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800 VILLAGERS. 350,000 OBSERVATIONS.
About 800 villagers across nine Borneo villages get paid for verified photos, video and audio of wildlife. Two villages have since banned hunting themselves.
EIGHT LESSONS. NEARLY 2,000 SCHOOLS.
An eight-lesson learn-to-ride curriculum is now in nearly 2,000 US elementary schools. Balance bikes first, pedals when you are ready, gym class credit either way.
$650 AND JEOPARDY AT 7.
Affordable rent, useful help, and Jeopardy at 7.
TWO WIRES, SWITCHED OFF.
The fix was two unpowered wires.
EIGHT POUNDS OF RARE CAT.
Eight pounds of extremely rare cat.
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.
SAME BLOOD DRIVE. DIFFERENT DOORS.
They started as new neighbors. Fifteen years later, the annual blood drive is still on the calendar.
653 FROGS, RELOCATED HOME.
653 endangered frogs. Two mountain-stream releases. One species getting a real shot at coming back.
THE BOAT ADAPTED.
Sometimes inclusion looks like a hoist, a custom boat and a wide-open sea.
A SHED FULL OF GLOW.
After a century away, tiny green lights are blinking again in North Yorkshire.
HE BOUGHT THE MARQUEE.
A century-old neighborhood movie house just got a very determined new owner.
SNAKES, APPARENTLY, HAVE FRIENDS.
Livestream cameras in California, Colorado and Pennsylvania captured live rattlesnake births, dozens of newborns and baby snakes cuddling adults for protection. Apparently even rattlesnakes have a snuggle phase.
TINY TRACKERS, BIG MIGRATION.
Researchers are fitting tiny songbirds with Tic Tac-sized geolocator backpacks that record light and atmospheric pressure across entire migrations. Serious science has once again required an extremely small backpack.
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.
DINNER. YOUR PRICE.
A one-day idea from Mexico City restaurant Masala y Maíz grew into a global event with 100 restaurants in 14 countries signed on, while staff kept their normal wages and tips. The radical business innovation: trust people.
AN EMOTIONAL SUPPORT LOG.
Point Defiance Zoo welcomed its first prehensile-tailed porcupine baby in 121 years. Then the internet spotted the tiny porcupette clutching a log and named it an “emotional support log.” For once, the comments improved the story.
HUNTING SKILLS. NEW MISSION.
In Nigeria’s Omo Forest Reserve, former hunters are using the tracking skills they once used to hunt wildlife to find snares and help stop poaching instead. Redemption arc: operational.
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.
COWS ON FIRE DUTY.
In Galicia, small, agile Cachena cattle and other grazers are being used to chew down fire-prone vegetation. A regional pilot is even using GPS virtual fencing to steer cattle toward areas that need clearing. Cow-based infrastructure has entered the chat.
ALL THREE STEPS, THEIRS.
At Colorado’s Aspen Backcountry Marathon, Brier Youngfleish won the race outright — and women finished first, second and third overall. The overall podium was all women. That’s the whole post.
SPIN CYCLE, STORY TIME.
Laundromats are becoming tiny literacy hubs, with children’s books and family reading spaces turning wash-cycle downtime into reading time. Apparently the spin cycle comes with a library card now.