#Wetlands are very effective at reducing water pollution. #Research shows that restoring wetlands in 5% of land can slash nitrogen pollution by up to half.
Coastal wetlands have unique superpowers to help tackle the biggest threats to the #GreatBarrierReef like #ClimateChange and water pollution.
Oregon sunshine(Eriophyllum lanatum) sparkling among the grasses: this is one of the natives volunteers assiduously planted in their park restoration efforts. Last year I only spotted one, this year it looks like they are spreading nicely. The wild bees are having a ball among all the new flowers. #Photography#PNW#SeattleWashington#Restoration#Rewilding#NativePlants
I would love to play a PC game about #Rewilding, #ecology and #SustainableFarming. Is there anything like that out there, bonus points if it's available on #Linux?
The scope could be anything from managing your own small farm to something more large scale like the Great Green Wall of Africa. #LinuxGaming#Gaming
"Herd of 170 bison could help store CO2 equivalent of almost 2m cars, researchers say. Free-roaming animals reintroduced in Romania’s Țarcu mountains are stimulating plant growth & securing carbon stored in the soil while grazing-."
You can do something: Garden for wildlife! If you own land, manage it as habitat. Add and grow lots of plants native to your area, which will feed birds and their babies. If you are anywhere near semi-natural areas, the land will heal itself over time, if you let it.
There's one overwhelmingly common mistake that people make about enshittification: assuming that the contagion is the result of the Great Forces of History, or that it is the inevitable end-point of any kind of for-profit online world.
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I am incredibly proud of the whole @ProtectEarthUK team and all of our supporters for planting over 100,000 trees in three short years, especially because the first year was only about 4,000!
We do so much more than plant trees (wildflowers, hedgerows, invasive removal, net regen/colonizarion, etc), but as that was our first metric it’s lovey to see the number go up so quickly.
"In 1881, land here was set aside for a reserve forest," writes Sugato Mukherjee.
"In the decades that followed, however, many wrongs were committed, including a devastating decision to run a 1.6-kilometre railway track through the sanctuary, essentially dividing it in half.
"But the latest chapter is one of hope for both the gibbons and their forest-dwelling neighbours – thanks to rewilding."
Dies ist ua zB auch das Fediverse und aber auch alternative Suchmaschinen wie @MetaGer, @Mojeek & SearXNG ect. doch nicht nur, sondern auch unser Verhalten soll nicht nur passives Konsumieren sein. Auch deswegen hier meine Toots / Posts, die vor allem über Technik geht aber um deren Nutzen von Menschen und ihren Schutz.
We're at about 970m near the summit of A'Mharconaich in the Drumochter Munros in the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland. It's a wide, fairly level, summit area. The ground is gravelly, with sparse vegetation. The clumps of vegetation by the side of the path look as though they may have been manually added to try and reduce erosion, but I couldn't work out how the pegs were involved.
According to Escobedo, the Tejon relationship with bears was far from the fearful and adversarial one taken up by White settlers. He recounts oral histories of bear cubs being given as gifts to neighboring tribal leaders. Though most large animals would be hunted for sustenance, Escobedo said, his people did not eat grizzlies.
“We coexisted in peace together here,” he added. “As long as we respected their space and they respected our space, there was almost a symbiotic relationship there between the Indigenous people and the grizzly.” #Rewilding#Ecosystems#GiftArticle https://wapo.st/3UyKi1e
My tree seedlings for the rewilding project in graveyards and city parks aren’t large enough to plant in ground this year but they will be next year. The maypops are ready to plant though so will do that when I hear from the city arborist.
For that project, I am planting
Acer floridum
Asimina triloba
Diospyros virginiana
Passiflora incarnata
Prunus americana
“Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within. We all know this.”