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Species coming back, habitat set aside, and the field work that keeps wild animals wild. 39 verified stories. Stories come from Medan, São Sebastião, and Kaikoura. Each one is checked and linked to the original report.
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AnimalsA male about three years old, taken from the illegal trade and held for rehabilitation in India, landed in Medan to begin quarantine and a planned return to care in North Sumatra.
Verified · The Indian Express
AnimalsA decade after the archipelago off São Paulo became a federal refuge, monitors say sharks are showing up again. Night fishing is still a problem.
Verified · Folha de S.Paulo
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
AnimalsMore than 1,000 runners and walkers turned out, the largest gathering since before the pandemic, to support conservation of critically endangered African penguins.
Verified · NBC Connecticut
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
AnimalsOfficer Marcus O'Connor took the babies to Twin Harbors Wildlife Center. After several months of care, he helped release all six on Oct. 3.
Verified · The Daily World
AnimalsMontana Fish, Wildlife and Parks game wardens and a bear specialist caught the cub, cut off the plastic jar, and let it go unhurt.
Verified · NonStop Local / MontanaRightNow
ScienceNature Conservancy staff and Southeastern Oklahoma State volunteers worked at Pontotoc Ridge Preserve while hundreds of millions of birds pass over the state.
Verified · KOSU / StateImpact Oklahoma
AnimalsThe turtle stranded on Jeju in 2019, tangled in abandoned fishing gear. After seven surgeries it was set for release from a beach in Seogwipo, without a tracking tag.
Verified · The Korea Times
AnimalsIn the 10 months since the Greenland crossing opened near Castle Rock, drivers hit two animals on a stretch that used to see about one collision a day.
Verified · The Colorado Sun
ScienceIn lab tanks at Hopkins Marine Station, bleached coral fragments that briefly touched healthy clones took in algae within three days and fully recovered in seven weeks. Fragments without that contact died.
Verified · Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
AnimalsHundo, who came to the zoo as an orphaned calf at about 150 pounds, left for Florida weighing 546 pounds. Manatee Springs then welcomed Tuglet, Smidge, and Zimomo.
Verified · FOX19 (WXIX)
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
ScienceAfter 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.
Verified · Mongabay
CommunityAbout 400 people in the four districts beside the park learned what to do after a dog bite, and a World Rabies Day clinic in Kinigi offered free dog vaccination.
Verified · IUCN
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
AnimalsThe Ohio Bird Sanctuary released a young eagle at Clear Fork Conservation Area after a spinal fracture from a car strike. The sanctuary handles about 200 releases a year.
Verified · KnoxPages
CommunityThe Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust closed Eagle County Open Space's largest conservation easement, keeping Susan Nottingham's family ranch undeveloped.
Verified · Vail Daily
AnimalsTwo young males, Mkuu and Viazi, arrived from Tampa under a Species Survival Plan. They are the first southern white rhinos at the zoo in 130 years.
Verified · The Denver Post
AnimalsArizona Game and Fish set 18 captive-bred ferrets loose near Seligman and six more at Garland Prairie. The same day, Phoenix Zoo announced a record 34 kits.
Verified · Arizona's Family (AZFamily)
CommunityFirst Hawaiian Bank volunteers joined Mālama Maunalua at Kuliʻouʻou Beach Park. The bank's volunteers have now hauled out more than 4.2 million pounds of invasive algae over time.
Verified · Hawaii News Now
AnimalsFound injured at Lunken Airport in June, the two-year-old eagle was rehabilitated by Milford's Raptor Inc. and released, the group's second eagle release this year.
Verified · WKRC Local 12
AnimalsFirst-time mother Zura delivered five healthy cubs on October 5, the institute's 21st litter and 90th cheetah birth. A live camera is open to the public.
Verified · Smithsonian Magazine