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Good article here about the need to explicitly considering biodiversity when designing and implementing forest restoration initiatives. Assuming that planting trees will just do the trick is not enough.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Moving biodiversity from an afterthought to a key outcome of forest restoration - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Forest restoration has the potential to result in substantial biodiversity gains alongside climate and human well-being benefits; however, biodiversity has historically been neglected in restoration e...
www.nature.com
March 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Good article here about the need to explicitly considering biodiversity when designing and implementing forest restoration initiatives. Assuming that planting trees will just do the trick is not enough.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going. We take most of Nature's services for granted, imagining them free and limitless ... until they suddenly switch off/we switch them off...
This is a book full of immediate, impactful stories.
👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 out of 5.
This is a book full of immediate, impactful stories.
👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 out of 5.
January 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going. We take most of Nature's services for granted, imagining them free and limitless ... until they suddenly switch off/we switch them off...
This is a book full of immediate, impactful stories.
👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 out of 5.
This is a book full of immediate, impactful stories.
👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 out of 5.
Bloemrijke akkerranden blijken giftig lokkertje voor insecten
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www.nu.nl/uit-andere-m...
Bloemrijke akkerranden blijken giftig lokkertje voor insecten
Bloemen die zijn ingezaaid op akkerranden trekken insecten aan. Werden bij de teelt op die akkers veel pesticiden gebruikt, dan zijn de bloemen giftig, constateren onderzoekers. 'Een ecologische val v...
www.nu.nl
January 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Bloemrijke akkerranden blijken giftig lokkertje voor insecten
www.nu.nl/uit-andere-m...
www.nu.nl/uit-andere-m...
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Waarom zijn we zo bang voor de wolf? 🐺⁉️
Het is 'misschien wel het meest controversiële dier ter wereld', denkt Femke Hilderink, wildlife expert van WWF. Ze weet alles van conflicten tussen mensen en dieren wereldwijd: tijgers, luipaarden ... en ook de wolf:
Het is 'misschien wel het meest controversiële dier ter wereld', denkt Femke Hilderink, wildlife expert van WWF. Ze weet alles van conflicten tussen mensen en dieren wereldwijd: tijgers, luipaarden ... en ook de wolf:
Zo gaan we om met de wolf wereldwijd en dit kunnen we ervan leren
Waarom zijn we zo bang voor de wolf? Het is 'misschien wel het meest controversiële dier ter wereld', denkt Femke Hilderink, wildlife expert van WWF. Ze weet alles van conflicten tussen mensen en dier...
www.gld.nl
January 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Waarom zijn we zo bang voor de wolf? 🐺⁉️
Het is 'misschien wel het meest controversiële dier ter wereld', denkt Femke Hilderink, wildlife expert van WWF. Ze weet alles van conflicten tussen mensen en dieren wereldwijd: tijgers, luipaarden ... en ook de wolf:
Het is 'misschien wel het meest controversiële dier ter wereld', denkt Femke Hilderink, wildlife expert van WWF. Ze weet alles van conflicten tussen mensen en dieren wereldwijd: tijgers, luipaarden ... en ook de wolf:
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Read part two:
‘Killed while poaching’: When wildlife enforcement blurs into violence
KITABU, Uganda — It’s mid-afternoon in Kitabu, a small town nestled in the hills of western Uganda at the foot of the Rwenzori mountains. Neatly manicured plots of beans and cassava line the road that...
news.mongabay.com
January 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Read part two:
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In protected areas across Africa, human-wildlife conflicts are a growing problem, with nearly three-quarters of governments saying they’re a “major or serious concern.”
One solution being implemented is electric fences, which are popular with farmers outside the park’s boundaries.
Read more:
One solution being implemented is electric fences, which are popular with farmers outside the park’s boundaries.
Read more:
For Ugandan farmers, good fences make good neighbors — of elephants
KIKORONGO, Uganda — What do you do if you’re neighbors with an elephant? In western Uganda, the answer is: You build a fence. And not just any fence. One that can deliver a big, powerful zap. At least...
news.mongabay.com
January 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
In protected areas across Africa, human-wildlife conflicts are a growing problem, with nearly three-quarters of governments saying they’re a “major or serious concern.”
