Restoring Ecosystems

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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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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

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...

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

#GenerationRestoration 🦫

Bee brick

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.

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

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

Mine too Carl!

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’

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

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...

Things are looking up in Mexico

What’s not to like about an amorous amphibian!

#GenerationRestoration

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.

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

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

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 

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...

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

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!

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...

Calling all #SciArtSeptember artists & beyond…

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

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@lizlagomorph.bsky.social

#GenerationRestoration needs to be visualised & communicated! 🖼️

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

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/...

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

Burning on England’s deep peat banned New rules come into force from 30 September in order to restore habitats and reduce flooding

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

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

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

#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.

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.

#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.

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.

#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!

A mixed media illustration of a standing black bear. The drawing is sketchy and completed in shades of blue and white.

#SciArtSeptember Day 5: Corridor
The Florida Wildlife Corridor is a network connecting millions of acres and protecting the species that live there - including this black bear, drawn from a camera trap image.
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#sciart #scicomm #bear #wildlifeart #sketchbook 🐻

A digital illustration of a flowering summer prairie at sunset, with blue hills in the distance. An American bison is walking from right to left, and with it walks a ghostly white silhouette of a mammoth.

#SciArtSeptember 6 - Prairie

The greatest beasts are gone, but maybe the land still remembers.

Another version of the idea of ghosts of lost beasts, this time the spirit of a mammoth walking with a bison somewhere in the fragments of the American prairie that still exist.

🌿 Healthy wetlands are essential for water, climate and food security.

They regulate water flows, reduce the risk of floods and droughts, store carbon & support fisheries. They are also vital to achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Activists blend science and folklore as they try to revive Somerset’s eel population Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Feargal Sharkey back campaign to save the animal, which once inspired placenames, songs and stories

Flagship species come in many shapes & sizes, migrating fish included!

In southwest UK European eels recovery is restoring wetlands and freshwater connectivity, as well as connections to lives of people of all ages mixing education with culture

Where else is this working?

#GenerationRestoration

Horizontal photo of a tiny crayon sketch of a lemon shark

Here we go! For #SciArtSeptember #Islet theme here is a sicklefin lemon shark 尖齒檸檬鯊 Negaprion acutidens—which frequent Taiwan's 東沙環礁國家公園 Dongsha Atoll National Park as a pupping nursery. Thanks @lizlagomorph.bsky.social for another fun month of #SciArt prompts!! #TaiwanFishes #台灣魚類 Day 1/30 🐡🦑🧪