Once Nearly Extinct, The Florida Panther Is Making A Comeback

Good News Notes: “Brian Kelly, a panther biologist for the state of Florida, opens a creaking gate near Fisheating Creek, a narrow ribbon of preserved land just west of Lake Okeechobee. The path leads from trucks rumbling by on U.S. Highway 27 to a world of towering oaks, cypress heads and a tannic-stained creek that…

Community hopes to preserve historic Methodist church built in 1870

Good News Notes: “For Brett Merkley, entering the old Methodist Episcopal Church is like stepping into a frontier church of an old Western movie. The simple one-story brick chapel is lined with wooden pews and hymnals. Light shines through the stained-glass windows. A small pulpit and pump organ stand at the front of the chapel…

Trashed farmland could be a conservation treasure

 Good News Notes: “The research team proposed a new way of understanding the conservation value of ‘uncontested lands’ — areas where agricultural productivity is low.” “Dr Zunyi Xie, from UQ’s School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, said uncontested lands could be low-hanging fruit for expanding the world’s conservation areas.” “These spaces could offer great opportunities,…