Gray Wolves Are Making A Comeback in California

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• 🐺 Gray Wolves Are Making A Comeback in California

• ♻️ LEGO Replacing Plastics In Bricks With Renewable Materials

• 😷 New Antibody Could Protect Against All Covid Variants

• 🙋🏾‍♀️ Gender Equality Act Passes In Ghana

• 🌊 New Wave Energy Project Gets EU Approval

WILDLIFE CONSERVATION 🐺

Story 1: Gray Wolves Are Making A Comeback in California

• Gray wolves became extinct in California in the 1920s

• Since 2011 they started coming back from other states

• Current population in California at around 50

• Wolves are vital for ecosystems to survive and thrive

During the early 20th century, the United States enacted bounty laws to essentially wipe out wolves and coyotes endangering their livestock. This practice led to the last remaining gray wolf of California being killed in 1924. For the next eight decades, the native Californian wolf species was all but extinct in the state. In 2011, however, a lone male gray wolf from Oregon named OR-7 was tracked and seen entering the state of California.

For the next few years, OR-7 would travel back and forth between the Golden State and Oregon, producing litters who’d end up following his path to sunny California. These offspring created packs of their own and today, California has a population of around 50 documented gray wolves, making for a happily howling comeback story.

“These awe-inspiring animals continue to show us that California’s wild landscapes are great habitat for wolves and that they’ll find their way here,” a senior wolf advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity said. “Wolves belong in our state, and we should do everything we can to ensure they thrive.”

Wolves are often referred to as a “keystone species,” meaning that many plants and animals within an environment are heavily dependent on them. Wolves can help regulate prey populations, control disease outbreaks and, in doing so, can promote biodiversity. Removing a keystone species can lead to soil and water degradation and cause entire ecosystems to collapse, which is why the protection and conservation of wolf populations are so important. Today, gray wolves are classified as an endangered species in California and are therefore protected from being hunted or killed, even if they threaten anyone’s livestock.

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Story 2: LEGO Replacing Plastics In Bricks With Renewable Materials

• LEGO pieces are made from fossil fuel plastics

• New bio-resin to replace 50% of plastics in bricks

• Resin is made from recycled plastics found in food waste

• LEGO plans to greatly reduce carbon emissions

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