2020 was the year a huge amount of captive wild animals were set free. It was the year conservationists found new, technology-based solutions to help endangered species thrive.
To honour this achievement, we ve rounded up all the promising animal news from the last 12 months, to cheer you up as we head towards the new year.
As lockdowns reshaped our day-to-day habits, so did they with wildlife.
Animals were spotted in unusual places, from ahippo trotting down to his local petrol station, to deers roaming the streets of Paris and even monkeys chatting to each other on the pavements in India.
But some of the most heart-warming and inspiring stories of this year were the ones about animals being freed after decades of captivity.
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• Dec 30, 2020
The Black Lives Matter movement became an international phenomenon in 2020. As protesters took to the streets in cities across the U.S. in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis, Minn., so did demonstrators in other countries all with a similar message: Black lives matter. There is a George Floyd in every country, South Africa-based journalist Lynsey Chutel tells NPR s David Greene during a recent roundtable interview.