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Global Ecosystem Renewal Wildlife Habitat, Land and Water Restoration, Rewilding, Biodiversity, Permaculture, Megafauna, Woodpasture, Nature Friendly Farming

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Center for Large Landscape Conservation @largelandscapes.org · 01/10/2026
The final round of the federal Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program, which provides dedicated funding to build wildlife crossings, is now open! There's $80 million for projects that make roads safer, and applications are due Nov. 16. Learn more: simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/... 📷:NDOW
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Cat Frampton @catframpton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A new article Playing the SFI Blame Game “This was always going to be some sort of mess because nature and land management are not funded well. Without enough cash to match the ambition none of this sustainable stuff works.” sidecountry.co.uk/playing-the-...
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Playing the SFI Blame Game - SideCountry
Firstly, a little catch up for those out of the loop. The Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) is a government scheme, where farmers and other landowners, or
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Restoration ecologists have long known that many ecosystems are so degraded that simply leaving them to recover naturally will not work Dispersal limitation, damaged substrate, excess nutrients, altered hydrology, etc mean active intervention is needed to recreate rich ecosystems in a timely way
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Agricology @agricology.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
General tickets for @orfc.bsky.social are now live! 🌾🐝 🌳Over 2 full days you can expect 145+ dynamic in-person talks & interactive workshops exploring the most pressing topics of our time. 🔗For more information check out our event listing: ow.ly/56Xr50ZT2gU
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Herbert Nickel @herbertnickel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Unsere Online-Wintervorträge beginnen am Montag, 19 Uhr! Dr. Camilla Fløjgaard von der Universität Aarhus geht der Frage nach, wie wir natürlichen Weidetier-Besatz abschätzen können und was dies für Implikationen für den heutigen Naturschutz hat. Den Einwahllink gibt es bei mir über DM oder E-Mail.
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Global Initiative on Ungulate Migration @migratinghooves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In the Auca Mahuida Nature Reserve, guanacos migrate up the slopes of the Auca Mahuida volcano during the summer months. Here, researchers are interested in how ongoing oil development may be impacting the animals and how the broader population uses the landscape. www.cms.int/gium/migrati...
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Pablo Manzano @pablopastos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A herder's caravan crosses 🇧🇪 to reclaim visibility and future to a crucial activity for maintaining biodiversity & producing healthy and sustainable food. Mobile pastoralism is also present in W Eur. Joined by Loupa Pius from East Africa, with the support from VSF-BE vsf-belgium.org/news/europea...
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European Herders' March crosses Belgium
From 28 September to 13 October, the European Herders' March crosses Belgium. Meet the herders and discover their stories.
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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The clacking of white storks, galloping Exmoor ponies, the roar of red stags and the hooting of owls. Seeing the creatures here is only half the joy. The sound they bring to the landscape is magical to take in. There's nothing quite like hearing the chorus in person. Visit us this October.
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Veronica @aintbeehaven.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#NewMexico #tarantula
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EcosystemEngineer @ecosystemengineer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The vegetation structures that herbivores shape are the ones that all flora and fauna are most adapted to. While it's very important to recognise these structures, it's probably more important to realise that in some places there are very few herbivores and in other places no herbivores at all.
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Global Initiative on Ungulate Migration @migratinghooves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New migration maps just released! Red deer traverse steep slops in Germany's Berchtesgaden National Park and guanacos migrate along Argentina's impressive Auca Mahuida Volcano. Check out the maps in the Atlas of Ungulate Migration www.cms.int/gium/migrati... @cms.int
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Michael Parks @jurassicparks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Great article gizmodo.com/the-american...
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The 'American Cheetah' Wasn't a Cheetah. New DNA Evidence Shows Just How Wrong Scientists Had It
An analysis of ancient DNA reveals new details about the range, diet, and evolutionary history of this extinct predator.
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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Quite emotional to report that we've just found our amazing survivor Marsh Tit, still here in his ancient woodland kingdom. He's now 11 yrs 4 months old, survived the 2026 heatwaves/drought and smelt the wildfires of nearby Holme Fen. I ringed him in my 30s and I'm now in my 50s.
