Quote of the Day: “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” – Thomas Jefferson (in a letter to John Adams)
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On this day 96 years ago, at the conclusion of the inaugural FIFA World Cup, La Celeste, or Uruguay, won the trophy. Rarely considered as favorites in the tournament’s editions these days, Uruguay was on a tear by the time the first World Cup kicked off in Montevideo, Uruguay’s capital. They had won the 1924 and 1928 Olympic football tournaments. Beating Argentina 2-1 in the ’28 Olympics, they beat their cross-border rivals again, 4-2, to win the World Cup. READ about the history of the competition… (1930)
From Big Sky Country comes a rescue story so cliche that even Hollywood scriptwriters would pass it over.
A 14-year-old obsessed with roping cattle rescued a man who’d fallen into a river Indiana Jones-style, catching him around the neck and arm with his lasso.
Jory Thomas was spending 4th of July weekend at his grandparents house along the Yellowstone River near Greycliff, in Sweet Grass County, when he heard someone screaming for help.
4 people, in a raft and paddle board, had struck a bridge pier and fallen in. 3 managed to get to shore, but a 4th clung helplessly to a cooler, silently and swiftly moving downriver.
Thomas didn’t think twice, he later admitted. He emptied his pockets, took his lariat and waded out up to his chest. What he had planned was straight out of a western movie.
That year, the “ranch kid” Thomas had become fixated with roping, or catching cow calves with a lasso.
“I actually started really getting into roping this year. I went to brandings and started roping cattle then, and I started getting better,” Thomas told KTVQ News 2. “Every afternoon when it cools off, I go out and rope the roping dummy.”
Convincing the man to let go of the cooler, Thomas got him around the arm and neck on his first try, while a bystander on scene rushed to help the young man reel him in.
Thomas’ father, a veteran volunteer firefighter, said that he had called 911 as soon as he heard the screaming, and police records show that from the time of the call, it took just 3 minutes for a sheriff’s deputy to arrive. By then there was hardly anything to see.
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“My opinion, Jory saved the individual’s life, 100%,” Sweet Grass County Sheriff Alan Ronneberg told Cowboy State Daily, who interviews Thomas and his family some time after the KTVQ report. “Had Jory not acted, I believe the chances of this individual not making it to shore were very slim.”
That’s because, as Thomas’ father put it, the swift current on that section of the Yellowstone quickly leads to rapids, logjams, and other obstacles that can easily claim the life of anyone floating through it.
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“I felt pretty good afterwards that I knew he was okay and was out of the water,” Thomas later said. His grandmother, Sandy Thomas, was there as well.
“He comes up, and he said, ‘I think I just saved a life,'” Sandy told KTVQ.
“And we all said, ‘Yeah, you did.’”
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A changing climate seems to be shortening Africa’s dry season, resulting in less land scorched during the wildfire season according to new science.
For all the column inches devoted to the record wildfire seasons in France, Spain, or the Amazon, it is still and has always been Africa that’s the center of world wildfires.
70% of all wildfires around the globe occur in Africa during the two seasons in the north and the south, amounting to half of all global CO2 emissions resulting from wildfires—one continent, half the smoke.
Yet a new analysis from researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences shows that rains have trended towards later and later dates of cessation, delaying the onset of the dry season when parched grasses need only a single spark to ignite and burn for days.
The study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, examined records of rainfall complied across Africa covering a period between 1990 and 2023. The authors then compared these with satellite observations of fires between 2003 and 2022.
The result suggests that increased rainfall contributed to delayed dry season onset in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, with the season starting approximately 1.75 days later decade-by-decade in the north, and 0.4 days in the south.
“Consistent with this mechanism, we find widespread declines in burned area across Africa from 2003 to 2022, with the strongest reductions during the peak fire months (December in Northern Hemisphere Africa and August in Southern Hemisphere Africa),” the authors wrote in a simple summary for their paper.
Interestingly, the rainfall records don’t seem to indicate that the wet season lasts any longer, or involves substantially more water, but rather that a greater share of the total quantity of rain is happening to fall later on in the wet season in such a way as to delay the land from drying out.
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The study did have some drawbacks. For example, satellite observations were considered to be unable to detect very small fires, meaning if a greater share of the same amount of fires occurred on small scales, it wouldn’t be recorded in the data.
Additionally, the analysis can’t ascertain why any fire was started, for example if it were started by a lightning strike in dried out grass, or by a farmer for land clearance.
