Rewilding Britain’s Post

The loveliest and most compelling part of my job right now is that, thanks to the #RewildingNation campaign, I have thousands of people from all around Scotland telling me how much rewilding means to them. It's good for the soul! When people sign the Rewilding Nation Charter (rewild.scot/charter), they're asked: what does a Rewilding Nation mean to you? There's a lot of common themes that are emerging: future generations. Respect for nature. A liveable planet. Living alongside wildlife. Seeing ourselves as part of nature. Our duty to repair the damage we've done. We know rewilding is popular - repeated polling has always told us that. We know it's happening across the country - pockets of wildness slowly joining up. I know firsthand how any amazing people have dedicated their lives to restoring the natural world around them. But sometimes the story that's told about rewilding feels so at odds with what's actually happening. And the nature and climate emergencies keep on escalating. It's easy to feel a bit lost. So to have access to this flowing stream of rewilding hope is really something. Looking through the quotes from those who've signed the Rewilding Naiton Charter, it feels like we're closer than ever to a common understanding of rewilding as a nation - and a shared knowledge that we need to move fast, together, to restore what we've lost. And some days, there are quotes that hit a little harder. Here's today's. Share yours here: rewild.scot/charter

🐟 🐟 We've been making connections to build on works to protect precious Corner Inlet. We're pretty proud of what this project delivered for fish, birds, mangroves, seagrass, ecosystems and the community. 🦆 🦆 The five year (2019-23) Corner Inlet Connections project worked to: 🌱 Reduce nutrients entering the Inlet by fencing, weed control & revegetation. 🚁 Reduce spread of the weed Spartina through aerial and on-ground controls. 🏠 Improve saltmarsh on private land. 🎓 Improve knowledge and skills of landholders and community. 🦊 Protect Hooded Plovers numbers through monitoring and fox control. 📃 Protect habitat forever through conservation covenants. 👏 👏 Thanks everyone for working together to protect this special place. 🐟 Learn more https://bit.ly/3PftHMh This project was funded by Australian Government National Landcare Program. Trust for Nature Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action Agriculture Victoria BirdLife Australia Parks Victoria Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation (GLaWAC) South Gippsland Landcare Network yarram urban landcare #CornerInletConnections #CMAsGetItDone

With experience working both for and with the NJDEP, I can’t stress enough how crucial it is to consider regulations early in any development project. Overlooking protected species or failing to conduct necessary environmental surveys can lead to significant delays, added costs, and sometimes even project shutdowns. By proactively addressing these factors with expert guidance, like what Envirotactics, LLC. offers, you can navigate these challenges smoothly and keep your project on track. It’s all about being prepared and informed from the start.

It's our favourite kind of post. A before and after post 😍 And it's a big one! *Before > After* Here's an area of restoration works on Bodmin Moor that took place in March looking incredible this week. You can see that *so much water* is being held back and slowed down in the landscape. The comparison with the dry, scrubby, eroding environment from before is clear. These works have made the area better for water, richer for wildlife, helpful for carbon storage, encouraging for plant diversity, and stronger for protecting the erosion of historic environment features. 💧 The water may draw down as we get into summer, but the design of the stone, peat and wooden blocks will help raise and stabilise the water table, encouraging peat-forming sphagnum mosses to colonise and build up. 🌱 Bracken should soon become flooded out, diversifying plant life to more bog species like the insect-eating sundew, bog bean, bog asphodel and cotton grasses 🌳 Willow will thrive, trapping sediment, filtering water and providing habitat for wildlife (we heard a willow tit out here yesterday) and we'll be seeing dragonflies, waterfowl and whirlygigs on these pools in no time at all. This was a challenging site for the team due to the sheer volume of water we've received this spring in the South West. The results are testament to our Project Officers thinking outside the box and working closely with skilled contractors to achieve this vision. The area will 'green up' as vegetation takes hold and we finally get some sunshine here in Cornwall, and our monitoring team will retake this picture in the next few months to show you how quickly it may change again. 🌞 SWPP is funded by Natural England South West Water (whose site this is and whose biodiversity improvements through conifer removal can be spotted in the background) #DuchyofCornwall Cornwall Council National Trust Environment Agency QUANTOCK AND EXMOOR LIMITED #peatland #peatlandrestoration #rewilding #regeneration #peatbogs #generationrestoration #nature #landscapemanagement #slowtheflow

Earth and watershed repair is a matter of necessity, choice, and restoring the lifeblood of ecological and human communities.

