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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.
$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.
THE MAP WAS THE PROBLEM.
Africa was not small. The map was weird.
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.
RUBELLA, OFF THE LIST.
Decades of vaccination and surveillance turned a dangerous pregnancy infection into a preventable public-health victory.
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.
STONE IS LOAD-BEARING AGAIN.
The future of lower-carbon construction might involve a material humans have been stacking for thousands of years.
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.
TRACHOMA, REGION-WIDE, GONE.
WHO has validated Timor-Leste’s elimination of trachoma as a public health problem. Because it was the last country in WHO’s South-East Asia Region where the disease was still suspected to be a public-health problem, the entire region has now cleared that threshold.
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.
RABIES LOST ITS FOOTHOLD.
WHO has validated Bhutan’s elimination of dog-transmitted human rabies as a public-health problem — the first country in WHO’s South-East Asia Region to reach the milestone. Bhutan has gone more than two years without a human death from dog-transmitted rabies. Vaccines, surveillance and people showing up worked.
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.