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Nevertheless, the authors add, because fire prevention and management involves precise examination of rainfall, wind direction, and other conditions, their analysis could prove extremely useful for accurately assessing fire risk during the dry season, particularly from adding in the concept of late-season rainfall which they’ve shown could very well be delaying the dry season’s onset.
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Once upon a time, in a little town called Atlanta, there was a dad who decided on a lark to take his 4-month-old baby girl to the library.
He didn’t know it at the time, but the Georgia native had planted the magic bean that would grow into a giant beanstalk of brotherhood and paternity, known simply as the Library Dads.
Khari Arnold founded the group after his weekly outings with his daughter Ariah became a keystone in his relationship with her. Not only did it become their special time together, but Ariah showed signs of developing those early literacy skills so vital to success and satisfaction in all walks of life.
Arnold thought other dads might want to find camaraderie in the activity, so he began inviting fathers in the community with children of any ages to participate.
Now, when the dads descend on a local library, Arnold’s mission and message is clear for all to see: dads show up.
Bonding through books and building brotherhood, the alliterative message is simple, powerful, and a cherished chapter in dozens of Atlanta dads’ day planners.
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“It was eye-opening to see other dads like myself who are engaged, and it was motivating as well,” Kassell Scott, father to a 3-yo girl named Amahle, told CBS News Atlanta, who also heard from Mr. Derrick Lampkin
Lampkin has been bringing his sons, Dominique and Tristan, to Library Dad events for the past year, and has started bringing his 7-month-old daughter Madeleine Sophia as well.
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“We continue coming because it shows my boys that dads show up,” Lampkin said. “They’re there, and it’s a good community.”
The Library Dads events are free, but often fill up quicky.
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A hospital in Trinidad and Tobago was the site of an incredible, 12-day surgical marathon.
When the scrubs were finally hung up, 3,000 people had regained vision free of charge thanks to the Church of the 7th Day Adventists, who organized donated cataract and pterygium surgery work through its community hospital.
Day after day, between May 14th and the 26th, hundreds of islanders arrived at the hospital in the town of Cocorite, some of whom had been waiting for cataract surgery for years, or who were never able to receive it due to the prohibitive cost.
To address this unserved need, the Church partnered with nonprofits Hands International and Eyes for India, the president of the latter happened to have developed a “high-volume cataract surgery technique” which enabled the volunteer surgeons to perform a staggering 450 procedures every day.
“Our target was approximately 4,000 cataract surgeries,” said Tobago-born MD, Reynold Agard, president of Hands International. “When we replace that lens, people see again. Colors become sharper. Night blindness improves. It changes quality of life.”
The initiative also provided treatment for pterygium, commonly known as “surfer’s eye,” a non-cancerous growth frequently associated with prolonged exposure to ultraviolet light, dust, and wind.
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Even with chief ophthalmologist and Eyes for India founder Jacob Prabhakar’s marathon method for cataract surgery, most of the patients arrived having never undergone pre-surgical screening procedures—again, because of cost.
Volunteers had to quickly divide patients into who had undergone screening and those who still needed it, a task which turned out to be the biggest challenge.
“Healthcare ministry remains one of the most effective ways for the church to engage communities and reveal Christ’s love in practical ways,” Alexander Isaac, health ministries director for the Christian organization known as the Caribbean Union Conference, told Intramerica. “As we care for people physically, we also create opportunities to minister to spiritual needs.”
The majority of the procedures were minimally invasive, enabled quick improvement in eyesight, and rapid hospital discharge.
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Quote of the Day: “My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.” – Michelangelo
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On this day in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created. The US Congress was spurred to create the federal agency by the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik, the first orbital satellite. Two of the goals were to expand human knowledge of the Earth’s atmosphere and space, and the improvement of space vehicles. It consistently places as the most popular government agency. READ More… (1958)
Last year, GNN reported on the toolkit of patience and garden rakes needed to get through the 100 million-strong crab migration season on Christmas Island.
Taiwan, itself also an island, has found that a healthy dose of compassion and basic materials can protect its own crabs during migration, running from July to September.
The mangrove land crab doesn’t emerge in the numbers of the Christmas Island crab, but nevertheless presents an ethical and ecological conundrum for citizens near Taijiang National Park.
Last year, 10,000 crabs were observed making a short migration from the interior to the beaches to lay their eggs, double the number observed the previous year, thanks in no small part to those compassionate and ethical citizens who’ve solved the conundrum by constructing small bamboo bridges and closing a B road every so often.
During the migration, female crabs head to the beach, but with their bellies full of eggs cannot go swimming as they normally do. Land changes have seen many new waterways block the crabs’ ancestral paths, but locals and national park workers have got around this by building small bridges for the crabs out of bamboo.
