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The Irular people been farming around the Palamalai and Nilgiri hills for centuries : Sankar.s/WikimediaCommons CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

Climate-resilient agricultural knowledge has always been there among Indigenous groups, we just need to learn from them.

Indigenous lessons

The key to future climate adaptation is to tap past knowledge

Climate-resilient agricultural knowledge has always been there among Indigenous groups, we just need to learn from them.

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Rhinolophus sinicus (Chinese horseshoe bat) was found to harbour SARS-Cov-1 : Yu Ching Tam CC 4.0

Even mismatched vaccines could confer some immunity against related coronaviruses. To prepare for the next pandemic, the world could build a vaccine library.

Science against the clock

Bat scan could insure against future pandemics

Even mismatched vaccines could confer some immunity against related coronaviruses. To prepare for the next pandemic, the world could build a vaccine library.

Health
The Guam rail was successfully reintroduced to Guam from captive breeding programs. : Greg Hume CC 3.0

Research shows species on the brink of extinction have successfully been saved. Applying the same approaches more broadly could help the planet.

Species extinction

Conservation actions work to save species

Research shows species on the brink of extinction have successfully been saved. Applying the same approaches more broadly could help the planet.

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Even well-fed domestic cats will hunt if allowed outside : Mark Marathon CC 4.0

Cats are skillful hunters. In Australia, public campaigning and local government regulation are helping to keep wildlife and domestic cats safer.

Species extinction

A cat in the house saves the birds in the bush

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Humans harnessed fire but its power brings obligations (Credit: Devilal) : Devilal, Wikimedia Commons

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The way we think of fire informs how we manage it. For a long time we considered it physics, but perhaps fire is a biological phenomenon, like a virus.

 

Wildfires

Wildfire spreading like the plague

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