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• Young Rwandans support bird conservation through mobile app recordings

  A young tour guide and his group of student mentees are helping monitor bird species in Rwanda with the help of a mobile app, Mongabay contributor Mariam Kone reported. Joseph Desiré Dufitumukiza, who enjoys bird-watching, felt moved to take action after he read about the decline of native bird species in Rwanda, including the Maccoa […]

• Future of Mexican communal land in limbo as mining company overstays agreement

  This is the third part of a three-part series on underreported issues involving Canadian mining companies and Indigenous peoples or local communities. Read part one and part two. Ever since March 31, members of the Carrizalillo ejido — an area of communal agricultural land — in Mexico’s Guerrero state have found themselves in a state […]

• In Nepal, confrontation looms over controversial cable car project as court lifts stay order

  KATHMANDU — Nepal’s Supreme Court has refused to extend the suspension of a controversial cable car project at a pilgrimage site in the country’s eastern hills, sparking concerns of confrontation over the culturally fraught issue. While the company building the project says it plans to resume construction work that was halted after the court issued […]

• Silvery lining for Java’s endangered gibbon as Rahayu Oktaviani wins Whitley prize

  YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia — Rahayu Oktaviani revered the work of Canadian primatologist Biruté Galdikas while a student in the mid-2000s, aspiring to join her hero in protecting the Bornean orangutan, which would be classified several years later as a critically endangered species. In the end, a lack of research funding kept the Borneo forest canopy out […]

• Urban forests in Niger’s schoolyards serve climate resilience and education

  An unusual subject has found its way into the curriculum of schools in Niger: trees. As municipal authorities across the Sahel country work to adapt to extreme heat and other effects of climate change, the value of urban forestry has gained increased recognition. “This is really an opportunity to combat climate change and poverty at […]