The #Kansas River used to be a dumping ground. These kayakers are helping clean it https://www.kcur.org/news/2025-07-02/kansas-river-pollution-kayaking-friends-kaw #Rewilding
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When USAID cuts hit Jane Goodall's reforestation efforts, this search engine stepped in to save the day https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/usaid-cuts-jane-goodall-ecosia #Tanzania #Trees #Rewilding #Trump #Musk
#Rewilding #Foodforest #MiyawakiMethod #Canada
"THE MINI FOREST - Rewilding using the Miyawaki Method" [20:05 min]
by David Hartman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUABUetUayM
Quote by DH:
"May 21, 2025
Terrell Wong is about to plant 100 trees in her small Toronto backyard, a dense mini forest based on the Miyawaki Method. What at first seems like a simple act soon evolves into a complex story about dirt, lawns, fungus, wildlife, native species, and finally the human brain. An anti-lawn anthem from director David Hartman, The Mini Forest explores this innovative form of afforestation and the importance of restoring the native woodlands that once covered so much of Canada and the World."
Time stamps
0:00 Intro
2:20 Terra Wongs Backyard
3:30 Mini Forest vs Lawn
4:20 The Miyawaki Method
7:40 About the Mini Forest
10:00 The relationship between trees and ...
12:50 Edible forest garden
14:35 Red maple
16:00 Importance of native species
17:30 Human evolution
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#ClimateBreakDown
An ambitious re-wilding plan is aiming to turn Europe’s peatlands into conflict buffers and climate shields.
Inspired by Ukraine’s flooding of the Irpin Valley, which stalled Russia’s 2022 assault on Kyiv, scientists and strategists are proposing a massive network of restored wetlands along eastern European borders.
The plan would create peatland-based 'area-denial zones' from Finland to Romania, combining military deterrence with re-wilding goals #environment #europe #rewilding #news #wetlands #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #world #biodiversity
In #Cameroon, forest mapping app helps Baka protect #biodiversity and way of life https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/in-cameroon-forest-mapping-app-helps-baka-protect-biodiversity-and-way-of-life/ #Africa #Trees #Rewilding #Conservation
who wants to throw in for an island of the inner hebrides? it's only £5.5mil & can accommodate 52 people. let's rewild it & build sustainable energy infrastructure. we don't have to be pals or become a weird cult. :)
#scotland #island #sustainability #energy #rewilding
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25258332.private-scottish-island-castle-sale-5-5m/
Taking a fresh look for #funding that would enable me to fill #conservation #skills gaps in the #northwest of #UK. I just want to afford rent and food while I tackle hard-to-fill #habitat #creation and #restoration needs, #rewilding, #permaculture #design, #regenerative #agriculture and #farm work, etc. I'm working from the premise that there's no money to be made doing these things, so if I can secure a #basic #income then I can go and do the work. Feedback please. Love and #soil health to you!
"Lakeside rotates its #wetland among its four fields. When a field is returned to production after three years under water, Wenner said, its weeds and pests have been drowned; #soil health has improved; fewer chemical inputs are needed; and the field’s produce can be classified as organic, increasing its value."
#Rewilding #UK #Dartmoor #Desert
Not a Sahara desert, but abcent of life, unable to nurture a biodiverse life. But caused by an all to common culprit: extensive grazing of life stock. Eating whatever is left, and when that is gone grazed by a less particular stock... until it's dead.. So a desert.
What needs to be done to bring life back ? Because that's possible !
Firstly, stop the grazing. Cattle favours the sprouts [life beginnings] before it grows.
Secondly, retain water in the area. By artficial but natural means and by disrupt the man made drainage put there over the centuries.
And this is not about blaming farmers. It's about land management, and that's where farmer should [get to] play an important crucial role.
Since Britain left the EU the UK government has been rethinking farming and the incentives which they pay farmers and they've come up with ELMS [Environmental Land Management]. Farmers will be incentivized [they will be paid] to not only produce food but manage the land as well.
"Britain's Hidden Deserts are Coming Back To Life - here's why" [14:21 min]
by Leave Curious [Jun 15, 2025]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBlYvoOujgQ
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#StopThePlunder #StopRapingNature
#ClimateBreakDown
#Rewilding #Undamming #Elwah #TenYearsLater
After,and before, the Elwah Dam was removed scientist worked closely together with the indigenous tribes; to study and restore the natural environment. Fighting extinction and giving Mother Nature a chance to revive itself, and therefor restoring a way of life.
In those ten years some unsuspected things happened, icreasing the awe of nature itself.
