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#1334612022-02-23
‘Women for Bees’ project launched
A beekeeping programme aimed at empowering women and conserving biodiversity was officially launched in the presence of Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie earlier this week, according to the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts.
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#1305162021-09-22
‘Ecofeminism is about respect’: the activist working to revolutionise west African farming
Outside Mariama Sonko’s home in the Casamance region of southern Senegal pink shells hang on improvised nets that will be placed in mangroves to provide a breeding spot for oysters.
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#1263432020-12-18
‘Celebrating resilience of bio diverse community’
The North East Network (NEN) in collaboration with Thetsumi Women Society and SEWA Thetsumi Unit organised a biodiversity festival at Thetsumi in Phek District, Nagaland on December 15 under the theme “Celebrating resilience of bio diverse community.”
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#1247702020-03-20
Women’s rights, traditional knowledge and biodiversity
Women’s organising in Kyrgyzstan serves as an example of the inseparable linkages between gender, environmental and economic justice. The sheer scale of the challenges faced by our planet is difficult to comprehend, but there is now at least recognition of the fact that ecological and social cri ...
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#1275622021-03-05
Women’s Day 2021: Time to Recognize & Appreciate Women’s Role in Biodiversity Preservation
Every year we celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March to recognize women’s success and her role in economic, social, political, and cultural development. The day is also celebrated to make people aware of women’s rights and gender equality. There is one more area i.e. Biodiversity preser ...
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#1229882019-11-14
Women, wildlife and the workings of the CBD
One key decision to be taken over the next two weeks at the UN Biodiversity conference is whether to adopt new guidance on sustainable wildlife management. These are practices that sustain populations and habitats of wildlife while simultaneously supporting people’s livelihoods – from providing ...
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#1246622020-03-13
Women shouldering the burden of climate crisis need action, not speeches
Milikini Failautusi, 30, lives on the Pacific island of Tuvalu. She has become virtually a nomad in her own country after rising tides forced her to leave her ancestral atoll and move to the main island, Funafuti.
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#1298632021-08-10
Women in rural agriculture stricken by climate change effects
Climate change is not gender neutral. As developing countries bear the brunt of climate change in the form of extreme weather conditions such as droughts and floods – increasing the vulnerability of pinched natural resources – it is women and girls in agriculture and rural and remote areas who a ...
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#1287352021-05-20
Women in rural Namibia profit from biodiversity-friendly trade
The Eudafano Women’s Cooperative in Namibia extracts ingredients from seeds of indigenous plants such as marula, a medium-sized deciduous tree, for the domestic and international cosmetics industry. Oil extracted from marula seeds is rich in elements that are essential for the preservation of hu ...
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#1235312019-12-19
Women from the Xingu Territory unite against threats from Bolsonaro administration
“We don’t think about selling wood or any part of the Earth to get money. We have so many ways to support ourselves that we don’t need to destroy anything.” This declaration came from Anna Terra Yawalapiti in her speech at the opening ceremony of the first summit of the women of the Xingu Indige ...
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#1289212021-05-31
Women from Kerala weave a solution to the region’s climate woes
Idukki district gets its name from the Malayalam word idukku, which means gorge. Beautiful narrow gorges run across this hilly tourist destination in Kerala in south India. But the district is equally in news for its disasters. One of the four most landslide-prone districts in Kerala, its margin ...
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#1331632022-02-14
Women form team to guard forest in Jharkhand village
Save the forest. That’s the motto of 100-odd women in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. Worried by rapid deforestation, they have taken it up themselves to protect around nine acres of forest land in their area. They are also running an awareness campaign so that more join them in this noble ...
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#1200652019-02-22
Women custodians of biodiversity hold key to food security
A UN report on the state of world biodiversity for food and agriculture links rising food insecurity and chronic hunger to threatened habitats and ecosystems. But traditional female stewards of biodiversity offer hope.
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#1246182020-03-11
Women bear the brunt of climate change in Angola
Tehandjila Quessale's heart sank every time her mother sent her to fetch water for their crops, up in the mountains of Angola's southern Huila region. The 16-year-old had to leave school early and walk three hours to join a long queue of people at the nearest water point.
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#1246652020-03-13
Women bear the brunt of climate change in Angola
Tehandjila Quessale's heart sank every time her mother sent her to fetch water for their crops, up in the mountains of Angola's southern Huila region.
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#1246922020-03-16
Women act to make slums climate-resilient, one house at a time
Farida Sheikh remembers her house in the slums in Ahmedabad feeling like a furnace, where summer temperatures have reached up to 50 degrees Celsius. But for the last four years, the situation inside the house has cooled down.
