Pink Seaweed, Shed Glowworms and a Lucky Budgie

All three of today's are from right here in the UK and I love that, a seabed coming back to life, a man with a shed full of glowworms and a budgie that went on a proper adventure.

Up in Scotland a ban on industrial scallop dredging has been in place for ten years now and the seabed is thriving, and islanders are celebrating the protections on their maerl beds, which is this strange pink seaweed that fish stocks are doing really well thanks to. One local called the ban the most amazing thing to happen, which is quite a thing to say about a dredging rule but you can see why. It was locals who protected it and ten years on it's paying off, nature just needed leaving alone for a bit !

Source: Good News Network, Fish Stocks Thrive Thanks to This Pink Seaweed and Locals Who Protected It

Peter Cooper is a wildlife enthusiast who collects and breeds glowworms in his spare time, in a garden shed of all places, and then releases the larvae into a reserve in North Yorkshire. Does it pro bono too, so nobody's paying him for any of this, just a local conservationist giving the glowworm a bit of a glow-up out of his own back garden. Love the idea of a little shed somewhere in Yorkshire quietly bringing the lights back to the grass.

Source: Good News Network, Glowworms Shine Again in the UK from Larvae Reared Pro Bono in Garden Shed

Luna is a pet budgie who vanished from Cimberley Frost's home in Northampton when strong winds after Storm Boelo forced open a window and off she flew. She turned up hiding in a storm drain a mile from home, and only because a passing driver happened to spot her hopping in. A mile is a long way for a little budgie in a storm and what are the odds of someone looking at the right drain at the right moment, lucky bird is right !

Source: Good News Network, Lucky Bird Found in Storm Drain a Mile From Home After Passing Driver Happens to Spot it Hopping in