Unlike the Christmas Island crabs, the exoskeletons of the mangrove land crab will not puncture a car tire, so motoring prudence hasn’t been widely observed toward these crabs during Taiwan’s rapid industrialization over the last 60 years.
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Instead, Taijiang National Park—and a community of local volunteers besides—will simply close roads when these slow moving crustaceans are approaching a crossing point.
“As for the mangrove land crab, it can return all of these nutrient sources back into the land, allowing the coastal forest to become more abundant,” Taijiang National Park Director Chen Jun-shan told Reuters. “So if you protect the land crabs, the entire coastal forest belt can be protected.”
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Internet access has increased 20-fold and broadband costs have fallen by 99% on the archipelago of Micronesia thanks to the ending of government monopoly in the sector.
Market liberalization has dropped the cost of internet to $65.00 per Mbps per month to just 78 cents, while more than 1,500 kilometers of undersea fiber optic cables have been laid, and advanced satellite dish networks have sprung up on the most outlying islands.
Made up of more than 600 small islands spread across 2.9 million km² of ocean, telecommunications is both complicated and absolutely necessary on the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM).
For decades, FSM had had but one single telecom provider: FSM Telecommunications Corporation, a government-granted monopoly established in 1984 to provide fixed-line, mobile, and internet across the islands. Its board members were appointed by the head of state and state governors.
In 2014, at the urging of the World Bank Group, the Telecommunications Act ended FSMTC’s monopoly, and since then internet access has increased 2,000%, reaching 88% of the whole population, as competition over the market share brought Kacific, Starlink Pacific, iSolutions Micronesia LTD, and iBoom into the country to offer new telecom products and services.
Satellite technology, which had been largely undeveloped or retarded under FSMTC’s monopoly, has now provided vital and instantaneous communications solutions for the most remote islands in the archipelago, an absolute necessity for digital government services in health care, digital ID, and voting.
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It used to cost $705 per megabyte-per-second to use mobile internet data. A rate like that would translate to several hundred dollars every month for basic speeds.
It now costs just $30, while private planning in FSM has seen the archipelago become a landing point for the East Micronesia Cable system, benefiting people across FSM but also neighboring Kiribati and Nauru.
The World Bank has contributed funding and support to a next-level integration of telecom technology across FSM through its Digital FSM Project, which launched in 2020.
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Protection and conservation programs have recorded a banner year for the eastern imperial eagle, as majestic a bird as you’re likely to see in Europe, and the national bird of Serbia.
Emblazoned on the flag of the Balkans nation, 29 breeding pairs were counted out of which 16 helped 25 chicks to hatch and fledge.
The news comes from the Serbian Bird Protection and Research Society (DZPPS) which called it the most successful year since targeted conservation began in 2017. Then, just a single known breeding pair remained in the country.
The news is reminiscent to America sparing no amount of effort to save her own national bird: the bald eagle.
Most birds were sighted in the Banat region along the Tisa River, but expansion has also been recorded into several areas. For the first time, a nesting couple were found in southern Bačka. The population recovery has been aided by additional recolonization of Hungarian lands.
Young fledglings will be fitted with radio transceivers when possible and safe, a method of conservation that will inform where this gradually growing population of eastern imperial eagles are dispersing to, where they’re hunting, and where bachelor males are traveling.
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Bird Guides.com wrote that Milan Ružić, Executive Director of DZPPS, described the species as “a symbol of nature conservation in Serbia,” adding that growing public interest in the eagle’s fortunes offered reason for optimism.
The bird is listed as “Vulnerable” by the IUCN, and though was living on the brink in Serbia, is found across Eurasia as far eastward as Hong Kong.
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High schools funded and/or managed by the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) have achieved the highest average graduation rates yet recorded in its history.
8 high schools saw every senior in the 2025/26 class graduate, while another 13 high schools achieved graduation rates of 90% or higher.
It’s no secret that Native American communities often rank as disadvantaged when measuring for things like literacy and education, medical services, life expectancy, and income levels.
The rise in graduation rates, reports AP, reflects a mixture of different approaches and accounting methods that have put the graduation rate of students at BIE managed or funded schools bang on the national average of 87-88%, eliminating that previous disparity.
“These schools are a testament to what is possible when students, families, educators, and tribal communities work together,” said BIE Director Tony Dearman.
“Our students are showing the nation what Native excellence looks like. Their success reflects the unwavering dedication across our school communities to keep students at the center of everything we do, to ensure they graduate, and to thrive afterward.”
