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• NEWS July 1 2025

  Water California achieved significant groundwater recharge last year, state report says https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-06-24/california-2024-groundwater-report Protected areas Major breakthrough in marine conservation unveiled at UN Ocean Conference https://iucn.org/press-release/202506/major-breakthrough-marine-conservation-unveiled-un-ocean-conference China is building the world’s largest national parks system https://www.daily8.com/en/article/d4b90b7c59a3e4f6864166970e9ab46b California’s Marine Protected Area Network Recognized as International Gold Standard for Marine Conservation https://opc.ca.gov/2025/06/for-immediate-release-californias-marine-protected-area-network-recognized-as-international-gold-standard-for-marine-conservation/

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• Restoring Our Coast with Karina Johnston

  On today’s Conservation Conversations episode we talk with Karina Johnston, a PHD candidate at UCSB, a coastal habitat restoration ecologist formerly with Tidal Influence, and the newly appointed executive director of Heal the Ocean, a southern California nonprofit. She has so much experience and a wealth of knowledge to share, so let’s get straight to it with Karina as part of our series on coastal resiliency! Thank you again to Karina for taking the time to talk with us. It’s the work like what she does that can give us all hope for the future of the CA coastline. Please check out the Tidal Influence or Heal the Ocean website and get involved with them, or wherever you can. http://www.tidalinfluence.com/ https://www.healtheocean.org/ Host and producer is Austin Parker Music was provided by A Picture Book studio Don't forget to like comment and subscribe if you want to help!

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• NEWS June 15 2025

  Land California’s largest ‘land-back’ deal returns 47,000 acres to tribe https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/06/05/3094125/0/en/Largest-Ever-Land-Back-Conservation-Deal-in-Calif-Now-Complete-Western-Rivers-Conservancy-Conveys-Final-Acreage-to-Yurok-Tribe-in-a-47-000-Acre-Effort-Critical-to-the-Salmon-Wildli.html Newly-declared conservation area in Peru is home to pink dolphins, giant armadillos https://phys.org/news/2025-06-newly-declared-area-peru-home.html Biodiversity Three new wolf packs discovered in Northern California https://phys.org/news/2025-05-wolf-northern-california.html Western quolls and brushtail possums thrive in Australian national park a decade after reintroduction https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/western-quolls-and-brushtail-possums-thrive-a-decade-after-reintroduction-to-national-park-1-335680/ Endangered snow leopard cub born at Kent big cat sanctuary https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjwqy3q4zeno

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• NEWS June 1 2025

  Rewilding Experts celebrate as rare parrot makes miraculous comeback from brink of extinction: 'They're already ready to fly' https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/red-tailed-amazon-parrots-brazil/ 2025 Lion census shows 32% population rise https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/out-of-the-woods-in-gujarat-why-asiatic-lions-future-cant-be-secured-by-numbers-alone-10022963/ Spectacular creature makes stunning comeback after decades of absence https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/bearded-vulture-chick-spain-conservation/

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• NEWS May 15 2025

  Water City of Phoenix encouraging residents to harvest rainwater this summer https://www.abc15.com/weather/impact-earth/city-of-phoenix-encouraging-residents-to-harvest-rainwater-this-summer How California’s farmers can recharge the aquifers they’ve drained https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/california-groundwater-study-central-valley-drought-managed-aquifer-recharge/ Drawdown This Solar-Powered Device Sucks CO2 From the Air—and Turns It Into Fuel https://gizmodo.com/this-solar-powered-reactor-sucks-co2-from-the-air-and-turns-it-into-fuel-2000563558 Genetically enhanced crops proposed as scalable solution for CO₂ removal https://phys.org/news/2025-05-genetically-crops-scalable-solution.html Marine IUCN launches project to combat marine plastic pollution in the Pacific https://iucn.org/news/202504/iucn-launches-project-combat-marine-plastic-pollution-pacific Indonesia plans 200000 hectares of new marine conservation areas in 2025 https://en.antaranews.com/news/354329/indonesia-targets-200-thousand-hectares-marine-conservation-growth Rewilding Captive-Bred Axolotls Can Survive in the Wild, Sparking Hope for the Endangered Species https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/captive-bred-axolotls-can-survive-in-the-wild-offering-hope-for-the-critically-endangered-amphibians-180986543/ Study suggests there are more jaguars in the Amazon than previously thought https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/study-suggests-there-are-more-jaguars-in-the-amazon-than-previously-thought/

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