📈 Human Progress
🐺 For the first time in years – red wolf pups born in the wild
Back in the 1980’s, the red wolf was considered “extinct in the wild,” according to NPR. However, a litter of red wolf pups has been born at the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, indicating there is still hope for the endangered species....
🕊 Formerly “extinct” woodpecker still alive
The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FSW) declared the ivory-billed woodpecker to be extinct a year ago. A move which then proved to be a bit premature. Now, a team of researchers have brought a glimmer of hope by announcing the bird to be alive and pecking in the...
🐒 Ecuador grants wild animals legal rights
In a world-first, Ecuador has become the first country ever to give legal rights to individual wild animals. This is all thanks to the woolly monkey known as Estrellita. Even though the country, back in 2008, became the first to recognize nature as a deserving...
🐾 The world’s largest “ecoduct” helps animals across the highway
Anyone who has ridden on a motorway has probably seen the remains of animals that were hit when they tried to cross the road. One way to make it safer for the animals to cross the highway is to build wildlife crossings, also known as ecoducts: viaducts with...