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Boswachter Sabine @boswachtersabine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Afgelopen zondag kreeg ik de complete kudde #wisenten in beeld. De 1e jaren werden vaak stieren geboren. En de laatste paar jaar worden er vooral koeien geboren. Daardoor kon de kudde eindelijk goed doorgroeien van 3 (waarvan 1 drachtige koe) in 2016 naar 12 dieren in 2026.
12 wisenten op de Veluwe. De 3 kalveren van dit jaar staan bijelkaar.
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Nearly Wild @nearlywild.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Probably best I don't belong to an HOA. I enjoy transplanting weeds from my garden *into* my lawn, and I welcome moles to live in my wild yard. Moles are #ecosystem #engineers too, their tunnels aerate the soil and increase water infiltration and habitat complexity.
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Nearly Wild @nearlywild.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Also on the farm tour: this is likely the most massive trunk I've ever seen on a big-leaf maple (Acer macrophyllum). There are some ropes tied around in an effort to keep it from splitting. Pics don't do it justice; this tree is huge.
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Nearly Wild @nearlywild.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I grew up on a farm, so old farm architecture has taken a special place in my heart. Today I went on a farm tour and this 100 y.o. barn was a highlight. This beauty features an indoor wooden silo. These pics are from up in the loft.
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rru.eurosky.social @rru.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026
Learned about European bison when they were re-introduced near me. Did not realise there were Mexican bison too! Same species as the one in Canada? Never knew they were found so far south. Great story of ecosystem recovery!
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Rewilding Magazine @rewildingmag.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“Just think about how this used to look. How it used to feel,” says Grey, as much to the reader as to Ezzy. “All I want is to see a herd of a million bison storming across the prairie.” www.rewildingmag.com/q-a-with-aut...
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“I started to wonder, what if?” Q&A with author Conor Kerr
The Métis writer’s new novel imagines setting a herd of bison free in downtown Edmonton – and the fallout that comes from it.
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Cat Frampton @catframpton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“in a world where ‘nature recovery’ has big financial teeth, the story that is told about land matters” What are the stories you are being told? Who’s telling them? And why?
A black and white photo of a bleak bit of Dartmoor Same place but colour photo. Blue sky, less bleak!
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Sabrina Schulz @auenatelier.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Zu a): unser Artenreichtum ist durch große Pflanzenfresser entstanden. Es ziehen heute keine Mammutherden und Waldelefanten mehr durch unsere Landschaften. Wir können sie aber durch Rinder, Pferde und Wasserbüffel ökologisch gut ersetzen. (Grafik: Sarah Heuzeroth) 3/x
Illustration einer Auenlandschaft im „Urzustand“ mit Auerochse, Wolfrudel, wilden Herden, die den flach und verzweigt fließenden Fluss überqueren.
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Nearly Wild @nearlywild.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"Some Great Lakes sturgeon may be 400 years old. Scientists are rethinking how to save them"
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Daniel MacPhee 🇨🇦 @d-macphee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Bones found in Yukon ID'd as ice-age cheetah What a great discovery. #Science #Paleontology #Canada #Scicomm www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Bones found in Yukon ID'd as ice-age cheetah | CBC News
Researchers used DNA and isotope analysis to figure out how the large cats survived in the far north.
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Rewilding Academy @rewilding.academy · 03/09/2026
Could excessive tree planting actually exacerbate the ecological imbalance we are trying to combat? This docu examines the real-life impacts of global tree-planting campaigns, featuring interviews with researchers from around the world. www.rfr.bz/bc4ef4ec0
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Can trees save the planet? | DW Documentary
Planting more trees is often seen as a simple solution to problems like climate change and species loss. But how effective is this practice really?Deforestat...
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Nearly Wild @nearlywild.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Chickadees have found the sunflowers. Is ok: that's who I grow them for.
