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From 66 lizards to 545: the little skink that refused to disappear Taronga Zoo · 2026-10-03 · Australia He pedaled 4,000 miles for the whales. Cape Cod Times · 2026-10-03 · United States Sydney woke up to moths on the windows — and that's wonderful news. Northland News Radio (Reuters) · 2026-10-03 · Australia Two turtles came ashore in California — and made history, twice NOAA Fisheries · 2026-10-03 · USA Twin tiger cubs, first of their kind at Fort Worth Zoo FOX 4 News · 2026-10-02 · United States 180,000 trees later, Colombia's tamarin team takes the stage Proyecto Titi · 2026-09-29 · Colombia Fewer than 100 left — and now this tiny bird has a sanctuary Australian Wildlife Conservancy · 2026-10-01 · Australia The crane doctor: from 300 birds to 1,293 — and a £100,000 gold award AFP · 2026-09-30 · Rwanda The lab where seized ivory starts talking UN News · 2026-10-02 · Uganda Michigan's rivers get an $89 million second chance State of Michigan · 2026-10-03 · USA Cape Verde bets €36 million that protecting the ocean can feed its families PlusNews · 2026-10-03 · Cape Verde Let the forest come back and it does the work: 59% more carbon captured in a Chinese river valley Land (MDPI) · 2026-10-03 · China Tiny sky dust, suddenly readable — forecast errors cut in half Phys.org · 2026-10-03 · China Oman plans four giant 1 GW solar plants on the road to 30% clean power Mercom India · 2026-07-06 · Oman From 121 to 429: Nepal's tiger comeback hits a new high IUCN · 2026-07-29 · Nepal Sri Lanka clears elephant corridors and commits to fences, not force Colombo Telegraph · 2026-08-27 · Sri Lanka $112 million to make flood-and-drought-hit Bangladesh villages unbreakable The Business Standard (TBS News) · 2026-09-28 · Bangladesh The ranger who foiled a snow-leopard skin smuggling attempt is Pakistan's top wildlife honouree FactFile · 2026-07-31 · Pakistan A new 200-km sanctuary completes a 400-km safe corridor for Pakistan's blind dolphins WWF · 2026-06-01 · Pakistan 2.5 lakh saplings in one hour: Varanasi grows a Guinness-record urban forest Indian Economic Observer · 2026-03-01 · India 550 village water centres now give 1.2 million Indians safe water every day Devdiscourse (ANI) · 2026-02-02 · India Glaw Lake becomes India's 101st Ramsar site — and Arunachal's first The Better India · 2026-08-03 · India After losing her first litter, cheetah KGP12 gives birth again — India now has 56 cheetahs The Better India · 2026-09-18 · India A 770-km road trip saved this chick: great Indian bustard born wild in Gujarat after a decade The Business Standard (TBS News) · 2026-03-28 · India 31 new species found in Brazil's ocean twilight zone EnviroLink · 2026-09-29 · Brazil Scientists logged 1,121 new ocean species in a single push Scientific American · 2026-05-18 · UK A silent robot found giant chains of ocean plants nobody knew existed Phys.org · 2026-08-18 · USA Beavers are back on California's Salinas River California Water Boards · 2026-04-08 · USA Scientists created 1.5 million coral babies to rebuild Florida's reef University of Miami Rosenstiel School · 2026-08-19 · USA Windsor is one step closer to its own national urban park Parks Canada · 2026-07-20 · Canada Canada is backing First Nations-led Great Lakes restoration Canada Water Agency · 2026-09-09 · Canada California protected more of its ocean and land than ever before Marine Conservation Institute · 2026-09-29 · USA After 40 years of cleanup, Nipigon Bay is officially restored Canada Water Agency · 2026-08-28 · Canada The wood stork is officially no longer endangered SC Department of Natural Resources · 2026-03-06 · USA Neighbors brought Oregon's rarest species back from the brink U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service · 2026-05-15 · USA A rare plant once down to 13 populations now grows in eight states U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service · 2026-06-09 · USA Costa Rican Villagers Rebuilt a Mangrove Forest, Seedling by Seedling UN Environment Programme · 2026-08-26 · Costa Rica A Mexican Oyster Cooperative Wins Top Honors for Healing the Sea The Fish Site · 2026-09-23 · Mexico After 50 years away, the Mexican wolf runs wild in Durango again Mexico Business News · 2026-09-22 · Mexico Uruguay's first green hydrogen trucks hit the forest road World Bank · 2025-12-01 · Uruguay Chilean software teaches water utilities to think Fast Company · 2026-03-24 · Chile Mangroves, reefs and satellites get a $40 million friend COP30 Brasil · 2026-06-08 · Brazil São Paulo's water will now be watched hour by hour Morningtick · 2026-09-27 · Brazil Guyana's mangrove forests grew by 324 hectares this year — nature's own seawall is winning Department of Public Information, Guyana · 2026-09-23 · Guyana After Venezuela's earthquakes, safe water is being rebuilt for 250,000 people in La Guaira ReliefWeb (UNICEF) · 2026-09-08 · Venezuela Bolivia just linked dry forests and wetlands into a conservation landscape twice the size of Costa Rica The Pew Charitable Trusts · 2026-04-09 · Bolivia The Guaraní nation is protecting a dry forest bigger than Yellowstone — and jaguars roam it The Pew Charitable Trusts · 2026-09-11 · Bolivia One bird discovery in 1997 grew into 50,000 hectares of protected Ecuadorian forest The Guardian · 2026-09-13 · Ecuador The Galápagos just got a $12-million-a-year conservation fund — run by the locals Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy · 2026-03-17 · Ecuador The fisherwoman's daughter who stood up for the Magdalena River just won the 'Green Nobel' Goldman Environmental Prize · 2026-04-20 · Colombia Denmark's Thor wind farm just installed the world's first recyclable-blade turbine Baltic Wind · 2026-09-24 · Denmark Austria just approved 7,700 battery storage projects in one funding round Energy Storage News · 2026-06-15 · Austria Svalbard's polar bears are getting fatter — defying the melting ice CNN · 2026-01-30 · Norway Simple hay-stuffed tubes are giving Ireland's ducks a fighting chance FACE Biodiversity Manifesto · 2026-07-30 · Ireland Greece keeps its crown as the world's second-best Blue Flag coastline GTP Headlines · 2026-05-15 · Greece Mushrooms are cleaning England's rivers — and just won £1.5 million to do more Envirotec Magazine · 2026-05-20 · UK Croatia gave the Drava river its side channels back — and the terns returned CINEA · 2026-03-26 · Croatia Countries just agreed to phase out plastic dolly ropes choking the North-East Atlantic OSPAR Commission · 2026-06-25 · Belgium The High Seas Treaty is now law — protecting half the planet's surface European Commission · 2026-01-16 · Belgium The Azores built the North Atlantic's largest marine sanctuary Oceana Europe · 2026-02-17 · Portugal A former dumping ground now hosts 64% of Britain's rarest grebes RSPB · 2026-08-28 · UK Bearded vultures are soaring over Spain again after a record release season Vulture Conservation Foundation · 2026-09-25 · Spain Nine years of work brought the Danube's floodplains back to life — and won Europe's top nature prize CINEA · 2026-06-16 · Slovakia Beavers in a Polish city just won Europe's top wildlife photo — and the real story is better Rewilding Europe · 2026-10-01 · Poland 400 Pacific conservationists left Suva with a shared promise PINA · 2026-09-14 · Fiji New Zealand's Bird of the Year is a species that once numbered five Neuseeland Australien News · 2026-09-22 · New Zealand Kākāpō hit 325 — the highest count of the entire recovery era The Good Press · 2026-09-30 · New Zealand Kiwi are back in Wellington's hills