Global Rewilding Alliance

🌱 Claim your piece of rewilding land in Galicia! 🇪🇸 Join Sylvester Rewilding in rewilding a eucalyptus plantation with a greater mission: to restore biodiversity by bringing back the native Atlantic forest to this incredible region.🌳🌲🦋 To make this vision a reality, they need your support. 🙌 You can secure your very own piece of the project with a **WildToken**—a digital representation of rewilding land that also connects you to a vibrant community.👭👫👬 Through this community, you can share your ideas, contribute to decision making and see them come to life on the (rewilded) ground. 🥾💡 Visit their campaign via the link below and become a proud land steward today. Your support could contribute to the return of bumblebees and butterflies (and much much more) to this depleted land 💭🐝🦋 Rewild your square of Galicia here: https://lnkd.in/deJnuKtA Hurry, there’s only three days left! 🏃🏃🏾♀️The campaign ends on Sunday 15th December. #Rewilding #RewildingGalicia #RewildingEurope #WildToken

🌍📸 Calling all photographers! The Ramsar Convention Secretariat is hosting a Ramsar Sites Photo Exhibition at the upcoming COP15 on wetlands in June 2024. 'Celebrating Ramsar Sites: A visual journey through wetlands' will help tell the story of these unique environments and their global importance. Submit your images that showcase the beauty and significance of Ramsar Sites worldwide. Selected photos will highlight the critical role wetlands play in biodiversity, climate resilience, and sustainable development. Don’t miss this chance to have your work featured on a global stage! 🗓️ Submission deadline: 15 January 2024 📥 Learn more and submit: https://lnkd.in/e2juVQZk 😊 Eligibility: Open to all individuals, regardless of age or professional background. #COP15 #RamsarSites #Photography #Wetlands #Conservation #Biodiversity #Rewilding

Bison: A 10x Boost to #CarbonCapture 🦬 Last May, research from Yale School of the Environment and the Global Rewilding Alliance has uncovered something remarkable: a group of 170 rewilded European bison in Romania’s Tarcu Mountains is helping ecosystems capture an additional 54,000 tonnes of carbon annually—equivalent to taking 84,000 petrol cars off the road every year! 🚗💨 This groundbreaking study, using a model developed at Yale School of Environment, reveals how bison grazing, trampling, and seed dispersal across 48 km² of grasslands supercharges carbon capture by nearly 10x compared to landscapes without them. 🌿🦬 These findings mark the first of many applications of the model, which could be used worldwide to explore how wildlife can transform ecosystems and combat climate change. Rewilding isn’t just about species restoration, it is also a powerful tool for climate action. 💡 Dive into the study and discover how these climate heroes are reshaping landscapes: 🦬 Explore how protecting these species can combat climate change: https://lnkd.in/dWUzT4ax 📢 Spread the word using these downloadable resources: https://lnkd.in/dVF3p3tZ 🐋 Meet the other climate heroes: https://lnkd.in/dtXbp6cz #AnimatingCarbon #ClimateHeroes #Bison #Rewilding #AnimatingCarbon #NatureBasedSolutions

The Ethiopian Wolf - a surprising pollinator! 🌺 🌻 🌷 🌼 A study has found Ethiopian wolves enjoying a sweet treat of nectar, contributing to the pollination of plants. This rare and endangered species is the first large carnivore documented feeding on nectar and leaving with a pollen-laden nose and mouth, surprising us all as a large meat-eating predator that also serves as a plant-pollinator. A truly remarkable study. Nature continues to surprise us with unexpected ecological roles for species. 💚

Inspiration for your Sunday 💭 Wild animals have an essential, and often overlooked, role in reconciling efforts to mitigate climate change and to restore biodiversity. (Re-) Animating the Carbon Cycle is the natural mechanism by which wild animal species enhance the capture of CO2 through food webs. However, over the last 50 years the world has lost 73% of its wildlife populations and, right now, only 4% of the mammal biomass of the entire world is wild animals. This is what we want to change. We can turn the tide! We as humans can have an active role in re-activating the mechanism: we call it rewilding. #Rewilding #AnimatingCarbon

