10 Good-news Stories for Wildlife in 2020
No one would deny that 2020 has been exceptionally tough. The coronavirus has killed more than a million people worldwide, indelibly changing families and communities. In many ways, animals haven’t fared well, either: The Chinese government promoted bear bile as a coronavirus treatment, poaching surged as COVID-19 lockdowns brought ecotourism to a standstill, and captive wildlife—including tigers at the Bronx Zoo and mink in Denmark fur farms—tested positive for the virus. (To help protect humans from a variant of the coronavirus found in mink, the Danish government ordered the country’s more than 15 million mink living on fur farms to be killed. They weren’t buried deeply enough, however, and as the bodies decomposed, “zombie” mink started breaking out at the surface.)
But 2020 hasn’t all been bad. Here are 10 ways wildlife benefited:
1. Wildlife have benefited from some of our pandemic-induced lifestyle changes.
2. Owners of problematic private zoos in the U.S. faced legal repercussions
3. Black conservationists celebrated their love of wildlife during the first-ever Black Birders Week.
4. Pangolins, the world’s most trafficked non-human mammal, got two key protections in China
5. Suspected members of an alleged flying squirrel smuggling ring were apprehended.
6. A new effort was launched to combat an invasive species.
7. Retired circus elephants will begin a new chapter.
8. Tasmanian devils returned to mainland Australia for the first time in millennia.
9. Rare global cooperation led to a crackdown on wildlife smuggling.
10. Gray wolves will be reintroduced in Colorado.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/12/wildlife-wins-good-news-stories-2020/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=Animals_20201210&rid=2D7EBD8232363870D75E126868635ACF
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