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The couple spent 20 years replanting trees in damaged forest

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Sebastião Salgado returned to his home in Brazil in 1994 after living abroad for many years. Working as a photographer, Salgado recently captured the gruesome experience of the Rwandan genocide. After completing his assignment, he hopes to find comfort in his hometown filled with green forests. But unfortunately, when he returned to Minas Gerais, Brazil, Salgado actually found that his parents' forest had dried up and died due to uncontrolled deforestation and exploitation. Also read: Baby Dolphins Stranded with Plastic Trash and Balloons in Their Stomach Salgado and his wife, Leila Deluiz Wanick, acquired the land and decided to do something for her. For 20 years, they replanted trees in the forest. “The forest is very sick. Everything was broken by then. Only about 0.5% of the land is covered by trees, ”Salgado told The Guardian. In 1998, the couple founded Instituto Terra with the aim of restoring 17 thousand acres of land back to its natural state. Furthermore,
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Mysterious Whale With Reins Found, Russia's Secret Weapon?

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Fishermen in Finnmark, East Norway, got a surprise last week when a tame beluga whale approached their boat. The animal is equipped with a harness that experts say is used to attach weapons or cameras. This has led to the suggestion that the beluga whale may have been trained for military purposes in Russia. “We were making a net when a whale swam around the boat. Then we saw that there was a harness on his body, ”said one fisherman, Joar Hesten. Also read: This couple spent 20 years replanting trees in damaged forests Hesten first saw the whale last Thursday. However, several other fishermen also claimed to have seen it before. "He was always looking for boats and people, as if he wanted to ask for help to untie the reins," added Hesten. The Norwegian Fisheries Directorate has now removed the reins from the whale. It says "Equipment of St. Petersburg ”in its interior. Then, is it true that this tame whale is a secret spy? Or is there any other explanat
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Antarctic Ice Collapsed, Penguin Colony Wiped Out in One Night

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The world's second-largest emperor penguin colony perished in one night after the Antarctic iceberg collapsed. The incident caused thousands of penguins to drown. According to scientists, since the catastrophic collapse of the Halley Bay ice sheet in 2016, no more breeding sites have been detected in the area. In fact, there are usually around 15-24 thousand pairs of emperor penguins that flock to the breeding grounds. Meanwhile, the Weddell Sea, which was previously considered a penguin sanctuary, was also not found. "We haven't seen a case of breeding failure on such a scale in 60 years," said Phil Trathan, a biologist with the British Antarctic Survey who used high-resolution satellite photos to detect penguin droppings to determine the population. Also Read: Tracing Biodiversity in Cikapundung, what are the findings? Emperor penguins need stable sea ice to breed. And this ice platform must be in place from April to December, when the chicks start to
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