Conservation can be DEPRESSING, so for Mental Health Month we decided to share ONLY positive news and stories (after taking a little break for our brains). Rewire those neurons everybody, because it's not all bleak.

Good news so far in May:

• Biden-Harris Administration announced $36 million for national forests and grasslands
• Dakota Prairie Grasslands received $464,000 of that to improve access.
• US Department of Agriculture and the Interior announced $2.8 billion in funding for 2024 authorized by the Great American Outdoors Act to improve access to management and recreation opportunities on national forests and grasslands.
• Proposed CRP Reform Act of 2023
• TNC funding 9 grasslands research projects thru 2023 JE Weaver Small Grands Awards
• Arizona is restoring migration routes for pronghorn and mule deer
• South Dakota spending $1 mil restoring grasslands
• No-Mow-Summer in Dengibghshire County, Wales
• Earless Dragon burrows (Video)
• Saving Phu My, one of the Mekong Delta’s last natural grasslands
• UN International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists
• WWF Policy Actions to Save Grasslands
• There's still time to save the Cerrado! (New Research)
• Cargill got sued over Cerrado deforestation again.

Good news deep dives:

• Success in the Savanna: Blue-throated Macaw Update
• 2022 State of the Birds Report
• North American Grasslands Conservation Act
• Great Plains Ecotourism Coalition
• Utah Wildlife Board approves changes to Utah prairie dog rule

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