rewilding

Rebirth after massacre: How this tribe’s river restoration could also help the Great Salt Lake https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/09/02/rebirth-after-massacre-how-this-tribes-river-restoration-could-also-help-the-great-salt-lake/ #Utah #Rewilding #NativeAmerican #Indigenous

Replacing some or all of your #lawn with native plants and food is one way to support each other and the environment – but it truly does so much more than that.

Here are some significant research-backed and expert-approved benefits you’ll experience when you make the switch.

#nolawn #nolawns #rewilding #gardening #biodiversity #cities #urbannature #insects #ecology #landscaping #ediblelandscaping #mentalhealth #bees

https://www.rewildingmag.com/6-reasons-to-downsize-your-lawn/

We grew a forest WITHOUT planting a Single Tree

Across Africa, forests are disappearing faster than anywhere else on Earth. But hidden under the surface, a solution is waiting: Underground Forests. Root systems that are still alive and with the potential to restore huge areas of barren landscape.

#Nature #Conservation #Ecology #Science #Rewilding #forestry #Ecology #news #environment #Africa

https://www.naturechannel.org/we-grew-a-forest-without-planting-a-single-tree/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQBMAABHtXA3nOOK2lKrII7Z_LuOkqPnMCLE7vdnhMiLrn_qxL7q5EtvWrckQ6HcisY_aem_BNS06EoVv3acaQ9DycFXRQ

I finally started a channel on Peertube - or two actually, the other one, Kirjakanava, is for my Finnish book content. Books & Bugs channel, on the other hand, will mostly be about nature stuff, or that's how I've planned it. But we shall see. I'm baaad at focusing on only one thing in my social media channels. 😀

Anyway, here's my very first video: My Finnish Wild Garden (2025). 🌱

#Rewilding #Wilding #WildGarden #Kirjafedi #Kirjamastodon #Villipiha

https://makertube.net/w/7wZYyUAxmBLq4FotxDe4s8

"Across Canada and the U.S., a growing number of shuttered #golf courses are being rewilded.

"At least four courses in California, and a handful of others in the U.S., U.K. and Australia, have been bought by non-profits, cities or land trusts and turned into #nature preserves or #parks in recent years, leading to an increase in #wildlife sightings, plant species and tree cover."

#rewilding #ecology #landuse

https://www.rewildingmag.com/when-golf-courses-go-wild/

We have officially completed the purchase of Warleigh Nature Reserve!! 🎉

We’re getting stuck in immediately. First up is Willow propagation and cutting access to a few areas that need work in spring.

Loads more to come but for those not familiar: https://youtu.be/2raJT5RM6mE

@ProtectEarthUK #rewilding #rewetting #reforestation

The Rewilding of Society

A better life is possible. All we have to do is slow down and enjoy it, so we’ll actually have something to talk about. I’ll see you down there. I have stories to tell.

#Rewilding #Society #Culture #Community #JOMO

https://www.davidtoddmccarty.com/a-great-social-rewilding-is-coming2/

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On a quiet riverbank a boy meets a stranger going through a rough patch, as the two keep tabs on a controversial rewilding project

Currently on BBC Sounds: “The Give & Take”, by Linda Cracknell

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002bv3p

#Scottish #literature #drama #radiodrama #rewilding

I quite enjoyed #Wilding an account of #rewilding a farm in #Britain. It was both fascinating and depressing. It was interesting how disconnected many Brits are from the natural world, the opposition to scrub is frankly hilarious to someone currently living in Australia! I was amused to read that beavers have been successfully smuggled into Britain for release more than once (and river health benefited). A weak spot is perhaps that while the costs of the work, the subsidies needed and the impact of agricultural policy since WWII are addressed, the author doesn’t quite recognise the huge inter generational wealth that means they own this land and accompanying castle, nor how they were able to support themselves during the 20yr process. #ecology @bookstodon

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"Hard surfaces such as driveways and car parks block water from filtering into the soil.

"By removing the pavement, soils can soak up rainwater, which in turn aids in recharging groundwater supplies."

#rewilding #cities #urbanrewilding #green #nature #gardening #resilience #climatechange

https://www.rewildingmag.com/the-depaving-groups-reclaiming-urban-green-space/

A thousand-foot slog, then a cairn of old stones –
hand-shifted labour,
and much the same river, shining
     way below
as the Romans came, saw,
 and soon thought the better of…

—Kathleen Jamie, “Glacial”
published in THE BONNIEST COMPANIE (Picador, 2015)

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/the-bonniest-companie/9781509801718

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #rewilding

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This feels very much like a Fediverse thing…I’m looking to re-wild my backyard.

