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Juan Guillermo GarcĂ©s remembers coming face to face with death at age 17. GarcĂ©s and his brother started the fire that nearly killed them to clear a large stretch of land. The brothers survived, but the fire destroyed the little remaining patch of virgin forest on the family's 2,500-hectare (6,200-acre) ranch, nestled along Colombia's Magdalena River. In an attempt to undo the damage he caused in his youth, the 74-year-old created the Rio Claro nature reserve, a 3,000-hectare (7,400-acre) oasis teeming with wildlife. Today, GarcĂ©s's reserve marks him as one of Colombia's most successful environmental protectors. The Rio Claro basin is home to almost 850 species of fauna and more than 3,000 of flora. "More than 100 new species have been discovered in Rio Claro … and counting," says SaĂşl E Hoyos-GĂłmez, a botanical biologist. "It is a very special place – one of the few where you can find this level of biodiversity." His method is simple. He buys plots of land from peasant farmers, often deforested pastures, and then lets them rest. Recovery in the region's hot and humid climate is fast. Left alone, pasture reverts to jungle within decades. About 80% of GarcĂ©s' reserve consists of land reforested in this way. To build his reserve, GarcĂ©s has had to navigate complex relationships with peasant farmers, the government and armed groups. Growing numbers of Colombian landowners are following GarcĂ©s's lead, turning pastures into reserves.
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Imagine. You heard the on-the-hour radio news bulletin while you got dressed that morning. You glanced at headlines on your phone on the way to work. You read the paper while you waited for your coffee in a cafe. Each encounter was, typically for the mainstream news, filled with death and doom. But after each snippet, you also heard or read a warning: â€Too much negative news may cause a distorted view of reality and harm your mental health.' Since the mandatory health warnings for majority-bad news media outlets were introduced, you've been much more aware of balancing your media intake so that you get a wider perspective on problems and progress. For the first time, you've really thought about it. Less doomscrolling, and more conscious solution-seeking. You're surprised at how much you accepted negative news to be normal, and how much better your mental health has felt as a result of the shift. This is the vision of Seán Wood, CEO of Positive News. The news media amounts to, he points out, an overarching shared story of how the world is. "The impact of that is obviously significant," says Wood. "While it's important to highlight problems so that society can course-correct ... Positive News shows that there can be a more balanced way of understanding the world, that keeps us informed, but allows people to engage more because we see a bigger picture, we see potential solutions and opportunities to contribute, we see the human potential."
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