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#RestoreNature

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Der Haushaltsentwurf von Ursula von der Leyen für die Zeit zwischen 2028 und 2034 stößt bei Naturschützern europaweit auf scharfe Kritik. Sie sehen Klima- und Naturschutz in eine Nebenrolle gedrängt – mit Folgen: Die geplanten Kürzungen machten Artenschutz und die Umsetzung des Renaturierungsgesetzes de facto unmöglich.
#europa #RestoreNature
riffreporter.de/de/umwelt/eu-h

Ursula von der Leyen, EU-Kommissionspräsidentin, spricht bei einer Pressekonferenz. Von der Leyen stellte die Vorschläge der Kommission für das EU-Budget vor.
RiffReporter · EU-Haushalt: Naturschützer und Banken fürchten Rückschlag für Klima- und BiodiversitätBy Thomas Krumenacker

Die Halbzeitbilanz der EU-Biodiversitätsstrategie zeigt: Die EU steuert auf ein Scheitern ihrer Ziele im Kampf gegen Artensterben und Naturverlust zu. Nur wenn Deutschland und die weiteren 26 EU-Staaten das neue Renaturierungsgesetz schnell umsetzen, könnten sie das Ruder noch herumreißen. Doch konservative Minister und Agrar-Lobbyisten versuchen, das bereits geltende Gesetz zu kippen.
#RestoreNature

riffreporter.de/de/umwelt/eu-n

Das Bild zeigt eine ausgeräumte Agrarlandschaft.
RiffReporter · EU-Biodiversitätsziele drohen zu scheitern – Letzte Hoffnung auf RenaturierungsgesetzBy Thomas Krumenacker

Sitka plagues

We were in Roberton today looking at the latest proposals for ‘new’ forestry around Whitslaid. Less Sitka than previously and there is a hint of Scots Pine and native broadleafs but it is still essentially monoculture.

Restore Nature have helped local conservation groups get permission for a judicial review of the refusal to carry out an Environmental Impact Assessment.

theliberal.news/campaigners-ch

crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-todri

The #rewilded #GolfCourses teeming with life

Jocelyn Timperley, February 14, 2025

"From #Scotland to #California, golf courses are being rewilded – with lofty aims to benefit both people and #nature.

"Sinking into nature comes easy at the #PlockOfKyle. I visit this tiny wedge of parkland on the west coast of Scotland, just across the bridge from the Isle of Skye, on a rainy day in late September, and park ranger Heather Beaton and I spend the afternoon wandering around its various #ecosystems-in-miniature.

"We clamber over rocks at one of its little hidden natural harbours. We freeze as black darter dragonflies land on her pink shoe by a pond. And we bend to peer at circles of huge mushrooms which have sprung up overnight in its tiny woodland.

"A #WildflowerMeadow, ponds, scrub habitat, coastline and even an area of peat bog can be found on this little 60-acre (24-hectare) plot, which boasts roe deer, otters, lizards, eels and a huge array of insects and birds. 'We do describe it as a microcosm of Scotland,' says Beaton. 'If you think of all of the major habitats of Scotland, we've got them here on the Plock, just in miniature.' It's an impression she works to cultivate. 'The more little pockets we have, the more chance a person has to... end up having a nature experience,' she says.

"All of these habitats had fallen into serious disarray until a few years ago, says Beaton. In fact, most of this area used to be a golf course.

"The Plock is part of a small but significant global trend of land once used for golf being turned back over to nature. From #California to #Pennsylvania and #Australia to #Canada, these projects are reaping in some big rewards for both #biodiversity and local people."

Read more:
bbc.com/future/article/2025021
#Biodiversity #SolarPunkSunday #RestoreNature

BBC · The rewilded golf courses teeming with lifeBy Jocelyn Timperley

'The sixth great #extinction is happening', conservation expert, #JaneGoodall, warns

by Victoria Gill
November 16, 2024

"With her signature shawl draped over her shoulders and silver hair pulled back from her face, Jane Goodall exudes serenity - even over our slightly blurry video call.

"In a Vienna hotel room, a press team and a small group of filmmakers, who are documenting her latest speaking tour, fuss around her.

"The famous primatologist and conservationist settles into a high-backed chair that dwarfs her slender frame.

