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Reasons To Be Happy: Good Animal News

The last year may have been the first time we saw the inclinations that longtime wildlife conservation and protection efforts were really paying off: for turtles, rhinos, tigers, pandas, bald eagles, and more.
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8 Kids Making a Difference & Changing the World

A roundup of the most inspiring youth who found creative ways to make a difference in 2021.
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12 Good News Stories About Climate Change

The best positive news stories about the environment you may not have heard about.
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The 162 Best Good News Stories From 2021

The ultimate list of the best good news stories from the year 2021.
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Researchers Have Figured Out How To Offset 14% of Global Fishmeal Emissions By Feeding Fish Methane

The result could solve two problems at once - the increasing demand for fish protein, and the emission of a harmful greenhouse gas
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A boatman steers his canoe down a mist-shrouded river in Chitwan National Park.

Nepal's Conservation Efforts Have Nearly Doubled Their Tiger Population

Nepal is the only country on track to meet a 2022 pledge to double its wild tiger population from a 2010 baseline.‍ Key to the growing tiger population is the combination of a tough anti-poaching approach and close engagement with communities living near tiger habitats.
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Rewilding Projects Are Multiplying Across the U.K. – Seeking to Boost Biodiversity

One of the most innovative projects now underway may be WildEast, which ambitiously hopes to rewild an area more than three times the size of New York City, creating interconnecting wild corridors across East Anglia, the country’s most intensely farmed region.
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A team of green sea turtle monitors from Canhabaque Island rides out to the islands where they will complete 12-day shifts. One group will go to the island of Meio and the other to Poilão.

Technology and Tradition Team Up To Watch Over a Sacred Island’s Sea Turtles

Uninhabited Poilão Island in Guinea-Bissau is Africa’s most important nesting ground for green sea turtles. Researchers and local people now work together to study the turtles with the aim of better protecting them.
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An All-Women Coral Conservation Group is Reviving Coral Reefs

Coral Catch Gili Air recently received a grant to fund an all-women conservation team to train women from all over Indonesia how to plant, breed, graft, and garden corals.
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Potty Trained Cows Are No Joke for the Climate

Researchers are teaching cows to pee in designated places where the urine can be collected and neutralized, sharply reducing methane emissions.
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These 'Holistic Engineers' Have a Plan To Restore a Dry Egyptian Desert Into a Lush Forest

A group of “holistic engineers” wants to return the arid Sinai peninsula to the lush, green landscape it once was.
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Endangered Siberian Tigers Are Bouncing Back in China

Camera trap footage taken between 2013 and 2018 revealed that about 55 endangered Amur tigers (commonly referred to as Siberian tigers) are now living in northeastern China.
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