Rewilding
More than 25,000 people in over 50 countries gave to bring a heart shaped Northumberland estate into the care of two wildlife charities. Curlews, red squirrels and merlins already live there, and it sits at the heart of a planned 40 mile corridor for nature.
Six young broad headed snakes, born at Aussie Ark, went home to a sandstone ridge near Nowra in May, under rocks made just for them. Months on, at least four of them are doing well, a world first for their kind.
Between Brazil and Ghana, right on the Equator, a valley close to a thousand kilometres long had never been seen by human eyes. In September a Brazilian led team sailed out to lower a robot into it, and found gardens.
Australia Zoo's Wildlife Hospital began as a tribute to Steve Irwin's mother, Lyn. This spring one of its koalas arrived after a ten hour drive with the mother of the vet who runs it.
Niue's ocean is about twelve hundred times the size of the island itself. Its people found a way for anyone in the world to look after one square kilometre of it for twenty years, and the reef has answered.
On 17 November in Mumbai, five ideas for repairing the planet will each win a million pounds. One of the fifteen finalists is the alliance behind the Indigenous rangers caring for Australia's deserts.
On 30 October the Philippine Eagle Foundation gathered its partners at its centre outside Davao City to celebrate sixteen Indigenous communities who protect the forests where the country's national bird raises its young.
Logan City Council is using drones to start the small, careful burns that clear dry fuel from its reserves. In backyards nearby, people are doing their own version with a rake, a ladder and a neighbour.
A month before the world's climate talks open in Türkiye, leaders stood on Tuvalu, signed a declaration named for the Tuvaluan word for strength in unity, and asked that the ocean be written into whatever Antalya decides. Türkiye has said yes to trying.
On 27 April a three day old dolphin was seen swimming with six adults at Kampi pool on the Mekong. It was the sixth calf of the year, and with no dolphin lost in sixteen months, Cambodia's river dolphins now number one hundred and eighteen.
Varroa mite is now across mainland Australia, but one island never let it in. Norfolk Island's honey bees carry the fewest pests and pathogens of any population on Earth, and the island keeps it that way with patience, a shut door and five hives opened on the first of every month.
His great grandmother was born on Wooroora, and until this spring Uncle Kurt Noble had never set foot on it. Bush Heritage Australia is $5.3 million short of buying the station and joining rainforest to reef, with Jirrbal people helping care for it, and the deadline is 24 December.
