Ecuador announced a record-setting deal on Tuesday designed to reduce its debt burden and free up hundreds of millions of dollars to fund marine conservation around the Galápagos Islands, an archipelago of unique biodiversity that’s famous for inspiring Darwin’s theory of evolution.
The arrangement, known as a debt-for-nature deal, is a bit like refinancing a mortgage, only for government bonds.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/09/climate/galapagos-ecuador-debt-nature.html
Sometimes, our current mass extinction crisis can be represented by the loss of a single individual.
On April 21, locals spotted a 93-kilogram (205-pound) body in the waters of Dong Mo Lake in northern Vietnam: it was the carcass of the last known female of the Yangtze giant softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei).
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/death-of-last-female-yangtze-softshell-turtle-signals-end-for-god-turtle/
The Colorado Parks and Wildlife board of commissioners Wednesday approved a final plan to restore wolves in Colorado.
Concluding two years of work — and hundreds of hours of meetings across the state — the commissioners unanimously approved a 301-page plan to begin restoring wolves, as mandated by voters in November 2020.
https://www.summitdaily.com/news/colorado-parks-and-wildlife-commissioners-unanimously-approve-plan-to-restore-wolves-on-western-slope/
