"with help from #conservationists, the world’s largest trees are spreading to new places. In Detroit, arborists are planting dozens of giant sequoia saplings in a blighted area in hopes of creating an urban forest that will clean the air, provide shade and, overall, improve residents’ quality of life...The saplings are all clones of two well-known trees in California."
Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/giant-sequoias-are-taking-root-in-an-unexpected-place-detroit-180986557/
https://www.europesays.com/2036355/ Young hunter scores all-white turkey in Gentry County #AllWhiteTurkey #Conservationists #DautryHamilton #GentryCounty #hunter #LeucisticTurkey #MissouriDepartmentOfConservation #SpringTurkeySeason #Turkey #turkiye
Day 25 
“#TradeUnions, #conservationists, #FirstNations groups, #church congregations and #community organisations have launched a coordinated campaign against opposition leader #PeterDutton’s plan for #NuclearReactors across Australia.
The #Coalition has pledged, if elected, to build seven nuclear reactors to replace retiring or retired coal sites naming #Tarong and #Callide in Queensland, #Liddell and #MountPiper in New South Wales, #PortAugusta in South Australia, #LoyYang in Victoria, and #Muja in Western Australia.”
The location of Nuclear power plants is not optimised for safe operation. The Loy Yang location was originally chosen due to coal deposits not geological stability. This area is prone to geological faulting.
#AusPol / #LNP / #Liberal / #Nuclear / #NuclearPower <https://theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/23/peter-dutton-coalition-nuclear-reactors-plan-risks-waste>
Once-dying Mexican river delta slowly nursed back to life https://www.rfi.fr/en/international-news/20250408-once-dying-mexican-river-delta-slowly-nursed-back-to-life
"#conservationists secured land as well as #irrigation permits, cleared invasive shrubs and planted thousands of native #trees... After years of this type of work, we now have a #forest of #poplars and #willows on 260 hectares on a stretch of the #ColoradoRiver. Fauna has returned. Many #birds have returned. The rejuvenation has also brought back the #beaver—a species that had largely disappeared in the area"
Bills revive debate over #SearsIsland port plan
Maine Public | By Peter McGuire
Published March 12, 2025
"Lawmakers heard more than five hours of testimony Wednesday from both sides of a debate over preserving Sears Island in the Town of #Searsport.
"A pair of bills from state representative Reagan Paul would extend a #ConservationEasement across the island and restore #SandDuneProtections in a 330-acre parcel set aside for development.
"The Winterport Republican said it's time to end decades of controversial port proposals for the island in the town of Searsport. The latest plan is a floating offshore wind port by the Maine Department of Transportation that has so far failed to attract federal funding.
"'And yet #MDOT refuses to face reality, doubling down on failure and proving this is not about offshore wind, it is about pushing #IndustrialDevelopment at any cost,' Paul told members of the legislature's Environment and Natural Resources Committee.
"Local #conservationists support the proposal and said the highest and best use of the island is as a wild area. Any commercial development, including the wind port, can be done at nearby #MackPoint, a fuel and materials terminal."
Read more:
https://www.mainepublic.org/climate/2025-03-12/bills-revive-debate-over-sears-island-port-plan
#SaveSearsIsland #ProtectNature #Maine #WindTurbines #WindPort #PenobscotBay #ProtectSearsIsland #ProtectTheForest #ProtectTheDunes #WindTerminal #SandDunes #ProtectWahsumkik #EndangeredSpecies
Endangered #seabirds return to Pacific island after century-long absence https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/endangered-seabirds-return-to-pacific-island-after-century-long-absence/
"Endangered Polynesian storm #petrels have returned to #Kamaka Island for the first time in more than 100 years, after #conservationists used #drones to remove the invasive rats eating the #birds’ eggs and chicks... Scientists attracted the birds back to the island using solar-powered speakers playing bird calls recorded from a neighboring island, with monitoring cameras showing regular visits"
Monthly reminder that https://Earth.Law is welcoming #EnvironmentalLawyers, #conservationists, and professionals and #activists in adjacent fields. Earth.law runs on a powerful dedicated server at a #GreenDatacenter in #Helsinki, #Finland, and is ready to become your home on #Mastodon & the #Fediverse.
