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Twenty nine thousand names, and an island comes home
A ninety nine year development concession over Manoel Island has ended, and the waterfront is going back to the people who asked for it.
The wild coming back
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Species coming back, habitats restored, and the people who give them room.
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One tiny marsupial turned out to be four
The long-tailed planigale, one of the smallest marsupials on earth, has just been sorted into four separate species, and one of them is brand new.
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Nepal counted its tigers, and there are 429
One hundred and twenty one in 2009. Four hundred and twenty nine this year, in a country you could drive across in a day.
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One hundred species, and the money to bring them home
A new 200 million dollar fund has one job: carry one hundred threatened animals and plants all the way back.
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The giants are coming home to Floreana
After 180 years, giant tortoises walk Floreana Island again, the first of twelve species being welcomed home.
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The sleeping child wakes up
Guatemala calls its rarest lizard the niño dormido, the sleeping child. A zoo in the capital is giving it a future.
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The butterflies that came back to the boy
A ten year old in Kobe wondered if his butterflies remembered him. The answer is now heading for a science journal.
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When the water comes back, this little duck knows first
The pink eared duck spends its life chasing rain across the continent. This year the rain fell, the wetlands filled, and the ducks arrived in their thousands.
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The year the ocean introduced itself
Scientists found 1,121 new marine species in a single year, and they are just getting started.
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Australia just met its own pollinators
The first national picture of who actually pollinates Australia has been drawn, and the native bees come out of it looking like heroes in waiting.
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One puffling, thirty years in the waiting
On the cliffs of Dorset, volunteers watched a puffin chick leave its nest for the first time in three decades.
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The Goddesses of the Forest
One hundred and eight women guard Kaziranga's rhinos, and the poachers have gone quiet.