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Incredibly Rare Bongos Found in Area They Were Thought to Be Extinct

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 12, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 12, 2026 "If there is a happy wildlife in a country in addition to the happiness of the people, we can sincerely applaud that country!" — Mehmet Murat ildan Incredibly Rare Bongos Found in Area They Were Thought to Be Extinct A single trail camera photograph has confirmed what conservationists feared was lost forever: mountain bongos still roam the Maasai Mau forest in Kenya, a region where the rare antelope was believed extinct. With only 28 to 40 individuals estimated in their last known stronghold, the discovery of three bongo...
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Hope for the High Seas

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This week's inspiring video: Hope for the High Seas Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Jun 11, 2026   Hope for the High Seas   The "high seas" are the 64% of our oceans that are not protected by any national law. Supporting 90% of life on the planet, the protection of this glob...
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Monet's Blurred Vision Saw More Clearly

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 11, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 11, 2026 "It takes soft eyes to look at a world packed with people scrambling to survive, and see beyond the frenzy to the way we keep reaching for relationships that reflect our interdependence..." — Parker Palmer Monet's Blurred Vision Saw More Clearly Claude Monet, going blind in his later years, kept painting -- and what he rendered wasn't the world falling apart but, as poet Lisel Mueller saw it, a world revealing its hidden wholeness. Parker J. Palmer takes that image and turns it into something urgent: a meditation...
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Uganda's First Buddhist Monk

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 10, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 10, 2026 "Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves." — Henry David Thoreau Uganda's First Buddhist Monk A boy raised Catholic in Kampala flew to India in 1990 to earn an MBA and returned, seven years later, with a shaved head, brown robes, and a large Buddha statue that customs officials mistook for witchcraft. What Bhante Buddharakkhita built from that improbable homecoming — a meditation hall, a school, a clinic, and a borehole bringing clean water to a lakeshore vi...
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Why Dopamine Isn't the Problem

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 09, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 09, 2026 "When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." — Lao Tzu Why Dopamine Isn't the Problem The popular concept of a "dopamine detox" rests on a fundamental misunderstanding: dopamine isn't the villain of compulsive behavior, but the engine of all goal-directed action, from scrolling to meditation. Neuroscientist Kent Berridge's research reveals something more useful: there is a crucial difference between wanting (the drive toward something, powered by dopamine) and liking ...
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I'll Just Write One

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 08, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 08, 2026 "A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it." — Samuel Johnson I'll Just Write One At ten, Reva Agrawal made an impatient bargain with her mother: if she couldn't have a new book every week, she would simply write one herself. Five years later, that stubborn logic has produced a published novel -- and a way of sharing it that quietly refuses the usual transaction. Instead of selling copies online, Reva gives her book away, asking only for an act of kindness in return. The logic, she explains, fits the book...
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This Week in DailyGood ...

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 07, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 07, 2026 "We all have within us the seeds of compassion to heal ourselves and the world around us." — Lobsang Phuntsok This Week's DailyGood Digest In a week woven with stories of resilience and connection, our daily inspirations reminded us of the power within to affect change around us. We explored  seeds of compassion within and around us, as Lobsang Phuntsok reminds us of inner work's potential to heal both ourselves and our world. Along similar lines, The Wisdom Collective invited us to imagine ...
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