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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 21h

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’, say environmentalists

Pleased to have signed @campaign4parks.bsky.social's letter urging Ministers to drop plans to remove the Protected Landscapes Duty on public bodies 1/

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups

Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 16h

Our Annual Reviews paper "Rewilding: Ten Years of Evolution and Development" is now available Open Access. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Rewilding: Ten Years of Evolution and Development

Rewilding has matured into a mainstream approach in nature conservation. More than 450 academic papers on rewilding have been published since the term first appeared in print in the early 1990s. Rewil...

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 1d

Odd seeing the annoyed comments from foresters to this innocuous post on ancient woodland restoration. It's not controversial to say that conifer plantations are nature depleted vs the ancient woodland they replaced. Restoration is even Scottish Forestry policy! www.forestry.gov.scot/planted-wood...

Woodland Trust Scotland @wtscotsocial.bsky.social · 11d

#AncientWoodlandRestoration in action! 🌲

Felling of one hectare of nature depleted conifer has begun at #PloraWood, Innerleithen.

These non-natives are being removed and replanted with mixed native broadleaf species that will support local biodiversity and increase resilience 🐿️ 🍄 🍂

Harvester vehicle on road with conifer plantation in background.

Harvester vehicle on road with field verge on one side and conifer plantation on other.

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Alex Raeder @alexraeder.bsky.social · 1d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pine martens released on Exmoor in 'positive sign for nature'

They are

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 2d

Also in Interia Zielona, Poland.
zielona.interia.pl/wiadomosci/s...
"Europe is losing 600 green pitches a day. Poland among the infamous leaders"

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 2d

I've emailed him. Enjoy your trip.

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 2d

He was a good cricketer

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 3d

@andreasheinem.bsky.social Hi Andreas... I've just been reading the Heather Trust "Heather Futures" report. I have questions.

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The Good News Network: Positive Stories 24/7 @goodnewsnetwork.org.web.brid.gy · 5d

Marshall Islands Experience Explosion of Wildlife One Year After Invasive Rats Were Removed

Reprinted with Permission from World at Large Two small islets crucial to the resiliency of the local environment in the Marshall Islands Republic are witnessing a major ecological revival. Island Conservation, a global nonprofit organization with a mission to restore islands for nature and people, has successfully eradicated invasive black rats, allowing the native forests […] The post Marshall Islands Experience Explosion of Wildlife One Year After Invasive Rats Were Removed appeared first on Good News Network.

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Ordo Fraterna Fibonacci @ordofibonacci.bsky.social · 6d

Extinct megafauna dominated human subsistence in southern South America before 11,600 years ago
Science Advances
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Extinct megafauna dominated human subsistence in southern South America before 11,600 years ago

The high position of megafauna among the hunting prey of humans in South America reinforces their central role in extinctions.

www.science.org

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Valentin Moser @vmoser.bsky.social · 13d

Beavers boost bats! Beaver ponds had higher bat richness (4→5 spp/night), 1.6× activity, and 2.3× feeding vs. controls. Structural changes (standing deadwood, more heterogeneous canopy) and more prey help explain why:
Journal of Animal Ecology:
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Habitat heterogeneity and food availability in beaver‐engineered streams foster bat richness, activity and feeding

Beavers reshape ecosystems in ways that benefit bat richness, activity and feeding activity. We linked increased habitat structures (standing deadwood and canopy heterogeneity) and prey abundance to ...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 5d

Going to #IUCNcongress next week? We'll be there presenting our new "Guidelines for Rewilding" from IUCN CEM. See us on 9th October 1600-1730 on Channel 4 Virtual Room. All welcome.

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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 5d

And the European Green to Grey project is a vivid telling of this story greentogrey.eu

Green to Grey – How Europe is squandering the little nature it has left

Green to Grey is a pioneering collaboration between journalists and scientists counting every green space lost in Europe between January 2018 and December 2023.

greentogrey.eu

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 5d

Those who attack NIMBYS I think miss the psychology of living in a system in which it will never be enough development, and where lip service is paid to smarter l/greener development. Faced with that people just push back against whatever they can.

Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 5d

In case you missed this, natural areas equivalent in size to Cyprus have been lost across Europe in just 5 years (2018-2023). www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development

Exclusive: 1,680 football pitches of protected natural land in England, Wales and Northern Ireland lost in five years

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Whitfield @paulwhitfield.bsky.social · 5d

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Rewilding Britain @rewildingbritain.org.uk · 5d

Big news for beavers in Wales 🦫

We’re thrilled the Welsh government has legally recognised beavers as a native species requiring protection. This is a huge step forward in ensuring beavers — and the incredible ecosystem services they provide — are re-established in Wales.

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Screenshot of a BBC online article titled: "Beavers set to become a protected species in Wales", which features a photo of a beaver surrounded by twigs. It's overlayed on an aerial image of a Welsh rewilding site featuring ponds, greenery and mist. Background image credit: Alex Hyde.

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 5d

He's not on here, but I did forward the article to him on facebook.

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 5d

Their original vision of becoming the world's first conservation-based unicorn company seems to have fallen by the wayside. But, in my opinion if you're into "rewilding" to make money, then you're into it for all the wrong reasons.

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 5d

I am of course referring to Tom Opre's "The Last Keeper"

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 5d

their!! 🙄

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 6d

Interesting how some folk making films about Scotland have used Kinrara as there reference for rewilding.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 6d

Good to see this example of totally phoney 'rewilding' ignominiously end.

Going by all I've heard, it was a farce, and did nothing but bring the word rewilding into disrepute.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

BrewDog sells Scottish ‘rewilding’ estate it bought only five years ago

Latest disposal by ‘punk’ beer company follows £37m loss and closure of 10 pubs

www.theguardian.com

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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 6d

Our group of rewilders and river runners from the U.S., Mexico, and Argentina traveled away from the international border and into the #wild ahead.

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 6d

It's a good point, but wildness is a function of ecosystem integrity (lack of, or rather level of human modification) and absence of human features such as settlement, agriculture, transportation and other infrastructure. I agree is a somewhat fuzzy (if otherwise important) concept.

Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 6d

Also in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...

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