Restoration projects planting native trees in the Colorado River Delta are helping breeding bird populations recover across degraded floodplains in Mexico.
The United Kingdom is seeing early marine recovery as a trawling ban off the Sussex coast helps seabed habitats regenerate and fish populations begin to return.
Overdose deaths in the United States are falling sharply, marking a significant shift after years of rising fatalities driven by synthetic opioids.
Nightjar populations in England’s South Downs National Park have doubled over the past five years, marking a rare and encouraging wildlife recovery for one of Britain’s most elusive birds.
Kazakhstan is restoring tiger habitat by planting tens of thousands of trees as part of an effort to reintroduce wild tigers to landscapes where they disappeared more than 70 years ago.
Croatia has completed a nationwide demining campaign, declaring itself free of landmines more than three decades after the Yugoslav wars left large parts of the country contaminated.
Costa Rica has reversed decades of deforestation, with natural forests expanding from less than 25% of the country in 1985 to well over half of its land today.
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.
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.
Scientists in the United States have shown that damaged cells can be re-energised by boosting their mitochondria, offering a promising new route to treat ageing and degenerative diseases.
