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Managing Ghost Gear in Mexico

Ocean Conservancy

This is being established in Ensenada city and the upcycle processing will be done in the Bureo’s new facility in Oxnard, California. Hagamos Mas has worked in coordination with Ecologists Without Borders (EcoWb) and the Instituto Superior de Mulegé (ITESME) in Baja California Sur since 2013. “We

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Cattle and Climate Change: Putting Sustainability in Perspective

HumanNature

Cattle also have a unique ability to upcycle nutrients, transforming inedible plant materials that are not digestible by humans into high-quality protein sources. Picture courtesy of CSU AgNext Globally, livestock are responsible for approximately 14.5% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (Gerber et al., methane emissions (EPA, 2022).

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Kathleen Hebert: Protecting the Puget Sound through Activism and Investment

Washington Nature

I had a shocking wake-up call in 2013,” she said about the experience that brought her to the board of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Washington. She visited one of her favorite tide pools with her family and was stunned to see that “all the ochre [purple] stars that covered the stones in the intertidal zone had disappeared in 18 months.