Well it all seems to be depressing news of late; Virus's, Shootings, GM withdrawing from Asia, the soon to be extinct fast food deliveries in the UK under the new immigration rules and all the stories from PH of the many tonnes of animal products making their way to China. On a more positive note its only 10 months til the UK receives its EU decree nisi.

Another bit of good news is from a place i visited a couple of times; South Georgia a UK territorial Island in the Antarctic, famous for being the resting place of Ernest Henry Shackleton, has a detachment of the British Antarctic Survey (odd bunch), has one of the worlds largest King Penguin colonies and a tiny museum run by a couple who sailed down there and never left in one of the buildings in the old Grytviken whaling station buildings. The good new is that the BBC has reported that the waters around the Island once infamous for slaughter of Blue whales has seen the largest number of the mammals recorded since whaling was banned.

Astonishing' blue whale numbers at South Georgia

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51553381

Scientists say they have seen a remarkable collection of blue whales in the coastal waters around the UK sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia.


Their 23-day survey counted 55 animals - a total that is unprecedented in the decades since commercial whaling ended.


South Georgia was the epicentre for hunting in the early 20th Century.


The territory's boats with their steam-powered harpoons were pivotal in reducing Antarctic blues to just a few hundred individuals.


To witness 55 of them now return to what was once a pre-eminent feeding ground for the population has been described as "truly, truly amazing" by cetacean specialist Dr Trevor Branch from the University of Washington, Seattle.


"To think that in a period of 40 or 50 years, I only had records for two sightings of blue whales around South Georgia. Since 2007, there have been maybe a couple more isolated sightings. So to go from basically nothing to 55 in one year is astonishing," he told BBC News.


"It's such good news to see that they might be further rebounding and coming back to places where they were formerly extremely abundant."


Dr Branch was commenting on the survey which was led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) with the support of the University of Auckland.