Dandelion News - December 15-21
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1. Florida city installs Pride bike racks after being forced to remove rainbow crosswalks
“The city of St. Petersburg recently announced that it has installed 11 Pride-inspired bike racks along Central Ave and 25th Street, funded through the City’s long-standing public bike rack program. The move allows a public display of LGBTQ+ Pride while complying with the state and federal government's orders to keep crosswalks undecorated. [… T]he bike rack installation is only one of the actions Welch's administration has planned in response to the removal of public art.”
2. Indian Buffalo Management Act Affirms Trust Responsibility, Food Sovereignty for Indigenous Peoples
“The bill directs the Department of the Interior to consult and collaborate with Tribes and Tribal organizations in the restoration of the species and underscores the significance of buffalo as a subsistence right for Tribes. “Buffalo are a treaty right afforded to Tribes in support of food sovereignty and self-determination. This bill recognizes the federal government’s trust obligation to build capacity and access to buffalo on Tribal lands[….]””
3. Hope for tigers grows as Thailand safeguards a key link in their habitat
“Since [2010], the population has rebounded to an estimated 5,574 as of 2023[….] The largest remaining tract of forest in mainland Southeast Asia, WEFCOM encompasses 17 contiguous protected areas that span an area roughly the size of Kuwait. […] The region’s tiger population has more than tripled in response [to habitat conservation], increasing from a low of just 40 tigers in 2007 to more than 140 of the big cats prowling WEFCOM today.”
4. California hospital will continue youth gender-affirming care after families protest
“The largest hospital system in Northern California […] quietly informed those receiving the care […] that the treatment would stop as of December 10. […] Rainbow Families Action, a collective of families in the Bay Area who have trans children, [rallied] outside a Sutter facility on December 8. Less than a week later, Sutter Health has reportedly reversed its decision, and rescheduled the appointments that were canceled.”
5. Congo’s communities are creating a 1-million-hectare biodiversity corridor
““The corridor is about conserving a block of forest between the two protected areas, allowing species to move safely from one place to another,” Bikaba says. […] To establish these community-managed forests, […] communities that have customary ownership of lands, [are helped to] formalize this into a community forestry concession (CFCL) — a formal arrangement that grants lands to communities in perpetuity.”
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