"Undamming a river, rebuilding a forest | WILD HOPE" [27:51 min]
by Nature on PBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLTPF-5U_oo
Quote by NoPBS:
"Aug 28, 2023
Ten years after the largest dam removal in history—on the Elwha River, in Washington State—scientists are chronicling an inspiring story of ecological rebirth. Recovering salmon populations are transferring critical nutrients from the ocean into the forests along the Elwha’s banks, enriching the entire ecosystem. The Elwha’s revival is encouraging advocates to push for the removal of many larger dams in the region, and in the rest of the world.
Learn more about this story and ways that YOU can get involved in saving your local biodiversity by becoming a Wild Hoper: -> wildhope.tv/ <-
En Español: "Belleza sin presas | Esperanza en la naturaleza" [27:51 min]
-> youtube.com/watch?v=rIi06nqvVic <-
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#StopThePlunder #StopRapingNature
#ClimateBreakDown
Wildlife Queensland and Logan City Council are running a free webinar on creating a wildlife-friendly garden.
Friday 27th of June, 1:30 pm AEST
If you can't catch if, register and they'll send you the recording.
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Kf2QeXSAQkKDvRz16C4PXg
Maria Farrell about #rewilding the internet at #PubConf2025
'We work to "unfuck" the internet.' -> cf. "unenshitify"
About a few extreme right billionair men who have the power to kill us, while we have the power to laugh at them.
Move away from monocultures. Ecology knows that nature grows back. Diversity is resilience. Ecosystems fight back and grow back so quickly.
My sad little lupine that got eaten down to the nub by deer has finally bloomed again!! She's doing her best!
The deer have stopped trying to eat the garden. I don't really do anything different. Maybe they've migrated for the season (I've only seen them around once in the past week, across in the field), or maybe they got the message to leave my sad plants alone. They've got enough problems with me as it is!
This small patch of waste ground next to a petrol station seems to have been reclaimed and sown with flowers.
The sign looks home-made, so hopefully it's not a cynical green washing attempt by Esso.
I'm hoping it's someone who just wanted it to look a bit nicer.
#Rewilding #Flowers
#Rewilding gone wild? Though, it doesn't address all the toxins (especially PFAS) that would leech out... It was an interesting read, though.
In a world without people, how fast would NYC fall apart? Here’s the timeline.
In a week, mold moves in. In a century, New York is a forest.
By Sarah Durn
Published Jun 5, 2025
"Imagine the ceaseless cacophony of New York City suddenly stopped. No sirens wailed. No cars zoomed. No subways rumbled beneath sidewalks. All eight million New Yorkers disappeared overnight.
"Now, imagine what would happen next. If no one’s around to sweep the sidewalks, weed Central Park, or turn the power grid on, nature would move in—and quick. Dandelions would spring up in asphalt cracks. Raccoons would move into abandoned apartments. Sidewalk trees would outgrow their planters.
"But just how swiftly would the city disappear beneath a curtain of green? We talked to architects and urban ecologists to map out a potential timeline.
"From Day 1 To Month 1: Plunged Into Darkness
"With no one to maintain the power grid, the Big Apple would go dark within a few days. The Milky Way would illuminate Midtown as light pollution disappears overnight. Without air conditioning and heat, 'you start getting weird temperatures inside the building. Mold starts to form on the walls,' says architect Jana Horvat of the University of Zagreb, who studies building decay.
"Some green energy projects in the city might stay lit for longer, such as the solar and wind-powered Ricoh Americas billboard in Times Square. Eventually, though, even the Ricoh billboard would go dark; not because the billboard would lose power, but because there would be no one to replace its LED lightbulbs.
"Without power, the pump rooms that clear out 13 million gallons of water daily from the subway would be useless, and the train tunnels would begin to flood. 'Probably this water would result in [the subway] being, you know, occupied by new species,' says Horvat. 'Some plants would start growing, some animals' would move in. Likely, species that already thrive in the subway—rats, cockroaches, pigeons, opossums—would be the first ones to take advantage of the human-free passages.
"Within the first month, the manicured lawns of Central and Prospect Park would grow wild and unkept. 'When you stop mowing a lawn, you get a meadow,' says botanist Peter Del Tredici, a senior research scientist emeritus at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, who wrote a book on urban plant life. Within a month, dandelions, ragweed, and yellow nutsedge would start popping up in the now knee-high grasses of New York’s iconic parks. 'First, it’s herbaceous plants, but then, you know, you get trees and shrubs and vines,' says Tredici."
Read more:
https://www.popsci.com/environment/abandoned-nyc-what-would-happen/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
The view from our kitchen window. The tiny meadow & lilacs in bloom. So many bumblebees.
Here I sit, drinking tea on a Saturday. Joy.
