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11,000 Giant Wētā Released as NZ Insect Recovers
New Zealand's wētāpunga, the world's heaviest insect, has moved from "endangered" to "recovering" after a 15-year captive breeding effort.
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Divers Hand-Plant Kelp to Regrow Tasmania's Forests
After losing most of its underwater forests since the 1940s, Tasmania is training live-in diver interns to hand-plant giant kelp spores back onto the reef.
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2 New Sea Spider Species Found in Canada's Salish Sea
UBC researchers found two sea spiders never recorded in the region in over a century — one grooms itself, the other hosts an ecosystem of parasites.
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Great Lakes Piping Plovers Fledge Record 184 Chicks
Down to just 12 pairs in 1990, the endangered Great Lakes piping plover population fledged a record 184 chicks in 2026, thanks to zoos, volunteers, and decades of beach restoration.
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90 Chicks Push Kākāpō Population to Record 325
New Zealand's flightless kākāpō just had its biggest breeding season in decades, adding 90 chicks and pushing the critically endangered parrot past 300 birds for the first time in 75 years.
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Kent Bison Bridges Double Herd's Habitat to 100 Hectares
The UK's first bison bridges let Kent's free-roaming European bison herd cross footpaths safely, doubling their woodland range to 100 hectares.
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600 Scimitar-Horned Oryx Now Roam Wild in Chad
Declared Extinct in the Wild in 2000, the desert antelope now numbers over 600 free-ranging animals across Chad's Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim reserve.
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366-Foot Warship Now Teems With Life in Canada
Scuttled off Nanaimo in 1997, the destroyer escort HMCS Saskatchewan has become one of British Columbia's richest artificial reefs.
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7 New Frog Species Found in Madagascar's Soil
Museum DNA and forest fieldwork reveal seven previously unknown diamond frog species, bringing Madagascar's Rhombophryne count to 27.
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Rangers Spot Rare Night Parrot Chick in WA Desert
Indigenous rangers found a critically endangered night parrot chick hiding in spinifex grass in Australia's Great Sandy Desert — a first for many of them.
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2-Millisecond Chip Captures Sound's Quantum Jump
Stanford physicists tracked a single phonon vanish between energy states in real time, using a resonator that rings for 2 milliseconds — a scientific first.
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First New Wild Cat Species in 100+ Years Found
Scientists just named Leopardus tilcayo — the first new wild cat species described in over a century, hiding in Bolivia's misty Yungas cloud forest.
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Rafter W Ranch: Bird Species Rise From 29 to 37
A family cattle ranch in eastern Colorado added eight bird species in six years by rotating grazing and rebuilding grassland habitat — detections nearly doubled.
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Tasmania Has Lost 95% of Its Kelp — Divers Fix It
Warming seas and invasive sea urchins wiped out most of Tasmania's giant kelp forests. Now divers are hand-planting nursery-grown kelp to bring them back.
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New Zealand's Kākāpō Population Hits 325 Birds
Down to just 51 birds in 1995, New Zealand's critically endangered kākāpō just posted its best breeding season of the recovery era, reaching 325.
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Assam's Pygmy Hogs Rebound From 6 to 194
Once feared extinct, the world's smallest wild pig has been bred and released across Assam's grasslands — and wild-born hogs may now outnumber captive ones.
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Utah's Hidden Rock Glaciers Hold 1 Billion Tons of Ice
University of Utah geologists used gravity readings to map 836 rock glaciers, revealing a billion-ton ice reserve hidden under Utah's peaks.
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6 to 25 Red Pandas Found Hiding in Nepal's Forests
Motion-triggered cameras placed high in the canopy confirmed a previously unstudied population of endangered red pandas in central Nepal.
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2,000 Acres Along Wisconsin's Sugar River Now Protected
Ducks Unlimited and Groundswell Conservancy's largest-ever land deal links wetlands, prairie and forest into one continuous wildlife corridor.
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29 Artificial Nests Yield First Wild Palm Cockatoo Chick
After 29 artificial hollows were installed across Cape York, a critically endangered palm cockatoo chick has fledged from one for the first time.
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From 9 Left to 1,300 Released: Butterfly's Comeback
Fewer than 10 Poweshiek skipperlings remained in 2022. Zoo breeding programs have since released over 1,300 a year into restored Michigan prairies.
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Kazakhstan Welcomes 2nd Wild Horse Foal in 200 Years
A foal born to a mare named Umbra marks the second wild Przewalski's horse birth in Kazakhstan in two weeks — and the first in 200 years.
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Scientists Discover 1,121 New Marine Species in One Year
A global alliance of scientists catalogued 1,121 previously unknown ocean species in a single year — a ghost shark, glass-dwelling worms, and more.