Eddy's Good News: 5000-year-old pub and world’s most successful conservation program

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22 Feb 2023, 11:29

Credit: A drone photo of Trench 6 at Lagash – Lagash Archaeology Project

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:

Wednesday 22nd February 2023

Bad news for any of those pubs, and I’ve seen several, that claim to be “the world’s oldest pub”, 

They will all have to turn those signs into firewood now because they’ve found one that’s 5000 years old!

Say salaam alaikum to the archeological team in the Iraqi city of Lagash who’ve found an ancient Sumerian tavern built over a thousand years before even the great pyramids of Egypt.

They found a large open-air dining area,  a kitchen complete with a clay oven, a clay chiller, and ancient crockery where they found remains of fish, a beloved staple of that time. What is mind blowing here is that it’s clear evidence that even that long ago, it wasn’t just super rich people and super-poor people, but there was a thriving middle class who could afford to eat out and who loved a get together to enjoy a good fish stew and lightly chilled beverage.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org

Credit: Wood stork – Credit Mary Ellen Urbanski CC 2.0

It’s not just India that's had massive success with endangered storks, good news now from the USA, where a critically endangered Stork has just been taken off the endangered list!

Say hello to the Wood Stork, North America’s only native stork, which has benefitted from the world’s most successful conservation program.

By the mid eighties their population had shrunk from over 20,000 nesting pairs to just a few thousand primarily nesting in the Florida Everglades. 

Now they’ve swelled to over 10,000 nesting pairs and widened their habitat to include the coastal plains of Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas.

The massive win here is that this happened because their habitat was protected to a large scale and that’s a win for them and for the whole ecosystem and of course for us humans because we reap so many benefits from that.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org

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