With $2 million from NSF, Indigenous knowledge and western science meet to advance mountain sustainability

Ensuring sustainability of mountainous regions and peoples around the world, centered around local and Indigenous knowledge, is moving forward with a $2 million funding push from a National Science Foundation award to Colorado State University. Mountain Sentinels, based at CSU, is an international alliance focused on synthesizing local and Indigenous knowledge, regional policy, and western science to strengthen mountain communities and sustain mountain ecosystems. 

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Combatting the illegal cheetah trade, researchers first need to find the source

To break the flow of the illegal trade of live cheetah cubs, researchers at Colorado State University are searching for undocumented wild cheetahs that are supplying the high demand for pets in the Middle East. In the Horn of Africa, cheetahs are not so much poached for skins and parts, but rather caught as cubs and trafficked with other contraband through Somaliland and Yemen to wealthy collectors across the Arab Peninsula.

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Rain Garden Summer: Anthropology graduate student interns with Colorado Stormwater Center

Riley Lynch, CSU watershed science alumna and anthropology graduate student worked with the Colorado Stormwater Center during her CSU Extension internship where she managed communications with over 300 applicants and the 20 selected program participants of the Rain Garden Pilot Program. She also co-taught the three-hour Certified Rain Garden Installer Course, sourced nearly 600 native plants, and led multiple rain garden installations with groups of youth and adult volunteers.

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