📈 Human Progress
🚺 These women are helping save endangered coral reefs
A non-profit organization (NGO) called Sea Women of Melanesia trains Indigenous women to safeguard coral reefs that are under threat from climate change. Today the organization has more than 40 members,w and they protect 43 marine areas.“The Sea Women of...
🦈 Illuminated nets save endangered sharks and rays
A problem for both fish and commercial fishermen is that part of what is caught in the net is bycatches. In other words, fish that were not the target of the fishery. It can affect endangered species such as sharks and rays, wasting valuable time because commercial...
🐠 Ecuador creates new marine reserve
The Galápagos Islands are home to many lush and diverse ecosystems. Ecuador has decided to create a far-reached marine reserve north of the archipelago to protect and preserve them. This new reserve is called Hermandad (which means brotherhood in Spanish), and it...🌳 One of California’s redwood forests is returned to native tribes
In California, on the West Coast of the US, 523 acres of forest used to be home to the ancient redwood tree. Today, due to logging and other human activity, there are mainly scattered stumps left. Luckily enough there are still 200 acres of redwood trees left that...
