Restoring Ecosystems

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Friday 1st August 2025 - Hour 2 - Kildare Today with Eoin Beatty

I spoke to KFM today's about the government's new website for the Nature Restoration Law and the recent decision to gut the nature bit out of the Climate and Nature Fund.

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There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.

Nature is truly amazing, yet we still have so much to learn…

Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.

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Defend the deep 🦑

‘It’s spectacular’: volunteer Dorset divers see summer of surging seahorses After efforts to make conditions better for the elusive creatures in Studland Bay, sightings are greatly increasing

Who doesn’t love #seahorses?

Enabling species to recover takes the status quo to be altered so ‘business as usual’ changes

In Studland, on UK’s south coast, collaboration across marine resource users is key to restoring vital #seagrass habitat, & volunteers monitoring are finding great results!

Freshwater ecosystems are under unprecedented threat as @ramsar.org Wetlands Outlook demonstrates.

So conserve the best, and restore the rest

Carl Sayer is correct that it is easier (& far cheaper) to conserve than restore…

Scotland’s hidden native: the wych elm 🌳

Watch to explore the story of the UK’s only native #elm - its useful wood, ancient lore, and the challenges it now faces.

Learn more 🔗 treesforlife.org.uk/into-the-for...

Plenary sessions continue today at the #WetlandsCOP15, with a focused agenda on the consolidation and consideration of existing draft resolutions. Delegates are working collaboratively to strengthen the policy frameworks that will guide global wetland conservation in the years ahead.

This is true!

That’s great James - Every ‘island’ of restoration and rewilding makes a valuable contribution in those UK counties dominated by agriculture

Welcome to #GenerationRestoration

Where in the world?

Today in Chemistry History graphic on Rosalind Franklin and the structure of DNA. Rosalind Franklin was a chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was instrumental in the discovery of the structure of DNA. She missed out on a Nobel Prize for her work as they are not awarded posthumously. Photograph 51 is an X-ray diffraction image of DNA taken during Franklin’s research. It was crucial in developing a model of DNA and confirming its double helical structure.

Rosalind Franklin was born #OTD in 1920. She was a chemist and crystallographic who made a key contribution to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA: www.compoundchem.com/2017/07/25/f...

#ChemSky 🧪

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

A looming global water crisis may be under appreciated as climate change takes hold. Today I report on a new study that finds the planet is quickly drying, with mega-regions of water loss now stretching across continents. www.propublica.org/article/wate...

Are you at #COP15Zimbabwe?

Take some time to explore the exhibition booths. They’re full of inspiring stories, innovative solutions, and powerful visuals showcasing wetland conservation efforts from around the world.

Mangroves are rising. Rivers are healing.

This #WorldMangroveDay, join #GenerationRestoration in supporting projects helping cities and communities restore long-neglected wetlands, preserving biodiversity, and making urban areas more resilient to climate change: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

Without federal funding, public media — and the truth-telling, community-connecting role it plays — is at risk.

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When helicopters poisoned a tiny island in the Galápagos, a 'once-extinct' animal appeared | Discover Wildlife Thought to be extinct on Rábida Island, the leaf-toed gecko has reappeared after conservationists worked to rid the island of invasive, non-native rats.

Need good news?

Eradicating rats 🐀 from Rábida Island benefited the whole ecosystem, and led to the recovery and rediscovery of a small endemic gecko presumed extinct

Good surprises from great work in the Galápagos led by Island Conservation

#GenerationRestoration - 1 island at a time

Welcome to the Great Bear Sea After decades of discord, Canada and First Nations are working together to build a network of marine protected areas stretching from Vancouver Island to Alaska.

First Nations in British Columbia were instrumental in protecting the Great Bear Rainforest from logging. And given the ecological threads connecting everything from the mountaintops to the seafloor, Indigenous elders have long advocated to extend the protections of the rainforest out to sea... 🧵

@fintankelly.bsky.social is absolutely right - Complex processes handled with a concise communications approach by Rewilding Sweden

Imagine this for Ireland @whittledaway.bsky.social …

This image highlights that nature-based solutions could create up to 32 million new jobs by 2030. It features a man holding a fishing net in a natural setting, with tree branches in the background. Logos for UNEP, the Global Biodiversity Framework, and the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration appear at the bottom.

Nature and economies are intertwined.

UNEP is working to bring countries together to invest in #GenerationRestoration and create sustainable opportunities for growth that include everyone, building strong and resilient economies. #HLPF #GlobalGoals

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How much does it cost to restore a mangrove forest? Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Mangroves, the amphibious forests that fringe tropical and subtropic...

Interesting analysis article from @mongabay.com considering the importance, benefits, and relative costs of restoring #mangroves

Has this been attempted for restoring other ecosystems?

#GenerationRestoration has to cost-effective to work at scale

Some of the kickass floral diversity in my place without sheep.

Rewilding isn't just trees!!

Water company sewage pollution to halve by 2030, minister pledges - BBC News Environment Secretary Steve Reed says the government is preparing a "water revolution" and that the water sector is broken.

Restoring water quality & quantity is vital to halting & reversing biodiversity loss in freshwater ecosystems in the UK

Will pledges be delivered and make a positive impact @georgemonbiot.bsky.social?

Will water companies be held accountable like any other polluter?

We are #GenerationRestoration

OK - I will sleep a little easier… ☺️

Thank You for the powerful evocative images, and for championing the grasslands

Such a shame that they are still named ‘badlands’ as grasslands are undoubtedly ‘goodlands’ all the way!

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As the world prepares for the #WetlandsCOP15, the spotlight is on the vital role wetlands play in climate resilience, biodiversity, water security and sustainable livelihoods.

#COPZimbawe is a critical opportunity to elevate wetlands on the global agenda.