Remembering Dr. Ajith Kumar (By Divya Karnad for Mongabay India)
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I've known Dr. Ajith through some friends who were his students, and they're all devastated. Dr. Ajith was an incredible mentor, with unwavering support for young/old folks who wanted to chart out their own paths in wildlife research in India. He leaves behind a gaping hole in hundreds of hearts.

This week's roundup of some select Newswire short news stories @mongabay.bsky.social

1. Camera traps in a community conservation area in the Niger Delta took the first videos of the critically endangered red colobus monkeys! Story by @spoorthyraman.bsky.social

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There's a gentleman in Chennai, who sometimes sends me pictures and videos of marine wildlife that he spots from his neighbourhood beach. Over the past month, it's mostly been dead olive ridley turtles washing ashore. A few days ago, he sent me this video of dolphins - definitely not dead 😍

Thinking of doing a weekly recap of some select Newswire stories, which are super-short news we publish @mongabay.bsky.social. Some from this week.

1. The legendary Wisdom, known to be the oldest known living wild bird, is raising a new chick at 74! (story by me) news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

A proposed wind power project in Sri Lanka by Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, which ran into opposition from environmentalists due to multiple potential ecological impacts, particularly on migratory bird species, has come to halt.

Five lawsuits were filed against the company by environmental orgs.

A new paper in Nature Climate Change shows that there is limited accountability for corporations that don't meet their climate targets. But what about the ones that do? Is it actually leading to systemic decarbonization? Not so much, says @ketanjoshi.co

Our conversation on @mongabay.bsky.social :

Lovely to see Rohan Chakravarty aka Green Humour now officially creating cartoons for @mongabay.bsky.social !

His second one is based on a short I wrote:
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"Conservation projects across the world are reeling from the Trump administration’s abrupt decision to shut down USAID and freeze foreign aid, as groups large and small scramble to fill sudden funding gaps for nature and wildlife protection."

By @shokes.bsky.social for @mongabay.bsky.social

Two neat examples of humans relying on the superior sniffing abilities of our friends for conservation.

1. Africa giant pouched rats that can sniff out pangolin scales, elephant ivory and rhino horns. Watch this video by @mongabay.bsky.social's excellent video team
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Two interesting forest-department-led strategies for managing human-elephant conflict in India. Many questions about what they'll achieve.

1. In Valparai, there are now solar posts with sensors that produce an alarm when an animal crosses them (By MongabayIndia) india.mongabay.com/video/2024/1...

I hear good things about this site, so I'll start by saying hello, I'm an editor for @mongabay.bsky.social's new newswire vertical. We produce very short (breaking) news like this one the Guardian republished.

The turtle deaths have slowed but haven't stopped yet.
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