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Beaver restoration in the Colorado wetlands is reversing decades of erosion at West Rifle Creek and Garfield Creek state wildlife areas, transforming fast, straight drainage ditches back into the slow, meandering habitat that elk, turkeys, and fish depend on.

North America

28.09.26

Beaver restoration in the Colorado wetlands brings two struggling creeks back to life

Charles River restoration and climate resilience began in 1965 when concerned citizens founded CRWA to address a river fouled by industrial pollution and raw sewage, building a Volunteer Monthly Monitoring Program that now spans 35 locations with over 80 dedicated volunteers.

Ecology

28.09.26

Six Decades of Charles River Restoration and Climate Resilience Turned “Dirty Water” into America’s Cleanest Urban River

Project Planet Earth’s team comes together for a group beach cleanup on the Jurassic Coast, where the organization began its work to protect the ocean and reduce plastic pollution.

Contributed Articles

25.09.26

How a Bag of Rubbish on a Dorset Beach Turned into a 261-Mile Swim for the Ocean

Researchers found that marigold flowers as a plant-based protein match quinoa in nutritional value.

Food

25.09.26

How Marigold Flowers as a Plant-Based Protein Could Cut Food Waste

Sahjeevan has spent more than 30 years empowering India's pastoralist communities in Gujarat to secure grazing rights, conserve rare livestock breeds, and build self-sustaining livelihoods across some of the country's harshest terrain.

Community

24.09.26

In Gujarat, Sahjeevan Works with Pastoralist Communities to Preserve Prairies that are Essential to Biodiversity

A landmark Argentine court ruling recognized fish as sentient beings, now legally protected from cruelty rather than treated as property, after two goldfish named Fede and Magui were removed from a cramped sidewalk display tank outside a Buenos Aires restaurant.

Policy

24.09.26

Argentine Court Recognizes Fish as Sentient Beings, Setting Global Precedent for Animal Rights

Grassroots Ecology's California restoration projects are nurturing two futures at once: healthier native ecosystems and the next generation of environmental leaders, with volunteers who began by planting wildflowers now pursuing PhDs, marine research careers, and leading habitat restoration at major universities.

Contributed Articles

23.09.26

How Restoring Nature Helped Shape Three Future Conservationists

Municipal leadership in ocean conservation proved its worth in Del Carmen, Philippines, where a decade of community-led mangrove restoration helped the town withstand Typhoon Odette with minimal loss of life, and it has grown into a global network of 500+ mayors across eight countries.

Policy

23.09.26

Municipal Leadership in Ocean Conservation Unites 500 Mayors Across Eight Countries

Japan's nemawashi tree relocation tradition combines centuries-old root-wrapping techniques with modern tools including cranes, GPS tracking, and 3D soil modeling, allowing specialists to relocate mature trees over months-long processes rather than cutting them down for development projects.

East Asia

23.09.26

Japan’s Nemawashi Tree Relocation Tradition Moves Ancient Trees Instead of Cutting Them Down

“Herbularyo” connects Filipino medicinal plants and science education through card gameplay where players act as traditional healers, matching herbs like tawa-tawa (asthma-plant), pansit-pansitan or pepper elder (photo above), and ampalaya (bitter gourd) with illnesses while learning the organic compounds responsible for their therapeutic properties.

Science

22.09.26

Card Game “Herbularyo” Bridges Filipino Medicinal Plants and Science Education Through Traditional Healing

Rhino monitoring in KwaZulu-Natal gives field teams daily contact with individual animals, turning constant tracking data into faster responses to poaching threats across terrain rangers could otherwise reach only once or twice a week.

Southern Africa

22.09.26

Technology is Revolutionizing Rhino Monitoring Against Poaching in South Africa

Youth-led forest restoration began when nine-year-old Felix Finkbeiner proposed planting one million trees per country, growing into a movement that has trained over 104,800 Climate Justice Ambassadors across 76 countries to plant trees, give speeches, and organize their communities.

Community

21.09.26

Youth-Led Forest Restoration Movement Traces Back to a 9-Year-Old’s Question About Climate Change

Grauer's gorilla, the world's largest gorilla subspecies, numbers around 6,800 individuals in eastern DRC, less than half the population recorded three decades ago, as community-led ranger patrols work to locate undocumented groups and ease pressure on this critically endangered animal.

Central Africa

21.09.26

Community Patrols Open a New Path for the Survival of Grauer’s Gorilla in the DR Congo

Canadian students in rural Saskatchewan, remote Labrador, and a Mi'kmaw community in Nova Scotia are using school hydroponic systems to grow fresh food on-site, tackling food insecurity in communities where the nearest grocery store can be a 45-minute drive away and wilted trucked-in produce is the norm.

Contributed Articles

18.09.26

Growing Without Soil and Without Limits: How Canadian Schools are Using Hydroponics to Fight Food Insecurity

A four-year study tracking 2,778 Australians found personal climate actions and collective change move together rather than compete, with people who engaged in more individual behaviors like biking or growing food also showing greater participation in rallies and petitions.

Climate

18.09.26

New Study Shows Personal Climate Actions and Collective Change Reinforce Each Other, Not Compete

Climate-resilient farming in Panama helped coffee growers and ranchers adapt to climate change through agroforestry and tree-lined water corridors, part of an Adaptation Fund and Fundación Natura partnership reaching more than 114,000 people.

Central America

17.09.26

Climate-Resilient Farming in Panama Helps Coffee Growers and Ranchers Adapt to a Changing Climate

The bluebuck de-extinction project reconstructed the extinct antelope's genome from museum specimens scattered across seven European collections, revealing genetic variants responsible for its silvery slate-blue coat and distinctive facial markings before its extinction around 1799 near South Africa's Cape Floristic Region.

Science

17.09.26

Bluebuck De-Extinction Project Aims to Resurrect Africa’s First Recorded Mammal Extinction

For the A'uwẽ-Xavante people of Brazil, caring for the Cerrado is not environmental activism but lived culture, woven into seed gathering, ceremonies, food systems, and the intergenerational defense of a living territory they call 'ró.'

Contributed Articles

16.09.26

The Cerrado is Kin: How the A’uwẽ-Xavante Continue to Care for Their Territory

Enforcing EU marine protected areas is now the central mission of the newly launched MPA Legal Coalition, a Brussels-based alliance of eleven organizations including Oceana, ClientEarth, and the Blue Marine Foundation, formed to tackle the destructive fishing that continues inside zones legally designated to protect ocean life.

Europe

16.09.26

Enforcing EU Marine Protected Areas Becomes the Focus of a New Legal Coalition

Technology for nature conservation identified nine individual jaguars among 147 species detected through AI-trained camera traps and acoustic monitors in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, part of a Tech4Nature partnership between IUCN and Huawei now active across six flagship countries.

Technology

16.09.26

Technology for Nature Conservation Deploys AI Cameras and Underwater Sensors Across Six Countries

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