📈 Human Progress
In the last decades humanity has made great progress with less extreme poverty, increased health, wealth and democracy. We follow in the tradition of professor Hans Rosling.
🐒 Ecuador grants wild animals legal rights
Ecuador has become the first country in the world to grant legal rights to individual wild animals, all thanks to the woolly monkey Estrellita.
🐾 The world's largest "ecoduct" helps animals across the highway
A major crossing will make it safer for animals to cross a ten-lane highway and connect isolated populations of, among other things, cougars.
🦏 New hope for the Sumatran rhino
At a sanctuary in Indonesia, a Sumatran rhino calf has just been born - bringing new hope for the endangered species.
🌳 Community in Gabon saves ancestral forest from logging
A local community in Gabon managed to reclassify a logging concession area as a protected area in order to safeguard its ecological and heritage values.
🌳 Special project to assist protection of tropical forests
This group called Tenure Facility helps Indigenous people to secure their land and forest rights in order to protect their natural heritage.
🏆 Snow leopard project receives award
An organization in central Asia may have a solution to the question: “How do we save species while improving the lives of the world’s poorest people?”.
🌳 More work to be done on the Great Green Wall
The African Great Green Wall aims to restore 100 million hectares of degraded land by 2030. The project has struggled for a while but researchers now believe they will be able to get the project back on track.
💡 Optimist's Edge: Forbidden substances - tomorrow's medicine?
Research on psychedelics is growing exponentially. The results when it comes to tackling depression and other mental health issues are striking. In this week's Optimist's Edge, Marco Borsari takes a look at the "psychedelic revolution" in medicine.
🦘 Australia returns large area of land to indigenous peoples
Two huge cattle ranches will now become nature reserves and attract ecotourists to an area with 25 different ecosystems.