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Achieving a major reforestation milestone, the Democratic Republic of Congo has planted 90% of its 1 billion trees goal
The Democratic Republic of Congo loses 500,000 hectares (1.2 million acres) of forest cover every year due to shifting cultivation, mining, and illegal and informal logging.
To address this widespread deforestation, a Congolese government program aspired to plant 1 billion trees between 2019 and 2023, aiming to strengthen climate resilience, alleviate poverty, and protect biodiversity.
While they didn't meet their goal, they reached a remarkable 90% of their target — and the organization behind the reforestation effort plans to continue planting more trees even after the government program comes to an end.
In 'the greatest recovery of a cat species ever achieved,' the rarest wild cat in the world is now no longer endangered
The Iberian lynx is one of the rarest cat species in the world, and after 20 years of hard-won conservation efforts, it's officially off the endangered species list.
In 2002, the species was brought to the brink of extinction, with only 94 Iberian lynxes remaining in Spain and disappearing entirely from Portugal, where it was declared locally extinct.
The main cause of the Iberian lynx's decline was its disappearing food source, which was affected by agricultural production and disease, as well as by poaching and highway construction.
Why is this good news? The Iberian lynx's recovery is proof of all the good that conservation efforts can do if we invest in them long-term. Conservationists focused on projects over the course of two decades and thanks to those efforts, the species' population increased twenty-fold — so much that it was removed from the endangered species list entirely.
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In a dramatic reinvention, the Buenos Aires zoo went from showing animals for profit to protecting them
Before it closed its doors as a zoo in 2016, the Buenos Aires Ecopark prioritized making money over caring for its animals — keeping them in enclosures that hadn't changed much since they were built in the late 1800s.
As public opinion shifted against showing animals purely for entertainment, the zoo closed its doors and began a reinvention process over the next seven years.
It involved relocating more than 1,000 animals to sanctuaries around the world and becoming a nationally important center for conservation. It's now home to a state-of-the-art animal hospital that takes animals from all over the country and the largest biobank in South America.
What's the nuance?The ethical arguments surrounding zoos are valid. At the same time, when operated with the animals as a key priority, they can play a critical role in endangered species conservation, animal rehabilitation, and in helping humans tap into empathy and care for animals and species from all over the world.
One of the first in the world to ban certain single-use plastics, a small Pacific island nation has now dramatically reduced pollution
While residents of the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu tried their best to collect and properly dispose of plastic littering its surrounding waters, the country's government took action to stop pollution at the source.
In 2018, Vanuatu became one of the first in the world to outlaw the sale and distribution of certain single-use plastics, including a world-first ban on plastic straws.
Why is this good news? Small island nations face unique challenges when it comes to waste since they're often dependent on plastic-intensive imports, are at the mercy of ocean currents carrying debris, and don't have adequate recycling or waste management on the small strips of land. So this is an especially notable achievement — and one that was led by the people of Vanuatu.
In a landmark ruling, a UK judge said that proposed new fossil fuel projects must account for future impacts
The UK's supreme court just ruled that the impact of burning coal, oil, and gas on the climate must be considered when deciding whether or not to approve new fossil fuel projects.
The decision sets an important precedent for taking into account the "inevitable" future greenhouse gas emissions associated with new fossil fuel extraction — and the impact of those emissions on the climate crisis.
Advocates are celebrating the ruling, calling it a "huge win in the fight for a livable climate." The ruling is also expected to impact other active lawsuits against fossil fuel extraction projects.
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