This archive tracks meaningful progress in protecting wildlife and preserving land — from habitat restoration and endangered species recoveries to new protected areas and conservation policy wins. These stories focus on what’s working, grounded in evidence and reported with care.
The koala-rich area would form a key part of a planned 315,000-hectare Great Koala National Park on the mid-north coast and “save koalas from extinction in the state,” according to the New South Wales government.
The world’s largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans, is seeing promising signs of recovery for the iconic Bengal tiger and an encouraging increase in the populations of its prey animals including spotted deer, wild boars, and monkeys.
More than 2,000 white rhinos — roughly 15% of the wild southern white rhino population — are heading back to the wild, thanks to a landmark purchase by African Parks. The conservation NGO bought the entire Platinum Rhino herd and plans to release the animals across protected sites in southern Africa over the next decade. The rhinos lived in semi-wild conditions on the ranch, and experts believe they’ll adapt quickly to true wilderness, drawing on African Parks’ experience relocating thousands of animals across the continent. If it succeeds, this rewilding effort could become a defining chapter in one of conservation’s greatest comeback stories — and a hopeful blueprint for protecting threatened species worldwide.
The Biden administration also announced proposed rules aimed at providing stronger protections against new leasing and development in portions of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska that are designated as special areas for their wildlife, subsistence, scenic or other values.
The GBFF has been designed to mobilize and accelerate investment in the conservation and sustainability of wild species and ecosystems and has already drawn over $200 million in investments from Canada and the U.K.
An analysis of satellite data showed that 500 square kilometers of tropical rainforest were cleared in Brazil’s portion of the Amazon during the month of July, a 66% decline relative to July a year ago.
Klamath River restoration is now the largest dam removal effort in U.S. history, reopening more than 400 miles of river to salmon once the last three dams come down. But the real story is what comes next: members of the Karuk, Yurok, and other tribal nations spent five years hand-gathering seeds from nearly 100 native plant species, and roughly 17 billion of those seeds will be sown along the freed riverbanks over the coming decade. Tribal ecological knowledge is shaping every phase, woven together with western science. For Indigenous communities worldwide fighting to restore ancestral waters, the Klamath offers a powerful template — proof that rivers, and the cultures rooted in them, can be brought back to life.
“This is really dramatic,” conservationist Rodrigo Botero told The Guardian. “It’s the highest reduction in deforestation and forest fires that there has been in two decades.”
Four Indigenous communities in southwestern Ethiopia now legally steward 197,000 hectares of savanna in the Lower Omo River Valley — the largest community-managed conservation area in the country. The Mursi, Bodi, Northern Kwegu, and Ari peoples will govern the land through a community council with real authority over land use, revenue, and conservation rules, replacing decades of top-down designations that brought little protection or benefit. The area shelters reticulated giraffes, elephants, lions, and the endemic black-winged lovebird, and ecotourism and regulated hunting are expected to fund the work ahead. It’s a meaningful shift toward a truth that conservation research keeps confirming: when Indigenous communities hold the cards, both biodiversity and local wellbeing tend to flourish.
The Birds and Bees Protection Act bans the neonic pesticides uses that provide no economic benefits to users or are replaceable with safer, effective alternatives.
