#048 - The Best News of Last Week - July 25, 2022
🐱 - Hope you had a great weekend. Let's read some good things that happened last week
Hope Allen, who is better known as HopeScope, finds abandoned accessories, expensive electronics, lost Louis Vuitton bags, and other items to send back to the original owners. It comes as travelers face flight cancelations, delays and luggage mishaps this summer.
I didn't even know such a thing existed.
Child mortality is at an all-time low
Childbirth is much safer
Life expectancy more than doubled in a century
Natural disasters are getting less deadly
Extreme poverty is at all time low level
3. EA Refuses to Switch LGBTQIA+ Orientation Identities in Sims
EA has featured representations of the LGBTQ community by allowing the users to control their Sims sexual orientations. A bunch of players of Sims 4 asked for a toggle to turn off the new sexual orientations.
However, EA denied it. Electronic Arts, the game designer company, said no to adding the toggle to switch sexual orientation. Instead, the new upcoming feature of this game will let users change the sexual orientation of their Sims through three prompts.
4. Stray Is Raising Money for Homeless Cats with Game Giveaway
Annapurna, the publisher of the game Stray, has teamed up with a few cat shelters and humane societies to help them raise funds by giving away copies of Stray for PC, PS4, and PS5. These are Cats Protection, a UK-based cat welfare charity, as well as Nebraska Humane Cats and Nebraska Humane Society.
The requirements to enter the giveaway seem to vary, as do the number of copies available. Cat Protection has six copies to share and the competition is free, while the two Nebraska societies each have four copies of Stray to give away and people can enter by donating $5.
Kākāpō conservation efforts are paying dividends with the population reaching its highest level since records began in the 1970s.
As of today, the New Zealand Dept of Conservation site shows a population of 197. All known kakapo reside on four predator free islands Whenua Hou, Pukenui, Hauturu, and Te Kakahu.
Country may be Africa’s first to stop mother-baby transmission as WHO hails ‘groundbreaking’ fall in rates from 40% to 1%.
In 1999, the government launched its Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission (PMTCT) programme. Pregnant women are encouraged to get tested and are immediately put on antiretroviral therapy (ART) if they are HIV positive. Their babies are given ART for up to six weeks after birth. Women who are negative are retested during pregnancy and while breastfeeding.
More than two decades on, Botswana is on its way to becoming the first African country to eliminate mother-to-child transmissions.
7. Nine lions rescued from Ukraine to be given ‘heaven’ at US sanctuary
A pride of nine lions is due to be flown 14,000 miles to the US after being rescued from Ukraine in a non-stop drive across three countries. The big cats were transported in a convoy from Odessa in the south of the war zone and driven to a temporary home in Romania.
The seven adults and two cubs are set to be flown to the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado after being rescued from a ‘bleak’ future by two animal rescue organisations in a complex operation.
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