Nature yays

[Jubal]

The extinct-in-the-wild Rosy Saxifrage has been reintroduced to the wild in Wales. It's been placed in a secret location to avoid collectors getting it. Thought it was a nice story, anyway, hopefully it'll establish properly
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjkkm4re518o

[Jubal]

Fun news from Czechia, where a $1.2 million public water restoration project has been done for free by beavers before they could actually start work:
https://www.voxnews.al/english/kosovabota/qeveria-po-e-planifikonte-prej-7-vitesh-kastoret-ndertojne-brenda-dy--i84652

[The Seamstress]

Fun news from Czechia, where a $1.2 million public water restoration project has been done for free by beavers before they could actually start work:
https://www.voxnews.al/english/kosovabota/qeveria-po-e-planifikonte-prej-7-vitesh-kastoret-ndertojne-brenda-dy--i84652

Humans: Let's plan this for years and still don't get it done
Beavers: *roll their eyes* Amateurs

[Jubal]

In Very Important News, someone in the UK found a partially-leucistic shrew that looks like a humbug.

Article: https://insideecology.com/2025/07/03/once-in-a-lifetime-finding-of-incredibly-rare-humbug-pygmy-shrew-photographed-in-cornwall/

And more importantly, shrew:

[Jubal]

Today's news from Austria where a cow called Veronika is scratching herself with a broom.

Which I sort of wouldn't have batted an eyelid at but actually tool use among other species is really quite rare, and she uses the tool multifunctionally for different sorts of scritching.



Article on this and its unexpectedness in terms of animal cognition:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0n127y74go