'Extinct' #snails found breeding in French Polynesia following a successful reintroduction project https://phys.org/news/2024-09-extinct-snails-french-polynesia-successful.html
"A species of tropical tree #snail is no longer #extinct in the wild following a successful #reintroduction project... for the first time in 40 years, #conservationists have found born-in-the-wild adult Partula tohiveana—meaning the precious #mollusks have successfully established themselves in #FrenchPolynesia."
I'll be at #Esquimalt #GorgeWaterway /Kinsmen park in a few hours to join the invasive green crab monitoring team. It's another trapping/netting day & I'll be documenting some of the project's work.
[ Since 2022, we have participated in the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ European Green Crab Monitoring Project. European green crabs are a destructive invasive species that removes eelgrass very efficiently, destroying habitat for everything else in the Gorge. Unfortunately, we caught adult European green crabs in the Gorge for the first time in August 2024 through our monitoring program.
We are working with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and Peninsula Streams Society to remove as many as possible before the problem worsens. To prevent the spread of European Green Crabs, make sure to clean, drain, and dry off any watercraft according to BC Invasives. ]
https://www.gorge.ca/projects/european-green-crab-monitoring
So far, eight females from two #seal colonies have filmed almost 90 hours of footage across more than 500km, helping #scientists to #map 5,000 sq km of #habitat. The #SeaLions have mapped rocky reefs and seagrass meadows along the continental shelf, and shown humans the places that are important to them.
With that information, #conservationists will have much clearer ideas on how to protect the country’s only endemic seal.
Goldsworthy, of the South #Australian #Research and Development Institute #SARDI, has been studying the fast-disappearing #MarineMammal for 25 years. But he says the cameras are a gamechanger.
“Information has been so elusive, because they’re feeding at the bottom of the sea,” he said. “Now we get this amazing, exquisite detail. They’re giving us a window into their world that we haven’t had before.
“Just like humans know our streets, the sea lions know the sea bed in intimate detail for hundreds of kilometres and they build up this knowledge over time. They have a mental map of their environment and they are leading you to places of profound significance for them.”
https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/07/australia-sea-lions-cameras-ocean-floor
Conservationists unite to save charming spider #orchid as habitat loss threatens survival https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-07/native-charming-spider-orchid-evolution-conservation/104054088
"In the mid-90s there was a single population to the north of #Melbourne and a population at #WattleGlen... Then the millennium drought hit... it took a few years until the population stabilised... Since 2017, #conservationists have conducted a program to grow more charming spider #orchids... A batch of 400 has been planted into the wild at Wattle Glen and at 2 new sites."
‘Extinct’ #trees found in Tanzania sparks hope for ecosystem recovery https://news.mongabay.com/2024/07/extinct-trees-found-in-tanzania-sparks-hope-for-ecosystem-recovery/
"#Conservationists in eastern #Tanzania have found 2 specimens of a rare #tree feared to be #extinct. #Millettia sacleuxii was only known from forest reserves that have almost disappeared. Thousands of #seeds have been collected and seedlings raised... The 2 surviving Millettia 'mother trees' were found near an area that conservationists hope to soon turn into a #wildlife corridor."
Bid to save early #rewilding site that hosts rare #nightingales and #TurtleDoves
#Conservationists have launched a £1.5 million appeal to buy #farmland that was left to #nature 37 years ago
by Emily Beament
Tuesday 18 June 2024
"A farm left to nature years before 'rewilding' rose to prominence has become a unique and important site for wildlife, say conservationists launching a bid to save it.
"The owner of Strawberry Hill, near Bedford, stopped farming his land 37 years ago, with once-arable fields reverting to #scrubland that is now a haven for a host of #wildlife including threatened nightingales, #cuckoos and turtle doves.
"But the 150-hectare (377-acre) site has no official designations or protections, and following the owner’s death, there were fears the land could be sold and returned to agriculture.
"After gaining a temporary stay of execution for the site, the #WildlifeTrust for Beds, Cambs and Northants (#BCN) has raised enough money to buy half the land.
"Now the conservation charity is launching a £1.5 million appeal to secure the whole site, saving the habitat and its rich wildlife and providing a 'unique' opportunity to have a decades-long head start on rewilding the land for nature."
