Good news stories from the past seven days
An effort to save the tiny bright birds known as Darwin’s flycatchers seems to be bearing fruit. When Charles Darwin visited the Galápagos Islands nearly 200 years ago, he noted that they were teeming with little vermillion flycatchers. By the 2010s, however, the birds’ numbers had fallen so low there were fears that they could become extinct. Since then, conservationists have worked to trap the rodents that were preying on the birds, and cut back thickets to help them reach food – and the approach seems to have worked: the birds have had their best breeding season yet, with 12 chicks recorded on one island.
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