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Deforestation, extinction and climate change are all global problems that we can solve by giving value to our species and ecosystems and by working together with the local people who live next to them.
In less than a decade, with international support, the state forest departments and the local communities worked together to restore over 20,000 acres of unproductive fish and shrimp farms back into mangroves.
When we shared images of these fishing cats with local people, we were able to build pride among them about a globally revered endangered species and ecosystem in their backyards.
Meet Santosh, a 19-year-old boy who not only became a conservation professional after working with us for just over a year but also went on to involve many local fishermen in helping study and protect fishing cats.
A win-win-win for fishing cats, local people and the global community.
Local people should be at the forefront of the solutions to the challenges facing their wildlife.
Local communities play an important role in fighting poaching and illegal wildlife trade, which are major threats affecting lions and other wildlife.
Unless the local communities want to protect and coexist with wildlife, all conservation efforts might be in vain.
And if local communities don't protect their wildlife, no amount of outside intervention will work.
It is also critical that local conservationists be part of every conservation effort, if we are to build trust and really embed conservation into communities.
As local conservationists, we face many hurdles, from outright discrimination to barriers because of cultural norms.
He was actually a well-known and well-loved local politician in his and my hometown of Liverpool, and they put up a statue in his memory in the center of Liverpool, and there it is.
I want to take you through a few Detroit neighborhoods, and I want you to see what it looks like when you empower local leadership, and when you support grassroots movements of folks who are moving the needle in low-income communities and people of color.
And when their product is sold all over the city of Detroit in local markets, they get a hundred percent of the proceeds from the sale.
AYGTK: When fair directors ignored Mary Talbert and the local black Buffalo community's request to participate in the fair, newspapers say that Mary Talbert and her club of educated African American women held a rousing protest meeting.
They created a community-led protected area, a democratic system for local marine governance that was totally unimaginable just a few years earlier.
We need to step up to this global opportunity to rebuild fisheries: with field workers to stand with communities and connect them, to support them to act and learn from one another; with governments and lawyers standing with communities to secure their rights to manage their fisheries; prioritizing local food and job security above all competing interests in the ocean economy; ending subsidies for grotesquely overcapitalized industrial fleets and keeping those industrial and foreign vessels out of coastal waters.
The people in Chicago decided that as well as exhibiting our reefs, what they wanted to do was have the local people there make a reef.
In each of these cities, the local citizens, hundreds and hundreds of them, have made a reef.
This is an example of a community-based artwork that we did last year with the local youth of Punta Allen in Sian Ka'an.
But a lot of money has been thrown out at the local level and at the federal level to look at infectious diseases.
The rest is up to your local community.
You're the mayor of your local town.
And I hope I've convinced you of that, which means that the real job is go out and say to your local leaders, and your national leaders, "Why haven't you solved these problems?
Does anything justify what the local community goes through?
They provide opportunities to be more physically active, as well as local economic development.
We have the opportunity now to bring together all the stakeholders to re-envision how this 28 acres can be better utilized for parkland, affordable housing and local economic development.
And their approaches to local economic and job development are so lame it's not even funny.
Even in your local community, find out if there's a lighting code and whether it could be made more night-sky friendly.
I mean, they are better local."
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