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  • Writer's pictureEveline Vouillemin

Positive Climate News - June 2024

This month's collection of positive climate news stories highlight an ambitious project to protect and restore sea grass, community efforts to make urban spaces greener and the return of wild horses to Kazakhstan.


Million tree project launched to conserve wild fish

Tens of thousands of native trees have been planted on a Sutherland estate as part of a wild fish conservation project.


Atlantic Salmon Trust is working with the Duke of Westminster-owned Grosvenor's Reay Forest Estate on a 10-year project to restore habitats and boost numbers of Atlantic salmon and sea trout.


Find out more on the BBC website.


Green islands released in Bristol Harbour

Two large floating platforms covered in 500 native plants have been launched in a city harbour to help improve the water quality. 


The two islands, which measure approximately 17m in length, were created at Bristol's Festival of Nature and are the first of a number of platforms due to be floated in the water this year.


Find out more on the BBC website


Rare wild horses back on Kazakhstan’s Golden Steppe

For the first time in at least 200 years, wild Przewalski's horses have returned to Kazakhstan’s Golden Steppe after being saved from extinction.


These are the last truly wild horses left on Earth whose habitats were wiped out by farming and other human activity.


Find out more on the Euronews website


Wild horses galloping in Kazakhstan

Volunteers to help make city square 'greener'

A group of volunteers are helping to refresh the Old Market Square by placing 500 plants across the space.


Local businesses and eco-friendly charities have donated more than £1000 to purchase the plants and make the area greener.


Find out more on the BBC website


Welsh nursery growing to save marine habitat

In south-west Wales, an ambitious project is under way to try to help restore one of the world’s most important and threatened habitats: seagrass meadows.


Over the past two years, what is being billed as the UK’s first large-scale seagrass nursery has processed 1.5m seeds collected from sites in Wales and England and grown tens of thousands of plants, the first of which have been introduced into the wild to restore underwater meadows.


Find out more on The Guardian website.

By Eveline Vouillemin ©


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