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Good News This Week: July 25, 2026 - Kangaroos, Gorillas, & Turtles

Your weekly roundup of the best good news worth celebrating...

Left: A person bottle-feeds a baby manatee in a shallow waterway as it stands in the water with it, holding it like a baby. Right: A man in a blue shirt crouches beside a baby manatee in shallow water while several uniformed officials stand nearby on a sandy bank.

A fisherman caught a baby manatee in his net. When he realized it was too young to be released, he nursed it himself

Local fisherman Goué André Clotaire Gbagou found the baby manatee as he was fishing in the Sassandra Riverbed of the Ivory Coast.

Silhouetted figure on the right facing a red glowing background with small dark shapes scattered across it.

Stray dogs in the Philippines hunt sea turtle nests, so these volunteers stay up all night shooing them away

Local volunteers patrol and protect sea turtle nests each year on Philippine beaches.

Jimothy, a raccoon with short spine, runs across a paved surface with grass and trees visible in the blurred background.

Jimothy the raccoon survived against the odds. According to a neuroscientist, thanks to sophisticated brain and devoted mother

Even though the odds were stacked against Jimothy from the day of his birth, he persevered.

Left: hands holding compost material with leaves and debris. Right: woman in light blue shirt gesturing while speaking by a dumpster.

Good Samaritans peeked into a dumpster behind a pet store. They ended up saving an animal's life

They went looking for pet food that they could salvage for animal shelters. Then they saw something moving in the trash.

Polar bear mother with two cubs on a snowy sandbank in northern Alaska

New AI-enabled 'bear-dar' system aims to alert locals to nearby polar bears

The goal of the new technology is to reduce human-polar bear encounters in the Arctic, where warming temperatures lead to more brazen bears.

Jimothy, a raccon with a short, rounded spine walks through overgrown grass and weeds in an open field.

Jimothy the raccoon raises over $58,000 for charity

Jimothy the raccoon, who launched a thousand memes, has inspired Amazon, Alaska Airlines, Starbucks and more to donate to a Seattle food bank.

A tabby kitten wears a red and yellow toy construction vehicle costume with wooden blocks attached. Left and right photos show the kitten from different angles in an outdoor enclosure.

This kitten couldn't walk on his own. So a vet made him a custom wheelchair out of Hot Wheels

Because a kitten named Gelato deserves to feel like a Transformer, too.

Robert Irwin isn't giving up on this species on the brink of extinction: 'There’s still hope'

Robert Irwin, son of famed conservationist Steve Irwin, is raising awareness about an animal in dire need of help.

A tiny sea turtle hatchling rests in an open human hand, showing its textured shell, flippers, and eye against a blurred ocean background.

Firefighters rescue a dozen baby sea turtles that got stuck in a condo's storm drain

The fallen hatchlings are Florida’s version of a cat stuck in a tree.

White Volkswagen vehicle with illuminated cyan digital graphics displaying interconnected symbols and icons emanating from the front grille against a forested background.

Kangaroos cause 90% of wildlife crashes in Australia. This new car feature emits a sound only they can hear

Kangaroos are the leading cause of wildlife-vehicle collisions in Australia. Volkswagen's breakthrough technology aims to use specific frequencies to alert them to oncoming traffic.

Left: Person in dark long-sleeve shirt wading in shallow water among rocks. Right: Multiple people examining a large sea turtle with green and orange coloring on rocky ground near water.

A stranded sea turtle got wedged between jagged rocks. Three men came together to save it from drowning in a viral video

Three men in Oman stepped in to help an endangered sea turtle when crashing tides risked its safety.