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The little terns more than doubled their old nesting record.
After bird flu and flooded nests, Britain’s second-rarest breeding seabird had its best Long Nanny season on record.
SOURCENational Trust
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The wallaby clocked back in after 50 years.
Conservationists confirmed endangered nabarleks at two mainland sites on Dambeemangaddee Country — the first detections there in more than 50 years. Turns out the tiny wallaby had not entirely left the building.
SOURCEAustralian Wildlife Conservancy
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A police dog found three lost children. All three came home safe.
Arch caught the trail. Search teams followed it. Three families got the ending they needed.
SOURCEChaffee County Sheriff’s Office
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Greater one-horned rhinos just hit an estimated 4,075.
A species that once fell below 200 animals now numbers in the thousands.
SOURCEInternational Rhino Foundation
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One-year-old scrub-jays weren’t supposed to nest. Four pairs did.
A genetic-rescue experiment got an unexpectedly ambitious first breeding season.
SOURCEUniversity of Central Florida
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34 black-footed ferrets. One species getting another shot.
Seven litters. Thirty-four endangered kits. Phoenix Zoo’s best black-footed ferret breeding year since 1999.
SOURCEPhoenix Zoo
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THE RIVER DIDN'T GET TO KEEP IT.
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The river took a baby elephant. Five fishermen brought it back.
A days-old elephant calf drifted roughly four kilometers down the Teesta. Five fishermen reached it by boat; forest officials reunited it with its mother.
SOURCEThe Indian Express / West Bengal Forest Department
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Los Angeles emptied the dog kennels for a day. 37 dogs never went back.
Los Angeles got 395 shelter dogs out for a day. Twenty-three were adopted and 14 entered foster homes instead of returning to kennels.
SOURCEBest Friends Animal Society
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SHE PICKED CALIFORNIA.
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A sea turtle just nested on the West Coast for the first time on record.
Lifeguards were called to an injured turtle near Seal Beach on 16 September. She was not injured. She was digging a nest — and three days later it happened again near the Huntington Beach Pier. NOAA Fisheries says it is the first recorded natural nesting of any sea turtle species on the U.S. West Coast. Both nests are now fenced, signed and monitored.
SOURCELos Angeles Times / NOAA Fisheries
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THE LINE HELD.
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A high school football team pulled a pontoon out of a flash flood.
When flash flooding hit New Richland, Minnesota, players from the New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva football team helped with a pontoon rescue instead of watching from the bank.
SOURCEKEYC News
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FIVE LEFT. STILL HERE.
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The bird that once had five left just won Bird of the Year.
Karure black robins fell to five birds in 1980. Decades of conservation brought them back to around 350 adults — and on September 21 the species won New Zealand’s 2026 Bird of the Year.
SOURCEForest & Bird
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184 CHICKS. NEW RECORD.
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The Great Lakes just had their best piping plover season in 40 years.
99 pairs. 184 chicks. Best season since the 1986 endangered listing.
SOURCEGreat Lakes Restoration Initiative
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THE HERD GOT BIGGER.
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23 bison went to Mexico. Now there are about 500.
Twenty-three became about 500. Now the herd is helping start other herds.
SOURCEMexican Fund for the Conservation of Nature (FMCN)
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NAMED BY LOCALS FIRST.
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Science just added a new cat to the family tree.
Locals already had a name for it. Genomics gave science one.
SOURCECurrent Biology
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LOUD AND INCREASING.
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One sanctuary just counted almost 100 more of New Zealand's rarest parakeets.
285 counted in a single day, almost 100 more than last year.
SOURCENew Zealand Department of Conservation
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800 VILLAGERS. 350,000 OBSERVATIONS.
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They used to hunt the wildlife. Now the photos pay better.
About 800 villagers across nine Borneo villages get paid for verified photos, video and audio of wildlife. Two villages have since banned hunting themselves.
SOURCEBorneo Futures
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$650 AND JEOPARDY AT 7.
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The rent was too high. Then she met her 77-year-old roommate.
Affordable rent, useful help, and Jeopardy at 7.
SOURCEGood Good Good / HomeShare Vermont
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TWO WIRES, SWITCHED OFF.
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Kenya’s pangolins kept dying on electric fences. So landowners switched off the bottom wires.
The fix was two unpowered wires.
SOURCEMongabay / The Pangolin Project
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EIGHT POUNDS OF RARE CAT.
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An Ohio zoo just had its first-ever Amur leopard cub.
Eight pounds of extremely rare cat.
SOURCECleveland Metroparks Zoo
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SHE WENT BACK. SHE STAYED.
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The gorilla they rescued as a baby just had one in the wild.
Rescued at 18 months. Rewilded eight years later. Now Lulingu is raising a baby of her own in the forest.
SOURCEGRACE Gorillas
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SAME BLOOD DRIVE. DIFFERENT DOORS.
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The church and mosque next door keep giving blood together.
They started as new neighbors. Fifteen years later, the annual blood drive is still on the calendar.
SOURCEMemphis Islamic Center
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653 FROGS, RELOCATED HOME.
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653 frogs just got their mountains back.
653 endangered frogs. Two mountain-stream releases. One species getting a real shot at coming back.
SOURCELos Angeles Zoo
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THE BOAT ADAPTED.
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The wheelchair stays on shore. The sailor doesn’t.
Sometimes inclusion looks like a hoist, a custom boat and a wide-open sea.
SOURCEReasons to Be Cheerful
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A BRIDGE JUST FOR DEER.
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The deer have infrastructure now.
Washington’s I-90 Snoqualmie Pass wildlife overcrossing recorded its 10,000th successful animal crossing in July. Add 11 undercrossings and the project is nearing 40,000 recorded crossings since 2014. Apparently the elk were just waiting for civil engineering.
SOURCEWashington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) via Good Good Good
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