Wildlife and Countryside Link’s Post

Small waters can be cost-effective routes to achieving the UK's nature recovery goals, but they need greater support to play their full part. This new Charter sets out how Govt can make good on its promise to ‘fundamentally transform’ the water system, and improve outcomes for people and the environment. 👇

Our forests are home to 80% of life - it’s up to us to protect the forests and the species that depend on them. Every BioBond you purchase helps plant and maintain a native tree on unproductive, eroding farmland. 🌳 These trees play a crucial role in restoring natural ecosystems and creating a home for our beautiful native wildlife. https://biobonds.co.nz/

Wildlife presence is an indicator of habitat quality, suggests Artur, hydrobiologist at Rewilding Oder Delta in our film Why Not Scotland?. 🌱 But the natural world is our habitat, too. If wildlife is in decline, what does that mean for humans? 💚 We are part of nature, not apart from it. Let’s restore the natural landscapes we all depend on for food, water and our wellbeing. Let’s be a #RewildingNation: www.rewild.scot/charter 📽 SCOTLAND: The Big Picture #InternationalDayOfBiologicalDiversity

Through our Natural Area Acquisition Program we've invested over $53 million into acquiring more than 4,522 hectares of natural area. Our program focuses on securing sites in critical locations including: - corridor pinch points - areas of priority species habitat - linkages between high value strategic natural areas - conservation areas that are under greatest threat. It's one of the ways we're ensuring the long-term viability of our wildlife corridors and priority species. Explore how else we're protecting #ournaturalcity 👉 https://citygc.au/3VLE3Id

🌳 It's International Day for the conservation of mangrove ecosystems! 🌳 Let's make this day all about conserving our mangrove ecosystems. Don't know what mangrove ecosystems are? They are ecosystems and natural communities protected by mangroves. Mangroves are trees that grow at the border between land and sea. They are important refuge areas for a wide variety of wildlife and help protect coastal communities against storm surges and rising sea levels. Let’s use this day to spread awareness and help protect the valuable mangrove ecosystems within our earth. Check out this article and website by our friends at UNESCO to learn more about mangroves and the act of protecting them and their ecosystems! https://lnkd.in/e5nw-R6E #Mangroves #Ecosystems #Conservation #awareness #Wildlife #NotaryToday

Since 1997, Greenfleet has focused on restoring habitat for Australia’s native wildlife, including the fascinating Greater Gliders. These nocturnal marsupials thrive in the canopies of tall eucalypts, relying on young foliage high in nitrogen for food. However, their population is declining due to recent bushfires and extensive land clearing, prompting a national endangered status in 2022. These unique creatures are mostly solitary with relatively small home ranges, and have a high demand for tree hollows. Hollows develop very slowly as native forests grow, which is one of many reasons we protect our forests for up to 100 years. 🌳 Greenfleet has several projects already actively focusing on rebuilding these vital ecosystems. One of these projects is located in Kinglake, Victoria. To find out more, visit: https://lnkd.in/gPdWNkpT #GrowingHope #ClimateAction #GreaterGliders #NativeForests

The Superb Lyrebird's preferred habitat is moist forests and woodlands. They generally roost in trees at night and forage on the ground during the day. Lyrebirds rarely move long distances, tending to stay within a 10 km radius of their preferred habitat. Watch until the end to see Lyrebirds Courtship displays 😊. Aside from that, back to business, protecting our forests should be everyone's concern, as you are aware that the majority of wildlife calls forests home. Why engage in illegal logging? Find another way to earn a living. Why encroach on forest land for settlement? Find somewhere else to stay. Why choose to do agriculture on forest land? Find another place.

Watersheds like those in the Oquirrh Range are essential for maintaining healthy ecosystems and providing clean water. They support wildlife, recreational activities, and our overall well-being. Discover how H2Oquirrh is working to protect these precious resources. Get involved and stay informed by visiting https://slco.to/H2Oquirrh. #WatershedAwareness #Conservation #H2Oquirrh

Here's an illustration of the ecological communities found at BkCs Schmidt Meadow Preserve in Jackson. As you can see, the preserve contains several acres of floodplain forest. These unique forests are important because they serve as wildlife corridors between habitats. They also reduce flooding and excessive siltation downstream. If you want to learn more about our Schmidt Meadow Preserve, contact us at BkC@battenkillconservancy.org.

Happy World Wildlife Day!! To celebrate, here is a composite of some amazing Brasilian cavefishes. Why should you care about a fishes that lives in groundwater? Careful management of groundwater resources will benefit both wildlife and humans. For example, contamination and over-harvest of groundwater threaten both cavefishes and humans living on the surface. Around the globe, groundwater is often harvested faster than rainfall can replace it. Further, the health of groundwater wildlife populations will reflect the quality of the groundwater in which they live. Careful monitoring of groundwater wildlife populations can tell us much about subterranean waters and contaminants therein. Management of groundwater as a renewable resource is an important point considering most of the people living above bodies of groundwater rely directly on the resource for their freshwater needs. Let’s protect our groundwater resources... for our children and for the wildlife living there. #groundwater #subterranean #Stygobitic #CaveFish #Brazil #conservation #ResourceManagement #WeCanDoBetterThanThis #GroundwaterHarvest #GroundwaterContamination #DoItForOurKids #GroundwaterAdapted #LossOfPigment #NoEyes #Biodiversity