Helping Forest Firefighters Battle a Different Kind of Burnout
A new preventative form of peer support is helping Canadian crews address the cumulative stress of their jobs before they get to the point of mental burnout or breakdown.
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Ownership of a California Redwood Forest Is Being Returned To Indigenous Guardianship
The InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council is working with Save the Redwoods League, which donated the land, to protect California’s remaining oil-growth forest, along with endangered species such as the northern spotted owl and marbled murrelet.
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Women Activists in El Salvador Are Organizing To Prevent Deforestation and Loss of Access To Water
A group of women in rural El Salvador is standing up against a major infrastructure project that threatens to clear hundreds of hectares of forest and cut off access to rivers that provide the community with clean drinking water.
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Tucson Is Planting a Million Trees To Combat Climate Change
Reflecting on her childhood, Tucson, Arizona Mayor Regina Romero points to her father as the figure who lit an environmentalist fire within her.
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Female 'Firies' Are Fighting Flames and Stereotypes in Australia
Her mother, grandma, and sister-in-law all fight fires, and she expects her baby daughter will become a firefighter, too.
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In Burundi, Former Combatants Who Razed Forests Now Raise Seedlings
The formerly warring factions are working together on the reforestation project that has been hailed as a fantastic initiative.
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