Restoring Ecosystems
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Mark Day - Conserving & restoring nature @ speed & scale, passionate about freshwater ecosystems & grasslands.
Co-Founder of @AltynDala.bsky.social
@EarthshotPrize.bsky.social winner 2024 ‘Protect & Restore Nature’ + ‘UN World Restoration Flagship’
Co-Founder of @AltynDala.bsky.social
@EarthshotPrize.bsky.social winner 2024 ‘Protect & Restore Nature’ + ‘UN World Restoration Flagship’
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Strong new evidence from across Europe, from both rural and urban areas, for the recovery of large carnivores.
"many respondents express no strong position, suggesting that large carnivores are less polarizing than often portrayed"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"many respondents express no strong position, suggesting that large carnivores are less polarizing than often portrayed"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A survey of 10,000 members of the public across European Union countries in which there are large carnivores finds strong support for carnivore recovery but simultaneous, and somewhat paradoxical, opp...
www.nature.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Strong new evidence from across Europe, from both rural and urban areas, for the recovery of large carnivores.
"many respondents express no strong position, suggesting that large carnivores are less polarizing than often portrayed"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"many respondents express no strong position, suggesting that large carnivores are less polarizing than often portrayed"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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In a new article on our blog, Safina Center Conservationist-in-Residence @hobdy71.bsky.social details the momentous release of three rehabilitated Newell's shearwaters—a native Hawaiian seabird known locally as ‘a’o.
www.safinacenter.org/blog/flying-free-on-kauai
#conservation #seabirds 🌎
www.safinacenter.org/blog/flying-free-on-kauai
#conservation #seabirds 🌎
November 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
In a new article on our blog, Safina Center Conservationist-in-Residence @hobdy71.bsky.social details the momentous release of three rehabilitated Newell's shearwaters—a native Hawaiian seabird known locally as ‘a’o.
www.safinacenter.org/blog/flying-free-on-kauai
#conservation #seabirds 🌎
www.safinacenter.org/blog/flying-free-on-kauai
#conservation #seabirds 🌎
Big cats bring big challenges for conservation - Fortunately @jonathanslaght.com is there to witness & report back on the fate of Amur Tigers 🐅
I’m hoping this will be a new year gift - If only to myself!?
#GenerationRestoration
I’m hoping this will be a new year gift - If only to myself!?
#GenerationRestoration
"Slaght’s riveting account renders this remote experience with exhilarating immediacy" writes @ccaryl.bsky.social in his review of Tigers Between Empires, one of @readbookpage.bsky.social's Best Books of 2025: books.substack.com/p/review-chr... 📚💙🌍🧪
Review: Christian Caryl Among the Amur Tigers
A new book on saving the tigers of Russia’s far east
books.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Big cats bring big challenges for conservation - Fortunately @jonathanslaght.com is there to witness & report back on the fate of Amur Tigers 🐅
I’m hoping this will be a new year gift - If only to myself!?
#GenerationRestoration
I’m hoping this will be a new year gift - If only to myself!?
#GenerationRestoration
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“Heartbreaking scenes from Elit, Iran, where wildfire is damaging parts of the ancient Hyrcanian forests — a @unesco.org World Heritage treasure and one of Earth’s last temperate rainforests" Kaveh Madani, director of the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Turkey sends aircraft to help battle Iran wildfires
Two Turkish firefighting planes, one helicopter and eight personnel will arrive in Iran on Saturday to help quell fires in the Hyrcanian forest in the country's north, Iranian environment chief Shina ...
www.iranintl.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
“Heartbreaking scenes from Elit, Iran, where wildfire is damaging parts of the ancient Hyrcanian forests — a @unesco.org World Heritage treasure and one of Earth’s last temperate rainforests" Kaveh Madani, director of the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Ingenuity is vital for #rewilding cities - Whichever vacant lot, neglected corner, or stretch of canal exists, it is ripe for renewing space for nature, for the benefit of so many city dwellers desperately missing their connections to nature…
We are #GenerationRestoration
We are #GenerationRestoration
Well-meaning city dwellers forgo permits and official procedure to rewild urban areas across the country. In downtown LA, artist Doug Rosenberg is trying to push the grassroots movement forward.
A guerrilla gardener installed a pop-up wetland in the LA River. Here's how — and why
Well-meaning city dwellers forgo permits and official procedure to rewild urban areas across the country. In downtown LA, artist Doug Rosenberg is trying to push the grassroots movement forward.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Ingenuity is vital for #rewilding cities - Whichever vacant lot, neglected corner, or stretch of canal exists, it is ripe for renewing space for nature, for the benefit of so many city dwellers desperately missing their connections to nature…
We are #GenerationRestoration
We are #GenerationRestoration
Yet another valuable, fascinating and beautifully illustrated story from @biographic.bsky.social
#DefendTheDeep
#DefendTheDeep
Scientists long assumed that inactive vents, without the mineral-rich plumes that make active vents so mesmerizing, didn’t host unique lifeforms.
