A mother and two cubs walked toward a remote Canadian station, were spotted by machine before any human saw them, and were guided back to the sea ice unharmed.
The money targets the gap between the roughly 10% of the ocean nations have promised to protect and the far smaller share that is actually managed, funded and policed.
Four decades of satellite data reveal a hopeful reversal: since 2010 the region has swung from the epicenter of mangrove loss to a driver of global recovery.
RSPB Cymru has bought the 96-hectare Gallt-y-bere, the missing link between two halves of a nature reserve, opening a corridor for rare woodland wildlife.
Whole-genome sequencing shows the Norfolk butterfly split from continental relatives far earlier than thought, strengthening the case to protect rather than replace it.
The first 'adaptation fortress' in Satkhira doubles as a school and a refuge for a region where 30 million people face worsening storms and 44°C summers.
Six months after being freed from a poacher's snare and nursed back to health, a Bengal tigress is set to be released into the wild — the country's first such rehabilitation.
Conservationists have carried 20 egg-bearing bracken stems from Brittany to Hampshire, the latest step in a slow effort to return the New Forest cicada to England after nearly three decades of silence.
A former arable estate near Grantham is being handed back to wild processes in a bid to prove that restoring nature can be a viable business, not just a cost.