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West African Leopards Are Rebounding in Benin's Pendjari Park
Camera-trap data show leopard density climbing from 2017 to 2023 inside Benin's Pendjari National Park — a rare bright spot for one of the world's most endangered leopard populations.
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Egypt Sets Guinness Record With 15,000 Blood Donors in a Single Day
A nationwide campaign in Egypt registered more than 15,000 blood donors in just 12 hours, earning a Guinness World Record and boosting the country's strategic blood reserves.
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A Childhood Prayer Turned Into 33 Clean-Water Wells in Nicaragua
What began as a Florida teenager's quiet prayer has grown into a charity that has now drilled 33 deep wells serving thousands of families across rural Nicaragua.
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Make That 451: New Baby Boosts World's Rarest Wombat Population
Trail cameras have spotted a new joey riding in its mother's pouch at an Australian nature refuge, giving one of the world's rarest mammals a small but meaningful bump in numbers.
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U.S. Launches DNA Vault for Every Endangered Species in America
A new partnership between Colossal Biosciences and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will biobank cells, tissues and DNA from all 2,300+ Endangered Species Act-listed plants and animals.
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Eastern Barred Bandicoots Return to Mainland Australia After 35 Years
Up to 100 once-extinct-in-the-wild bandicoots were released on Phillip Island — the largest reintroduction of the species in Australia's history, and a 35-year comeback.
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Europe Removes Record 602 Dams, Freeing 2,300 Miles of Rivers
A new Dam Removal Europe report tallies 602 barriers torn down across 21 countries in 2025, reconnecting more than 2,300 miles of rivers in the continent’s biggest restoration year on record.
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Mangrove Forests Rebound Worldwide as Gains Outpace Losses
A 40-year satellite study from Tulane finds mangrove regrowth has nearly matched losses since 2010, leaving the planet with just a 1% net decline since the 1980s.
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Lord Howe Island's Insects Bounce Back After Rats Gone
Researchers found total invertebrate abundance soared on Lord Howe Island after the 2019 rodent eradication — a textbook win for one of Australia's boldest conservation projects.
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Madagascar and Zanzibar Just Gave Sharks and Rays Sweeping New Protection
At the Our Ocean Conference in Mombasa, Madagascar and Zanzibar announced national protections covering dozens of shark and ray species, including the rare Zanzibar guitarfish.
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Mule Deer Become First to Cross California's New Wildlife Overpass
A wildlife camera caught three mule deer using a $20 million overpass on State Route 97 — before construction had even finished, marking a milestone for California's wildlife corridors.
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149 New Marine Species Discovered Off Christmas and Cocos Islands
Scientists aboard the RV Investigator catalogued sea stars, worms, sea cucumbers and one fish at nearly 5,000 metres deep — all new to science.
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Rare Duke of Burgundy Butterfly Soars 9,000% in Kent in 20 Years
One of Britain's scarcest butterflies has roared back across Kent's downland thanks to a quiet partnership between farmers, volunteers, and conservation scientists.
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Platypuses Are Breeding Again in Australia's Oldest National Park
Three years after their historic reintroduction, the platypus population in Sydney's Royal National Park has grown to 20 — and the next generation is being born in the wild.
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New Zealand Creates 5 Marine Reserves Across 191 Square Miles
The country's first new marine protected areas in a decade will safeguard yellow-eyed penguins, albatrosses, sea lions and kelp forests off the South Island.
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The Ocean Cleanup Is Pulling Tons of Trash from LA Rivers Before the 2028 Olympics
The Dutch nonprofit that scoops plastic out of the Pacific is now deploying its river Interceptors in Ballona Creek and the LA River — aiming to clean both waterways in time for the LA 2028 Games.
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Mangrove Forests Are Now Growing Worldwide for the First Time in 40 Years
A new Tulane-led study in Science finds mangrove area has rebounded since the early 2000s, with denser, healthier "closed-canopy" forests now expanding across the tropics.
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A California Condor Flew Into Oregon for the First Time in 122 Years
Condor B9, released by the Yurok Tribe in 2022, covered 380 miles in four days — becoming the first California condor recorded in Oregon since 1904.
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Papua New Guinea Just Protected an Ocean Area the Size of the UK
The new Bismarck and Solomon Seas reserves cover more than 77,000 square miles, instantly making PNG one of the world's biggest ocean protectors and shielding a stretch of the Coral Triangle.
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Connecticut Erases $6.5M in Medical Debt for 97,000 Residents
A state program partnering with Undue Medical Debt has wiped clean roughly $6.5 million in old hospital bills for Connecticuters earning at or near the federal poverty line.
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Wind and Solar Beat Gas Globally for the First Time Ever
Renewables generated 22% of the world's electricity in April 2026 versus 20% from gas, marking a tipping point in the global power mix.
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23 Right Whale Calves Born in 2026 — Most in a Single Season Since 2009
NOAA documented 23 mom-calf pairs along the U.S. Southeast coast this season, with 20 returning mothers and birth intervals trending back toward the healthy 3–4 year range.
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Britain's First "Furniture Orchard" Grows Chairs Straight From the Trees
A Derbyshire farm is harvesting finished chairs, lamps and mirror frames from living trees — Britain's first commercial "furniture orchard" and a quietly radical rethink of how we make the things we sit on.