Good News This Week: August 2, 2025 - Gardens, Wolves, & Corals

Good News This Week: August 2, 2025 - Gardens, Wolves, & Corals

Good News This Week: August 2, 2025 - Gardens, Wolves, & Corals ‍ The Best Positive News We’re Celebrating This Week — More than 100 volunteers pulled 4,000 pounds of trash and 128 ‘ghost traps’ from Tampa Bay’s waters Every two years since 2009, Florida wildlife officials implement a 10-day halt to blue crab season in an effort to combat its growing “ghost trap” problem — any crab trap found in open water over those ten days is fair game for cleanup. This year, on the final day of the pause, a local nonprofit hosted a four-hour cleanup competition that involved 109 volunteers in boats, kayaks, wave runners, and on the beach looking for traps and other trash. In total, they collected 4,000 pounds of trash and removed 128 “ghost traps” from Tampa Bay waters. Most of the traps had animals stuck inside, which the volunteers freed. Why is this good news? If left alone and underwater, “ghost traps” contribute to a deadly cycle for marine life: Crabs, fish, and other species are drawn into the…