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Rwanda cut maternal mortality 27%.

Five years, a 27% decline, and a health system still pushing: Rwanda is pairing community care with faster records and referrals.

SOURCENational Institute of Statistics of Rwanda

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The UK made a free emergency plan for every neighborhood.

Eight practical modules help communities turn names, skills and local knowledge into a plan before the next disruption arrives.

SOURCEReady Together

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$18 million will help ranchers keep great plains grassland intact.

The fund starts with $9 million from Walmart Foundation and $9 million in aligned investment from McDonald’s USA and suppliers.

SOURCENational Fish and Wildlife Foundation

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Thailand counted 210 wild tigers.

The national estimate is up from 148–189 in 2022. A monitored tigress has raised three litters—nine cubs—and one daughter is already breeding.

SOURCEWorld Wildlife Fund

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Of 285 large UK rewilding projects, one was hit by fire this year.

The advocacy-group analysis also found burned areas from 2016–2026 were concentrated in acid grassland, heather, bog and other simplified landscapes rather than restored habitat.

SOURCERewilding Britain

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Students redirected 30,000 pounds of medical supplies before they were thrown away.

Project MedBridge moved about 50 pallets of unopened N95 respirators and therapy packs into a distribution network serving underresourced health facilities.

SOURCEProject MedBridge / Reasons to Be Cheerful

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Two Great Indian Bustards are back in the wild.

Two captive-bred males are now walking free in the Thar Desert. The release is a test, not a declaration of recovery.

SOURCEPress Information Bureau of India / Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

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One of North America’s tiniest mammals just got a third new population.

More than 500 pocket mice have been released over 20 years. North San Mateo is now the third reintroduced population.

SOURCESan Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

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Healthy reef sounds drew more coral and fish larvae.

Underwater playback helped young corals and fish find experimental reef structures in field trials off Oʻahu.

SOURCEScripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego / Communications Biology / Scientific Reports

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A new framework makes moving endangered species less of a guess.

More than 250 practitioners and community members helped shape a decision process for high-stakes conservation moves.

SOURCEConservation Science and Practice / University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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40,000 native sedges started repairing a Yosemite meadow.

Three years in, the soil is improving. Full recovery may still take 25 to 50 years.

SOURCEColorado State University / JGR Biogeosciences

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Conservation’s best outliers share three things.

Local knowledge. Shared decisions. Management that learns.

SOURCEUniversity of Sydney / Nature Ecology & Evolution

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They released 11,000 giant insects. Now the population is increasing.

Fourth- and fifth-generation wētāpunga are now breeding without help on two islands.

SOURCENew Zealand Journal of Zoology / Department of Conservation / Auckland Zoo

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Two of the world’s rarest rhinos are pregnant.

Ratu and Delilah are both due in May 2027.

SOURCEInternational Rhino Foundation / Ministry of Forestry of Indonesia

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Twenty american chestnuts returned to the Bronx Zoo.

The blight was first documented here. Now a restoration network is taking root.

SOURCEWildlife Conservation Society / New York Restoration Project

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Fifteen rare ibises followed a plane south.

Human foster parents flew ahead. Fifteen young ibises followed them into a new Spanish flock.

SOURCEThe Guardian / Waldrappteam

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Norway created its largest marine protected area.

Andfjorden now protects 1,848.5 square kilometres.

SOURCENorwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment

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California’s wolves just had a record 42 pups.

Eight packs raised pups in 2026, extending one of California’s wildest comeback stories.

SOURCESFGATE / California Department of Fish and Wildlife

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They put eyes on a buoy. Seabird bycatch risk fell 59%.

A pair of spinning eyes and a kite gave threatened seabirds a practical way around a deadly net.

SOURCEUniversity of Exeter

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The helicopter crew got him off the truck in under five minutes.

An 80-foot hoist, one deputy on the wire and a crew that did not waste a second.

SOURCEMaricopa County Sheriff’s Office via People

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368 farmers made a hallway. 529 elephants have already used it.

A narrow strip through the Kilombero Valley is reconnecting savanna and rainforest — one elephant at a time.

SOURCESouthern Tanzania Elephant Program

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