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Welcome to Your Daily Dot where Dot will share tips, advice, and stories on how we can make our world better. |
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All Dear Dot illustrations by Elissa Turnbull. |
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Dear Reader,
It’s Feel-Good Friday, so let’s take a look at some of the great things happening around the world.
We’ll start in the Maldives, where scientists there and in Australia have pioneered a portable coral hatchery that will aid in reef restoration. The numbers are mind-boggling: Oceanographic Magazine reports that “Using a portable reef aquaculture system — one known as ReefSeed — researchers … have successfully reared more than three million larvae and deployed more than 10,000 juvenile corals on 720 seeding devices at nine different reef locations.” If you’re interested in hearing more check out this TED talk about the project.
Now let’s shift to the Brazil-Argentina Green Corridor, where the number of jaguars has increased from 40 in 2010 to about 105 today. Credit goes to a project that pays neighbors to protect the cats, not shoot them. The jaguars had been preying on cattle after losing 13% of their forest habitat. But the project encouraged women — so-called Jaguar Crocheteers — to create crafts based on the cats and earn income, and ranger-rancher patrols focused on co-existence training. The result? A big cat comeback!
Meanwhile, in California, the largest single land-back deal in the state’s history has seen 47,097 acres returned to the Yurok Tribe.
And, finally, Anthropocene tells us about biological building materials that might transform our structures, reporting that “a team … has created a living material that can be 3D-printed into various forms. The gel material relies on photosynthetic bacteria that trap carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The material then stores the carbon dioxide in biomass but also in the form of minerals, growing and hardening over time.”
Any Feel-Good Friday news in your community? Please share.
Cheerfully,
Dot
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