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Brooks County Extension receives grant from conservation district
#inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } QUITMAN — A Brooks County Extension agent is among the recipients of the Environmental and Agricultural Education Grant from the Middle South Georgia Conservation District. Haley Clark of the Brooks County Extension Office will use the money to develop…
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2023 Indianapolis Prize Winner “Popi” Shares Penguin-related Conservation Lessons with PVM Students
Friday, November 10, 2023 Dr. Pablo Borboroglu, 2023 Indianapolis Prize Winner. The Indianapolis Prize is the world’s leading award for animal conservation. Every two years, the world’s preeminent animal conservationists are celebrated and honored at the Indianapolis Prize Gala presented by Cummins Inc., which was held this year on Saturday, September 30. The next Monday, October…
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Roots and Shoots: The Best of Fall
Native shrubs that light up the fall landscape “Autumn is a second spring, when every leaf is a flower.” While this quote from Albert Camus’ 1944 play, The Misunderstanding, is taken out of context from the work of an unsentimental writer, it comes to my mind every fall because it is celebratory at a time…
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EU urged to throw its economic weight behind Arctic conservation
Despite the EU having little direct say on the protection of poles and glaciers, advocates argued at the One Planet – Polar Summit, hosted in Paris from Wednesday to Friday (8-10 November), that its economic might can still be influential. Read the original French article here. Rising sea levels and coastal flooding are directly linked…
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EU strikes landmark deal on law to restore and protect nature
EU lawmakers and member states have struck a deal on a landmark law to protect nature after watering down rules that critics argued would trouble farmers. The nature restoration law, a hotly contested pillar of the European green deal, will force EU countries to restore at least 20% of the bloc’s land and seas by…
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How an Ancient Practice Aids Marine Conservation
In the village of Tautira, Tahiti, the community came together to impose their own set of fishing restrictions to ensure the availability of fish into the future. Mauritius Images GmbH / Alamy Stock Photo Located in a quiet part of Tahiti, in French Polynesia, the village of Tautira sits on the ocean’s edge, framed by…
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Barbados ‘debt-for-climate’ swap backed by $300 mln EIB, IADB guarantee
Companies European Investment Bank Follow Inter-American Development Bank Follow Nov 10 (Reuters) – The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) are providing a $300 million guarantee for Barbados to execute a “debt-for-climate” swap to upgrade water infrastructure, the European Commission said on Friday. The deal will enable the Caribbean island nation to…
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Hong Kong Oyster Culture Journey • Exploring Ocean Treasures • Inspiring Conservation Action: The Nature Conservancy’s “The Oyster Odyssey Exhibition – Restoring Hong Kong’s Lost Treasure”
HONG KONG, Nov. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The Nature Conservancy’s “The Oyster Odyssey – Restoring Hong Kong’s Lost Treasure” Exhibition is now open. This exhibition aims to take visitors on an enthralling journey to discover the ecological, cultural, and historical significance of oysters and oyster reefs in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta. It provides…
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Your Environment This Week: Tracking small cats in Assam, King cobra venom, Food systems at COP 28
This week’s environment and conservation news stories rolled into one. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch the latest high quality, original video stories from nature’s frontline in India. To receive a weekly email roundup of stories, please sign-up for our newsletter. Study busts myths around king cobra venom A new study from the Western…
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Carnivale on the Rio Grande boosts awareness for Albuquerque ecosystems
Stepping inside the Conservation Carnivale van, dubbed “The Green Machine,” is like stepping inside a delightful cabinet of curiosities existing along the Upper Middle Rio Grande Watershed. Shells and specimens on the van’s walls invite viewers to touch and observe, and signs such as, “nature unites us,” speak of the central message of this traveling…