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Eye buoys and kites cut seabird deaths in Cornish fishing nets
A 17-month trial off Cornwall found predator-shaped kites and spinning eye buoys lowered the odds that diving birds would be caught in gillnets.
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AnimalsMaputo National Park
Maputo National Park is a winter stop for birds flying from the Arctic
Curlew sandpipers and other migrants use the park's mudflats between Eurasian breeding grounds and southern Africa. Protecting one stop does not save the whole route.
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AnimalsKratie, Cambodia
Six Irrawaddy dolphin calves were confirmed on the Mekong
Cambodia's fisheries officials put the Mekong population at about 118 after this year's births along the river in Kratie and Stung Treng. The count is still far below the late 1990s.
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AnimalsUttarakhand
Women in Uttarakhand are still keeping native bees in the walls
In the Kumaon hills, household wall cavities still shelter Indian honey bees, and the women who tend those hives are the reason many colonies remain.
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CommunityNorth Sulawesi
Nine women in Sarawet turned mangrove seedlings into a village income
A fishers' group in North Sulawesi has planted 30,000 mangroves this year and sells the seedlings, while mud crabs and fish return to the roots.
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ScienceSamut Prakan
Artificial mangrove roots helped mud settle on a Thai shore
A first-year study in Samut Prakan found sediment building up behind the structures at 10 of 11 trial sites, while open shore nearby kept eroding.
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AnimalsWay Kambas National Park
Two Sumatran rhinos at Way Kambas are pregnant
Ratu and her daughter Delilah are both due around May 2027. The calves are not born yet, and every male in the breeding program is related.
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CommunityShenkeng, Taiwan
Shenkeng tea growers are rebuilding stone terraces by hand
East of Taipei, growers are restacking old tea walls, adding drip lines, and picking by hand. A replanted bush will not show its best tea for years.
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ScienceMar del Plata Canyon
Taxonomists logged 57 new deep-sea species from Argentina's canyon
A two-week workshop in Buenos Aires sorted samples from the Mar del Plata Canyon. The species are logged as new, not yet formally described, and the dives also found plastic.
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ScienceKlamath River, near the former Iron Gate Dam
Chinook salmon returned to 88% of their old Klamath habitat after the dams came down
After four Klamath River dams were removed in 2024, sonar counts recorded 7,742 Chinook passing the former dam sites that fall and more than 13,000 in 2025. The fish spread through 214 miles blocked for about a century.
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AnimalsPatagonia National Park
Women in Patagonia released Darwin's rheas back onto the steppe
A women-led team at Patagonia National Park is raising Darwin's rheas and walking them back onto the Chacabuco Valley.
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AnimalsKhon Kaen, Thailand
Nine leopard cats left a Khon Kaen rescue center for the forest
The cats, eight or nine months old, had practiced hunting before the third release of 2026. Staff can match their markings on camera traps, but they cannot yet say how many survive.
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AnimalsHong Kong, Hong Kong
Nest boxes gave Hong Kong's cockatoos new places to nest
Four of fifteen boxes on Hong Kong Island already hold a pair, and one chick moved from an air-conditioning vent into a box and fledged.
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