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KENYA

Meet the Indigenous women restoring Kenya’s Mau Forest — and reshaping gender roles

Before dawn breaks over Eor Ewaso, a village in southwestern Kenya, Judy Mukut is already awake. By 6:30 a.m., she has fetched water, milked the family’s cattle, prepared breakfast, cleaned the house and seen her children off to school. Only then does she leave home for a resource center run by the Paran Indigenous women’s organization, where another day’s conservation work begins.
News ID: 754   Publish Date : 2026/08/11

KENYA

Meet the Indigenous women restoring Kenya’s Mau Forest — and reshaping gender roles

Before dawn breaks over Eor Ewaso, a village in southwestern Kenya, Judy Mukut is already awake. By 6:30 a.m., she has fetched water, milked the family’s cattle, prepared breakfast, cleaned the house and seen her children off to school. Only then does she leave home for a resource center run by the Paran Indigenous women’s organization, where another day’s conservation work begins.
News ID: 754   Publish Date : 2026/08/11

Amazon

Amazon deforestation alerts fall to lowest level since 2013, Brazilian data show

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has fallen to its lowest level in 13 years, according to new satellite data from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE), continuing a decline that began after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returned to office in 2023.
News ID: 715   Publish Date : 2026/08/09

Amazon

Amazon deforestation alerts fall to lowest level since 2013, Brazilian data show

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has fallen to its lowest level in 13 years, according to new satellite data from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE), continuing a decline that began after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returned to office in 2023.
News ID: 715   Publish Date : 2026/08/09

Canada

Raging wildfire forces 20,000 to flee in Canada

British Columbia declared a state of emergency as a fast-moving blaze almost doubled in size overnight
News ID: 711   Publish Date : 2026/08/09

Canada

Raging wildfire forces 20,000 to flee in Canada

British Columbia declared a state of emergency as a fast-moving blaze almost doubled in size overnight
News ID: 711   Publish Date : 2026/08/09

forest

How Mennonites in Belize built a land-buying machine taking over forests

Over the past two decades, Belize lost around 20% of its forest cover — more than 350,000 hectares (865,000 acres). Much of it is the result of agricultural expansion by Mennonites, the conservative Christian denomination that arrived in the country more than six decades ago.
News ID: 672   Publish Date : 2026/08/07