In today’s edition of Squirrel News, we’re looking at rural communities setting up their own high-speed internet, the New Zealand parliament’s increasing Indigenous representation, and a steady rise in an almost extinct lynx population.
New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern appoints country’s first female Māori foreign minister
New Zealand appointed its first Indigenous female foreign minister on Monday to represent what’s shaping up to be one of the most diverse parliaments in the world.
Men across Sub-Saharan Africa are acting as allies for women’s equality
Across the continent, over the course of the past 20 years, there has been an exciting expansion of creative, evidence-based approaches that engage men as part of the solution.
Creative community-based policies in Bhutan reveal the benefits of planted forests
An innovative community-based forest management policy has resolved a long-simmering land-use conflict between migratory yak herders and sedentary residents in a remote area of Bhutan.
