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AnimalsAround Kaikōura, a wildlife trust and volunteers built predator-controlled nesting reserves and are keeping the locations private so people do not disturb the birds.
Verified · RNZ
AnimalsA colony wiped out in 2022 had 756 breeding pairs this year, and 570 chicks fledged, after staff and volunteers rebuilt nesting space on the Solent.
Verified · The Guardian
CommunityThe fifth annual planting at the Surrey park added native trees and shrubs along Highway 1, part of a month of volunteer plantings across Metro Vancouver parks.
Verified · CBC
AnimalsCaptive-bred owls released since 2009 are nesting in the Wienerwald, and a related project in Bavaria has now recorded wild breeding too. A 2021 count put Austria at about 45 pairs.
Verified · BirdGuides
CommunityCare Earth Trust trained women and young people in birds, wetlands, and guiding. Eight of them now lead walks at the sanctuary as Golden Wings.
Verified · The Hindu
ScienceFive years after the Black Summer fires, camera traps found a similar set of native mammal species in burnt and unburnt bush. Feral cats were photographed more often than before.
Verified · NSW Local Land Services
AnimalsAt the Motín del Oro camp, in the community of El Coire, the season's first olive ridley hatchlings left the sand after a hard start of heat, dry sand, and storms.
Verified · MiMorelia
AnimalsA pair that settled in the county in 2025 returned and fledged three young from an oak near the River Wye. The nest site is not being published.
Verified · BBC
AnimalsGuano mining left the Great Barrier Reef cay nearly bare. After decades of replanting, about 100,000 black noddies nest there each year.
Verified · ABC News
CommunityThe Biblioteca della Natura at Terra Franca lends illustrated books on nature and permaculture, and its opening included seed bombs for a neighborhood garden.
Verified · Giornale del Mediterraneo
CommunityFifty-three people walked 2.5 kilometers through the Chendamangalam wetlands and Kunnampara Biodiversity Park and noted a lesser coucal among the birds.
Verified · The Hindu
ScienceThe small temple beside the Kapersburg fort was only inches underground. An inscription suggests it was dedicated to Mars, and a figurine is likely Victoria.
Verified · Smithsonian Magazine
ScienceA new atoll-wide estimate from the Seychelles Islands Foundation and the University of Exeter is the largest on record, and it mostly corrects older surveys that missed animals in the shade.
Verified · University of Exeter
AnimalsThirty-eight sand gazelles are living inside a working 250-megawatt solar park in the Prince Mohammed bin Salman Royal Reserve. The first births are expected in December and have not happened yet.
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