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#1218962019-08-14
Women Pastoralists Feel Heat of Climate Change
NAIROBI, Aug 14 2019 (IPS) - For many people, climate change is about shrinking glaciers, rising sea levels, longer and more intense heatwaves, and other extreme and unpredictable weather patterns.
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#1260372020-12-07
Women Are Still Not Heard in the Climate Policy Conversation
Climate change effects don’t have the same impact on everyone: Vulnerable groups always have it worse. This discrepancy is apparent even when these groups are not minorities, which is the case for women—half of the world’s population.
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#1328452022-02-01
Why women’s leadership is key to climate action
At the COP26 climate summit, the leaders of Estonia, Tanzania and Bangladesh were the first to sign the Glasgow Women’s Leadership statement, calling for countries to support the leadership of women and girls on climate action at all levels of society and politics. Yet these three women comprise ...
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#1283392021-04-30
Why women have an essential role in biodiversity conservation
The world is suffering a biodiversity crisis – approximately 10,000 species are lost to extinction every year.Women in indigenous communities are uniquely positioned to take action on conservation issues.
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#1283132021-04-28
What Climate Change Adaptation Programs in Peru Are Missing: Indigenous Women’s Knowledge
As climate change in the high Andes threatens alpaca herding, the primary source of livelihood for many of Peru’s Indigenous communities, development programs are teaching men how to use technical herd management strategies such as herd immunization, selective breeding, and modern pasture manage ...
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#1197262019-02-01
Weaving is giving Indian women hope in the face of climate change
In recent months, 30-year-old Niru Sonowal and a dozen other women from her northeast Indian village have trekked on foot for miles every day in search of work.
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#1354462022-07-26
We Can’t Fight Climate Change Without Fighting for Gender Equity
As the climate crisis becomes increasingly urgent, organizations around the world have begun investing in a wide array of environmental sustainability initiatives. Some of these efforts target technological solutions, while others prioritize behavioral or economic changes, but what the vast majo ...
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#1232882019-12-05
Vegetable gardens bring veritable gains for women in climate-struck Cambodia
On the road winding into Chreng village in Cambodia’s Pursat province, a group of boys are playing volleyball on an arid plot of land as villagers watch and cheer
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#1213062019-06-13
Turning the tide: Empowering women to protect our oceans, future
Billions of people around the world depend on the fresh food and livelihoods provided by healthy oceans. In fisheries, one in two seafood workers is a woman.
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#1292352021-06-11
The women who keep the gold in Ireland's ground
The Island of Ireland is one ecological unit and two jurisdictions. Divided by a border that water systems, pollutants and the air do not recognise. It is an Island united by the fact that both governments’ neoliberal policies actively invite the interest of the mining industry.
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#1318842021-11-24
The smart climate money is on women
Women account for 43 percent of the agricultural labor force in developing countries, but account for only about 7 percent of investment in the sector. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, investing more in female farmers could increase agricultural yields by ...
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#1354322022-07-21
The role of women in biodiversity conservation
Environmental experts have underscored the need to fully explore and utilise women’s potential in contributing to biodiversity conservation and sustainable development.
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#1256522020-11-11
The Bengaluru women creating a visual record of nature
Sugandhi Gadadhar once waited 18 days to catch sight of the majestic but publicity-averse denizens Daroji Sloth Bear Sanctuary in Karnataka.
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#1187032018-10-26
System change means dismantling patriarchy
Our societies have mostly been organised to maximise capitalist accumulation for the benefit and privilege of elites and corporations. In the parallel exploitation of women and nature, both are seen as infinite and elastic resources – free, readily available, to be appropriated without resistance.
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#1217042019-07-25
Sweeping the Bush, protecting the land - The women quashing poaching
The black mamba is the most venomous snake in sub-Saharan Africa.
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#1342632022-05-04
Stewards of the forest: the pioneering women’s collective harvesting the Gambia’s oysters
The all-female workforce is part of a visionary project committed to protecting the wetland forests. Now their challenge is to earn a sustainable living year-round
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#1319802021-11-29
Stand against climate crisis is stand against gender violence
The climate crisis and environmental degradation are fuelling gender-based violence. Women and gender minorities at the forefront of environmental resistance movements are a prime target of violence. They are threatened, intimidated, attacked, or killed while defending their homes, communities, ...
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#1237822020-01-17
She started climbing trees as a kid. Then this ecologist helped create scientist Barbie.
Nalini Nadkarni didn’t play with Barbies as a girl. She was too busy climbing the maple trees in her front yard in Bethesda, Md.The forest ecologist might seem an unlikely person to help design and promote Barbie dolls. But over the past six months, she has been inspiring girls worldwide to play ...
