“The wood stork is no longer considered endangered in the United States following a sustained recovery from around 5,000 nesting pairs to over 10,000,” reports The Doomslayer.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service “estimates that the wood stork breeding population has 10,000 to 14,000 nesting pairs across roughly 100 colony sites. They are now found on the coastal plains of Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina…. They have adapted to new nesting areas, including coastal salt marshes further north, flooded rice fields, floodplain forest wetlands, and even golf courses and retention ponds,” explains Popular Science. The rebound reflects “40 years of recovery efforts,” which resulted in “one population of the wood stork” being “removed from the federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife.”
Cheetahs have returned to India, where they went extinct in 1952. India has doubled its tiger population.
An endangered flat-headed cat was recently discovered.
Elephant seals are proliferating in South Africa.
A freshwater porpoise is making a comeback in China.
Snub-nosed monkeys are also making a comeback in China.
Bison have made a comeback in Europe.