While feral domesticated cats are a big problem in a lot of places (including NYC) and need vigorous #TNVR / #TNR or relocation, #WildFelines need to be protected!
In #Brazil, #conservationists try to save one of the world’s most #endangered #cats
by Sarah Brown on 13 June 2024
via @mongabay
"- #Muñoa’s #Pampas cat, a small wild feline, is endemic to the Pampas grasslands that sprawl over southern Brazil, #Uruguay and northeastern #Argentina.
"- With fewer than 100 individuals left in the wild, experts call Muñoa’s pampas cat one of the most endangered felines in the world and warn it go extinct within 10 years as its natural habitat is cleared for #cropland.
- #Conservation plans to save the species include switching from #monocultures to extensive ranching that preserves the natural #grasslands, creating a #captivebreeding program, and developing a trinational conservation agreement.
"- Recent #floods in the Brazilian state of #RioGrandeDoSul, where many Muñoa’s Pampas cat sightings have been recorded, have currently halted all local #conservation efforts, putting the future of this feline at risk."
What 70 Celebrity Tortoises Can Teach Us About Conservation Stories
https://therevelator.org/celebrity-tortoises/
"Last November #conservationists carefully carried 70 young, critically #endangered #Mojave #DesertTortoises to the #reptiles’ natural habitat on Edwards Air Force Base... six months later, this past April, news of their fate came out: The #tortoises had emerged from their burrows healthier and stronger than ever, a notable milestone in the ongoing #tortoise #conservation story."
Small ponds in #Minnesota prairies may help save #minnow species https://phys.org/news/2024-06-small-ponds-minnesota-prairies-minnow.html
"The #TopekaShiner, a rare and endangered #fish, is only found in the few remaining #prairies in the #Midwest. A decade ago it looked well on the way to #extinction. But #scientists and #conservationists may have unlocked the secret to bringing it back, as well as a host of other #prairie life. And it all depends on small unnamed #ponds called oxbows."
#Reintroduction project brings #GoldenParakeets back to the skies of #Brazil’s Belém https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/reintroduction-project-brings-golden-parakeets-back-to-the-skies-of-brazils-belem/
"The #GoldenParakeet plays an important role in ecosystem services, especially in seed dispersal of the popular #açaí berry and up to 22 other plant species native to the #Amazon... #Conservationists say the project is an ongoing success, as the released golden #parakeets have adapted well to life outside captivity and have even reproduced in the wild"
Another BC organization that I've supported & volunteered with:
#WatershedWatchSalmonSociety is a #ScienceBased #charity working to defend and rebuild B.C.’s #WildSalmon.
Watershed Watch Salmon Society was founded two decades ago by a small group of passionate #conservationists. Led by #ecologist Craig Orr, they noticed that while a lot of work relating to #fisheries and #HabitatRestoration was being done on the ground on local #waterways, no one was pulling together the pieces to confront #policy decisions at the federal and provincial levels.
Craig and his associates launched Watershed Watch Salmon Society to fill that gap, offering #ScientificExpertise to policy makers, and highlighting the large scale issues affecting local waterways, from #FishFarms to #ClimateChange.
Watershed Watch Salmon Society involves many people beyond our paid staff and dedicated board members. We have thousands of supporters and a growing crew of #volunteers who are passionate about wild salmon. Whether you read our emails, sign our petitions, donate, get out in your #community to talk about our work or join us in the field, you are an important part of Watershed Watch.
#Conservationists are still grappling with what social justice means in practice. @EJMilnerGulland argues that a major shift in mindset is required in order to achieve socially just, rights-based #conservation; that shift needs to happen now #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/4cfj6uD
#Rewilding efforts throw a lifeline to #Brazil’s most trafficked endangered bird https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/rewilding-efforts-throw-a-lifeline-to-brazils-most-trafficked-endangered-bird/
"Picking the right #birds for #reintroduction is essential. Working with captive, confiscated birds, the team has to ensure not only the selection of the healthiest individuals and a diverse gene pool, but also to screen out hybrids... The local community quickly embraced the #conservationists’ proposal... most of the birds have adapted well to the wild and have even begun to breed and nest"
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