Good News: A high school for sloths, roads paved with nappies in Wales and Nigeria’s Spider-Man

Headlines can be hard going, but some news is good news. Here is your weekly digest of what’s going well in the world.

1. The high school for orphaned sloths.

2. The government that’s paving the way with recycled nappies.

3. The Canadian city being warmed up with cryptocurrency. 

4. Nigeria's very own Spider-Man saving his city from waste.

There are just 1,500 sloths left in the wild, making them one of the most endangered mammals on the planet according to the World Wide Fund for Nature.

Survival for these slow-moving – and incredibly cute – creatures is against the odds. They put up with deforestation, hunters…and, because of how precarious life is for sloths, orphaned cubs are frequently found in Costa Rica’s rainforest.

Encar Garcia, biologist and founder of the Jaguar Rescue Center in Costa Rica, explains: “The mothers are electrocuted on cables or killed by dogs, or run over or sold illegally.

“These sloth babies, which I know are cuter than anything in the world, need a lot of time before they are released back into the wild. And this whole period of time, this whole process is very expensive. How do we teach a sloth to be a sloth? To climb trees? And what do they have to eat? It is not easy.”

The cubs re placed with others the same age and enrolled in what the centre calls its “high school” where, after a period of time inside with blankets and stuffed animals to comfort them, they are taken outside where they learn to climb, to find leaves to eat, to be among their classmates – to be a sloth.

And what does graduation from sloth high school involve?

Before they are released back into the wild, the sloths are microchipped so that they can be tracked on their journey. Their nails are also painted bright colours, allowing for