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Good News This Week: May 9, 2026 - Whales, Fountains, & Livestreams

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

A person holds a frog inside a plastic container

One night a year, volunteer crossing guards save the lives of Maine's wild frogs

The first warm, wet spring night sends frogs and salamanders from the forest, bearing fresh evidence of threats from warming winters, drying pools, and traffic.

A close-up of a green sea turtle covered in barnacles, laying on a light pink beach towel

Beachgoer finds sea turtle stranded, so covered in barnacles she couldn't move. See her amazing 9-month recovery

Kalani the green sea turtle was covered in barnacles, algae, and leeches. Experts at the Australian Seabird & Turtle Rescue brought her back from the brink.

Graphic Quote: “Cherish the natural world, because you’re a part of it and you depend on it.” — Sir David Attenborough

64 Inspiring Quotes from David Attenborough — On Nature and Saving Our Planet

His messages remind us that we are not apart from nature, but a part of it, and that the stewardship of this planet is not just an environmental concern but a matter of our own survival.

Turtles stacked on top of each other in a pond.

500 turtles saved from dying lake: 'There was so little water. They were stacked up as if they were on an elevator'

The university students were shocked when they explored the Outback and found five times as many turtles as they expected.

In a closeup, a smiling woman holds up a baby leatherback turtle on a beach at night.

Woman travels the world to see all 7 species of sea turtle — and help save them along the way

A Canadian mother of two discovered a new passion in 2020: protecting sea turtles.

A healthy male jaguar captured on camera in Honduras’ Sierra del Merendón mountain range, the first documented there in a decade.

Rare big cat caught on camera in Honduras raises hope for conservation

For the first time in a decade, camera traps set up high in the Sierra del Merendón mountain range in Honduras captured images of an elusive big cat.

A baby polar bear cub sits under its mother's belly on a patch of ice

Mama polar bear adopts cub in a rare case caught on camera. Now, you can track their journey

Rarely seen in the wild, scientists confirmed a case of adoption among a group of polar bears in Manitoba.

Trail camera picks up rare footage of swamp-dwelling 'fishing cat' with webbed toes

The vulnerable species is so rare that it “borders on myth.”

A sea turtle lies on a white towel in a veterinary office.

Scientists were delighted by the appearance of a rare rescued sea turtle. Then they ran a DNA test

Scientists at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center were pleasantly surprised when Earl Grey the sea turtle came under their care.

A kiwi bird stands across a dark green backyard.

Kiwi birds have lost 99% of their population. New Zealanders are fighting for their return

The symbolic bird is coming back to the heart of New Zealand a century after it was sent offshore.

A little girl smiles beside a sea turtle wrapped in on a fishing pier.

On vacation, this 8-year-old girl spotted a hooked sea turtle. She ended up saving one of the world's most endangered species

A young girl was vacationing from South Carolina with her family when they came across a hooked sea turtle on a fishing pier.