From sinkhole to mushroom barn: nature's recovery this week

These days show how people are giving animals and land a second chance, from the savanna in Kenya to a barn in Iowa. Time and again, it comes down to patience and cooperation: rangers who hold out for hours, farmers who transform their operations, and breeding programs that persist for decades. The result is always the same feeling of relief and progress. In Kenya, rangers from the Kenya Wildlife Service and the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust had to rescue an adult bull elephant that was stuck shoulder-deep in a sinkhole near Chakama. Without sedation, they pulled the animal out of the...