This month's good news roundup, for those who need a boost:
- Trachoma, the world's leading infectious cause of blindness, has now been eliminated from all of Southeast Asia: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/following-timor-lestes-triumph-all-of-southeast-asia-has-eliminated-trachoma/
- Australia announces 3 new national parks to protect gliders, owls, and other wildlife: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/australia-announces-3-new-national-parks-to-protect-gliders-owls-and-other-victoria-wildlife/
- A new cat species has been identified for the first time in 100 years: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/new-cat-species-identified-for-the-first-time-in-over-100-years-meet-the-tilcayo/
- In South Korea, 95% of food waste is now recycled: https://www.eco-business.com/news/south-koreas-food-waste-rethink-began-with-citizens-demanding-change/
- Deforestation in the Amazon halved from 2022 to 2025, saving 20,000 square kilometres of rainforest: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-lula-presidency-saved-at-least-20000km2-of-brazilian-amazon-since-2022
- Kosovo declared free of landmines: https://www.radioara.org/episodes/kosovo-declared-landmine-free-27-years-after-war/
- Malaria deaths in Ghana have fallen by 98% since 2011: https://gna.org.gh/2026/04/malaria-deaths-drop-sharply-infections-remain-high-ghs/
- About 2 million square kilometres of ocean have become protected in the last two years; 10% of the entire ocean is now protected: https://www.unep-wcmc.org/en/news/world-reaches-milestone-for-nature-10-of-ocean-now-officially-protected