after 150 years EnviroLink · 2026-09-30 · New Zealand A tiny marsupial thought nearly gone is thriving behind a giant fence ScienceBlog · 2026-09-18 · Australia 500 young Singaporeans spent their Saturday cleaning the island National Environment Agency · 2026-09-19 · Singapore Five orangutans graduate 'forest school' and walk back into the wild Earth.com · 2026-08-19 · Indonesia 1,200 runners raced so remote villages could drink clean water Observer ID · 2026-08-30 · Indonesia In Borneo, hunters are trading their traps for cameras Batam News Asia · 2026-09-18 · Indonesia Thailand's cement industry just cut 3.8 million tonnes of CO2 LiveNews NZ (via Media Outreach) · 2026-07-20 · Thailand For the first time in a century, coal is not China's biggest power source Reuters · 2026-09-01 · China The world's rarest ape is climbing back — from 7 to 44 African News Agency · 2026-09-11 · China Scientists finally mapped where humpbacks gather near Tokyo's far islands phys.org · 2026-06-15 · Japan Twins for Mafuko: a rare miracle in war-torn Virunga Reuters · 2026-01-07 · DR Congo AfDB and UNICEF bring safe water to 750,000 people in Port Sudan Devdiscourse · 2026-06-19 · Sudan Okavango conservation pact renewed for five more years Energy News Network · 2026-09-24 · Botswana Morocco's climate record climbs to 6th in the world Energy Partnership Morocco-Germany · 2025-11-20 · Morocco Blue Park honours go to Madagascar and Senegal's waters Ocean Economist · 2026-09-28 · Senegal Seychelles has already protected over 30% of its ocean Pew Charitable Trusts · 2026-06-08 · Seychelles Nine African governments pledge new ocean protections WCS Newsroom · 2026-06-18 · Kenya Africa's first round-the-clock solar plant switches on in Congo Alliance for Rural Electrification · 2026-08-31 · DR Congo Africa is heading for a record 17 gigawatts of solar in 2026 African Review · 2026-09-04 · Egypt South Africa's rhino numbers climb as poaching falls The Daily Mirror (South Africa) · 2026-09-22 · South Africa Cheetahs return to Eswatini after 35 years eGlobal Travel Media · 2026-08-28 · Eswatini Lions roar again where poachers silenced them eGlobal Travel Media · 2026-06-25 · Zambia Sunlight into drinking water — two Tongan islands just got water security Digital More · 2026-09-28 · Tonga The reef that learned to breed again — 300 coral frames and counting Visit Maldives · 2026-01-29 · Maldives South Carolina's Chelsea Plantation is about to open to everyone — as a forest Bluffton Today · 2026-10-03 · USA Malawi's restored reserve just became Africa's conservation blueprint Travel And Tour World · 2026-10-03 · Malawi 16,000 tiny miracles are marching back into the wild Upper Thames River Conservation Authority · 2026-10-03 · Canada The heaviest insect in New Zealand is coming back Phys.org · 2026-10-03 · New Zealand The guardians of Cocos Island cut illegal fishing by 90% Amigos Isla del Coco · 2026-09-30 · Costa Rica Four condors caught the wind over the Grand Canyon Arizona Republic · 2026-10-02 · USA The moths are back over Sydney's rooftops Reuters · 2026-10-03 · Australia The bees won when the mowing stopped Phys.org · 2026-10-03 · Canada The Bay is getting $90 million to heal U.S. EPA · 2026-10-03 · USA 7.1 million trees, planted by millions of hands South African Government · 2026-10-03 · South Africa $80 million for safe passage across America's roads Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership · 2026-10-03 · USA India's forest guardians get their due Marudhar Bharti · 2026-09-30 · India The Kerry farmer proving green and profitable rhyme FarmingLife · 2026-10-01 · Ireland One week in the Amazon, a lifetime of conservation Whitley Fund for Nature · 2026-10-01 · Colombia One in four hectares, and counting hi INDiA (IANS) · 2026-09-28 · India