It's great to see the Bureau of Land Management's new rules for managing our public lands. The action elevates the roles of science, conservation, and tribal co-stewardship while better equipping the agency to address today's unique challenges and opportunities. The restoration and mitigation leasing component of the rule, along with new direction to conserve "intact" landscapes, are particularly exciting. Onward towards implementation! https://lnkd.in/g7J6BH-R

Transport for NSW has an obligation to assess the impact of our activities on the environment including any significant impact on threatened species and their habitat. Many of us embrace the spooky season with decorations and costumes. One creature that often finds its way into Halloween lore is the bat. In NSW, microbats face real dangers due to human activities, including construction and maintenance work on Transport structures like bridges, culverts and wharves. Earlier in the year, when inspecting the McLeans Bridge for a scour repair, the project team found a large colony of more than 150 microbats, including at least 3 threatened species, roosting in the concrete bridge cavities. 🦇🦇🦇 To ensure that the microbats were not spooked by the potentially disruptive works on the bridge, the Environment and Sustainability team worked with ecologists to develop a microbat management plan for the project. Guided by Transport’s Microbat management guidelines, the committed project team avoided construction during the bats’ torpor— a deep rest period essential for conserving energy — as well as during their breeding seasons. By carefully timing our works and monitoring the area, we’re committed to minimising disruptions and safeguarding these fascinating creatures. And we’re happy to announce that after all the works, the microbats are still happily roosting under the bridge. 🌉🦇 #Sustainability #Environment #TransportForNSW

Another wetland project is underway 🌊🦆 Located on the floodplain of the River Ribble near Long Preston, this project will convert an unproductive area of agricultural land into a vibrant wetland ecosystem, offering significant benefits for wildlife and local communities. It's all part of our Catchment Based Approach to river conservation which looks after rivers by understanding that everything is connected – rainwater flows over hills, through farms, towns, and fields, picking up whatever's there before it reaches rivers. By working together to manage this whole journey, we can keep rivers cleaner, healthier, and better for wildlife and people 💙 Read more about the project 👇 https://lnkd.in/ebX7drTV #Wetlands #HabitatCreation #NaturalFloodManagement #CatchmentBasedApproach

Today, March 20th is #WorldRewildingDay . Re-wilding or restoring natural ecosystems can have huge human as well as wildlife benefits. Re-wilding brings communities together in pursuit of a shared cleaner, brighter future and brings nature tourism $$$ into naturally beautiful areas. #Scotland is without doubt one of the most beautiful countries I have ever visited, yet it is severely nature-depleted from centuries of deforestation and eradication of native wildlife. SCOTLAND: The Big Picture is an organisation I know well and they do great work to educate and execute on re-wilding in #Scotland. For those of you who want to have a glimpse of what re-wilding means, this is a nice short video to introduce you to the subject. #naturebasedsolutions #rewilding #scotland Peter Cairns https://lnkd.in/gq4NVKeg

Whilst travelling on Eurostar through E France and W Belgium last weekend (on expensive purpose build tracks), it was interesting to note that the main landscape features were poplar/ willow copses around scattered farmsteads and isolated (managed) woodlands. There appeared to be few opportunities for wildlife other than through a relative lack of disturbance in this open landscape. The Downlands of Kent clearly have a much more interesting topography but it is notable how much hedgerows, field trees, copses, hanger woodlands, scrub (and some meadowland) contribute to its richness and value for wildlife. It once again it brings home the importance of hedgerow and field trees as part of this landscape structure and the need to work with landowners to conserve and enhance key boundaries within the agricultural landscape. Arguably as important as rewilding. #landscape, #trees, #farming, #environment, #nature