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🌱💡 Bringing sharks back from the brink
Today's good climate and environment news
Happy Friday!
Here are today’s stories of progress in the fight against the climate crisis and nature loss.
The rewilding project ReShark is committed to bringing back the Indo-Pacific leopard shark from the brink of extinction. Sharks are bred in US aquariums, and their eggs are transported from there to Indonesia, where they’re raised in nursery and finally released into the wild. So far, 99 pups have been hatched and 43 released, with a goal of releasing up to 75 a year. The species will then be on track to recover within a decade.
In a world filled with depressing conservation issues left and right, this project brings the right level of optimism and hope to a lot of people and reminds them that, sometimes, nature needs people too
In the first half of this year, renewables overtook coal as the leading source of electricity for the first time in history. And in what’s been called a ‘crucial turning point’, growth in solar and wind power was even enough to counter the growth in energy demand. Plus, both India and China added enough solar and wind to the grid to cause a drop in greenhouse gas emissions.
Researchers are partnering with Indigenous communities and other grassroots groups around the world to push for wetlands’ legal rights to be recognised. Wetlands, which sequester more carbon than forests, are some of the world’s fastest disappearing ecosystems. The legal change these scientists are campaigning for will mark a shift in seeing nature not as a resource to be exploited, but as something to be protected for its own sake, which in turn will protect the people who rely on wetlands for their livelihoods.
📝 The Green Light is written by freelance writer Molly Millar.