São Tomé and Príncipe is rewarding thousands of villagers with direct payments for protecting forests, creating a new model that links livelihoods with conservation.
Seychelles has recorded the first successful coral spawning at a new land-based breeding laboratory, producing thousands of juvenile corals to strengthen reef restoration in the Indian Ocean.
China’s 10-year fishing ban in the Yangtze River is already showing promising results, halting decades of biodiversity decline and allowing fish populations to begin recovering.
Giant tortoises have returned to Floreana Island in Ecuador after 180 years, marking a major step in restoring one of the Galápagos’ most heavily altered ecosystems.
A species once feared extinct has rebounded in Bermuda after conservationists bred and released more than 100,000 greater Bermuda land snails back into the wild.
Australia is investing $17 million to restore more than 30 wetlands in 2026, improving habitats for migratory shorebirds and boosting biodiversity across fragile ecosystems.
France launched its largest rewilding landscape in 2025 in the Dauphiné Alps, aiming to rebuild resilient mountain ecosystems by helping key wildlife return and thrive with minimal human intervention.
China’s Yangtze finless porpoise population has risen to 1,426 in 2025, showing ecosystem recovery following a decade-long fishing ban and conservation efforts.
Angola secured international protection for a 53,000 km² highland wetland in 2025, safeguarding a vital water source feeding major African river systems and sustaining rare wildlife and communities.
Canada saw fish populations return to Toronto’s Don River in 2025, marking a major ecological recovery after decades of severe pollution rendered the waterway biologically depleted.
