Birthday Trees: a Ugandan teenager's way to replant forests
Ugandan teenager Leah Namugerwa marked her 15th birthday by planting 200 trees, then started Birthday Trees, inviting others to celebrate birthdays by planting trees.
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Biodiversity
4 stories tagged biodiversity.
Mayan beekeepers take the fight for their honey to Mexico's Supreme Court
Mayan beekeeper Leydy Pech built a coalition that challenged genetically modified soy permits in court, defending native bees, honey livelihoods and Indigenous communities' right to be consulted.
The teenager who began planting bamboo on a bare sandbar
Since 1979 Jadav Payeng has planted and tended trees on an eroded Brahmaputra sandbar in Assam, growing a forest now known as Molai.
Waorani communities map their forest and win a court case to keep oil out
Waorani leader Nemonte Nenquimo helped unite communities, map their territory and win a 2019 court ruling that protected about half a million acres of Amazon forest from an oil auction.