“It turns out that we just weren’t looking very closely,” says marine biologist Jason Sylvan.
www.biographic.com/life-finds-a...
“It turns out that we just weren’t looking very closely,” says marine biologist Jason Sylvan.
www.biographic.com/life-finds-a...
Life Finds a Way, Even on Inactive Hydrothermal Vents - bioGraphic
In the darkness of the deep sea, animals flourish on hydrothermal vents that have gone cold.
www.biographic.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Yet another valuable, fascinating and beautifully illustrated story from @biographic.bsky.social
#DefendTheDeep
#DefendTheDeep
Important analysis of the impact of financing of nature by the EU on addressing biodiversity loss, showing evidently mixed results…
Does #BiodiversityFinance actually reduce species loss? Mini🧵🌍
This paper analyzed #EU funded projects across 26 countries/20 years. The results:
✅ Strong impact on forest preservation.
❌ Minimal ecological gains elsewhere.
❌ Diminishing returns on data research
academic.oup.com/rof/advance-...
This paper analyzed #EU funded projects across 26 countries/20 years. The results:
✅ Strong impact on forest preservation.
❌ Minimal ecological gains elsewhere.
❌ Diminishing returns on data research
academic.oup.com/rof/advance-...
Does Financing Biodiversity Reduce Biodiversity Loss? Evidence from EU Funding of Science and Innovation
Abstract. Recent calls for greater private capital in biodiversity finance often overlook the question of effectiveness. This article interrogates the assu
academic.oup.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Important analysis of the impact of financing of nature by the EU on addressing biodiversity loss, showing evidently mixed results…
#GenerationRestoration - Astonishing persistence leading to dam removal after efforts spanning decades
And here are a few images of the Klamath from my visit last summer, as the dams were being dismantled and the river & its tributaries emerged from the fetid goo of reservoir bottoms to slip back into ancient courses. May many other rivers (the Eel, the Snake!) follow the Klamath to freedom.
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November 23, 2025 at 12:26 AM
#GenerationRestoration - Astonishing persistence leading to dam removal after efforts spanning decades
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And of course I’d be remiss if I didn’t shout out the role of beavers, who are laying the groundwork for salmon recovery in Spencer Creek & other Klamath basin streams by creating rearing ponds for the next generations of coho & steelhead.
Tired: dams made of concrete
Inspired: dams made of willow
Tired: dams made of concrete
Inspired: dams made of willow
November 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
And of course I’d be remiss if I didn’t shout out the role of beavers, who are laying the groundwork for salmon recovery in Spencer Creek & other Klamath basin streams by creating rearing ponds for the next generations of coho & steelhead.
Tired: dams made of concrete
Inspired: dams made of willow
Tired: dams made of concrete
Inspired: dams made of willow
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A salmon never dies; she is merely recycled.
November 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
A salmon never dies; she is merely recycled.
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And the CARCASSES! Holy shit, the carcasses. The essence of the Pacific Ocean distilled and bottled in fifteen-pound piscine packages, infusions of nitrogen & phosphorus & fatty acids in creeks that have missed their marine nutrients for a century.
Bering Sea 🤝 sagebrush steppe.
Bering Sea 🤝 sagebrush steppe.
November 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM
And the CARCASSES! Holy shit, the carcasses. The essence of the Pacific Ocean distilled and bottled in fifteen-pound piscine packages, infusions of nitrogen & phosphorus & fatty acids in creeks that have missed their marine nutrients for a century.
Bering Sea 🤝 sagebrush steppe.
Bering Sea 🤝 sagebrush steppe.
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Former site of the JC Boyle reservoir, submerged and algae-clotted for decades, now flowing free and unfettered — and aswirl with new piscine life in the foreground, finding its jubilant way.
November 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Former site of the JC Boyle reservoir, submerged and algae-clotted for decades, now flowing free and unfettered — and aswirl with new piscine life in the foreground, finding its jubilant way.
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Hundreds of salmon currently stacked up in skinny Spencer Creek, a groundwater-fed tributary to the Klamath. These guys are ragged with decay but determined to fulfill the spawning imperative, zombies who outlived Halloween. Resilience embodied.
November 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Hundreds of salmon currently stacked up in skinny Spencer Creek, a groundwater-fed tributary to the Klamath. These guys are ragged with decay but determined to fulfill the spawning imperative, zombies who outlived Halloween. Resilience embodied.
