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Twenty patches of San Francisco Bay, all coming back at once
Twenty projects around San Francisco Bay have just been funded together, and almost all of them are places you will be able to walk to.
Conservation
Good company, above the water and below
How lucky we are, to look after each other and the marine life, together.
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Eleven coral nurseries, one morning, and the whole island turns up
Once a year on Bonaire, divers, snorkelers, dive shop staff and people who simply live there spend a morning tending the island's underwater coral nurseries, then come ashore for a party.
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Five islands, dredged off the bottom of a lake, turn ten
On a flat grey Dutch lake, engineers dredged sand and clay and silt off the bottom and shaped it into islands, and this week those islands turn ten.
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In La Paz, no boat leaves until the sharks arrive
In the shallow bay off La Paz the biggest fish in the sea comes to feed every winter, and the town has learned to wait for the sharks to arrive before a single boat goes out.
Innovations
Joshua Wilson taught a computer to count birds, then gave it away
A researcher in Queensland has built a tool that reads drone photographs and counts every bird in them, and he has given it away to the world.
Innovations
Troy Warry takes the water apart and hands it back clean
A water scientist in central New South Wales has built a plant that takes contaminants apart rather than straining them out, and his town now gets to use the same water twice.
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Ken Nakajima drew this garden, and spring finishes it
Australia's largest Japanese garden sits in a country town in the central west of New South Wales, and this weekend it is celebrating its cherry blossom.
Conservation
Boodjamulla comes home to the Waanyi
Four hours north west of Mount Isa, a national park of emerald gorges and ancient fossils is Aboriginal land again, and the Waanyi rangers who care for it will keep the gate open for everyone.
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Conservation
Conservation
Eleven coral nurseries, one morning, and the whole island turns up
Once a year on Bonaire, divers, snorkelers, dive shop staff and people who simply live there spend a morning tending the island's underwater coral nurseries, then come ashore for a party.
Conservation
Boodjamulla comes home to the Waanyi
Four hours north west of Mount Isa, a national park of emerald gorges and ancient fossils is Aboriginal land again, and the Waanyi rangers who care for it will keep the gate open for everyone.
Conservation
In the Pilliga, five animals nobody had seen for a century are back
Bilbies, wallabies, bettongs, plains mice and bandicoots are digging the Pilliga again, and on 29 June the NSW Government signed on for ten more years of bringing them home.
Conservation
Three hundred became three thousand: the numbat comes home
In July the world's Red List moved the numbat from Endangered to Near Threatened, after forty years of work by scientists, Perth Zoo and volunteers who count numbats from a slow car and raise the money at bingo nights.
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Global Good News
Twenty patches of San Francisco Bay, all coming back at once
Twenty projects around San Francisco Bay have just been funded together, and almost all of them are places you will be able to walk to.
Global Good News
Five islands, dredged off the bottom of a lake, turn ten
On a flat grey Dutch lake, engineers dredged sand and clay and silt off the bottom and shaped it into islands, and this week those islands turn ten.
Global Good News
In La Paz, no boat leaves until the sharks arrive
In the shallow bay off La Paz the biggest fish in the sea comes to feed every winter, and the town has learned to wait for the sharks to arrive before a single boat goes out.
Global Good News
Helen Asu's net found a fish lost for forty years
On the Sepik River, a fisherwoman's hand net did what four decades of expeditions could not: two spinach pipefish, last seen by science in 1985.
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Innovations we love
Innovations
Joshua Wilson taught a computer to count birds, then gave it away
A researcher in Queensland has built a tool that reads drone photographs and counts every bird in them, and he has given it away to the world.
Innovations
Troy Warry takes the water apart and hands it back clean
A water scientist in central New South Wales has built a plant that takes contaminants apart rather than straining them out, and his town now gets to use the same water twice.
Coming back
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Rewilding
Rewilding
Thirteen peccaries, one boat ride, and a forest that needed them back
For sixteen hours in late August, a herd of white lipped peccaries travelled by truck, by boat and finally on people's shoulders into Piedras Blancas National Park, where the forest has been missing them for eighteen years.
Rewilding
Four billion moths ride the stars south
The bogong moth had its strongest return to the Alps since its numbers fell away in 2017, and this spring thousands of people will help find out where it goes.
Conservation
Three countries put their names to one forest
In the far south of Mexico, the largest tropical forest reserve in the country is held together by the villages living inside it.
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Ken Nakajima drew this garden, and spring finishes it
Australia's largest Japanese garden sits in a country town in the central west of New South Wales, and this weekend it is celebrating its cherry blossom.
Explore
Painters by the Sea, Cronulla, this Sunday
Cronulla throws its spring party this weekend, a hundred market stalls and fifty food trucks from Friday night to Sunday, and on Sunday afternoon the painters set up their easels by the water, with the money raised going to Relay For Life.
Explore
Sealers Cove is open again
Wilsons Promontory's most loved overnight walk is back, on a boardwalk rebuilt by crews who camped in the bush for months and lifted the whole thing thirty centimetres for the sea to come.
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Sustainable living
Sustainable Living
Native food festival at Carriageworks this weekend
Sustainable Living
Good news lands when it is felt together
Sustainable Living
One more shared meal, and life feels better
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