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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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An osprey flying low over water with its wings spread

Animals

Herefordshire

Ospreys raised three chicks in Herefordshire

A 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

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Lady Elliot Island

Seabirds nested again after decades of planting on Lady Elliot Island

Guano 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

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A loggerhead sea turtle swimming just under the surface of clear water

Animals

Melbourne, Florida

Two rehabilitated sea turtles, Julian and Falafel, swam home from Paradise Beach

Brevard Zoo released a juvenile green turtle treated for pneumonia and a three-flippered loggerhead rescued from cast-net line.

Verified · Hometown News Brevard

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A green sea turtle swimming above a reef

Animals

Papahānaumokuākea

Crews hauled 47,000 pounds of debris from Papahānaumokuākea

The last voyage of a five-year cleanup pulled derelict nets and plastic from the monument and freed five entangled green sea turtles.

Verified · Hawaii News Now

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A preserved Eastern red bat specimen with reddish-brown fur

Animals

Cape Neddick, Maine

A red bat pulled from the Maine surf is eating again

An Eastern red bat found struggling in the waves is now feisty at the Center for Wildlife in Cape Neddick and is eating mealworms.

Verified · Popular Science

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Flathead Indian Reservation

Crews carried hundreds of fish into a restored Jocko River channel

As water entered a restored channel at the Bison Range Reach, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes crews moved stranded fish, including a cutthroat trout.

Verified · Char-Koosta News

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An Aldabra giant tortoise walking on bare ground

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Aldabra Atoll

Aldabra's giant tortoises number about 180,000

A 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

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A wide river bending through trees and a small town

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Asheville, North Carolina

Native fish are back above a broken Swannanoa dam

With Lake Craig Dam open after Hurricane Helene, smallmouth bass and russet darters are upstream of it for the first time in more than a century. Asheville will not repair the barrier.

Verified · The Biltmore Beacon

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A loggerhead sea turtle swimming just under the surface

Animals

Tybee Island, Georgia

Tybee Island logged a record 59 loggerhead nests

Loggerhead nests on Tybee reached 59 this season, a new high for the island, while Georgia as a whole counted a record 4,292 nests.

Verified · Savannah Morning News

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A juvenile Atlantic sturgeon held in a gloved hand above a tank

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James River at Osborne

VCU researchers have tagged 2,455 Atlantic sturgeon in the James

A long-running James River study has now tagged 2,455 Atlantic sturgeon. The fish remain endangered.

Verified · WSLS

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A Pacific walrus calf with its head above icy water

Animals

Point Lay, Alaska

Researchers sheltered an orphaned walrus calf through an Arctic storm

A USGS biologist and a Point Lay college student found the calf between two carcasses, kept him safe for nearly three days, and got him 800 miles to the Alaska SeaLife Center.

Verified · Alaska's News Source (KTUU)

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Prince Mohammed bin Salman Royal Reserve

Sand gazelles moved into a solar park inside a Saudi reserve

Thirty-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.

Verified · Al Arabiya

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