Eddy's Good News: World record set for rowing across the Atlantic Ocean and 10,000 women save a stork!

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17 Feb 2023, 11:11

Every day during his show on Virgin Radio, Eddy Temple-Morris brings you Good News stories from around the world, to help inject a bit of positivity into your day!Be sure to listen each day between 10am and 1pm (Monday - Friday) to hear Eddy's Good News stories (amongst the finest music of course), but if you miss any of them you can catch up on the transcripts of Eddy's most recent stories below:

Friday 17th February 2023

Inspiring news from the mid Atlantic ocean where a brave 23 year old woman has just set a new record for rowing across it alone!

Say hello to Miriam Payne who’s from East Yorkshire, she’s just conquered the so-called Talisker Challenge, a solo row from the Canary Islands to Antigua in the Caribbean.

She left Spanish territory on the 10th of December, rowed a gruelling 59 days, 16 hours, and 36 minutes, before pulling into Antigua last Friday, where she could hear the whoops and cheers of friends and family as she rowed the hardest last few miles. The phenomenal feat was to raise money for the East Yorkshire charity Wellbeing of Women and Mind in Hull and East Yorkshire. She raised around £10,000 and it’s still coming in 🙂

(where the music probably describes how she was feeling when she arrived)

Via: bbc.co.uk

Good news from India where it took an army of 10,000 women to save a critically endangered stork!

Say Namaste to the Greater Adjutant Stork in the Assam region. This is a bird that eats stinky dead animals, smells terrible and has a face that only a mother could love and all of these things have contributed to this bird being terribly persecuted, even becoming a symbol for bad luck and killed in their thousands. 

But thanks to the mothering instinct of Dr. Purnima Devi Barman, she’s re-educated the people of Assam that these ugly birds are actually a beautiful way for mother nature to get rid of carrion and help prevent disease and that they’re vital for the ecosystem. She mobilised a so-called Hargila Army of women, many who made stork helmets from papier maché, to guard nests and spread awareness. Greater Adjutant stork numbers have, as a result, climbed from a critical handful to over a thousand now :)

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org