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I’m not crying you’re crying
November 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I’m not crying you’re crying
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Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
Serious investment of €1 billion by the German Government in the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) - A finalist in this year’s #EarthshotPrize
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@earthshotprize.bsky.social
@deutschewellerss.newsmast.social.ap.brid.gy
Germany pledges €1 billion to Brazil's rainforest fund – DW – 11/20/2025
Germany’s support for Brazil’s new rainforest protection fund adds momentum to a global effort that will reward forest conservation, penalize deforestation and direct resources to Indigenous and tradi...
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November 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Serious investment of €1 billion by the German Government in the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) - A finalist in this year’s #EarthshotPrize
@earthshotprize.bsky.social
@deutschewellerss.newsmast.social.ap.brid.gy
@earthshotprize.bsky.social
@deutschewellerss.newsmast.social.ap.brid.gy
Wonderful to see that @rewildingeurope.bsky.social scaling up operations to create the largest #rewilding project in the Dauphiné Alps of #France
As ambitions grow, so do the results and public understanding leading to greater support for new projects
We are #GenerationRestoration
As ambitions grow, so do the results and public understanding leading to greater support for new projects
We are #GenerationRestoration
France’s largest rewilding project takes root in the Dauphiné Alps
In the foothills of the western Alps in southeastern France, horned alpine ibex roam the limestone cliffs of a smaller mountain range known as the Dauphiné Alps, a region once home to thriving populat...
news.mongabay.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Wonderful to see that @rewildingeurope.bsky.social scaling up operations to create the largest #rewilding project in the Dauphiné Alps of #France
As ambitions grow, so do the results and public understanding leading to greater support for new projects
We are #GenerationRestoration
As ambitions grow, so do the results and public understanding leading to greater support for new projects
We are #GenerationRestoration
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Sebastián shares insights from his decades of work, including the bold vision required to restore ecosystems at a continental scale. Listen: buff.ly/L9UpShu
Episode 157: The Jaguar's Path - Rewilding a Continental Corridor with Sebastian Di Martino
A biologist with a lifelong dedication to conservation, Sebastián Di Martino began his involvement with environmental organizations at the age of 13. He earned
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October 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Sebastián shares insights from his decades of work, including the bold vision required to restore ecosystems at a continental scale. Listen: buff.ly/L9UpShu
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He discusses the challenges and triumphs of reintroducing jaguars and other species, as well as the critical role of community engagement and political will for conservation.
October 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
He discusses the challenges and triumphs of reintroducing jaguars and other species, as well as the critical role of community engagement and political will for conservation.
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Sebastián Di Martino, conservation director of Rewilding Argentina, joins this episode to talk about the ambitious, recently launched Jaguar Rivers Initiative, which intends to create a corridor across four countries in South America.
October 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Sebastián Di Martino, conservation director of Rewilding Argentina, joins this episode to talk about the ambitious, recently launched Jaguar Rivers Initiative, which intends to create a corridor across four countries in South America.
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Seagrass prevents coastal erosion, stores carbon, and contributes to food security.
Yet, these vital ecosystems are in decline.
Join #GenerationRestoration and take action for our precious ecosystems: bit.ly/3fNtmjj
Yet, these vital ecosystems are in decline.
Join #GenerationRestoration and take action for our precious ecosystems: bit.ly/3fNtmjj
September 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Seagrass prevents coastal erosion, stores carbon, and contributes to food security.
Yet, these vital ecosystems are in decline.
Join #GenerationRestoration and take action for our precious ecosystems: bit.ly/3fNtmjj
Yet, these vital ecosystems are in decline.
Join #GenerationRestoration and take action for our precious ecosystems: bit.ly/3fNtmjj
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Very happy to see @endangeredlands.bsky.social in this space...🎉🥳
I added them to starter pack 👇. Look also at current call for proposals for 'Planning Grants' up to US$120K 👉https://ogy.de/r8s7
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I added them to starter pack 👇. Look also at current call for proposals for 'Planning Grants' up to US$120K 👉https://ogy.de/r8s7
go.bsky.app/QPepXsG
October 2, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Very happy to see @endangeredlands.bsky.social in this space...🎉🥳
I added them to starter pack 👇. Look also at current call for proposals for 'Planning Grants' up to US$120K 👉https://ogy.de/r8s7
go.bsky.app/QPepXsG
I added them to starter pack 👇. Look also at current call for proposals for 'Planning Grants' up to US$120K 👉https://ogy.de/r8s7
go.bsky.app/QPepXsG
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October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj