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Newly released report summarizes a 2022 International Workshop on Indigenous Communities and Government Partnerships for Protected Area Management, offering recommendations to advance Indigenous-led stewardship and shared management of protected areas.
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The InterTribal Buffalo Council, Native Americans in Philanthropy, The Nature Conservancy, and World Wildlife Fund announce the launch of the Tribal Buffalo Lifeways Collaboration, which aims to expand Tribal-led buffalo restoration and foster cultural, spiritual, ecological, and economic revitalization within Native communities.
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The Conservation Alliance spotlights the Alabama River Diversity Network, a growing collaborative focused on reclaiming and revitalizing the Alabama River corridor and Black Belt area and developing a holistic Alabama River conservation plan that takes into account the cultural and historical aspects of the landscape as core components to protecting biological diversity.
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Article in On Land, the magazine of the Western Landowners Alliance, highlights how forest health collaboratives are using fire to steward healthy headwaters across the public and private lands of the Rio Chama, San Juan, and Rio Grande rivers.
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Giving in a Good Way and decolonizing philanthropy: New report highlights barriers that Indigenous-led organizations face in seeking and obtaining funding, and offers recommendations for philanthropic organizations to create meaningful, trust-based funding models in support of Indigenous-led conservation and stewardship spaces.
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The California Landscape Stewardship Network releases a new Strategic Roadmap, outlining how this statewide “network-of-networks” will focus actions in the coming three years and offering a model for network-oriented strategic planning.
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NOAA grant bolsters the GulfCorps Resilience Collaborative, an innovative program that employs and trains young adults in conservation and stewardship activities, with an emphasis on the use of Nature-based Solutions to reduce the impacts of storms and floods while restoring and enhancing the natural environment in underserved communities throughout the Gulf Coast.
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New report card shows that the health of Chesapeake Bay trended upward for the first time in over 20 years–but significant work still remains in achieving an environmentally and economically sustainable Chesapeake Bay watershed, and efforts are underway to chart the next phase of the restoration efforts.
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Increasing funding for conservation: Article from Pew Charitable Trusts explores proven models that show how the world might pay for critical conservation actions–and elsewhere the United Nations Environment Programme highlights the rapid growth in private finance for nature, with hopes of closing the global biodiversity financing gap by 2030.
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Article from Inside Climate News highlights how Black communities outside of Charleston, South Carolina, are embracing conservation methods like forestry projects, land trust programs, and greenbelt initiatives to preserve their neighborhoods in the face of “climate gentrification” and development pressures.
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The Land Trust Alliance releases a new Ecosystem Services Valuation Tool (LTA member only access) to help conservation practitioners estimate the value of ecosystem services from conserved lands.
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Article in Floodlight explores the at-times uneasy intersection of land management and climate mitigation efforts, spotlighting controversies around a proposal to store millions of tons of carbon dioxide under Forest Service lands in Louisiana.
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NRCS success story spotlights innovative efforts led by the Heart of the Rockies Initiative and partners to advance wildlife coexistence efforts int Montana’s Blackfoot Valley.
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Article from The Narwhal highlights how the Ahousaht and Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations spearheaded efforts and partnered with the British Columbia government to protect a world-famous swath of old-growth forest in the Clayoquot Sound.
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Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition releases takeaways from peer-learning sessions around questions, challenges, and opportunities associated with the U.S. Forest Service’s Wildfire Crisis Strategy.
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NatureServe releases updated mapping of the escalating biodiversity crisis, with the Conservation Data Portal for the Western U.S. representing curated maps of at-risk ecosystems and species.
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In a conversation hosted by the Living Landscape Observer, Tony Hiss, author of the recent book, “Rescuing the Planet,” and Shawn Johnson, Director of the Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Policy at University of Montana, explore the significance of lived-in landscapes to the effort to protect 50 percent of the Earth’s land by 2050.
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Anthropocene article highlights a recent analysis on more than 10,000 protected areas that shows that progress in both conservation and economic development happen simultaneously more often than expected.
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Yale E360 article highlights a surprising trend: Even as carbon dioxide levels increase global, many dryland ecosystems are growing greener as vegetation growth increases - with positive and negative effects.
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