Anyone know someone in Metro Vancouver who could help me?

Boost for each please.

#gardening #rewilding #vancouver

TURTLE (OR TORTOISE) TUESDAY

☀️ In the southern Sahara, where degraded, baked, crusted soil prevented any seedlings to establish, ecological restorationists dispatched 500 "ecosystem engineers."

More commonly known as African spurred tortoises, the ecotechnicians went to work digging burrows to avoid the desert heat and cold.
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🌧️ Water stayed in the soil. Plants grew. Insects and microorganisms moved in, followed by birds and small mammals.

🛰️ From space the region even looks alive.

✅ This is another example of a successful low-tech nature-focused rewilding effort. (Recall my incessant beaver updates.)

https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/sahara-desert-ecosystem-restoration-tortoises/

#TurtleTuesday #Environment #Rewilding #EcologicalRestoration #EnvironmentalRestoration #Conservation #Biodiversity

When I see little seedlings of native trees along our fence lines that are in danger of getting mowed or cut by the county, I attempt to relocate them to a safe area on our land.

This is an incense cedar (Calocedrus decurrens), which is the second most common, native coniferous tree (behind the Douglas fir) within a 10 kilometer radius of us.

I think that as the climate continues drying out and heating up in the Upper Willamette Valley, this is an ideal tree to be planting for wooded areas along the edges of our valleys. As you can see on the map below (from Wikipedia), we are on the northern edge of its current range.

To me, the only downside of this species is that it grows VERY slowly. By the time it's as tall as I am, I'll be sporting adult diapers. That's okay, though. I'm playing the long game.

Plant some, soon!

#rewilding
#UpperWillamette
#Cascadia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calocedrus_decurrens

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There is recent talk
of re-introducing wolves
to this demi-nation
of lambs and glaikit rams
and scraggy ewes,
(and – let’s face it –
hardly any shepherds left to care)…

—Douglas Lipton, “Wolves”
published in Such Strange Joy (inyx, 2001)

Today, 13 August, is International Wolf Day 🐺

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/wolves/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #rewilding #Scotland #wolf #wolves #InternationalWolfDay

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Bring back the wolf!
He’s not long gone, you know.
He went out when sheep came in.
Sheep cleared men and women.
Now let wolves clear sheep…

—Edwin Morgan, “Wolf”
in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet 2020)

A poem for International Wolf Day 🐺

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781784109967

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #wolf #wolves #InternationalWolfDay #Scotland #rewilding #EdwinMorgan

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TYGER, TYGER, BURNING BRIGHT 💎

I went looking for some good news again this morning.

I found a tiger.

Her name is Umit. It means HOPE.

On 31 July 2026, Kazakhstan released her into the wild beside Lake Balkhash, where tigers had disappeared more than 70 years ago.

And this wasn’t somebody just opening a cage and hoping for the best.

For more than a decade, people have been preparing the land. They created a protected nature reserve, restored habitat and water systems, brought back kulan, deer and wild boar, and worked to rebuild the prey base a tiger would actually need.

They also trained people to track the animals and deal with encounters between tigers and humans.

Then finally they brought in Umit, a wild Amur tiger from the Russian Far East, fitted her with a satellite collar...

...and opened the gate.

She walked out.

The tiger that originally lived there, the Caspian tiger, is extinct. But genetic research showed that Caspian and Amur tigers were extraordinarily closely related.

So this isn’t Jurassic Park.

It is something much more achievable and, to me, much more beautiful.

We damaged an ecosystem badly enough to lose one of its great predators.

Then people spent years repairing that ecosystem sufficiently to invite tigers back.

The plan is eventually to have about 50 wild tigers living beside Lake Balkhash again.

There is still plenty that can go wrong.

But this morning, somewhere in Kazakhstan, a tiger named Hope is walking through country where no wild tiger has walked for more than seventy years.

I think that deserves a little attention too.

@3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works

#GoodNews #Tigers #Rewilding #Conservation #Kazakhstan #Habitat

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#Rewilding works. The end.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/21/somerset-rewilding-holnicote-estate-wetlands-rivers-resilience

#climatebreakdown #climateresilience #drought #rain