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In 2022, a 10-year national recovery plan was launched to stop the decline in numbers and improve the size, quality and connectivity of koala habitat in the listed areas. “I often think, ‘Am I sitting here, seeing the last of Queensland koalas filtering through, as I work with them?’”One of three subspecies, Queensland koalas are smaller and grayer than their southern cousins, and are the kind often seen in photos with celebrities and foreign dignitaries. “Aussies would be horrified to know that we are bulldozing koala habitat at the rate that we are,” she said. Koala habitat squeezed in citiesWith a human population of 2.5 million, Brisbane is one of Australia’s fastest-growing capital cities. Declining numbersMost of the ambition for vast tracts of new koala habitat in Queensland lies outside Brisbane’s established inner-city suburbs.
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On an evening in October, Mr. Begue joined 17 other students around a long wooden table at BISR’s white-brick office space in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Dumbo. The group read texts like “Woodcutters” and “Heldenplatz,” while snacking on corn chips and sipping boxed wine. “At our core is the conviction that the idea that people are anti-intellectual is false,” Ajay Singh Chaudhary, the institute’s executive director, said. Mr. Chaudhary, then a graduate student at Columbia University, had dreamed of an alternative to traditional academia while preparing to teach Columbia’s Core curriculum. I always wish I got a chance to study, you know, Aristotle or Plato,’” Mr. Chaudhary said.
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Podcast: On the front line of Ukraine's counteroffensive
  + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
Ukraine’s counteroffensive has slowed after retaking a string of villages. We’re on the front lines as Ukrainian forces seek to push Russian troops closer to the sea. Time is running out for the missing Titanic tourist sub. Plus, Powell in Congress, a gas explosion in China and the New Mexico woodcutters helping protect against wildfires. Visit the Thomson Reuters Privacy Statement for information on our privacy and data protection practices.
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In New Mexico, an unlikely wildfire thinning alliance
  + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Andrew Hay | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
Near Taos in northern New Mexico, Vicente Fernandez, a mayordomo, or forest caretaker, cut saplings and seedlings crowding a mature fir tree. In an about-face, the Forest Service is now paying local woodcutters or leñeros $300 an acre to cut these trees for personal use or sale. Some environmentalists oppose Taos County's so called Mayordomo Program, and other thinning, saying it is a waste of time, harms forests and is often a guise for logging. "The Forest Service believes in helping communities to wisely use the forests," the agency said in a statement. "We cannot fireproof forests, we can fireproof communities," said Horning, who has lived in northern New Mexico for 30 years.
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