A bit of trampling helps as well, it all adds to the structural complexity.

"Pleistocene and early Holocene megafaunal extinctions can stimulate us to reevaluate what is natural in the world and what sort of natures we seek to conserve or restore. If we accept the increasing evidence for a strong human role in these early extinctions, it forces a look inwards and 1/2

Add in some strategic surrogate impacts and it can bring the same structural improvements in hours that might take rewilding many decades or even centuries to achieve.

Ideally both approaches would work together with the cell grazing providing connectivity routes, even through urban landscapes.
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I carried out the bulk of my research on forest and vegetation structures with cell grazing.

It has the potential to safely put any animal in any place, either as part of a vegetation management project or a full scale migration, or anything in between.

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Food production for people (food forests) can overlap with natural biodiversity.

"In Ecuador, the figure is striking: 99% of all Afro-descendant land is in biodiversity hotspots, while in Colombia almost 92% of Afro-descendant lands are in the top 5% of areas for biodiversity."

It's all about structure, activity and connectivity.

Where people or livestock acting as surrogates for extinct herbivores provide a variety of structural qualities that wildlife are most adapted to.

Most of the world's forests will respond favourably to similar activity.

Extinct megafauna dominated human subsistence in southern South America before 11,600 years ago
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Most forest health issues are nothing more than symptoms due to the lack or absense of herbivores.

With little or no grazing, browsing or pruning etc, the structures of forests have radically altered and the resulting dynamics have suffered.

Combating symptoms only often ignores root causes

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How mammals survived the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs as shrew-like creatures; (our ancestors), how whales had legs, the strangest mammals you've never heard of, and 300 million years of mammal evolution in 400 pages.

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Is anyone covering the topic of cell-grazing?

While it might not appear 'natural' it's probably the only realistic way of getting herbivores back in as many places as possible and as a safe and effective means of recreating migrations.

In this context cell-grazing is light years ahead of rewilding

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The economy is the sacred beast of politics with laws and regulations created to ensure that feeding it has a much higher priority than feeding anything else.

Market-driven yak herding in Gatlang, Nepal, is threatening traditional sustainable grazing practices. Policies must recognize and integrate these traditional practices to sustain mountain ecosystems. Read the article by Indra Mani Rai and coauthors: doi.org/10.1659/mrd....
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