NATURE
208 TURTLES, HAND-DELIVERED.
NATURE
Seven “turtle women” sent 208 hatchlings back to the Amazon.
235 eggs in. 208 tiny turtles out.
SOURCEMongabay
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ALL THE SLOP
Every serving. No expiration date. Page 4 of 4.
ANIMALS
SHE WENT BACK. SHE STAYED.
ANIMALS
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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HUMANS
SAME BLOOD DRIVE. DIFFERENT DOORS.
HUMANS
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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NATURE
THE LAND CHANGED HANDS.
NATURE
7,500 acres just switched sides.
An English grouse-and-sheep estate is being reworked around peat, wildlife and long-term restoration instead.
SOURCEThe Guardian
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ANIMALS
653 FROGS, RELOCATED HOME.
ANIMALS
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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NATURE
ONE BIRD BOUGHT THE LAND.
NATURE
One weird bird helped build 19 nature reserves.
A bird nobody had scientifically recorded helped trigger a conservation network protecting habitat across Ecuador.
SOURCEThe Guardian
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HUMANS
THE BOAT ADAPTED.
HUMANS
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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NATURE
THE WATER IS COMING BACK.
NATURE
We drained the swamp. Now we’re un-draining it.
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.
SOURCEAssociated Press
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ANIMALS
A BRIDGE JUST FOR DEER.
ANIMALS
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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ANIMALS
THE PARROT SAID NO.
ANIMALS
The world’s weirdest parrot refused to go extinct.
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.
SOURCENew Zealand Department of Conservation / Kākāpō Recovery Programme
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HUMANS
DINNER. YOUR PRICE.
HUMANS
100 restaurants said: pay what you can.
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.
SOURCEPaga Lo Que Puedas / Masala y Maíz via Good Good Good
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HUMANS
HUNTING SKILLS. NEW MISSION.
HUMANS
The hunters switched teams.
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.
SOURCEReasons to Be Cheerful / Ogar Monday
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ANIMALS
RELEASE DAY. TEARS INVOLVED.
ANIMALS
Crush went home. Everyone cried.
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.
SOURCELittlefeet Environmental / SEA LIFE Weymouth / Channel 103
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HUMANS
ALL THREE STEPS, THEIRS.
HUMANS
The women took the whole podium.
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.
SOURCERunner’s World / Aspen Backcountry Marathon
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HUMANS
SPIN CYCLE, STORY TIME.
HUMANS
The laundromat has a library now.
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.
SOURCELaundryCares Foundation / Reasons to Be Cheerful
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