"On my screen I can see that behind her, on a shelf, is her toy monkey, Mr H.

"The toy was given to her nearly 30 years ago by a friend and has travelled the world with her. Dr Goodall is now 90 years of age, and she and Mr H are still travelling.

"'I am a little bit exhausted,' she admits. 'I’ve come here from Paris. And after here I go to Berlin, then Geneva. I’m on this tour talking about the danger to the environment and some of the remedies,' she says.

‘The sixth great extinction is happening now’

"One of the remedies she wants to talk about today is a tree-planting and habitat restoration mission that her eponymous foundation and non-profit technology company, Ecosia, are carrying out in Uganda. Over the past five years, with the help of local communities and smallholder farmers, the organisations have planted nearly two million trees.

"'We’re in the midst of the sixth great extinction,' Dr Goodall tells me during our interview for BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science. 'The more we can do to restore nature and protect existing forests, the better.'"

bbc.com/news/articles/c93qvqx5

www.bbc.com'The sixth great extinction is happening', warns climate expertConservationist Jane Goodall on the urgent need to turn the tide on climate change and nature loss.

'Anything that can be built can be taken down': The largest dam removal in US history is complete – what happens next?

The #KlamathRiver is free of four huge dams for the first time in generations. But for the #Yurok tribe, the river's restoration is only just beginning – starting with 18 billion seeds.

by Lucy Sheriff, September 3, 2024

"This is decades and decades in the making," says Thompson. 'We were told it was never going to happen. That it was foolish to even ask for one removal. We were asking for four.'

"The #KlamathBasin covers more than 12,000 square miles (31,000 sq km) in southern Oregon and northern California, and was home to the JC Boyle, Copco 1, Copco 2 and Iron Gate dams, all owned by #PacifiCorp, an electric utilities company. The Klamath was once the third-largest salmon producing river on the US's West Coast before the construction of the dams blocked fish from accessing almost 400 miles (640km) of critical river habitat for almost 100 years.

"Fall #ChinookSalmon numbers plummeted by more than 90% and spring chinook by 98%. #SteelheadTrout, #CohoSalmon and #PacificLamprey numbers also saw drastic declines, and the Klamath tribes in the upper basin have been without their salmon fishery for a century, since the completion of #Copco 1 in 1922. The situation became so bad that Yurok tribe – who are known as the salmon people – began importing Alaskan salmon for their annual salmon festival, traditionally held to celebrate the first return of fall chinook salmon to the Klamath River.

"The dams also had a severe impact on #WaterTemperature and quality – growth of #ToxicAlgae behind two of the dams resulted in health warnings against water contact.

"'It was painful,' says Willard Carlson, a Yurok elder who is known as a #RiverWarrior and was part of the inter-generational campaign. 'All those years seeing our river damaged like that. I remember as a kid we'd have other people from nearby tribes making fun of our river. 'Oh, you're Yurok, your river is dirty.' For us, the #dams were a monument to the [#coloniser] people who conquered us."

[...]

"Restoring the land

But something that does need "a helping hand is the restoration of 2,200 acres (890ha) of land that is above ground for the first time in a century following the emptying of four reservoirs.

"'Removing the dams is one thing, restoring the land is quite another,' says Thompson, a civil engineer and part of the crew working on the restoration project – which is being managed by Resource Environmental Solutions, an ecological restoration company."

Read more:
bbc.com/future/article/2024090

BBC · 'Anything that can be built can be taken down': The largest dam removal in US history is complete – what happens next?By Lucy Sherriff

The largest dam removal project in the US is completed a major win for #Indigenous tribes

The #KlamathRiver dams removal project was a significant win for tribal nations on the #Oregon-#California border who for decades have fought to restore the river back to its natural state.

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN
Published Sep 2, 2024

"The largest dam removal project in US history is finally complete, after crews last week demolished the last of the four dams on the Klamath River. It’s a significant win for tribal nations on the #OregonCalifornia border who for decades have fought to restore the river back to its natural state.

"The removal of the four hydroelectric dams — #IronGateDam, #CopcoDams 1 and 2, and #JCBoyleDam — allows the region’s iconic #salmon population to swim freely along the Klamath River and its tributaries, which the species have not been able to do for over a century since the dams were built.

"Mark Bransom, chief executive officer of the #KlamathRiverRenewal Corporation, the nonprofit group created to oversee the project, said it was a 'celebratory moment,' as his staff members, conservationists, government officials and tribal members gathered and cheered on the bank of the river near where the largest of the dams, Iron Gate, once stood.

"Federal regulators approved the plan to raze the dams in 2022. The next year, the smallest of the four dams, Copco No. 2, was removed. Crews then began releasing water from the dams’ reservoirs at the beginning of this year, which was necessary before dismantling the last remaining dams.

"The river system has been steeped in controversy: During the recent historic #WesternDrought that dried up the #KlamathBasin, an intense #WaterWar pitted local farmers against #Indigenous tribes, government agencies and conservationists.

"But anxiety turned to joy for the #IndigenousPeople who have lived for centuries among the Klamath and its tributaries.

"'We all came together in the moment with a feeling that ranged from pure joy to anticipation to excitement,' Bransom told CNN. 'For the first time in over 100 years, the river is now back in its historical channel, and I think that was an extraordinarily profound moment for people to actually witness that — the reconnecting of a river.'

"The #Yurok Tribe in Northern California are known as the '#SalmonPeople.' To them, the salmon are sacred species that are central to their culture, diet and ceremonies. As the story goes, the spirit that created the salmon also created humans and without the fish, they would cease to exist."

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accuweather.com/en/weather-new

🌳🌡️ Heatwaves are getting more frequent and intense because of human-caused warming. Urban areas are worse due to the heat island effect.

This study shows a ring of rural/wild land around a city can have a big impact on bringing urban temperatures down by more than 0.5C.

Until now the focus has been on greening within towns and cities, but we need to consider the surrounding land too.

#RestoreNature #NatureFriendlyFarming #rewilding

carbonbrief.org/rural-buffer-r

#IndigenousGeography could change how we relate to the #Earth

"#Geography can be maps. But it can also be something deeply personal, like how we interact with space."

by Taylar Dawn Stagner Indigenous Affairs Fellow
Jul 31, 2024

"#ClimateChange is a world-ending problem: #Flooding, #fires, #hurricanes, and #heat are threatening life and land, and could render parts of the planet #uninhabitable. But when #NiiyokamigaabawDeondreSmiles gives their students advice on what to do about it, one of the things they recommend is to simply go for a #walk. Smiles is an assistant professor of geography at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and a leader in the field of Indigenous geography.

"They are a citizen of the #LeechLakeBand of #Ojibewe, and they research how #IndigenousPeople have cultivated relationships with the land that are #ceremonial, historic — and ever #evolving, including in the wake of climate change.

"As #colonial governments engage with #traditional #ecological knowledge more seriously, Smiles’ work is a timely reminder of how seemingly small changes to your routine can have a big impact on your point of view. Indigenous geography offers a stark contrast to a worldview based on #extraction and #exploitation.

"Many societies have cataloged the world around them to make maps and meaning out of the land, but colonial ways of contextualizing the world have also often utilized geography as a way to divide and sequester land from Indigenous peoples."

grist.org/looking-forward/indi

GristIndigenous geography could change how we relate to the Earth"Geography can be maps. But it can also be something deeply personal, like how we interact with space."

Fight to save #PugetSound #KelpBed underscores NW #habitat challenges

July 25, 2024

"The #WashingtonState Department of Natural Resources and the #SquaxinIslandTribe have announced a partnership to conserve the #SquaxinIsland Kelp Bed, the last major kelp bed in South Puget Sound.

"DNR and the Squaxin Island Tribe will work to surround the kelp bed with a priority habitat zone, try to reduce #environmental stresses to improve the kelp bed’s health, and partner with #PugetSoundRestorationFund on future #restoration projects, according to a news release.

"Since 2013, DNR and Squaxin Island staff have seen a 97% decline in the kelp bed, which holds both ecological and cultural significance. In #Oregon, the #coastline lost more than two-thirds of its canopy of #BullKelp.

"'We recognize how important it is to protect this critical resource,' said #KrisPeters, Squaxin Island Tribe chairman, in a statement. '#Squaxins can’t do it alone; it takes us all coming together as partners. That is why this local inter-governmental agreement is so important and monumental.'

"The Squaxin Island Kelp Bed is the first habitat DNR is prioritizing in its statewide #KelpForest and #Eelgrass Meadow Health and Conservation Plan, which state legislation directed DNR to hatch in response to the loss of bull kelp and eelgrass on the Washington coastline.

"The plan’s goal is to conserve and restore at least 10,000 acres of kelp forest and eelgrass meadow habitat by 2040.

"Restoration efforts will initially focus on three pilot sub-basins: South Puget Sound, the Eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca and Grays Harbor. As DNR works toward its 10,000-acre goal, it intends to explore conservation and recovery in all sub-basins, according to DNR’s website.

"'Squaxin people have been stewarding these waters and lands for thousands of years,' Peters said in a statement. '#KelpBeds have also been stewarding these waters for thousands of years, providing nourishment and a critical ecosystem for the many plants, animals, and fish of the #SalishSea.'"

oregonlive.com/environment/202

#Northwest #LandBack
#NativeKnowledge #Nature #IndigenousKnowledge #conservation #sustainability #decolonization #PacificNorthwest #PNW #environmental
#IndigenousLedProject
#reclamation #decolonialism #Restoration #Landback #Rewilding #RestoreNature #Salish

oregonlive · Fight to save Puget Sound kelp bed underscores NW habitat challengesBy Tribune News Service

Three new #Indigenous Protected Areas declared in WA, paving the way for more cultural protection

"The animals that we used to see when I was a child, they've become more and more scarce."

By Charlie Mills
Posted Wed 10 Jul 2024

In short:

- Yindjibarndi, Nyamal and Wudjari lands in Western Australia have been announced among 12 new Indigenous Protected Areas (IPA) today.

- IPAs trigger funding for traditional owners to manage land and sea country, including threatened species and feral animal management.

- What's next? The groups will now undertake consultation to determine where the funding should be directed.

"The federal government has announced a significant investment into protecting and managing cultural heritage in Western Australia's north, a first for the west Pilbara region.

"The government will invest $14.6 million to establish 12 new Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs), with three of those in WA.

"The protected areas have been announced for #Yindjibarndi Country near Roebourne and Nyamal Country near Marble Bar in the #Pilbara, and #Wudjari Country near Esperance on WA's South Coast.

"CEO of Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation Michael Woodley said the move will help #revitalise the land and protect cultural heritage.

"'There's a real need and urgency to put [flora and fauna] back on the land,' he said.

"He said the newly proclaimed protected areas will allow rangers to reverse those impacts.

'"This gives us a really good opportunity to make sure we can revitalise those particular elements, and continue to sustain them as well,' he said.

"Indigenous Protected Areas are vast areas of land and sea country directly managed by #traditional owners such as Indigenous rangers, who work to protect #CulturalHeritage and #biodiversity.

"More than 90 million hectares of land across #Australia are currently covered by #IPAs, and the newly announced areas will add another eight million."

abc.net.au/news/2024-07-10/ipa

#Landback
#Rewilding
#TraditionalKnowledge
#RestoreNature #Australia #Aborigines #WesternAustralia #IndigenousProtectedAreas

ABC News · Three new Indigenous Protected Areas declared in WA, paving the way for more cultural protectionBy Charlie Mills

#Aboriginal land managers restoring #BassStrait island #lungtalanana to #precolonial conditions facing big hurdles

"Until we get rid of the cats, we cannot put other smaller, more vulnerable species back out on that island"

By Georgia Hogge
Posted Tue 4 Jun 2024

"In short: A native rewilding project on the #Tasmanian Bass Strait island of lungtalanana, or #ClarkeIsland, will see #wombats, #wallabies and #potoroos reintroduced to the landscape from next year.

"The island has been managed by #TraditionalOwners as protected land since 2009.

