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Insight: How campaigners’ slayings hurt environmental protection in Colombia
PUERTO GUZMAN, Colombia, Nov 11 (Reuters) – Darkness had descended on Colombia’s southern Putumayo province one February night last year when gunfire roared through the air, shattering the peaceful dusk. Villagers attending a meeting scattered and fled. Leidy Mendoza watched in horror nearby as her teenage son rushed to save his five-year-old brother, who ran…
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Eating our way to conservation
As the Green Gettysburg Book Club completes our study of “The Climate Book,” edited by Greta Thunberg, we just read a straightforward essay about the connection between our diet and protecting the environment. By changing our food consumption to line up more closely with standard health guidelines, we can reduce humanity’s food-related environmental damage by…
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What’s the dam problem? Town of Orchard Park officials and residents discuss beavers occupying local park
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WKBW) — Town leaders in Orchard Park answered people’s questions about what happened to the beavers at Birdsong Park Nature Trail, Thursday evening. 7 News first told you about this story on October 16. About 12 days after, the Orchard Park Town board had ‘okayed’ a move to remove a “nuisance beaver”…
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Recognizing safe keepers of the environment
WWF-Philippines recognizes key figures in the fight against climate change during the annual Partners’ Night RECOGNIZING SUSTAINABILITY WARRIORS WWF-Philippines honored groups and individuals for their contributions in promoting and scaling the advocacy of nature conservation The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Philippines awarded groups and individuals for their contributions to conserving nature as well…
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Greening Briarcliff is the Environmental Advisory Council’s Mission
Amy Karpati, Ph.D., chair, Briarcliff Environmental Advisory Council (EAC)PHOTOS BY DONNA MUELLER Briarcliff Manor is getting more green. And more purple, yellow, and orange too. The village recently planted a variety of pollinator plants, such as purple cone-flowered echinacea, black-eyed Susans, and orange-flowered milkweed to attract butterflies, in the area outside the Briarcliff Village Hall.…
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An EU plan to fight climate change will go to final votes, even if watered down
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union institutions and conservationists on Friday gave a conditional and guarded welcome to a major plan to better protect nature and fight climate change in the 27-nation bloc. The plan is a key part of the EU’s vaunted European Green Deal that seeks to establish the world’s most ambitious climate and biodiversity targets…
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Landfill site owners put on notice for environmental violations
The Ontario government has announced regulatory changes aimed at cracking down on landfill site owners who violate environmental laws. The new measures empower enforcement officials to levy substantial monetary penalties against offenders, streamlining the process of holding them accountable and reducing the reliance on lengthy court proceedings. “Our government takes environmental violations very seriously, and…
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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…