In a statement marking the milestone, the BIE claimed that it had modernized its data systems, using technology to provide schools with pacing guides, instructional resources, real-time dashboards, and reporting tools that enable consistent instruction and early identification of student needs.
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AP also quoted BIE officials as addressing data—that they would previously count students changing schools as having left school unfinished. Correcting for this, graduation statistics noticeably rose.
Additionally, remote learning: a relic of the pandemic years, remained in place at BIE schools to aid students with more home responsibilities, either as family caregivers or workers, and more opportunities and exposure to the trades helped technically-inclined students stay engaged.
Graduation rates for Native American students languished at 51% in 2015, a marker of how far the system and the myriad of different nations and approaches have come in a relatively short period of time.
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Quote of the Day: “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein
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133 years ago today, the Vizcaya Bridge, Spain’s only UNESCO World Heritage Site of industrial heritage was completed. Spanning the two banks situated at the mouth of the Nervion River, connecting the towns of Portugalete and Las Arenas, it is the world’s oldest transporter bridge, using a 6-car gondola suspended on steel cables to ferry people and vehicles across the water without disrupting maritime traffic. READ how it was built, and how it works… (1893)
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About 80 miles east of San Angelo, Texas, a young astrophotographer named Bray Falls is running one of the largest ‘telescope ranches’ on Earth.
Stargazers from around the world ship their telescope gear to Bray, who hosts hundreds of them on his 40 acres of gently rolling terrain near Rockwood.
The site is rated a ‘dark skies Bortle 1’ zone, offering pristine views of the cosmos free of light pollution.
Bray—who is widely recognized for deep-sky imaging and discovering new nebulae structures—accepts clients’ telescopes, mounts them, and then allows remote positioning of the scopes from the owner’s computer anywhere on Earth for a monthly fee.
The ranch maintains a rental space for nearly a thousand telescopes stored inside a dozen large metal buildings called Starfront Observatories.
Each telescope is securely mounted on a concrete pier, and accurately aligned with the celestial pole to ensure it’s perfectly parallel to Earth’s axis of rotation. The alignment enables the telescope to track the night sky seamlessly.
During the day, the roofs of the buildings safely protect the scopes, but at night, the fun begins as the roofs roll back to offer the telescopes’ nightly ritual of peering into the depths of the universe, yielding control to their owners thousands of miles away.
With these advanced scopes, owners obtain high-resolution images of whatever they care to look at.
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The cost to rent a space for your telescope range ranges between $99 and $149 per month, not including an installation fee or the costs of any on-site tech support or equipment purchases.
The observatory buildings are gated, and equipped with security cameras and 24/7 private security to guard against burglaries.
(Learn more about Bray in this BBC interview).
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As soon as Aleksander Wolszczan confirmed the observation of the first planet outside of our solar system, he immediately reasoned that thousands more would be discovered in the coming decades.
On that prediction the astronomer, now 80, was eminently correct, and the trend has expanded to the point that recent observation seems to include the first recorded moon outside our solar system.
The presented evidence for a moon-like object in the CD-35 2722 star system, however, raises questions about what the word “moon” even means. That’s because unlike moons in our solar system, the newly-found object does not orbit a planet, but a star; and it is a heck of a lot larger than any moon in our neighborhood.
Nevertheless, European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) found what is the first confirmed “three-tiered system,” of a star with a body orbiting it, and a third, smaller body orbiting that.
Kevin Hoy, an ESO student in Chile and lead author of the study published in Nature, describes the system he spent months analyzing as “super weird” compared to our own.
The biggest object in this young system is the star CD-35 2722, which has about half the mass of the Sun. The star is being orbited by a brown dwarf, an object too massive to be a planet but too small to be a star. This brown dwarf has a satellite, which we usually call a moon, but in this case it’s about as big as Jupiter.
“This system is somewhat hard to define using Solar-System-based words like ‘planet’ and ‘moon,’” states Hoy, who is also affiliated with the Universidad Diego Portales and YEMS, a multidisciplinary research center focused on detecting exoplanets and exomoons.
Hoy and his co-authors have settled on the most technical terminology available, and called the third-order object an “exosatellite.”
“The exosatellite is clearly massive enough to be a planet, but it does not orbit a star, though it orbits an object that orbits a star,” says Hoy. “Being the third wheel in this system makes us want to call it a moon, even if it’s nothing like the small, rocky moons we have in our system.”
“We have a clear delineation between the planets and the Sun in the Solar System, so defining things like moons is simple,” adds Alice Zurlo, YEMS Director and collaborator on the study.
“In the CD-35 2722 system, where we are blurring the lines between stars, planets, and moons, the whole thing becomes more complicated to describe.”
