31/08/2026
Happy Bank Holiday to all ☀️🌧️
Just a reminder that we are closed today and tomorrow.
In the meantime we thought we’d share cause for ENORMOUS optimism in the natural world to begin the new term with for a boost 💚
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." — Anne Frank
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." — Helen Keller
1. A HUGE $200million project called ‘The Phoenix Species Project; has been launched to recover 100 of the world’s most endangered species 🌎 this will see plant, bird, mammal and sea life restoration happening AT SCALE!
2. The Western Indonesian Orangutan 🦧 is returning to the wild after decades of preparation!
3. in New-Zealand, 5 new marine reserves have been established, co-managed with Mãori communities and the NZ government. A model for conservation AND social growth ♥️
4. A huge programme has been launched to restore and connect fragmented and rare habitat across the Florida coast which will be amazing for sea and plant life and even for land mammals (as everything is connected 💚)
5. Vultures have returned to France where focus on landscape restoration has been happening in a big way! Vultures are a keystone species which means their presence will attract more biodiversity, life and restore natural ecological processes!
6. In Italy over 500,000 hectares have been connected through ecological corridors allowing Marsican brown bears and other wildlife to travel safely (which makes their viability as a species so much stronger!) 👇
7. PLUS over 10km of river were connected when a dam was removed, with 8,000 crayfish and 4,000 trout reintroduced 🦞🐟
8. In Somerset, images have shown where there are beavers living, there has been natural protection against wild fires. This is a HUGE (and potentially very cheap) opportunity for us when it comes to preparing for the summers ahead ☀️ We have the answers
9. In Kazhakstan, in a world-first, a tiger has been reintroduced after they were hunted to extinction, the last one killed in 1948. They hope to have a stable population of 50 by 2035!! A forest has literally been planted to recreate lost habitat for them. This, after Przewalski horses were returned to their ancestral homeland. It’s a glorious rebuilding of lost wildlife.
10. A Scottish wildcat, introduced in 2024 was spotted swimming in the River Spey by people in canoes 🛶 beautiful!
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has” ~ Margaret Mead