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Nearly Wild @nearlywild.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This sunflower got so big it decided to use the hoop house for extra support. Yes, I just duck under every time I use the door.
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Cat Frampton @catframpton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Exhibit a - why it’s vital we keep livestock out on Dartmoor* in number all year. It’s not all about the plants you know… (If you are into counting striae on dung beetles you’ll know it’s an extra special beetle…) (*and farmland)
A shinny dung beetle. 9 stripes on its wing case means it’s a mutator dung beetles which is a bit rare A shinny dung beetle. Lying in its back and showing off its green metallic looking legs A shinny dung beetle. 9 stripes on its wing case means it’s a mutator dung beetles which is a bit rare
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ARK Rewilding Nederland @ark-rewildingnl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Power to the Peatlands! @jeroen-helmer.bsky.social tekende speciaal voor de Europese conferentie (2-4 sept.) een ecosysteemtekening over veenmos. De illustratie is gratis beschikbaar voor dlnmrs én voor iedereen die communiceert over het grote belang van veenherstel. arkrewilding.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 01/09/2026
Kentucky has lost a giant Kentucky writer, farmer and advocate Wendell Berry dies at 92 kentuckylantern.com/2026/08/31/k...
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Kentucky writer, farmer and advocate Wendell Berry dies at 92 • Kentucky Lantern
A lover of forests, the farmer, author and former English professor died on Thursday, according to his family and the New York Times. He was 92.
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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I couldn't leave Yunnan without visiting the museum on the Lufeng quarry, one of the world's most concentrated #dinosaur fossil beds. It holds many complete skeletons of a diversity of dinosaurs. I knew about it thanks to @stevebrusatte.bsky.social's books! 🦕 I missed info on plants & their defenses
Dinosaur skeletons in the Lufeng Dinosaur Museum, Lufeng, Yunnan, China
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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Brown Bears fishing in rivers teeming with salmon more than a metre long, with scavenging eagles and watched by Elk, Wolves and the occasional Lynx, among forests of trees 40 m tall and with trunks more than a metre across. Not Canada, but all over Britain about 7,000 years ago.
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Carl Sayer @carlsayer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
1 ghostpond + 1 digger for 2 days + 2 years = 41 wetland plants + 2 national rarities. #ghostpond
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Mike Blackmore @blacky-himself.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
##ChalkStream #RiverRestoration restoring a hiddeous old "fish stew" back to a thriving chalk stream. River Test, Hampshire
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Nearly Wild @nearlywild.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I picked up this elderberry plant in a 1 gallon pot at a roadside plant sale 2 years ago. It has exploded in size, and this year it is loaded with big juicy berries. Not sure of the cultivar; guessing it's some sort of high production commercial variety. Elderberry syrup. #permaculture
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Nearly Wild @nearlywild.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Went to the river today. Removed about 125' of old rusty barbed wire fencing from the river bank. Some was stuck inside a large maple which had grown around it, nothing to do but cut it as close as possible to the tree.
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Carl Sayer @carlsayer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
So proud of my Dads self-seeded hay meadow covered so very brilliantly (huge thanks) by @patrickbarkham.bsky.social in the Guardian today. ‘I love it. It’s hope’: the mysterious self-willed wildflower meadow that seeded itself | Biodiversity | The Guardian share.google/rqDHUdpZBXuy...
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‘I love it. It’s hope’: the mysterious self-willed wildflower meadow that seeded itself
Farmer Derek Sayer let a boggy field run wild and just one annual hay-cut has led to remarkable biodiversity
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Nearly Wild @nearlywild.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If you've got pole beans climb kiwi vines on your #permaculture bingo card, you can mark that one.
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Nearly Wild @nearlywild.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Goat blackberry browsing hack: Drop a board on top of the blackberries and they can surf on top to reach new browse. #goatsky #herbivores
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Nearly Wild @nearlywild.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Legends.
