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11 September 2025
In rubber boots and truly happy: Amina's journey from office life to eco-stable in Kazakhstan
Six years ago, Amina Yessina (pictured above) left a successful career as a financial director in a prestigious company to pursue a childhood
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05 September 2025
Flowing Clean: River Restoration Project Gains Momentum in Soufrière, Saint Lucia
Soufrière, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is celebrated for its dramatic geological features and the Soufrière Marine Management Area—a regional
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28 August 2025
Building marine resilience in Antigua & Barbuda through local action
Antigua and Barbuda is a twin-island nation in the Eastern Caribbean known for its beautiful beaches, coral reefs, mangroves, and seagrass meadows.
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28 August 2025
Community-led fisheries projects drive marine resilience in Jamaica
Three innovative community-led projects in Jamaica are making waves in marine conservation and sustainable fisheries, demonstrating how grassroots
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06 August 2025
Guardians of What Remains: Protecting Harpy Eagles and Reclaiming Indigenous Heritage in Panama’s Wild Darién
Franklin Olivo was following a trail along a river that weaves deep into the jungle of Tagarkunyal – an ancestral territory of the Guna Indigenous
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23 July 2025
Our Children’s Heritage: Protecting and Restoring Wetlands Across Zimbabwe
Lakes and rivers, swamps and marshes, wet grasslands, peatlands, oases, estuaries, deltas and tidal flats, mangroves and other coastal areas, coral
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23 July 2025
In Harmony with Nature: How People and Nature Can Thrive Together by Combining Traditional Knowledge and Innovation for a Sustainable Future
Genes, species and ecosystems are the building blocks of biodiversity, and their rapid loss threatens the delicate balance that sustains all life on
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21 July 2025
Societies in harmony with nature: building sustainable and resilient communities through the implementation of the Satoyama Initiative and COMDEKS.
The Community Development and Knowledge Management for the Satoyama Initiative Programme (COMDEKS) is a flagship programme of the Satoyama
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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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09 June 2025
6th Annual International Climate Initiative Colombia Interface Workshop
The 6th Annual International Climate Initiative (IKI) Colombia Interface Workshop was held on 3 June 2025 in Bogotá, Colombia, at
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