Hello and welcome to the Good News Roundup for 16th August 2024!
We’re kicking off with a story Profile Media helped get into the news, sharing the story of the wonderful folk at the Fly2 Health Foundation, which was recently established to transport people living in regional and rural areas to important medical appointments in metropolitan areas.
People like 8-year-old Frankie, who is living with cerebral palsy, and whose trip to see medical specialists in Perth from his home in Lake Grace takes him (and his parents) a couple of days.
Now, as Andrew Choundry writes for the ABC – he’s home before dinner.
In the (deserved) hoopla around the Olympics, you may have missed this remarkable story of Team GB medics saving the life of an Uzbekistan coach.
Uzbek boxer Hasanboy Dusmatov had just won the gold medal in boxing, and the team and support staff were celebrating in the warm-up area when things went awry.
Luckily, a physiotherapist for Team GB was on hand to save the day, as Lucie Clarke-Billings & Hollie Cole tell it for the BBC.
We love a story of animal conservation having tangible effects, and there’s two great ones from this week.
First, the (gorgeous) cagou of New Caledonia, a bird with strong cultural significance, has been under particular threat since 2017, when predators killers about three quarters of the area’s population, according to scientists.
But efforts to help them are paying off, as Lizzie Carboni writes for The Guardian.
And almost everyone with a passing interest in conservation is aware of the massive challenges facing the panda population, worldwide.
A moment of good news on that front, as Ying Ying, a giant panda in Hong Kong, has become the oldest giant panda on record to become a mum, and to twins no less!
Read more via Kathleen Magramo at CNN
