Hi, this is Kerry with some potentially good news if you sent a facts in Taiwan earlier

this month.

Hi, my name is Zach Headstrom and I'll be talking about some of the great benefits

of mushrooms.

I was sitting there in the crowd, you know, tears in my eyes.

This is right for the happy part.

This goes straight to the happy part.

So without more ado, this is the happy pod from the BBC World Service.

I'm Jackie Leonard and in this edition uploaded on Saturday the 29th of July.

Hello, I am Maurizio Vela from Bogota, Colombia and I have very happy news for Andean

Bear Conservation in Colombia and coffee production.

How bears and coffee growers can live in harmony also.

How playing the underwater sounds of a healthy coral reef on a dead one can lure back fish.

Some fish make sort of chattering sounds.

Others buzz or grunt or hum or bellow.

Limiting forest fires by the strategic deployments of mushrooms.

You can kind of think of it as a sponge layer.

We're creating a landscape which is able to catch and hold more moisture and help

to fight wildfire in the process.

And a very memorable first day at work for an Italian lifeguard.

First two Colombia where conservationists have helped broker a truce between coffee growers

and the bears that share the land.

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