The Best News of Last Week

1. 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. https://twitter.com/CatsProtection/status/1547966845109448704

2. Five ways the world is actually doing better – in data - • 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 ( https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/07/17/is-humanity-doomed-five-ways-the-world-is-actually-doing-better-in-data )

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.

4. A YouTuber has gone to an unclaimed baggage store to purchase lost items and send them back to their owners. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5aHcu19wio )

5. Kākāpō population at its highest in almost 50 years - 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.

6. Botswana on path to seeing no babies born with HIV - Country may be Africa’s first to stop mother-baby transmission as WHO hails ‘groundbreaking’ fall in rates from 40% to 1%.

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.

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