UNESCO chief promises help to rebuild Ukrainian cultural sites destroyed by Russian attacks

The director general of Unesco has pledged to help rebuild Ukraine’s shattered culture sector after travelling to the war-torn country earlier this week. During her visit, Audrey Azoulay told the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky that “in order to rebuild but also to redress the situation, it will be necessary to invest $6.9bn in the cultural sector in Ukraine over the next ten years”, a Unesco statement says.

Azoulay carried out a two-day mission to Ukraine, visiting Kyiv, Chernihiv and Odesa, reaffirming “the organisation's support to the population [as well as] to advance the reconstruction of the country’s cultural sector”.

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/04/06/unesco-chief-vows-to-help-rebuild-ukraines-heritage-and-culturebut-69bn-investment-is-needed

Bison kill just outside Yellowstone NP draws support from Tribes, but anger from some enviros

HELENA, Mont. — An unusually harsh winter that buried Yellowstone National Park under a heavy blanket of snow and ice this year pushed a large portion of the park’s bison herd down to lower elevations and out of the park in search of milder climes and food.

Many were stopped from migrating even farther.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/science/bison-hunt-yellowstone-native-americans.html

USBLM proposes major mission refocus; more emphasis on conservation

The Bureau of Land Management unveiled a sweeping draft rule Thursday that would represent a fundamental shift in how the agency manages millions of acres of public lands that are under increasing threat from climate change, drought and wildfires.

The proposed rule would apply land-health standards to all of the 245 million acres that BLM manages, instead of limiting them to federal livestock grazing allotments. The rule would also designate conservation as a formal use of public lands, on par with energy development, grazing and recreation.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/blm-proposes-seismic-shift-in-lands-management/