#gardening #meadow #niitty #UrbanNature #rewilding #BloomScrolling #views #joy
In #Panama, an #Indigenous led project rewrites the rules of reforestation https://news.mongabay.com/2025/05/in-panama-an-indigenous-led-project-rewrites-the-rules-of-reforestation/ #Trees #GreenNewDeal #Rewilding
Inside Africa's Food Forest Mega-Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbBdIG--b58 #Rewilding #Trees #Niger
I’ve been working on #rewilding my yard. Tonight I finally saw the creature that crept and hissed about a month ago. It’s a possum! Shy, retreating and not cool with my presence. Good or bad or a secret third thing? I’m into it for now. #pnw #nature
Iberian #lynx are beacons of hope, the living proof that we can get #conservation and #rewilding right. The project should be a lesson to all involved in these kinds of projects.
Involving a wide spectrum of groups is important, getting the local community on board is important and benefiting the local community is important – as is planning for challenges caused by success.
#spain #portugal #europe #nature #cats
https://www.rewildingmag.com/the-great-comeback-of-the-iberian-lynx/
Meeeeoooow! 🐱
#Scotland’s endangered #wildcats could be saved in massive 800 sq mile #Highland #rewilding plan
The new Affric Highlands charity has set out ambitious plans to restore nature and wildlife over a sweeping area from #LochNess to the west coast.
Dan Vevers Sunday Mail Chief Reporter
08 May 2025
"Scotland's #endangered wildcats could be saved as part of a massive 800-square-mile rewilding plan across the Highlands. The new Affric Highlands charity has set out ambitious plans to regenerate native #woodland, #peatland and #riverside habitats and boost endangered species like wildcats, covering a sweeping stretch of the country from Loch Ness to the west coast.
"The group said it will work with local landowners to boost the local economy and make the region a hub for sustainable timber, fishing, farming, venison and wildlife tourism. Affric Highlands - whose emblem is a wildcat, also known as the '#HighlandTiger' - vowed to see the iconic animal flourish as it takes on the huge 30-year project."
Read more:
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scotlands-endangered-wildcats-could-saved-35186581
#SolarPunkSunday #RewildingScotland #EndangeredSpecies #Nature
15.48 Storklets left alone.
16.16 Pa Storks flies in. Storklets unimpressed by his offering.
https://whitestorkproject.org/live-cam-feed/
#StorkFamCam #Stork #Storks #Knepp #ReWilding #BioDiversity #Störche #Storche #WhiteStork #WhiteStorks #BirdsOfMastodon #Birds #Webcam #Bird #Webcams #SolarPunkSunday
Just a brag, but I've nearly eliminated my use of Kleenex since last year. I used to use 2-3 tissues a day, now it's zero most days.
It's ok to go slow. It's weird at first, feels gross or whatever, and the texture takes some getting used to. I just bought the hankies, decided to keep one close at all times, and only use it sometimes, but still used the tissues when I felt like it. Surprise, now that's most of the time. I get 4-5+ uses out of each one and have plenty to last till laundry day.
They're better than Kleenex in many ways, aside from saving the planet. I can keep one in my hoodie pocket and don't have to worry about it disintegrating or ending up in the wash. I also have different color ones for use as napkins.
You can get cheap good quality hankies from Amazon. I haven't found any elsewhere that I've been happy with and that are affordable. It might be a good moral trade-off to go Amazon in this case, because I haven't bought a new box of tissues in months. I'm willing to provide links to the ones I bought if you want. (The affordable ones I got from Etsy are smaller and already unraveling. They have better ones but too expensive for me.)
You can also make them out of old clothes. Iv'e seen advice on what's best to use. Some people really like flannel, say from PJs or sheets. I already did that for making cleaning rags.
It's kind of fun to figure out how to do things differently, how to fix things, make things out of other things, how to use less. It was intimidating the idea of switching my whole lifestyle all at once, and I've found it better to go slow and have fun. Pick one thing and try it for awhile.
"Top 5 Causes of Soil Erosion Explained" [3:17 min]
by Science·WHYS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWIDs2d-keI
Quote by SWHYS:
"May 10, 2025
Soil Erosion Causes 👉 Discover the top 5 causes of soil erosion—water runoff, wind, deforestation, overgrazing, and unsustainable farming. Learn how these factors threaten our land and what we can do to protect soil health for the future.
Time stamps
00:00 🔹 Top 5 Causes of Soil Erosion You Should Know
00:27 🔹 1. Water Runoff
00:56 🔹 2. Wind Erosion
01:25 🔹 3. Deforestation
01:54 🔹 4. Overgrazing by Livestock
02:19 🔹 5. Unsustainable Farming Practices
02:49 🔹 Protecting Our Soil for the Future
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#StopThePlunder #StopRapingNature
#ClimateBreakDown
I have a new home environment, and there is so much to learn about belonging to her. Today is a tentative first step toward making that bond.... a first act of devotion to Daintree 💚🌳🌴💚