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Sabrina Schulz @auenatelier.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Ihr sucht Hilfe beim Wassermanagement? Hier bin ich! Weidetiere renaturieren Auen, Moore & Salzwiesen, für #Wasser, Kohlenstoff & Artenvielfalt. Noch fällt das oft durchs Raster - zu dynamisch für starre Naturschutzziele, zu wenig Ertrag für den Betrieb etc. Dieser Sommer rät: Ändern wir das! 💪🐮
Rot-buntes Rind schaut zwischen Sumpfgräsern aus einer Wasserfläche kommend über den Weidezaun direkt in die Kamera, Gesicht ist weiß, das rechte Auge umgibt ein brauner Fleck. Dahinter die Salzwiesenlandschaft mit zwei weiteren Rindern und blau-weißem Wolkenhimmel
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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Old-growth red pine (Pinus resinosa) forest, with trees dating to 250-300+ years. Camp Graying National Guard base, Michigan
A forest with a large pine tree in the foreground
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Rewilding Academy @rewilding.academy · 21/08/2026
Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show #rewilding #agriwilding www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding
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Michael Parks @jurassicparks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is really fascinating on both the history and future of bison genetics. I often wonder if the general public understands that while the animals have bounced back something like 95% are managed as livestock, with attendant selective pressure.
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Sabrina Schulz @auenatelier.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Wunsch-Pressezitat eines Bauernverbandes in der Klima- und Biodiversitätskrise: „Die Landwirtschaft braucht jetzt dringend Unterstützung für den Umbau der Entwässerungs- zur Schwammlandschaft. Wir müssen Drainagen umrüsten, eingetiefte Gräben & Bäche anheben und Wasser in der Landschaft halten. 1/x
Lebendiger Querriegel mit austreibenden Weiden in einem grabenartig ausgebauten Bach- der kleine Damm wird für Schatten und Anhebung der Bachsohle sorgen
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Nivolet @nivolet.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026
"American ranching is facing a crossroads amid low profits and millions of acres changing hands." This could be something...
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Herbert Nickel @herbertnickel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Kleiner Beitrag zur Wildnisdiskussion, die in Deutschland mMn etwas seltsam abläuft: Ich bin klar der Auffassung, dass Kühe in extensiver Haltung Wildnis machen können. Den Dunginsekten ist es im Übrigen auch scheißegal (sic!), ob er von einem domestizierten oder wilden Rind stammt.
Vom Weidevieh gestalteter Uferabbruch an einem See und verschiedene durch Weideverbiss skurril gestaltete Silberweiden
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Michael Parks @jurassicparks.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Great piece about an issue that too often gets subsumed into "livestock is bad for the planet" TLDR pastoralist lands sequester a lot of carbon and sustain a lot of biodiversity, and the best way to keep it that way is by supporting land rights To add a bit: www.wri.org/insights/pas...
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Pastoralists Are Protecting Many of the World’s Remaining Rangelands
As the sun sets on the vast grasslands of Mongolia’s Eastern Steppe, herders can often be seen guiding sheep, goats, cattle, camels and horses across the open landscape, moving steadily toward fresh p...
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PCA @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Our Cambridge team have found a remarkably well-preserved aurochs lying in peat beside an ancient watercourse, with much of the skeleton still articulated. Aurochs became extinct in Britain around 1300 BC. This one is now back at Finds for further investigation. 🐂
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We don't know if beavers were present in post-Ice Age Ireland. What we DO know is that they coevolved with every native Irish species, and thus the natural ecosystems they compose. They're coming back across northern Europe, greatly helping nature, & reducing flooding and drought. Ireland's turn.
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Global Initiative on Ungulate Migration @migratinghooves.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Sharing a new trailer by our partners @wyo-migrations.bsky.social about how bison recovered long distance migrations in Yellowstone National Park and how their movements in turn transformed the landscape. Check it out! vimeo.com/1212450116
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What Bison See | TEASER
What Bison See: Restoring Yellowstone's Lost Migrations Presented by: Yellowstone Forever Produced in partnership with: National Park Service A film by: Wyoming Migration Initiative at the University...
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