Protecting whales with speed cameras, ghost kitchens, replacing homework with acts of kindness

Photo: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, NOAA Research Permit # 665-1652 via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
In today’s edition of Squirrel News, we’re talking about a cetacean speed trap ensuring the safety of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales, a ghost kitchen scheme helping restaurants survive the COVID-19 pandemic, and how a primary school in Cork has replaced traditional homework with acts of community generosity.
A cetacean speed trap is saving whales by monitoring ships travelling in the North Atlantic
Source: Mongabay
Ghost kitchens are helping restaurants survive the COVID-19 pandemic
Source: Posibl
A Minneapolis clinic is working to narrow racial gaps in healthcare
Source: NPR
Norway bans hate speech against bisexual & transgender people
Source: LGBTQ Nation
Canadian researchers have developed facial recognition AI software for bears
Source: ENN
The town of Takikawa has installed red-eyed motion-detecting robot wolves to scare off bears
Source: Futurism
California is cultivating forests that are able to stand up to wildfires
Source: Reasons To Be Cheerful
A community in Montana has launched a promotoras de salud scheme to boost care accessibility
Source: The Solutions Journalism Exchange
A soap recycling initiative is improving basic hygiene access in rural Panama
Source: The Inkline
A school in Ireland has replaced homework with acts of kindness
Source: Goodnet