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A $21 million dollar donation to The Nature Conservancy - most likely the single largest donation to buy land in Australian history - has supported the Queensland Government in the purchase of the Vergemont Station in western Queensland. Making an important contribution to Australia’s efforts to protect 30% of lands and 30% of oceans by 2030 (Pathways to 30x30 report), this acquisition will create a conservation corridor of 1.4 million hectares (slightly larger than Yosemite National Park in the United States). The area contains 34 regional ecosystems, including key habitat for the endangered Night Parrot and highly restricted Opalton Grasswren, and protects the headwaters of the Lake Eyre Basin, the source of one of the last remaining free-flowing arid river systems in the world. Read more: https://nature.ly/3Jk9Vwi

🚨 Oaken Wood in Aylesford is facing its greatest threat in decades. Kent County Council’s draft Mineral Sites Plan proposes expanding Hermitage Quarry into this ancient woodland, which could result in the loss of over 50 hectares of irreplaceable habitat and biodiversity. This would be the largest single development threat to ancient woodland in England, even surpassing losses from HS2 and the Lower Thames Crossing. We are working alongside local campaign groups and conservation organizations to stop this destruction. Together, we’ve raised concerns through official consultations, and we need public support to continue fighting for this precious woodland. 🙌 If you support the Save Our Woodlands appeal today, we can continue actively engaging with local campaign groups to protect Oaken Wood and other ancient woodlands at risk across the county. Read more about Oaken Wood and other woodlands at risk in our latest blog 👉 https://lnkd.in/evRujhng Donate to Save our Woodlands to ensure that woodlands stand tall for generations to come 👉 kwtg.uk/save-our-woodlands

A New Milestone in Restoring the Atlantic Rainforest in the UK! We are excited to share the fantastic news from Pembrokeshire, Wales, where a 59-hectare area of lost Celtic rainforest is set to be restored to its ancient glory. This initiative marks a significant step in our 100-year Atlantic Rainforest Recovery Program, driven by The Wildlife Trusts and backed by a £38 million donation from Aviva. Key Highlights: - Pembrokeshire Restoration: The new project will see the planting of native species like oak, small-leaf lime, and wild service trees. This effort will create a rich habitat for mosses, liverworts, lichens, ferns, and diverse wildlife, reconnecting the area with its Celtic past. - Historical Significance: The restoration will weave around standing stones and an abandoned farmhouse, mimicking clearings created by prehistoric inhabitants. Achievements So Far: - Devon, England: A 30-hectare site near Totnes is transformed into a vibrant rainforest. This project, part of a larger community initiative, will enhance biodiversity and offer educational and volunteering opportunities. - National Impact: The program aims to restore approximately 1,755 hectares of temperate rainforest across the British Isles, enhancing biodiversity and contributing to climate resilience by sequestering carbon. Next Steps: - Expansion and Connectivity: Future projects aim to connect these restored areas, creating vast, interconnected wild landscapes to further enhance biodiversity and climate resilience. - Community Goals: Continued focus on community involvement and educational outreach will ensure these restored rainforests benefit local populations. Let us keep restoring Earth, place by place, returning its vital signs! Read more: The Guardian: https://lnkd.in/dvNvwJyh The Wildlife Trusts: https://lnkd.in/d7wUCPhU Devon Wildlife Trust: https://lnkd.in/dD5sgqhu) #EarthRegeneration #NatureRestoration #Biodiversity #WildlifeTrusts #Aviva #AtlanticRainforest #CommunityEngagement 📸: Pontfaen Woods in Gwaun Valley. Photograph: Joan Gravell/Alamy from https://lnkd.in/dvNvwJyh summarize

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We are thrilled to announce a major milestone: we have secured a highly strategic 865-acre property. This acquisition finalizes the land needed to restore one of the largest wildlife corridors in the tropics, connecting 250,000 previously isolated acres in the Western Andes of Colombia. The Western Andes is one of the planet's most biologically diverse regions, housing numerous threatened, endemic, and undiscovered species. However, these high-elevation cloud forests face immense threats from climate change and human activities. Agricultural expansion has fragmented Colombia’s forests, and climate change forces many species to migrate upslope, only to be blocked by degraded landscapes. But together, we are making a difference. By reforesting degraded landscapes and connecting forest fragments we are creating vital escape routes and protecting critical habitats. Securing this property is a monumental step in ensuring the survival of these species and preserving this unique ecosystem. While there is more work ahead to restore the remaining degraded areas, we wanted to celebrate this victory for conservation with you. Let us keep fighting the good fight! https://lnkd.in/g-epjUDS #wildlifecorridor #colombia #savingnature #cloudforest #conservation #treeplanting #planttrees #environment #nonprofit #donate #wildlife #biodiversity #savenature #wwf #conservationinternational #tnc

