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🌴🌊❤️‍🩹 Mangrove forests are making a major comeback after years of damage! Crucial in absorbing greenhouse gasses, housing young marine life, and protecting millions of people from storms, mangroves around the world had been deforested for decades for expanding fish farming, agriculture, and housing. New studies, however, show a remarkable reversal of that trend — since 2010, the world has been gaining more mangroves than it has been losing! The recovery is the result of stronger legal protections, restoration efforts, and increased public awareness, allowing crucial mangrove forests to naturally expand and regain lost ground!

Gabriela Sá Pessoa for the AP:

Brazilian officials on Thursday announced a sharp drop in deforestation rates, pushing back on one of the arguments that the Trump administration used last week to justify additional tariffs on the South American country.

In May, Amazon deforestation was 61.4% lower than in the same month in 2025, according to officials from the National Institute for Space Research, or INPE, and the Ministry of Environment.

Still, 370 square kilometers (nearly 143 square miles) of the rainforest were cleared. Deforestation over the same period fell 12% in the Cerrado, a savanna in central Brazil that has long been under pressure from the powerful agribusiness sector.

Environment Minister João Paulo Capobianco said that the figure is the lowest ever recorded for May, and that Brazil is on track to reach its lowest annual levels once the data is consolidated next semester.

Mule deer are already using California's first wildlife crossing—and it's not even finished yet

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California’s first wildlife bridge isn’t finished yet, but that hasn’t stopped animals from using it.

Mule deer have been photographed wandering over an in-progress overpass in Siskiyou County, located in Northern California near the Oregon border.

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“While the contractor is still completing final touches, it’s incredible to see wildlife already embracing the new structure, even with workers still in the area,” the department wrote in a recent social media post. “Seeing animals use the structure this quickly is an exciting sign of the positive impact this project will have for both wildlife connectivity and public safety for years to come.”

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One reason this section is so deadly is that it passes through an elk and mule deer migration corridor.

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Officials hope the project will help make the highway safer for both animals and motorists. The bridge itself is roughly 100 feet long by 140 feet wide, and it’s being paired with a concrete box culvert under the road to give wildlife another option. Key to the project, officials are also installing some eight-foot-high fencing along the highway to help funnel animals toward the safe crossing.

“Wildlife crossings by themselves do not stop roadkill,” Shilling tells the Guardian’s Roque Planas. “It’s the fencing associated with them that stops roadkill.”

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The recent surge in wildlife crossing projects reflects a broader shift toward infrastructure that’s good for both people and animals.

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We’re helping to restore Australia's ancient landscape.

Before colonization, much of Australia was not “wild” in the way Europeans imagined it. With knowledge going back tens of thousands of years, First Nations people purposefully cultivated the land and lived in balance with nature.

Colonization shattered that balance. British colonists cleared the land and displaced the First Nations people as quickly and brutally as possible.

In Mission 40, we teamed up with the Forktree Project to transform the landscape back into the paradise it once was.

By combining Indigenous wisdom and contemporary climate science, we’re helping restore the landscape so it can function and thrive again the way it did for thousands of years.

Make sure to follow the Forktree Project:

IG:   / forktreeproject  

Website: https://www.theforktre...

We extend our gratitude to Mark Koolmatrie, the participating Ngarrindjeri Yarluwar-Ruwe Rangers, and the wider Ngarrindjeri community for generously sharing their traditional ecological knowledge and Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property for Mission 40. We respectfully acknowledge the First Nations peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters across the Fleurieu Peninsula where this project was filmed, and we pay our respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging.

#naturerestoration #treeplanting #ancientecosystem

Chapters

0:00 Restoring a lost ecosystem

1:12 How Australia’s land was once managed

2:52 Firestick Farming

4:09 The benefits of Firestick Farming

5:43 The brutal clearing of the land

7:16 Meet our partner

8:35 How they’re bringing back this ecosystem

9:20 Our support