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Wired: Tropical forests are dying. Seed-slinging drones can save them

4/30/2019

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"Working at full capacity, BioCarbon’s drones, flying in six-strong autonomous swarms, can plant 400,000 trees in a day, according to BioCarbon’s co-founder Irina Fedorenko. 

In 2017, an old contact from Fedorenko’s time as an activist in Russia approached her, and together they secured a $240,000 grant from the GHR Foundation, a US philanthropic organisation, to set up trials in Ayeyarwady Region. “I knew that it was going to be tough,” Fedorenko says. “Environmental restoration is always a question of governance and management. It’s never a question of technology. We were ready for that.”

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News Agency of Nigeria (NAN): Dialogue can resolve all conflicts, says Onaiyekan

4/3/2019

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"Cardinal John Onaiyekan has said that effective dialogue has the potential of resolving all kinds of conflicts. He also called on well meaning Nigerians to support programmes aimed at building peace across the country.

Onaiyekan said this on the sidelines of the Graduation ceremony for fellows of the 2018/2019 Cardinal Onaiyekan Foundation for Peace (COFP) Fellowship Programme on “Interreligious Dialogue and Mediation” in Abuja.

Mary Dalsin, Program Associate, GHR foundation, who spoke to NAN expressed satisfaction with the outcome of the program. She said that the impact of the program was already yielding fruitful results in some communities were the fellows were drawn from.
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