Wildlife returning, wild places recovering, and people protecting what they love, from all over the world.
Conservation
On 1 July, five new marine reserves came into force along the coast south of Dunedin, three hundred and eight square kilometres of sea where nothing is taken, and Kāi Tahu rangers now share the keeping of them.
Twenty five years of pulling out culverts, laying logs and letting creeks bend again, and last winter the most endangered coho in California came back in numbers nobody working on those rivers had ever seen.
Mushroom Material feeds fungus roots on wood chips and cardboard, dries the result into little white marshmallows, and presses them into the shapes polystyrene used to fill. It composts at home in under three months.
This month everyone in eastern Australia is invited to sit by a creek for an hour and look for a platypus. In Royal National Park, where they came back three years ago, the babies are now being born wild.
Every September a hole opens in the sky above Antarctica. It is now among the smallest it has been since the early nineties.
Off the Norfolk coast this month, clay bricks began going down on the seabed. Each one arrives already carrying more than a hundred baby oysters.
In a cloud forest reserve in Ecuador, a young biologist has found a frog new to science, green as a leaf above and see through below, and named her for the first Ecuadorian woman ever to win Olympic gold.
Scientists in Antarctica fitted tiny cameras to penguins for a single day, and came back with the whole blue world.
Surf Life Saving Australia's Silver Salties has brought more than three thousand people back to the beach. As the new season opens, the clubs want you.
Australians joined Landcare to look after a creek or a paddock. A new national survey asked what actually kept them coming back.
A whale called Goldfish turned up outside an office window in Newfoundland, and out in the Gulf a whole seaway is slowing down for her kind.
A colonial town on Colombia’s great river, one hundred and sixty three bird species on its doorstep, and a manual for turning one into the other.
