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November 21, 2024
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Clayton Collins
Director of Editorial Innovation

Poachers and fires threaten the forest community of Olum, Nigeria. So does illegal logging, which robs wildlife of habitat and can trigger mudslides. Lucrative for outside firms, the practice also pays off for some in the community who help them. 

Others take a longer view, and choose to exert agency. Contributor Saint Ekpali reports today on a remarkable band of women. The land has given them food, remedies, and what wood they need. In return, they now go on patrol, giving protection to the forest they love.


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Military cadets light candles during a commemorative ceremony on the 1,000th day of Russia's full-scale attack on Ukraine, in front of the Motherland Monument in Kyiv, Ukraine, Nov. 19, 2024.
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Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth departs following a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 21, 2024.

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Doris Ofre, a member of the Women Association of Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary, a vigilante group of forest defenders, picks palm kernels in Olum, Nigeria, Sept. 20, 2024.
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Author Gregory Maguire chats about his novel “Wicked,” Sept. 24, in Concord, Massachusetts.

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A census-taker asks questions of a family in Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 20. The census, the first national one since 1987, is designed to unite the country.

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A person jumps over a rain puddle as people cross the street in New York’s Times Square, Nov. 21, 2024.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Jacob Turcotte. )

A look ahead

Thanks for spending part of your Thursday with us. We’re working on a story for tomorrow about the energy level of “the resistance” on the left since the U.S. presidential election, relative to where it was eight years ago. And we’re prepping a podcast chat with our food writer about next week’s Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S.

Also a quick note: In Tuesday’s story about rural broadband access, it wasn’t clear which place has built its own network. The town is Otis, Massachusetts.

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