🌿20 new English nature projects to receive funding for habitats🌊 20 new nature projects across the country will receive funding to create and restore critical habitat areas equivalent in total to the size of York benefitting many species such as water voles and habitats including saltmarshes. Grants of up to £3 million have been awarded to projects run by wildlife charities, farmers, and community groups to accelerate nature recovery and support precious species. The Fund is being delivered by The National Lottery Heritage Fund on behalf of Defra and totals £25 million. The funding has been titled the “Species Survival Fund” and is designed to help Defra to meet their target to protect 30% of land for nature by 2030 (known as 30by30). 📰Read more about the funding and projects: https://lnkd.in/eyaTjVXe #Wetland #Saltmarsh #funding #restoration #marinenews #oceannews #waternews #riverRestoration #england #nature #naturerestoration

Australia has a new National Park that spans more than 37,000 hectares, is home to more than 158 native species, and forms a wildlife corridor of almost 100,000 hectares in the north-west of NSW. It is a significant milestone in the fight against biodiversity loss. Comeroo Station, purchased by the NSW Government last year, forms the foundation of the newly launched Cuttaburra National Park. This acquisition was supported by The Nature Conservancy, with generous contributions from the Wyss Foundation and Holdfast Collective, Patagonia’s non-profit shareholder. The new park contains a diversity of habitats including alluvial floodplains, swamps, permanent waterholes and wetlands, which support a variety of plants and animals, including three New South Wales and nationally endangered ecological communities. More than a quarter of the park forms part of the Yantabulla Swamp, a mosaic of channels and wetlands which has been identified as the most important water bird breeding site in the region. This achievement reflects the impact of partnerships between state governments, philanthropic foundations and conservational organisations in achieving large-scale protection outcomes to help meet Australia's commitment to protecting 30% of lands, freshwaters, and ocean ecosystems by 2030. Read more: https://nature.ly/4el8tYN #cuttaburra #nationalpark #conservation #pathwaysto30x30

Grasslands, forests, and tidal marshes in Canada will grow stronger thanks to a new donation from Aviva Canada! Aviva’s support is making vital conservation efforts possible: · Restoring more than 500 hectares of Saskatchewan’s native grasslands – providing habitat for an estimated 30 species at risk in the province. Grasslands are one of the world’s endangered ecosystems and are critical to our health and well-being. · Supporting tidal marsh conservation and study work to rebuild degraded habitat, and creating opportunities for greater scale conservation efforts, covering more than 300 hectares along the St. Lawrence Gulf and Estuary. · Restoring forests in Manitoba to improve connectivity between habitats, renew degraded landscapes, and sequester carbon. Read more about the projects supported by Aviva’s donation: https://brnw.ch/21wJ8mz

Philanthropists put their money where their nature-loving heart is. ❤️🌍 🐃🦁🦌🐂🐅🐆🦏🌳🌱👨🏾🌾👩🏾🌾 Today Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park is as synonymous with rewilding success as is Argentina's Iberà's National Park - what they have in common is that both success stories only came about because of philanthropists. With Iberà it was the love of Doug and Kris Tompkins (today the Tompkins Conservation movement), with Gorongosa it was the love of Greg Carr (the Gregory C. Carr Foundation). 👉 Learn more about the Carr Foundation here > https://lnkd.in/dFfREBAK 👉 Learn more about Tompkins Conservation here > https://lnkd.in/dzSkkFj3 Mozambique's civil war from 1977-1992 destroyed lives (one million people), livelihooods (several million refugees) and also, of course, the economy. During that time, the Gorongosa wildlife park was hunting ground for the rebels. They killed whatever they could find, for meat and for ivory (to trade it in for weapons with South Africa). Accordig to the Aljazeera article (linked below) soldiers shot animals in the many thousands, elephants, zebras, wildebeest, buffalo, lions - much for meat, for a lot also for sport and as trophies. And then there was also the poaching, of course - all of that DECIMATED EVERYTHING. Carr met the then President of Mozambique in 2004 ... 20 years ago. Imagine what a great deal of wealth, strongly dedicated to nature recovery, can accomplish in 20 years. Well actually, there's no need to imagine it! The Gorongosa National Park today is one of the world's wonders. 👉 I urge you to read the whole article. > https://lnkd.in/dNT-k2gG You'll discover just how much has happened, how it all very much involves and engages the local communities, what difference these 20 years have made to flora and fauna and, yes, our pesky little species. On fauna, just take the example of the iconic wildebeest - there once were some 6'000 roaming the Gorongosa - after the war 'literally only a dozen' were left. In 2007 180 wildebeest were introduced - and today there are over 1'500 again! This is such a great story. As one park warden says in the article about Carr, "He is the center of the passion and the spirit here for biodiversity." Gotta salute the man. Kudos doesn't cut it. In olden days, people like Greg Carr and Kris Tompkins would have been given the statue treatment for their efforts. But how ever so much better that their legacy (if they even think about that) is to know and see that nature is restored. #rewilding #africa #gorongosa #naturerecovery #nature #rewilderweekly Cain Blythe Millie Kerr (you wrote about him in 'Wilder', didn't you?) Sharon Lashley DipRSA Env, DipDEA Lucie Wuethrich Joanna Redfeather Charlie Burrell Nancy Burrell Rebecca Wrigley Rewilding Africa CIC Rewilding Europe Rewilding Afrika Rewilding Argentina Duncan Grossart Journeys With Purpose Daniel Allen Frans Schepers Peter Cairns Philippe Birker Markus Gilles Planet Wild