Restoring Ecosystems

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration has announced three new World Restoration Flagships

Congratulations to Australia’s Shellfish Reef Building programme, Canada’s Respectful Returns initiative & South Africa’s Thicket Restoration for being true champions of #GenerationRestoration

Another fantastic story from the ever insightful & visually stunning @biographic.bsky.social

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When the problem is understood, its impact is known, and its solutions are proven + available, the only barrier is either political willingness to act, or funding (government or otherwise) to invest.

Feral pigs must be eradicated to enable recovery and restoration

#GenerationRestoration be bold!

Archaeologist uncovers Ireland’s first known wildcat from 5,500 years ago - Homepage - Western People The earliest directly dated wildcat (Felis silvestris) ever found in Ireland has been identified

So the Burren’s caves give up another secret, this time on native wild cats…

What about bringing them back to take their rightful place @whittledaway.bsky.social?

#Rewilding #GenerationRestoration

Just received my copy of ‘Generation Restoration’ by friend and colleague Tim Christophersen, formerly Coordinator of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, who knows this subject so well, and is a stubborn optimist.

Looking forward to reading this so much - After all we are #GenerationRestoration

'In Goats We Trust' A new satellite-based system enables researchers to monitor animal migration, species endangerment and biodiversity across the globe.

ICARUS 2.0 is go! Recently, we published a story on the satellite system that enables researchers to monitor everything from animal migration to species endangerment by equipping creatures large and small with smart tags. Today, SpaceX launched it!

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The value of eels is far more than economic, but evidently short term commercial income was considered more vital by delegates than restoring species and the ecosystems in which they exist

#CITESSamarkand

Finally restoring peatlands is building momentum in Finland…

We are #GenerationRestoration

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...

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...

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 🌎

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 having the same dream about MOTH Club…

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 ...

“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 🇮🇷

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

Yet another valuable, fascinating and beautifully illustrated story from @biographic.bsky.social

#DefendTheDeep

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 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

A salmon never dies; she is merely recycled.

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.

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.

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.

I’m not crying you’re crying

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.

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...

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

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...

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

Conservation win for Spain as six marine protected areas declared - Oceanographic The international ocean NGO, Oceana is celebrated a hard fought victory as Spain announces six new marine protected areas

Kudos 🇪🇸 👏. #OceanOptimism #MPAs #30by30
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Biden-era rule for protecting Midwestern wetlands survives lawsuit The 2024 Fish and Wildlife Service regulation was designed to preserve prairie potholes that are important habitat for many waterfowl species.

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