Hello all. Recently I’ve been feeling some black despair about the state of the world. Please share your stories of positive and/or successful efforts to fight the tide of climate destruction. And species extinction, etc. Maybe it’ll spark some renewed optimism. From the 2020s ideally. Did your r…

[image] jnstuart: despondency among conservation biologists is a fairly common thing. and I’m not even a professional yet! Still in school. But I spend all my time around field biologists and nature lovers here on iNat.

Around the start of 2020 was on a field sampling trip at Tа̄wharanui , Auckland region for о̄i- grey faced petrels . A few years prior, nest boxes and playback speakers had been installed to coax them back to breeding on the peninsula and a few started breeding, but no fledged chicks had yet returned …

Here in Ohio, there are wetlands being restored. Large areas of wetlands. This park in NW Ohio will have 1000 total acres of wetlands restored from farmland. Here is the present park which opened in 2018. It was the largest such project in a 22-state area when it was opened to the public 3 years a…

Last year, my beloved Aunt Evelyn passed at the age of 96. She left me a generous inheritance, which I’m using to create the Evelyn Jackson Wild Life Garden in my backyard. (She lived a wild life.) Last year, we put in a set of ponds with a stream and a big rain garden to help deal with increasing s…

The Cleveland Metroparks is a wonderful collection of green spaces in NE Ohio. They are well-supported by the citizens. Although they provide a lot of recreational opportunities for people, they are also important areas for wildlife. And, they also have many educational programs to teach the people …

https://www.visitzealandia.com/Home/gclid/Cj0KCQjw7MGJBhD-ARIsAMZ0eevDKg1833NUlvdpLuyQnn29MbJpaa9Sbcw1kpjn5Cbg34TM0Ecy8ukaAgDPEALw_wcB An ecosanctuary was set up in the capital city of New Zealand, Wellington. You can literally walk from Parliament in the centre of the city to this sanctuary, and s…

I’m working with one of the most endangered primates in existence, the Cat Ba Langur (Trachypithecus poliocephalus), usually considered to be the second or third most endangered based on population size (currently around 68-71 individuals), and our population is growing. It’s a very slow growth, on…

I am not currently active, but I volunteered for the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority for many years. This is the “little sister” of the MidPeninsula Open Space Authority. https://www.openspaceauthority.org/#investing-in-nature Besides county and some private funding and property donations…

Could I recommend a good black mood antidote? Read The Little Hummingbird by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (ISBN 9781553655336). The description from my library’s catalogue: “A courageous hummingbird defies fear and expectations in her attempt to save the forest from fire. The illustrated story is supp…

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astra_the_dragon September 3, 2021, 12:25am 15

please keep the stories coming. it helps. even through the rational anxiety plus my irrational psych-disorder anxiety, I feel a little less despondent already.

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