Useful new analysis here into ecology of fear research. Acoustic cues came out on top for potential effectiveness. But knowledge gaps remain, such as effects of habituation. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Great to hear from David Hetherington, Nature Networks Manager at the Cairngorms National Park, that woodland coverage there has increased from 14% in 2002, to 19.2% in 2024. An additional 23,500 hectares, with natural regeneration playing an important part in this.

Lost count of how many times I've seen topsoil being washed away by heavy rain this winter and spring. Thousands of years removed in a matter of minutes. There are a number of Nature-based solutions to mitigate this, including woodland creation/regeneration.

In this episode I’m joined by Andy Whitworth of Osa Conservation, an organisation which is busy rewilding Costa Rica’s ever wilder Osa Peninsula.

Liberated from low productivity, highly damaging cattle ranching, much of western Costa Rica is returning to forest. On the Osa…

This was what greeted me by the river yesterday evening. Will be taking the tripod next time... #beaver #grooming #shakycam #500mm

Wow – over 75k views on our video documenting the transformation of the Beltie Burn in Aberdeenshire! Have you seen it?

Sit back, relax, and be inspired by the story of a river restored from drainage stream to wildlife-rich wetland: youtube.com/watch?v=tWCQVU…
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A rare sight in Britain: wet woodland on land shaped by beaver. We need more of this! #rewilding

Exciting #DamRemovalEurope news!🌊

2023 saw a groundbreaking surge in dam removals across Europe, with 487 barriers dismantled across 15 countries, over 4300 km of #rivers have been reconnected, fostering #biodiversity and bolstering #ClimateResilience 💪

👇 Check the report!

In Scotland, BrewDog aimed to create a 'Lost Forest' on land they bought by planting 100,000s of trees, despite lots of natural regeneration.

Why? Because they got £690k in grants. The result? Most of the planted trees died.

It's a racket, pure + simple
parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2024/04/14/bre…

A Scottish glen - in Alva - as Nature intended, with new growth being allowed to unfold thanks to it being completely fenced off to sheep. Remove the grazing pressure, and wonderful things happen. This looks remarkable, but was once the norm. #shiftingbaselinesyndrome

Extended footage of last night's beavers. Great to see them interacting out of the water.

A fine day in the high ground of Abernethy & Cairngorms Connect yesterday.

Hopeful scenes of a forest on an upward march. 🌳

A captivating encounter with a beaver family on the River Devon this evening.

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For anyone who is not already aware, I have a blog! I rarely have the time to add to it, but I always subscribe to quality over quantity. I hope to increase the latter soon. Anyway, feel free to dive in, and I hope you find it interesting. gordoneagleshamnature.co.uk/blog

Visitors from abroad are rightly stupefied by the utterly *dire* state of Irish national parks like Killarney, swamped with non-native rhododendron.

The core problem is, however, severe overgrazing, which creates the ideal conditions for invasive plants to take over.

news.mongabay.com/2024/04/rewild…

Reading about unofficial releases of beavers in Italy got me thinking. With reintroductions still overly bureaucratic, often progressing at a glacial pace, is it inevitable - in a climate of increasing impatience with the state of Nature- that more 'guerilla' rewilding is coming?

Brown bears unable to hibernate, caribou populations plummeting from wildfires burning their forage, thawing permafrost disrupting migrations, coral bleaching, mass die-offs due to algal blooms & ocean acidification, penguin breeding failures: all harbingers of climate breakdown.

‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe theguardian.com/environment/20…