What does conservation that effectively protects nature and also helps people look like? Something like Gorongosa National Park, in central Mozambique.

After the reserve was ruined by civil war, local people and an American philanthropist have joined forces to restore it, turning it not just into a sanctuary for pangolins and pygmy chameleons but also a huge source of jobs, as well as an educational centre offering everything from classes for schoolchildren to one of the first master's degrees taught fully in a national park.

"We are a human rights national park," 23-year-old Gabriela Curtiz, Gorongosa's first female guide, told our correspondent Kim Harrisberg.

Getting conservation right for both nature and people is vital as the world moves toward trying to conserve 30% of the planet's fast-degrading land and sea by 2030, while ensuring people living on the land now don't lose out.

Getting climate protests right - to apply effective pressure for change - is also important as the fossil fuel emissions heating the planet continue to grow.

After the COVID-19 pandemic kept mass protests off the streets and forced a strategy rethink, Fridays for Future youth activists are now arranging face-to-face confrontations with what they call "climate villains" - specific government, corporate or banking figures with the power to shift climate-wrecking policies and financial flows.

Such officials are "trying to blind us with nice words and promises, and prevent us from looking into the details and (calling) them out," said Lisa Neubauer, a Fridays for Future organiser. But if activists keep turning up at events where officials appear, they can keep pressure on.

"We need to apply everything we have," Neubauer said. "We, as a movement, should be everywhere."

In Mumbai, meanwhile, it's flood maps and warnings that experts are trying to get right - and they're calling in expertise from the people out navigating the climate-worsened deluges to do it.

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay have asked city residents to tweet about flood levels in their areas, so they can turn the data into location-specific flood alerts in real time.

"Since we cannot monitor flooding across the city ourselves, we thought of taking the help of the community," Subimal Ghosh, head of climate studies at the institute, told our correspondent Roli Srivastava.

As well this week, don't miss our explainer video looking at whether putting a pricetag on a tree's services might help save it - and our deep dive into growing violence in the Amazon.

See you next week!

Laurie

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