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Stories tagged “wildlife”
29 stories on The Good Press tagged with this topic.
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Japan Returns Crested Ibis to the Wild After 50 Years
Eight crested ibises have been released into the wild in Japan, completing a remarkable comeback for a bird that went extinct on Honshu since the 1970s.
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North Carolina Budgets $10.2M for Wildlife Crossings
With $10.2M in new state funding, North Carolina will build animal bridges and culverts to protect both wildlife and motorists from dangerous road collisions.
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Australia's Numbat Upgraded From Endangered After 40 Years
Australia's iconic numbat has been officially downlisted from Endangered to Near Threatened, with numbers rebounding from just 300 in the 1970s to around 3,000 today.
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Free-Flight Training Helps Confiscated Parrots Thrive in the Wild
A Texas A&M study in Bird Conservation International shows confiscated yellow-crowned Amazon parrots trained to fly free before release stayed close to their Colombian release site with strong survival.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
Human Achievements
Kruger National Park Turns 100 — A Century of Protecting Africa's Big 5
South Africa's flagship park has spent a hundred years protecting nearly 5 million acres of bushveld and the lions, leopards, elephants, rhinos, and buffalo that depend on it.
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Wild Horses Are Back: Mongolia's Takhi Now Top 1,000 in Their Homeland
Once extinct in the wild, Przewalski's horses now number more than 1,000 in Mongolia — half the global population — thanks to a 50-year reintroduction effort that began with just a dozen captive ancestors.
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New Zealand Parakeet Pair Produces 55 Chicks, 10% of Wild Population
Nacho and Trixie, a breeding pair of critically endangered orange-fronted parakeets at the Isaac Conservation and Wildlife Trust, have hatched 55 chicks in two years — a tenth of the entire species.
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Vietnam's Rarest Monkey Triples Its Numbers in Two Decades
A new census reveals 160 Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys now live in Vietnam's Khau Ca forest — more than three times the number counted in 2002.
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California Gray Wolves Hit Modern Record: 55 Wolves, 9 Packs Across the State
A century after the last wild wolf was killed in California, state biologists confirmed 55 wolves and nine packs roaming the state — the highest count in modern history.
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Indonesia's First Native-Born Giant Panda Cub Set for Public Debut
Satrio Wiratama — nicknamed "Rio" — is healthy, climbing on his mother, and almost ready to meet the public, marking a milestone for Indonesia's conservation partnership with China.
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South Africa Restores 13,000 Acres of Habitat for Critically Endangered Frog
A decade-long IUCN-led campaign cleared invasive pines from the Klein Swartberg mountains, bringing the global home of the rough moss frog back to life.
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Krithi Karanth Becomes First Indian Named Nat Geo Explorer of the Year
The wildlife scientist's work has reached 7,000 villages, 100,000 people, and 72,000 schoolchildren — and just earned her conservation's most coveted title.
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Four Endangered Mountain Bongos Return to Kenya From European Zoos
Four critically endangered mountain bongos arrived safely at Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy this week — fresh "founders of new genetic lines" for one of Africa's rarest antelopes.
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UNESCO Sites Now Shelter a Third of the World's Tigers and Pandas
A new UNESCO report finds that wildlife populations have stayed stable inside designated sites even as global numbers crashed by nearly three-quarters since 1970.
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Six Grassroots Conservationists Win 2026 'Green Oscars'
From Himalayan salamanders to Galápagos petrels, the 2026 Whitley Awards handed £420,000 to six grassroots leaders quietly turning the tide for endangered wildlife.
Human Achievements
Cranes Have Best Breeding Year in Scotland Since the 1500s
A bird that vanished from Scotland 400 years ago just had its strongest breeding season since the Tudor era, with 10 pairs raising nine chicks across restored wetlands.