> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.earthtoseanews.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Earth to Sea News, Issue No. 30 - URL: https://www.earthtoseanews.com/issue-30/ - Published: 2026-10-21T02:58:15.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-21T02:58:15.000Z - Author: Nicole McMahon - Tags: #newsletter | [![Earth to Sea News. Independent good news, from the earth to the sea](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0d/06/0d067be9-327f-4730-b9c3-5f0cdd2bc6fa/content/images/2026/10/email-header-card-issue-30-year.png)](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/?from=newsletter)[](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/?from=newsletter)[![Gladstone Harbour on a clear day, with the hills behind](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0d/06/0d067be9-327f-4730-b9c3-5f0cdd2bc6fa/content/images/2026/10/chubb-reef-b.jpg)](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/chubb-reef/?from=newsletter)Gladstone Harbour, Queensland, where seagrass meadows and oyster reefs are being restored side by side. Photo: Jack Bain, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.Good morning. This week begins in Gladstone Harbour, where seagrass meadows and oyster reefs are being planted back side by side in a trial an insurer is paying for and the people who know the water are running. Then grain growers across three states testing regenerative farming from their own paddocks, a Coonamble paddock going back to Weeping Myall woodland, the orangutan mothers of Borneo who walk their babies to play dates, this year's Awards for Nature with a kelp forest returning off Bondi, the Colorado wildlife bridge that cut crashes with animals by 91 per cent, and twenty minutes with the birds, because the Aussie Bird Count is on this week. And our own morning from Manly Wharf to North Head, with the film inside it.[![Green seagrass blades in clear shallow water](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0d/06/0d067be9-327f-4730-b9c3-5f0cdd2bc6fa/content/images/2026/10/chubb-reef-inside.jpg)](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/chubb-reef/?from=newsletter)Conservation[Seagrass and oysters, planted side by side: the Gladstone trial an insurer is paying for](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/chubb-reef/?from=newsletter)Seagrass meadows feed the turtles and dugongs and store carbon faster than a rainforest. In Gladstone Harbour they are being replanted beside new oyster reefs, in a trial paid for by an insurance company's foundation and run by the people who know the water best.[Read the full story](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/chubb-reef/?from=newsletter)More good news[![A woman in a cap standing in a green crop trial plot](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0d/06/0d067be9-327f-4730-b9c3-5f0cdd2bc6fa/content/images/2026/10/csiro-farmers-inside.jpg)](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/csiro-farmers/?from=newsletter)Innovations[Answers from our own paddocks: the farmers testing regenerative agriculture for five years](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/csiro-farmers/?from=newsletter)Regenerative farming has plenty of believers and not enough Australian evidence. A five year trial led by farmers' own groups, with CSIRO measuring, sets out to find what works in old soils and unpredictable rain.[Read the full story](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/csiro-farmers/?from=newsletter)[![A grey green Weeping Myall tree with drooping branches against a blue sky](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0d/06/0d067be9-327f-4730-b9c3-5f0cdd2bc6fa/content/images/2026/10/coonamble-myall.jpg)](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/coonamble-myall/?from=newsletter)Conservation[A cleared paddock near Coonamble is going back to Weeping Myall woodland, 968 hectares of it](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/coonamble-myall/?from=newsletter)Weeping Myall woodland once ran across the western plains and most of it was cleared for cropping and grazing. On a property near Coonamble, a farming company is planting almost a thousand hectares of it back, with the grazing to follow once the trees are up.[Read the full story](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/coonamble-myall/?from=newsletter)[![A Bornean orangutan sitting in rainforest branches](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0d/06/0d067be9-327f-4730-b9c3-5f0cdd2bc6fa/content/images/2026/10/orangutan-playdates.jpg)](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/orangutan-playdates/?from=newsletter)Global Good News[Orangutan mothers walk their babies to play dates, and it costs them: fifteen years of watching in Borneo](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/orangutan-playdates/?from=newsletter)Orangutans live mostly alone, which leaves their young short of playmates. Fifteen years of watching mothers and infants in a Bornean forest shows the mothers fixing that themselves, walking further and eating less so the children can wrestle.[Read the full story](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/orangutan-playdates/?from=newsletter)[![A shiny brown Christmas beetle on a white background](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0d/06/0d067be9-327f-4730-b9c3-5f0cdd2bc6fa/content/images/2026/10/awards-nature-2.jpg)](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/awards-nature/?from=newsletter)Conservation[Where did all the Christmas beetles go? This year's Awards for Nature will find out](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/awards-nature/?from=newsletter)A national network to find out where the Christmas beetles went, 25,000 native plantings on Ngarrindjeri Country, and a shorebird patrol at Shark Bay. Five projects shared $150,000 this week, and every one of them is the patient kind.[Read the full story](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/awards-nature/?from=newsletter)[![A wide earth covered bridge crossing a six lane highway](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0d/06/0d067be9-327f-4730-b9c3-5f0cdd2bc6fa/content/images/2026/10/wildlife-overpass.jpg)](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/wildlife-overpass/?from=newsletter)Global Good News[The biggest wildlife bridge in North America is working: crashes with animals down 91 per cent](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/wildlife-overpass/?from=newsletter)Before December, the stretch of Interstate 25 between Larkspur and Monument averaged about one serious crash with an animal a day. Then the biggest wildlife bridge on the continent opened above it, and the elk started using it.[Read the full story](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/wildlife-overpass/?from=newsletter)[![A rainbow lorikeet with bright blue head and orange chest on a branch](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0d/06/0d067be9-327f-4730-b9c3-5f0cdd2bc6fa/content/images/2026/10/bird-count-inside.jpg)](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/bird-count/?from=newsletter)Sustainable Living[Twenty minutes with the birds: the Aussie Bird Count is on this week, and anyone can join](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/bird-count/?from=newsletter)Sit in your favourite outdoor spot for twenty minutes, write down the birds you see, and press submit. That is the whole job, and last year nearly 64,000 people did it and counted more than five million birds.[Read the full story](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/bird-count/?from=newsletter)[![A sandstone staircase through bush down to a small harbour cove](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0d/06/0d067be9-327f-4730-b9c3-5f0cdd2bc6fa/content/images/2026/10/manly-to-north-head.jpg)](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/manly-to-north-head/?from=newsletter)Explore, with film[Manly to North Head, one blessed morning and four quiet beaches](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/manly-to-north-head/?from=newsletter)An early start from the ferry, a family of brush turkeys, cockatoos free falling out of the canopy, and a swim I could not resist. Five special places, one short ferry ride from home, with our own film inside the story.[Read the full story](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/manly-to-north-head/?from=newsletter)Enjoyed this issue?Good news travels when people pass it on. 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