One solution being implemented is electric fences, which are popular with farmers outside the park’s boundaries.
Read more:
One solution being implemented is electric fences, which are popular with farmers outside the park’s boundaries.
Read more:
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Bioeconomy has been practiced for centuries by Amazon’s traditional communities.
But despite their key role in generating income from the standing forest, these communities continue to reap the smallest share of the profits, according to a new book.
Read more:
But despite their key role in generating income from the standing forest, these communities continue to reap the smallest share of the profits, according to a new book.
Read more:
Amazon communities reap the smallest share of bioeconomy profits
Traditional people need more financing, better access to energy and improved roads to get their products into the market.
news.mongabay.com
January 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Bioeconomy has been practiced for centuries by Amazon’s traditional communities.
But despite their key role in generating income from the standing forest, these communities continue to reap the smallest share of the profits, according to a new book.
Read more:
But despite their key role in generating income from the standing forest, these communities continue to reap the smallest share of the profits, according to a new book.
Read more:
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Dutch chocolate maker Tony’s Chocolonely has been at the forefront of pushing sustainability in cocoa production - long before the EUDR was conceived of.
Hopefully these new regulations will add to their efforts & rid the supply chains of imported commodities like cocoa of deforestation.
Read:
Hopefully these new regulations will add to their efforts & rid the supply chains of imported commodities like cocoa of deforestation.
Read:
‘Uncertainty’ amid EUDR delay poses challenges for cocoa companies, farmers
It might not come as much of a surprise that Tony’s Chocolonely has expressed its support for the EU Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (EUDR). The Dutch chocolate maker is known as much for it...
news.mongabay.com
December 29, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Dutch chocolate maker Tony’s Chocolonely has been at the forefront of pushing sustainability in cocoa production - long before the EUDR was conceived of.
Hopefully these new regulations will add to their efforts & rid the supply chains of imported commodities like cocoa of deforestation.
Read:
Hopefully these new regulations will add to their efforts & rid the supply chains of imported commodities like cocoa of deforestation.
Read:
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Imagine if people started commercially killing naturally returning large land-based wild fauna for meat, like wolves, bears, or lynx on the European continent? There would be uproar.
This is NO different. But because fish are marine animals, it's seen by many as fine.
It's totally not.
This is NO different. But because fish are marine animals, it's seen by many as fine.
It's totally not.
Bluefin tuna 🐟 are returning to UK waters.
But instead of being cherished and carefully protected like other magnificent creatures back from the brink, they are being hunted commercially to supply high-end restaurants with luxury meat.
blueplanetsociety.org/bluefin-tuna...
But instead of being cherished and carefully protected like other magnificent creatures back from the brink, they are being hunted commercially to supply high-end restaurants with luxury meat.
blueplanetsociety.org/bluefin-tuna...
Bluefin tuna are returning to UK waters so why is the Government so eager to kill them? - Blue Planet Society
In our seas, meanwhile, one of the UK’s most exciting, rare species has returned all by themselves. But instead of being cherished and carefully protected like other magnificent creatures back from th...
blueplanetsociety.org
December 30, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Imagine if people started commercially killing naturally returning large land-based wild fauna for meat, like wolves, bears, or lynx on the European continent? There would be uproar.
This is NO different. But because fish are marine animals, it's seen by many as fine.
It's totally not.
This is NO different. But because fish are marine animals, it's seen by many as fine.
It's totally not.
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#Steur | Niels Brevé deed promotieonderzoek naar de haalbaarheid van herintroductie Europese steur in Rijn en Noordzee 💧Zijn rapport: edepot.wur.nl/670690 ism o.a. @ark-rewildingnl.bsky.social @wwfnederland.bsky.social
December 6, 2024 at 9:40 PM
#Steur | Niels Brevé deed promotieonderzoek naar de haalbaarheid van herintroductie Europese steur in Rijn en Noordzee 💧Zijn rapport: edepot.wur.nl/670690 ism o.a. @ark-rewildingnl.bsky.social @wwfnederland.bsky.social