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#1206922019-04-09
Seasons of the witch: as women we nurture the riches of earth, food and health
The correlation of the feminine to nature, repressive for so long, can be a source of power. In the past few months I have started putting down roots. It’s a cliche but it’s literally what I’m doing. I spend my weekends transforming the tired old lawn into garden beds, layering woodchips, straw ...
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#1303492021-09-09
Saving seeds and lives: Tunisian women on the frontline of climate change
With Tunisia facing both climate and economic crises, a group of women have started cooperatives and small businesses to protect the environment and create a sustainable livelihood.
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#1207442019-04-12
Saving a forest, saving livelihoods
Twenty years after a super cyclone ripped Odisha apart, a women’s group from a village recalls how it protected crops by reviving a lost forest
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#1354392022-07-26
Saffron, biodiversity and glaciers: Kashmir’s women scientists lead climate action
Several women scientists from Kashmir are at the forefront of research to tackle changing climatic patterns that threaten local ecologies, livelihoods and networks that sustain them. Scientists Nasheeman Ashraf, Ulfat Majeed and Mehreen Khaleel come from different backgrounds and work in differe ...
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#1237552020-01-16
Reversing Climate Change with a Feminine Response
The UK-based charity, TreeSisters‘ feminine response to climate change hopes to shift humanity’s identity from a consumer to a restorer species, calling for collective responsibility and planetary restoration through a reforestation revolution. It nurtures ordinary women to do extraordinary things.
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#1256532020-11-11
Ratifying the Escazú Agreement Will Support Women Land Defenders and Protect Nature
Patricia Gualinga is surrounded by a burgeoning rainforest as she zooms in to participate in an online forum. While her image appears slightly out of focus as she calls in from her remote location in the Ecuadorian Amazon, her words, courage and determination transmit crystal clear:
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#1212862019-06-12
Promoting gender equality a ‘crucial contribution’ in effort to restore, protect our planet’s oceans
“We need to empower each and every citizen to take care of the ocean and enable all women to play transformative and ambitious roles in understanding, exploring, protecting and sustainably managing our ocean”, said Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, pointing out that this year’s “specia ...
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#1200882019-02-26
Pioneering naturalists: the woman who linked caterpillars to butterflies
Most school kids can describe in detail the life cycle of butterflies: eggs hatch into caterpillars, caterpillars turn into cocoons and cocoons hatch. This seemingly basic bit of biology was once hotly debated. It was a pioneering naturalist, Maria Sibylla Merian, whose meticulous observations c ...
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#1278102021-03-29
Participants at “Gender, Climate Change, and Migration” event were briefed on the VC platform
Gender equality, women’s protection, and empowerment are keys to the disaster risk reduction and climate change agendas, and to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. To enable this, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the global roadmap to reduce disaster losses by 2030, cal ...
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#1267712021-01-29
New guide aims to accelerate forest tenure pathways to gender equality
Forest tenure reform in the global south has often failed to be gender-responsive, but there is increasing interest in taking up this challenge to activate effective change.
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#1352752022-07-11
Natural regeneration and women-led initiatives help drive Atlantic Forest Pact
When she was 6 years old, Ludmila Pugliese de Siqueira moved with her family to the state of Amazonas in northeastern Brazil. Her father was a geologist and worked on the construction of the Balbina Dam in the 1980s.
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#1255452020-11-04
Mother Nature can mend our maladies
Adding a gender lens could expedite implementation of nature-based solutions.The devastating impacts of climate change are disproportionately experienced by women, as they face higher risks and greater burdens than men. Women’s unequal participation in decision making, economic exclusion, exploi ...
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#1275782021-03-08
Mongabay-India editor recognized among ‘16 Women Restoring the Earth’
Across the globe, women are leading the charge to protect and restore the environment. Today, on International Women’s Day, the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) honors 16 Women Restoring the Earth through music, science, policy, journalism, land rights, finance, and many other creative and effectiv ...
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#1241162020-02-11
Leading Shropshire scientist retiring after 40 years urges girls to embark on career in science
Sue Townsend, Biodiversity Learning Manager at the Field Studies Council (FSC) in Montford Bridge, near Shrewsbury, will hang up her wellies at the end of this week.
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#1215752019-07-15
Jamaican women tackle the climate crisis on all sides
Globally, startling changes in the environment disproportionately affect women in developing countries, largely because of their lower economic and social status. In Jamaica, women head about 46 percent of households and bear the brunt of responsibility for shelter, water, and food security.
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#1275902021-03-08
It's time to bolster women in conservation
Women are largely being excluded from decisions about conservation and natural resources, with potentially detrimental effects on conservation efforts globally, according to research.