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The Yurok Tribe Is Using California’s Carbon Offset Program to Buy Back Its Land
Nick Folkins, a Yurok citizen and a Yurok Fisheries Department technician, captures juvenile salmon for a long-term study on McGarvey Creek, a Klamath River tributary.
Photo from the Yurok Tribe
With income from sequestering carbon in its forests, the tribe has supported youth programming, housing, road improvement, and businesses development.
Feel the people s power flow
Feel the people s power flow
This two-part series explores people living along the Mekong and its tributaries who have embarked on a crusade to save their source of life and livelihoods
published : 14 Apr 2021 at 04:00 The wetland forest of Boon Rueang community in Chiang Rai province has long served as a kitchen supermarket for locals. (Photos courtesy of Phitchayetsaphong Khurupratchamak and Kitti Treeraj)
Amid the jubilation, there was a brief moment of uneasiness. Last September, during a ceremony to award the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Equator Prize held at the Boon Rueang wetland forest in Chiang Rai province, participants noticed the ground was much drier than it used to be. The moderator even joked that had the wetland forest venue been as wet as before during the monsoon season, they would have been celebrating the occasion partly submerged.
Traditional healers are preserving their knowledge, and with it, the biodiversity of Brazil’s savanna
by Sarah Sax on 12 March 2021
The Brazilian savanna contains almost a third of Brazil’s biodiversity but less than 10% is officially protected and its native vegetation is threatened by a rapidly-advancing agricultural frontier.
Much of the flora and fauna remain unknown to conventional science.
A network of traditional healers is at the forefront of finding ways to protect, sustainably manage, and document the biodiversity based on their in-depth knowledge of medicinal plants.
Experts say that finding ways to value the savanna more, such as through recognizing its immense botanical and pharmacological value, could aid in its conservation.
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