📈 Human Progress
🎪 Wildlife sanctuaries save animals from circuses
After spending most of their lives in circuses with tight living quarters, eight lions and Bengal tigers have now been rescued as part of two rescue missions. From now on, they will spend the rest of their lives at wildlife sanctuaries in South Africa. Two of the...
🌳 Forests on Indigenous land sequester twice the carbon
World Resources Institute together with Climate Focus recently conducted a new study that found Indigenous-held forests sequester twice as much carbon as forests owned by the state or private parties. The new study looks at data from Global Forest Watch and Landmark...
🐋 Kiwi bird and humpback whale no longer endangered animals
Many species on this planet have suffered more than enough from human impact. Now, two species have finally regenerated enough to no longer be classified as threatened or endangered. These species are the Australian humpback whale and the North Island Brown kiwi bird....
🌳 Kenyan community regrew its forest – and stopped flooding
Five years ago, the forest known as Mirema Forest was almost completely stripped of trees. The 2 000 acre area had been over-logged for charcoal in the last decades.Mirema Community Forest Association (CFA) is behind the reforestation, and during the last five years,...
