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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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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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$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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$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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The world's rarest ape has grown to 44.

Forty-four, from the brink.

SOURCEHainan International Media Center

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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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$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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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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