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09 July 2025
Seeding the Future: In the Peruvian Highlands, Aymara Communities Are Working to Recover and Conserve Their Agrobiodiversity
The community of Culta is part of the Ácora district in the southeastern part of Peru, near the border with Bolivia, along the western shores of
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17 June 2025
Oases of Hope: How Micro-Nurseries Help Restore the Aral Sea
As a child, Zauresh remembers a vast sea with a large variety of vegetation, fish, and animals. Once, a full-flowing sea provided the residents of
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13 June 2025
Greening the Mexican Desert: Local Communities Use Innovation and Tradition to Transform a Desert Landscape Into Forest
In the parched communities of the Mixteca region’s desert fringe, along the Western border of Mexico’s Oaxaca state, the wait for the rainy
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06 June 2025
Action for the Ocean:Local Communities in Mauritius are Tackling Plastic Waste and Protecting Marine Life
As a kid, Christina Perrine used to go through plastic waste to find discarded bottles that she could reuse to make decorative plastic flowers. Her
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06 June 2025
COMDEKS Phase 4 knowledge exchange: learning from Japan’s Satoyama sites
Societies living in harmony with nature: this was the central concept demonstrated to representatives from the Global Environment Facility Small
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16 May 2025
Societies in harmony with nature: locally-led landscape approaches　
Tokyo, 22nd April 2025, the Keidanren Nature Conservation Council (KNCC), the Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MOEJ) and the United Nations
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15 May 2025
Tiny but Mighty: How Bees Are Making a Comeback and Helping Local Communities Thrive in Samoa
Tiny but mighty, bees and other pollinators are vital for the health and well-being of both people and the planet. “In Samoa, beekeeping is
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16 April 2025
Strengthening ocean conservation and sustainable development in Saint Kitts & Nevis
A dual-island nation located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, Saint Kitts and Nevis boasts a representative cross-section of
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16 April 2025
A bio-cultural treasure: Revitalizing traditional knowledge and promoting ecosystem-based solutions in North-East India
The North East India region – spanning the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim - is a
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27 March 2025
Empowering Community Organizations for Environmental Conservation in the Bahamas
In the tropical Atlantic’s largest small-island archipelago, a new partnership has successfully launched a transformative capacity-building
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24 March 2025
Supporting environmental efforts in Cuba: CBF and UNDP finalize landmark conservation finance agreement
The Caribbean Biodiversity Fund (CBF) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Cuba will be working together on environmental projects
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13 March 2025
Weaving the future of women’s empowerment: Female alpaca breeders in the Peruvian Andes promote a sustainable value chain that restores grasslands and water
At 4,000 metres above sea level and surrounded by mountains and vast meadows, the women of the Sumac Vicuñitas Artisans Association of Umpuco-Palca
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