… and we’re feeling good

Need more good news? The Narwhal just won gold for the best feel-good story at the Canadian Online Publishing Awards! Freelancer Leah Borts-Kuperman earned the recognition for her reporting on Nipissing First Nation’s efforts to undo environmental damage by counting moose poop, planting wild rice and “doing some really good science.” 

“It’s all connected, right?” Curtis Avery, the nation’s environment manager, told Leah. “The fish in the stream to the moose on the banks — that whole system is in itself an environment and capturing that now allows us to understand what we need to do to protect it and make it more resilient in the face of more development, climate change, extreme weather events and forest management … we need the data in order for it to make sense.”

There’s a lot to say about what’s going wrong in the world these days, and those stories are important. And it’s just as important to shine a light on solutions and the people making an effort every day to make their little part of the planet a better place. Go check out the story of Nipissing First Nation’s work to heal the land, which offers a timely reminder of that truth.