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FIVE LEFT. STILL HERE.
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.
184 CHICKS. NEW RECORD.
99 pairs. 184 chicks. Best season since the 1986 endangered listing.
THE HERD GOT BIGGER.
Twenty-three became about 500. Now the herd is helping start other herds.
THE SPACE UNDER THE PANELS GOT BUSY.
Panels up. Wildflowers in. Insects followed.
NAMED BY LOCALS FIRST.
Locals already had a name for it. Genomics gave science one.
LOUD AND INCREASING.
285 counted in a single day, almost 100 more than last year.
DONE BY HAND.
Ten days, wooden dams, no machinery. Pools are already forming.
DAMS OUT. SALMON IN.
Four dams gone. 21,052 adult Chinook counted upstream across two seasons. Eighty-eight percent of their documented historic range reoccupied — early, and encouraging.
TWO WIRES, SWITCHED OFF.
The fix was two unpowered wires.
EIGHT POUNDS OF RARE CAT.
Eight pounds of extremely rare cat.
208 TURTLES, HAND-DELIVERED.
235 eggs in. 208 tiny turtles out.
SHE WENT BACK. SHE STAYED.
Rescued at 18 months. Rewilded eight years later. Now Lulingu is raising a baby of her own in the forest.
THE LAND CHANGED HANDS.
An English grouse-and-sheep estate is being reworked around peat, wildlife and long-term restoration instead.
653 FROGS, RELOCATED HOME.
653 endangered frogs. Two mountain-stream releases. One species getting a real shot at coming back.
ONE BIRD BOUGHT THE LAND.
A bird nobody had scientifically recorded helped trigger a conservation network protecting habitat across Ecuador.
THE WATER IS COMING BACK.
A 23-square-mile tract of drained North Carolina peatland is being rewetted, replanted and restored to hold water, reduce fire risk, rebuild habitat and stop releasing so much stored carbon. Sometimes progress is admitting the ditch was a bad idea.
A BRIDGE JUST FOR DEER.
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.
THE PARROT SAID NO.
New Zealand’s critically endangered kākāpō population has reached 325, after a record 90 chicks joined the official count this season. The recovery program began in 1995 with just 51 birds. Extremely round bird: still here.
RELEASE DAY. TEARS INVOLVED.
Crush, a loggerhead found cold-stunned and nearly lifeless on a Jersey beach in January, spent months in rehabilitation before being flown to the Azores, fitted with a satellite tag, and released back into the Atlantic. Good turtle. Good humans. Everybody go home.