"What's next? #Landcare groups hope to eradicate feral cats from the island and are calling for increased funding from the federal government."

abc.net.au/news/2024-06-05/rew

ABC News · Aboriginal land managers restoring Bass Strait island lungtalanana to pre-colonial conditions facing big hurdlesBy Georgia Hogge

From 2022, via @mongabay

#Nature has priority’: #Rewilding map showcases #nature-led restoration

"The term [rewilding] dates back to the late 1990s, when a pair of scientists, #MichaelSoulé and #ReedNoss, introduced rewilding as a concept that centered on the restoration of #wilderness and the return of large animals, especially carnivores, to the landscape."

by John Cannon on 11 April 2022

"In the past decade, the European #bison (Bison bonasus) has made a comeback in Central and Eastern Europe. Hunters had killed the last known bison in the region nearly a century ago. But thanks to reintroduction programs in Belarus, Poland, Russia and Romania, nearly four times as many bison are alive today as there were in 2003. The increase, to some 7,000 animals, was enough to prompt the IUCN to downgrade the European bison’s conservation status from vulnerable to near threatened in 2020.

"The largest of #Romania’s free-roaming herds lives in the #ȚarcuMountains, a low-slung range in the Southern Carpathians heavy with old-growth forest. The reintroduction of the bison, including the recent addition of two males and six females in 2020, is a collaboration of WWF Romania and the Netherlands-based nonprofit #RewildingEurope. It’s also one of dozens of rewilding projects featured on a new map from the Global Rewilding Alliance that was officially launched April 11.

"'I wasn’t aware that you have [#WildBison] going through Romania,' said Alexander Watson, CEO of #OpenForests, the social enterprise company based in Germany hosting the rewilding project map."

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news.mongabay.com/2022/04/natu

Mongabay Environmental News · ‘Nature has priority’: Rewilding map showcases nature-led restorationIn the past decade, the European bison (Bison bonasus) has made a comeback in Central and Eastern Europe. Hunters had killed the last known bison in the region nearly a century ago. But thanks to reintroduction programs in Belarus, Poland, Russia and Romania, nearly four times as many bison are alive today as there were […]

How Returning Lands to Native Tribes Is Helping Protect Nature

From California to Maine, land is being given back to #NativeAmerican tribes who are committing to managing it for conservation. Some tribes are using #TraditionalKnowledge, from how to support #wildlife to the use of prescribed fires, to protect their ancestral grounds.

By Jim Robbins • June 3, 2021

"Now the [Salish and Kootenai] tribes are managing the range’s #bison and are also helping, through co-management, to manage bison that leave #YellowstoneNationalPark to graze on U.S. Forest Service land. Their Native American management approach is steeped in the close, almost familial, relationship with the animal that once provided food, clothes, shelter — virtually everything their people needed.

"'We treat the buffalo with less stress, and handle them with more respect,' said Tom McDonald, Fish and Wildlife Division Manager for the tribes and a tribal member. The tribes, he noted, recognize the importance of bison family groups and have allowed them to stay together. “That was a paradigm shift from what we call the ranching rodeo type mentality here, where they were storming the buffalo and stampeding animals. It was really kind of a violent, stressful affair.'

"In #California, a land trust recently transferred 1,199 acres of #redwood forest and prairie to the #EsselenTribe.

"There is a burgeoning movement these days to repatriate some culturally and ecologically important lands back to their former owners, the Indigenous people and local communities who once lived there, and to otherwise accommodate their perspective and participation in the management of the land and its wildlife and plants.

"Throughout the United States, land has been or is being transferred to tribes or is being co-managed with their help. In California, a land trust recently transferred 1,199 acres of redwood forest and prairie to the Esselen tribe, and in Maine, the Five Tribes of the #WabanakiConfederacy recently reacquired a 150-acre island with the help of land trusts. Other recent land transfers to tribes with the goal of conservation have taken place in #Oregon, #NewYork and other states.

"The use of Indigenous management styles that evolved over many centuries of cultures immersed in nature — formally called Traditional Ecological Knowledge (#TEK) — is increasingly seen by conservationists as synergistic with the global campaign to protect #biodiversity and to manage nature in a way that hedges against #ClimateChange.

"The #NatureConservancy, for example, one of the world’s largest conservation organizations, has institutionalized the transfer of ecologically important land with its Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Program in both the U.S. and globally."

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e360.yale.edu/features/how-ret

Yale E360How Returning Lands to Native Tribes Is Helping Protect NatureFrom California to Maine, land is being given back to Native American tribes who are committing to managing it for conservation. Some tribes are using traditional knowledge, from how to support wildlife to the use of prescribed fires, to protect their ancestral grounds.