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MongabayOne year after the shutdown of the USAID, the fallout is reaching a breaking point. Beyond the devastating loss of life, with an estimated 834,000 people dying due to the end of health programs, global conservation has lost one of its largest financial pillars.
This week on the Mongabay Newscast, Michelle Nijhuis joins Mike DiGirolamo to discuss the long-term damage to biodiversity and the communities that relied on these initiatives.
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‘We will not know what we lost’: Conservation fallout a year after USAID shutdown
When then-U.S. president John F . Kennedy created the United States Agency for International Development in 1961, it was meant primarily to administer health and food aid around the world. In the decades since, USAID expanded to become one of the world’s largest financial contributors to conservation, providing nearly $400 million annually before the end […]