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🌊Markus Knigge🐟 @oceanknigge.bsky.social · 7d

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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NPR @npr.org · 7d

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

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Restoring Ecosystems @restoring.bsky.social · 7d

Impressive plenary from Dave Coffman of Rev looking at the engineering, restoration, and impacts of the Klamath River dam removal.

Beyond this, sharing the vital human side of the story - Economy, livelihoods, skills, experience, reconnecting the river, and Yurok people’s lives too

#SER2025

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Restoring Ecosystems @restoring.bsky.social · 7d

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Restoring Ecosystems @restoring.bsky.social · 7d

Wonderful to be at #SER2025 hosted by Society for Ecological Restoration in Denver to learn with 1,400 delegates from 75 countries, & colleagues from World Restoration Flagships of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and Earthshot Prize finalists about how to scale restoring of all ecosystems

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Restoring Ecosystems @restoring.bsky.social · 9d

So good that #California is finally reintroducing beavers, the world’s favourite ecosystem engineers, which is bringing benefits that are both planned & unexpected

#GenerationRestoration 🦫

Beavers restored to tribal lands in California benefit ecosystems

This is the first installment of Mongabay’s coverage of beaver restoration in California. Read the second story. CHESTER, Calif. — The pictograph, an ochre-red outline with four paws and an unmistakab...

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Community-Led Restoration @globalstewards.bsky.social · 15d

In some parts of the UK like Brighton & Hove, bee bricks have been made mandatory for new buildings taller than 5 meters. These bricks contain narrow holes designed to mimic the natural nesting sites of solitary bees, which make up the majority of Britain’s 270 bee species.

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Biodiversity Council @biodivcouncil.bsky.social · 15d

It’s great to see WA Gov has committed to improving its state cat laws to enable local governments to prevent pet cats from roaming; a win-win-win solution for wildlife, cats and human health. NSW is now the only state who hasn't updated their laws.

@drbrucewebber.bsky.social #cats #biodiversity

Three cats sit calmly on an indoor cat tree. Text overlay says: WA Government set to allow local councils to stop pet cats from roaming; A win-win-win solution for wildlife, cats and human health

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Restoring Ecosystems @restoring.bsky.social · 17d

Mine too Carl!

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Restoring Ecosystems @restoring.bsky.social · 18d

Good to see new efforts for mink control in Ireland, including detection dogs, but why only ‘pilot projects’?

Planning & delivering eradication is the only effective way to protect not only ground nesting birds, but also amphibians and fish.

What are we waiting for!?

#GenerationRestoration

Mink eradication scheme being piloted in Midlands in first step towards eliminating invasive species

Volunteers to be professionally trained in trapping mink and ‘humane dispatch’

www.irishtimes.com

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Restoring Ecosystems @restoring.bsky.social · 21d

Things are looking up in Mexico

What’s not to like about an amorous amphibian!

#GenerationRestoration

The return of the axolotl (cartoon)

Axolotls may enjoy celebrity status among pet owners, but their wild populations have been dealt huge blows by habitat loss, water pollution, invasive species and the pet trade. Now, the success of re...

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Restoring Ecosystems @restoring.bsky.social · 23d

Hope is most often the emotion evoked when reflecting on ecological restoration and rewilding

Hard-won major dam removal from Klamath River is now bringing
hope to Yurok people, and their beloved salmon, as the river is enabled to heal itself

Insightful, hopeful article by
@ianjames.bsky.social

One year after dams were torn down, an Indigenous writer sees a healing Klamath River

Dams were dismantled on the Klamath River last year. An Indigenous writer reflects on how the river is starting to recover.

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 27d

Amid the biodiversity crisis, stories of resilience and recovery offer hope. From monarch butterflies migrating to the reintroduction of species such as the Arabian oryx, nature's recovery inspires. 🦋 #ConservationOptimism 🌏🧪

Discover more with @theguardian.com

Hope, joy, absurdity and marvel: there is so much more to our world story than loss

Amid environmental tragedy, a hidden world of curiosity and wonder still exists. And in this, says Natalie Kyriacou, we can find glimmers of hope

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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 28d

Almost 200,000 people have told @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu #HandsOFFNature

A resounding response from EU citizens given the underhanded way the Commission quietly launched the consultation over the August holiday window 👏
www.environmentalpillar.ie/hands-off-na...