What happens when you plant a tree for the kin that will one day sit under it, swing from its trees or feed on its seeds? 🌲🌳🌴🐒🐞🐆 💭 It is a good question - and an important one to ask in the #rewilding movement - as our biodiversity and climate are so inextricably linked, we must think of and act for both when we plant trees. 🌳 Reduce. Reuse. Grow. Inc. work in Malawi, Tanzania, and the Philippines to empower local communities to rewild degraded lands. • They find good people, a perfect planting site, and a range of native saplings that will one day re-create a forest that teems with biodiversity and wildlife restoration projects 🌳✨🦜 • So far, 7.3 million trees have been planted - restoring habitat, providing home to some magnificent species, as well as increasing the resilience of communities to flood, drought and food insecurity. • Here is a video that delves into two of their flagship projects 1️⃣ Project ReGain: restoring habitat for the iconic Philippine Eagle, the freshwater Philippine Crocodile and the bright-yellow Isabela Oriole (all critically endangered and endemic to the Philippines)! 🇵🇭🦅 2️⃣ Project Forest: restoring the Tanzanian Usambara Mountains with native trees, empowering communities and providing climate-resilience through the comeback of nature! 🇹🇿🌱 If you prefer to read, head over to our recent blog: https://lnkd.in/dEHUpta6 Welcome to the alliance Reduce. Reuse. Grow. Inc. 🌟💚

Forest elephants: Gardeners of the Congo Rainforest 🌳 🌲 🐘 Forest elephants, true to their name, are adapted to life in the forest. Smaller than their Savannah cousins, they have straight tusks and display different behaviors. These gentle giants are known as the "gardeners of the forest" for their role in maintaining the Congo rainforest's health. A big title for a big species! 🌳 🐘 🌟 🌱 Seed Dispersers & Ecosystem Architects These herds are often the primary—sometimes only—seed dispersers in the region, ensuring plant diversity and creating forest corridors and clearings. Their activities make them crucial for forest health. How do African forest elephants help store carbon? 🐘 Forest Gardeners: African forest elephants play a crucial role in carbon sequestration by acting as “forest gardeners” or “engineers.” As they consume vast amounts of vegetation and trample on smaller trees, they encourage the growth of slower-growing, carbon-dense hardwoods, which can store more carbon than fast-growing softwood species. 🌳 Boosters of Tree Diversity: Their foraging activities promote the balance of forest tree species, favoring those that contribute more to aboveground biomass. This ecological balance enables higher carbon storage. A single forest elephant can help capture over 9,000 tonnes of CO2 during its lifetime. 🌍 Carbon Storage Impact: A single forest elephant can help sequester over 9,000 tonnes of CO2 during its lifetime! With their presence, biomass can increase by up to 54 tonnes per hectare, making them essential in maintaining the carbon-rich landscapes of the Congo Basin. 📉Scientists have also calculated that the disappearance of forest elephants could see Central African rainforests lose seven percent of their biomass.   🐘 Protecting these “gardeners” is key to maintaining the rainforest’s ability to store carbon and address the climate emergency. 💚 Explore how protecting these species can combat climate change: https://lnkd.in/dqDrm26X 📢 Spread the word using these downloadable resources: https://lnkd.in/dVF3p3tZ 🦦 Meet the other climate heroes: https://lnkd.in/dtXbp6cz #AnimatingCarbon #ClimateHeroes #ForestConservation #Biodiversity #Elephants

Coexistence, wild cemeteries and salmon-filled dam-less rivers! All of this and more - all in perfect time for some weekend reading 💚 🦋

🌿 Rewilding a state through its people 🌎🧒🏽👩🦱👩🏻🦰👳🏻♀️👦🏿👵🏻👳🏽♂️👧🏻 There are many rewilders in our movement proving that everyone has a role to play in nature recovery — Rewild New Jersey Community Cooperative (RNJCC) is one of them. ✨ RNJCC is a brilliant example of community rewilding in the USA, with ambitions to pioneer statewide community rewilding. 🌱 How does it work? RNJCC highlights the deep interconnection between the health and stability of local lands and the people who live there. By reconnecting these, nature, communities, and individuals thrive, creating pathways for real sustainability, resiliency, and sovereignty in today’s complicated world. 💡 Their wider aim is to influence state, county, and local governments to create stronger social, legislative, and economic pathways that enable citizen-led ecological restoration. In the words of Francesca Mundrick, the organization’s founder: “RNJCC is doing rewilding by building a movement of people rewilding themselves 🌾 and rewilding their land, their property 🌳 (…) creating a tapestry of rewilded spaces over a landscape that is highly developed.” 📣 Ready to be inspired? - Follow Rewild New Jersey Community Cooperative's Instagram: https://lnkd.in/dYHehkcF - Read more about their work on our recent blog: https://lnkd.in/d5Htez3B 🌍

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