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Flat-headed cats (Prionailurus planiceps), named after their flattened foreheads, live in fragmented pockets across Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia, but they were feared extinct in Thailand.

According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, green sea turtles had the second-highest nesting season on record for Florida, with 61,708 nests as of the August update. The International Union for Conservation of Nature said that green sea turtles have improved in status from "Endangered" to "Least Concern."

The global High Seas Treaty, decades in the making, will become international law. It aims to create vast maritime conservation areas. [...] The High Seas Treaty, as it is known, was ratified by a 60th nation, Morocco, crossing the threshold for United Nations treaties to go into effect. Two decades in the making, it allows for the establishment of enormous conservation zones in international waters.