Archives: Highlights
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The Elwha Klallam Tribe
For decades, the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe fought to remove unwelcome dams on their river—and finally won.
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The Salmon “Nutrient Express”
Removing dams from the Elwha River allows salmon to return upstream—and bring precious nutrients from the sea that eventually spread throughout the forest.
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A Bioblitz in Ecuador
Young volunteers from the Reserva Youth Land Trust are exploring the jungles of Ecuador to survey, photograph, and identify species—and to help protect their right to exist.
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Protecting the Rights of Nature
The Reserva Land Trust has rallied together young people from across 25 countries to create the world’s first youth-funded nature reserve in Ecuador.
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Restoring a Forest with Controlled Burns
People are setting fire to pine forests in North Carolina to help protect an endangered woodpecker, and many other creatures as well.
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An Unlikely Partnership
On an army base in North Carolina, soldiers and scientists have turned their conflict over an endangered species into collaboration—and conservation success.
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How Beaver Dams Are Built
The lodges and wetlands that beavers build aren’t just places for their families to live and sleep (and snore!) — they’re havens where many wild creatures can thrive.
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The Return of Britain’s Beavers
Beavers are back in England for the first time in 400 years, and their dams are already protecting villages from flood and helping farmers in times of drought.
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Oysters: The Superpowered Filterers
Oysters posses an amazing ability to filter water. They naturally filter and clean the water they live in, which makes an ongoing effort to put a billion of them in New York Harbor a pretty big deal.
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Living Breakwaters in New York Harbor
Landscape architect Kate Orff is working with nature to protect New York City from future threats like rising seas and superstorms.