ANS -- The 99 best things that happened in 2018

This is quite long, but it's just a list, so you don't have to read it all at once.  It's so delicious that I am saving the second half of it to read later.  Do read at least some of it, as it's about the positive things going on in the world.  Hooray!

However, it's one of those sites that won't let me copy and paste here, so you have to go there. It will let me copy and paste one or two at a time, so I did the first five for you.  

Find it here:  https://qz.com/1501642/the-99-best-things-that-happened-in-2018/?fbclid=IwAR2SRfP9m_J4ghJF-CwhLEgnyF3K0tyV2RZrfYFdddvTvphFeYDwx_Epnlc 

--Kim

The 99 best things that happened in 2018

Another year of big wins for conservation

1. The Kofan people of Sinangoe, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, won a landmark legal battle to protect the headwaters of the Aguarico River, nullifying 52 mining concessions and freeing up more than 32,000 hectares of primary rainforest. Amazon Frontlines

2. Following China's ban on ivory last year, 90% of Chinese support it, ivory demand has dropped by almost half, and poaching rates are falling in places like Kenya. WWF

3. The population of wild tigers in Nepal was found to have nearly doubled in the last nine years, thanks to efforts by conservationists and increased funding for protected areas. The Independent

4. Deforestation in Indonesia fell by 60%, as a result of a ban on clearing peatlands, new educational campaigns, and better law enforcement. Ecowatch

5. The United Nations said that the ozone hole would be fully healed over the Arctic and the northern hemisphere by the 2030s, and in the rest of the world by 2060. Gizmodo