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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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ALL THE SLOP
Every serving. No expiration date.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A new framework makes moving endangered species less of a guess.
More than 250 practitioners and community members helped shape a decision process for high-stakes conservation moves.
SOURCEConservation Science and Practice / University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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ANIMALS
They released 11,000 giant insects. Now the population is increasing.
Fourth- and fifth-generation wētāpunga are now breeding without help on two islands.
SOURCENew Zealand Journal of Zoology / Department of Conservation / Auckland Zoo
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ANIMALS
Two of the world’s rarest rhinos are pregnant.
Ratu and Delilah are both due in May 2027.
SOURCEInternational Rhino Foundation / Ministry of Forestry of Indonesia
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ANIMALS
Fifteen rare ibises followed a plane south.
Human foster parents flew ahead. Fifteen young ibises followed them into a new Spanish flock.
SOURCEThe Guardian / Waldrappteam
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ANIMALS
California’s wolves just had a record 42 pups.
Eight packs raised pups in 2026, extending one of California’s wildest comeback stories.
SOURCESFGATE / California Department of Fish and Wildlife
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ANIMALS
The little terns more than doubled their old nesting record.
After bird flu and flooded nests, Britain’s second-rarest breeding seabird had its best Long Nanny season on record.
SOURCENational Trust
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WEIRD JOY
Backpack won Fat Bear Week.
A brown bear called Backpack packed on enough Alaska to win the internet’s favorite wildlife election.
SOURCENational Park Service
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ANIMALS
The wallaby clocked back in after 50 years.
Conservationists confirmed endangered nabarleks at two mainland sites on Dambeemangaddee Country — the first detections there in more than 50 years. Turns out the tiny wallaby had not entirely left the building.
SOURCEAustralian Wildlife Conservancy
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ANIMALS
A police dog found three lost children. All three came home safe.
Arch caught the trail. Search teams followed it. Three families got the ending they needed.
SOURCEChaffee County Sheriff’s Office
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ANIMALS
Greater one-horned rhinos just hit an estimated 4,075.
A species that once fell below 200 animals now numbers in the thousands.
SOURCEInternational Rhino Foundation
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WEIRD JOY
Peanut butter failed. Burnt coconut found a new species.
Two mice, one mountain valley, and twenty-two years of patient taxonomy.
SOURCEZooKeys / PubMed Central
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One-year-old scrub-jays weren’t supposed to nest. Four pairs did.
A genetic-rescue experiment got an unexpectedly ambitious first breeding season.
SOURCEUniversity of Central Florida
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34 black-footed ferrets. One species getting another shot.
Seven litters. Thirty-four endangered kits. Phoenix Zoo’s best black-footed ferret breeding year since 1999.
SOURCEPhoenix Zoo
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WEIRD JOY
Two new sea spiders turned up in the Salish Sea. One has hairy feet.
UBC divers found the first new sea spider species described in the Salish Sea in almost a century. One has red eyes and fuzzy-looking legs.
SOURCEUniversity of British Columbia
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ANIMALS
THE RIVER DIDN'T GET TO KEEP IT.
ANIMALS
The river took a baby elephant. Five fishermen brought it back.
A days-old elephant calf drifted roughly four kilometers down the Teesta. Five fishermen reached it by boat; forest officials reunited it with its mother.
SOURCEThe Indian Express / West Bengal Forest Department
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ANIMALS
Los Angeles emptied the dog kennels for a day. 37 dogs never went back.
Los Angeles got 395 shelter dogs out for a day. Twenty-three were adopted and 14 entered foster homes instead of returning to kennels.
SOURCEBest Friends Animal Society
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