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Regardless of what to call this object, astronomers have been trying to detect satellites outside our Solar System for years, but none has yet been confidently detected. Therefore, despite the over 6,000 exoplanets discovered to date, only a few exomoon candidates have been spotted and the evidence to support them is limited.
For the CD-35 2722 observations, Hoy, Zurlo, and their team used the CRIRES+ instrument on the VLT, employing the method that was used to find the first exoplanet around a Sun-like star.
They applied this radial velocity method to detect small wobbles on the brown dwarf caused by the gravity of the object orbiting it, finding what the team believe to be strong evidence for this ‘moon.’
“This system is truly unique and represents a breakthrough: the first plausible detection of an exosatellite,” says Zurlo confidently.
Like Wolszczan’s, the detection could herald a rapid acceleration in the identification of exosatellites/moons. 6 of the 8 planets in our solar system have natural moons, so they should be fairly common in the universe. The issue is that they’re small. Our Moon is quite small compared to Earth, but Phobos, the largest satellite of Mars, is just 7 miles across.
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From China’s Anhui Province comes a story that reminds us it’s never too late to learn.
71-year-old Liu Defang remembers chatting with her friends while out one day near a bridge in her hometown in Suixi County. She suddenly heard someone shout that a man had fallen into the water.
Social media footage showed that he hadn’t fallen from the bridge, but jumped off in an apparent suicide attempt.
That wasn’t for Ms. Liu to know, however, and without wasting time, the white-haired fitness enthusiast, who had only learned how to swim a few years earlier after retiring from her job, entered the water to try and save what she thought was a drowning man.
Someone quickly found a rigid life preserver and threw it to Liu, who used it to reach the man whom she tried to support. But to her surprise, the man resisted.
Despite being more than twice the man’s age, Liu got control of him and dragged him to the shore where locals were there to lend Liu a hand—who admitted she was exhausted from the ordeal.
Realizing the man and the rescue had created quite a stir, Liu “slipped away” as Alice Yan reported for the South China Morning Post, hoping not to be seen.
“It was not a big deal for me. I did not tell my family for fear that they would worry about me,” Liu was quoted as saying.
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Yet local police wanted to know who the Good Samaritan was, and so released the local traffic camera and other surveillance footage of the ordeal on social media, hoping someone would recognize the rescuer.
The video went viral on Chinese social platforms, with hundreds commending her in the comment sections. Sure enough, a relation did recognize her in the video: the very person Liu had most hoped to avoid alerting of her heroics: her brother.
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“My brother scolded me severely. He said, ‘You are already over 70 years old. How dare you jump into the river to save others? Why didn’t you think of the consequences?’” Liu said, adding that her daughter shared the same worries.
The yoga adept shrugged her brother’s rebuke off, but did wish she could have said something to the man she saved: that difficulties, whatever they are, always pass in time, and that life is a precious gift that should not be forfeited so easily.
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For the 4th year in a row, Indian grey hornbills have successfully bred in Gujarat state where they’d been absent for more than 50 years.
Despite being listed as a species of “Least Concern” by the IUCN, the animal has habitat requirements that can see it quickly succumb to displacement.
Indeed even Gir National Park, an internationally renowned reserve stretching 540 square miles across West India’s deserts, hadn’t seen a nesting grey hornbill pair since the 1960s.
But after a strategic reintroduction program was initiated in 2021, these large social birds now number 40-strong and counting.
It’s the 4th year since the program became that nesting pairs have been recorded raising chicks. The bird requires large, mature, native tree species old enough to develop hollows that can fit the 24-inch-long bird inside where they build their nests. They also need an abundant supply of fruit from nearby trees.
Because of this, Indian conservationists describe the Indian grey hornbill as one of the sub-continent’s indicator species, one which owes its flourishing to the flourishing landscape, and its decline to an early landscape decline that may soon come to affect other species.
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To attain that arboreal flourishing, areas inside Gir had to undergo years of habitat restoration and careful protection to get them ready for the birds.
The Better India reports that this strategy has seen them successfully reach the point whereby the population can breed in a self-sustaining manner, without future reintroductions required to support the animals.
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Quote of the Day: “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” – Aldous Huxley
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86 years ago today, Bugs Bunny, the wisecracking Warner Bros cartoon character, first debuted in an animated short entitled A Wild Hare. Supervised by Fred ‘Tex’ Avery, it featured a hunter named Elmer Fudd pursuing a wily rabbit voiced by Mel Blanc. The pair became beloved, and their debut received an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short. WATCH the opening scene and learn more… (1940)
