table Mountain National Park, South Africa. Photo: UNESCO/David G.

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Cleaning Up Trash in Vietnam

Ocean Conservancy

Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup ® (ICC) engages volunteers to clean up waterways around the world. The rich mangrove forest here is considered to be the city’s lungs and is in need of protection from issues like deforestation, coastal erosion and plastic pollution.

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Food is finally on the table of global environmental summits, but to what end?

Acoel

Industrial food systems are responsible for one-third of greenhouse gas emissions and are a key driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss , threatening more than 85 percent of the 28,000 species at risk of extinction. Posted on December 23, 2022 by Smita Narula. Image by Charles Echer from Pixabay.

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Most read articles of March 2022: Secrets of ancient leftovers revealed and endangered shark discovered in pet food

Frontiers

If you ever read the ingredient list on your pet’s favorite food, you may come across ambiguous terms such as ‘fish’, ‘ocean fish’, or ‘white bait’. DNA barcoding identifies endangered shark species secretly added to pet food. Have you ever wondered what exactly these ingredients are?

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Highlighting Biodiversity: Spectacular Birds and the Amazon River

Academy of Natural Sciences

The Amazon Rainforest is home to the longest river on Earth that originates high in the Andes mountains as glacial melt and then crosses the entire continent to drain into the Atlantic Ocean. Unfortunately, the southern Amazon Rainforest is also at the center of the region’s deforestation.

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It is the time for nature: World Environment Day 2020

Manning Law

We are seeing the consequences in bushfires, acidifying oceans and locust invasions – which could push millions of people in East Africa into hunger. Keeping wild spaces wild, stopping deforestation and restoring degraded land to protect biodiversity, boost food production and store carbon. Making agriculture biodiversity positive.

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