CONSERVATION NEWS

This month, Conservation News is revisiting some of the most interesting and significant stories and issues we covered in 2020.

In case you missed it: A voracious crustacean helps restore seaweed-choked coral, a surge in biodegradable plastic threatens to further pollute oceans and rivers, and a massive ice melt endangers one of the world’s richest ecosystems.

The government of Tristan da Cunha — the most remote inhabited islands in the world — committed to protecting 90 percent of its territory’s waters, creating the largest marine protected area in the Atlantic.

A team of researchers recently discovered three new species of black coral in the depths of the North Pacific — but deep-sea mining could threaten them.

Here are three recent conservation success stories you should know about.