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The sacred bird that came home to Japan
Japan's toki was gone from the wild. This May, a crowd in Hakui watched eight fly free in the very place they were last seen.
The wild coming back
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Species coming back, habitats restored, and the people who give them room.
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The divers planting a forest by hand, in winter
At Eaglehawk Neck, people come from all over the world to spend four cold weeks putting giant kelp back on the reef.
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The satellites keeping watch over the desert elephants
In Namibia, a message from space now helps farmers and free roaming elephants share the same dry rivers in peace.
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Sleep in the lighthouse keeper's cottage, nine kilometres out to sea
No cars, no shops, no road. Barunguba Montague Island has a granite lighthouse, eight thousand penguins and two cottages you can book.
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The frozen library that hopes never to lend a book
Inside a mountain in the Arctic sit 1.4 million kinds of seed, and this year two countries added theirs for the first time.
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The rope bridges built so sloths never have to touch the ground
On the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica there are now 378 of them, strung tree to tree above the roads.
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The ocean beyond every border just got its first rulebook
Two thirds of the ocean finally has a rulebook. And the closer that care comes to the shoreline, the more of us get to watch the healing.
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Thirty eight pups, and a coastline getting its sea lions back
On the Otago coast, one of the world's rarest sea lions has just reached a number that counts.
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Milan gave its council chamber to the swifts and the bees
For one Friday in June, the animals of Milan had somebody speaking for them in the room where the city decides things.
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Hedgehogs can hear a great deal more than we knew
A gentle experiment in Oxford found a hidden range in hedgehog hearing, and with it a kind idea.
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The bird that needed the trees to grow old first
A hornbill gone from Gir for sixty years is nesting there again, in hollows the forest took decades to make.
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The island where the crabs have right of way
The second half of the journey continues at Christmas Island: off the wharf into 28 degree water, hauling the ocean's cargo up through the jungle, and the joy of one turtle who came back.