NATURE
252 million hectares are now under restoration across 149 countries.
Nature restoration is scaling—and already supporting more than one million green jobs.
SOURCEUnited Nations Environment Programme
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Every serving. No expiration date.
NATURE
Tsavo West's black rhino sanctuary: an October progress update.
The 3,200 km² sanctuary was officially opened in December 2025. An October 2026 report describes subsequent fence removal and wider habitat work.
SOURCESan Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance / Kenya Wildlife Service / KRRE
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NATURE
$325 million will put 42 working-lands conservation projects into practice.
Conservation funding is moving onto farms with producer contracts attached.
SOURCEUSDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
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NATURE
$65 million is turning 34 farm-conservation ideas into field tests.
The lab bench is moving onto working farms.
SOURCEUSDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
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NATURE
A national cleanup removed 24,000 ghost traps—and funded 11 more projects.
Old fishing gear came out. Data, habitat and coastal jobs moved in.
SOURCEVirginia Institute of Marine Science / NOAA Marine Debris Program
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ANIMALS
North America’s largest wildlife crossing cut animal-vehicle collisions 91%.
A bridge for wildlife became a safety system for everyone.
SOURCEThe Guardian / Colorado Department of Transportation
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ANIMALS
Wild bobwhite coveys were spotted as Tennessee restored 5,000 acres of habitat.
Multiple coveys are an early sign that open-savanna restoration is rebuilding room for a long-declining bird.
SOURCEUniversity of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture
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NATURE
A critical pronghorn bottleneck is now protected for the long haul.
A narrow passage in a 150-mile migration just got durable protection.
SOURCEAssociated Press / WyoFile
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NATURE
Chiricahua just became America's newest national park.
A new name for a landscape protected since 1924.
SOURCEU.S. Department of the Interior
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NATURE
A primate lost to science for nearly a century is still alive.
Local rescuers documented more than 90 Bangka slow lorises—and returned 86 to protected forest.
SOURCERe:wild / Alobi Wildlife Rescue Center
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NATURE
Bristol added two more floating ecosystems to its harbour.
Native plants now shelter fish, pollinators and nesting birds in the middle of the city.
SOURCEWest of England Mayoral Combined Authority / Bristol City Council
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NATURE
Bleached corals came back to full health in seven weeks.
A brief tissue bridge moved helpful algae within three days—and recovery continued after the corals were separated.
SOURCEStanford Doerr School of Sustainability / Science Advances
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NATURE
Nine funders just put more than $500 million behind species recovery.
A new alliance is coordinating five years of targeted recovery funding.
SOURCERe:wild
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ANIMALS
Fifteen frogs the size of a pencil tip just made history.
The first Afia Birago's puddle frogs ever born under human care are now hopping at London Zoo.
SOURCELondon Zoo (ZSL)
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NATURE
The world's rarest ape has grown to 44.
Forty-four, from the brink.
SOURCEHainan International Media Center
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ANIMALS
Georgia counted a record 4,292 loggerhead nests.
The 2026 count was the highest in Georgia’s statewide record. The long-run nesting trend has risen about 4% a year since the early 1990s.
SOURCEThe Current / Georgia DNR
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NATURE
Togo’s cotton yields rose from 570 kg to over a tonne per hectare.
The national average rose above one tonne per hectare in 2025–26; some farmer-field-school groups reached 1.4 to 2 tonnes while cutting pest treatments.
SOURCEBird Story Agency via AllAfrica
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ANIMALS
Eight orangutans were moved from fire-threatened forest to a protected home.
Three mother-and-young pairs and two adolescent males passed health checks before being released into a protected 23,000-hectare forest.
SOURCEANTARA News / YIARI
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NATURE
$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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ANIMALS
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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NATURE
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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ANIMALS
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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ANIMALS
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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NATURE
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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