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As we close out the year here at WILD HOPE, we’re looking back on a whole forest of stories from 2024 that represent milestones, breakthroughs, and remarkable innovation in the world of conservation and planetary health.

The red-cockaded woodpecker, a longleaf pine specialist that lives in the southeastern U.S., was one of the first species listed under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.

Pawpaws are in season, ocean waves gain rights, and salmon can swim freely in the Klamath

The Klamath River dam removal — the largest such project in U.S. history — is nearing completion. Soon, salmon will swim freely in the river and its tributaries for the first time in over a century.

Bumble bee brigades help citizen scientists contribute to pollinator conservation, the NWF has tips to help local wildlife beat the heat, and plastic bags are down 80% on UK beaches.

Frog saunas could help fight chytrid, Iberian lynx are no longer endangered, and scientists in Hawaii are breeding heat-resistant corals.

Hope for Hawaiian honeycreepers, beavers in London, a snake's triumphant return, and rewilding on college campuses.

Personhood for whales, a big conservation study, and egg-citing news for sea turtles

In the mountains of northern Ecuador, the Los Cedros Protected Forest, a place granted a legal standing — called “rights of nature” — that environmentalists are striving to replicate all over the world.

Researchers are trumpeting a welcome piece of news for African elephants. In the last 25 years, populations in southern Africa have reversed their declines, and even started to grow, according to a new study in Science Advances.