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Pollinator Academy @pollinatoracademy.bsky.social · 28d

The Pollinator Academy is an online platform that provides tools and training to help strengthen your knowledge of the taxonomy of European pollinators. Follow us and visit our website to find out more! #PollinatorAcademy #Pollinators #Taxonomy #Bee #Hoverfly #Butterfly Pollinatoracademy.eu

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Restoring Ecosystems @restoring.bsky.social · 28d

Multiple benefits always arise from restoring ecosystems…

In the case of mangroves, marine & terrestrial nature both benefit, as well as climate, fisheries & coastal protection too…

Could You contribute to large scale mangrove restoration in some way?

#GenerationRestoration - Let’s do it!

UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 29d

Interest in large-scale mangrove restoration is growing, but success depends on aligning all stakeholders—NGOs, govts, scientists, & communities—around science-based approaches.

🌿 #GenerationRestoration Guidelines by @globalmangroves.bsky.social: www.decadeonrestoration.org/publications...

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Restoring Ecosystems @restoring.bsky.social · 28d

Calling all #SciArtSeptember artists & beyond…

What about your art being featured on licence plates in #Montana celebrating wildlife crossings and migration?

@y2y.bsky.social @largelandscapes.org
@lizlagomorph.bsky.social

#GenerationRestoration needs to be visualised & communicated! 🖼️

Help Tell the Story of Montana’s Big Game Migration—Through Art | Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks and conservation partners launch the Montana Big Game and Wildlife Highway Crossings License Plate Artwork Contest Montana’s big game species—elk, mule deer, moose, pron...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Sep 9

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it?
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules

Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider

www.theguardian.com

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Restoring Ecosystems @restoring.bsky.social · 29d

Absolutely right Pádraic

Ireland’s government should halt burning 🔥 and scale up restoration of the enormous areas of degraded peat bogs… Even more to gain

Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 29d

Very good news from England, which is banning burning on peat over 30cm deep.

Ireland needs to follow suit by banning the burning of land outright 🔥

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Burning on England’s deep peat banned

New rules come into force from 30 September in order to restore habitats and reduce flooding

www.theguardian.com

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Restoring Ecosystems @restoring.bsky.social · 29d

Peatlands are sponges for carbon, water, & nature

If our aim is to halt & reverse nature loss + climate change our first step is stopping damaging practices

Finally UK Govt has banned burning of peatland covering ~700,000 Ha in England, enabling restoring peatlands to begin

#GenerationRestoration

Burning on England’s deep peat banned

New rules come into force from 30 September in order to restore habitats and reduce flooding

www.theguardian.com

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Bluesky @bsky.app · Sep 8

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚

Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!

Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

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Noll @nollthere.bsky.social · Sep 7

Day 6 of #SciArtSeptember: Prairie
The adorable black-footed ferret with some prairie flowers.
#Art #SciArt #AnimalArt

Digital painting of a black-footed ferret from the neck up, surrounded by leaves and prairie flowers.

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Harris Illustration @harrisillustration.bsky.social · Sep 6

#SciArtSeptember Day 6: Prairie

A couple of landscape block diagrams of grasslands, completed a while back for the Swatches Academy Intro to Environment Illustration course.

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · Sep 5

#SciArtSeptember 5 - Corridor

Highways are like stripes of death criscrossing the world. Though useful to humans, they damage ecosystems directly by killing wildlife and in various indirect ways, including fragmenting habitats into pieces. Wildlife crossings are one way to mitigate that damage.

Aerial photo-like illustration of a wildlife crossing built over a highway. The crossing is connecting two forests on either side of the road. A forest trail is seen going through it, with a stag deer walking it.

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · Sep 4

#SciArtSeptember 4 - Riverbank

Many mammals across the world have evolved an otter-like body shape and lifestyle. Perhaps the oddest and one of the most obscure is the West African giant otter shrew (Potamogale velox).

Not an otter, not a shrew, but a distant cousin of elephants!

Ink-like digital illustration of an otter-like animal standing on a riverbank. The animal - a giant otter shrew - is coloured, while the background is lineart.

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