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Orchideen unterm Pferdemaul? 🐴🪻 Läuft im Beweidungsprojekt Rödel! Die Koniks mit ihren Zebrastreifen an den Beinen halten die Verbuschung in Schach und den Trockenrasen kurz. Die Knabenkräuter gedeihen bestens. 🩷💚 #NaturstiftungDavid #HochschuleAnhalt #WildeWeiden

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Probably some sort of symbiosis happening here, but I couldn't tell you what. #Goatsky

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Today was a beautiful day at the VanDusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver, B.C. The garden has over 7,500 plant species.

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Our semi-wild woodland #garden was looking wonderful this weekend 🌿☀️🪻🍃🌼🌳 #wildgarden #gardenrewilding #woodlandgarden

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Wonderful new trophic #rewilding poster: naturbeskyttelse.dk/2025/05/22/n... #restoration #biodiversity #megafauna #natureart

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Easy to see how birds can hide their nests and chicks from predators on such a nice cattle pasture. And why breeding success and biodiversity in general are much higher here than on mown meadows. Windknollen above Jena, Thuringia.

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Esta época del año es ideal para observar cómo varían en el espacio los pastos y otros ecosistemas abiertos. En pocos metros, cambian los colores, las especies y las texturas del paisaje. 1/7

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The gift that keeps on giving, Or: Don't dig if you don't want to know. 🧵 Phase 1: I wanted to plant a little elderberry plant, so I dug a little hole. Unfortunately, my shovel struck metal, which happens around here. I thought, "Well, I should just dig this out, don't really want it down there"

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Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis: The highest levels of diversity thrive where disturbances are not too infrequent, or too frequent, and not too little, or too big. It's even better if not on a schedule, using different disturbances, of varying intensities, in different places.

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Our project on large-carnivore - human coexistence has a formal webpage! Please explore it, and see our first blog post. More will come. sescarnivore.ro/blog1.html

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This combination of open ground and successional scrub is a likely wonderland of biodiversity. In time, more mature trees could become featured, and it will happen given another century of growth. Openness must simultaneously be maintained via herbivory, allowing for all vegetative structures.

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Out with my bear for a little bit of grazing. Greetings, Tibi

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The end goal of nature restoration should not simply be revegetation or afforestation. Instead, focus on creating wildlife habitat by promoting an abundance of food, and a mosaic of vegetation structures. Measure success not by how many trees are planted, but in how happy the wild creatures are.

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The brown bear in Transylvania uses human-dominated landscapes, from crops and roads to wilderness. It is an adaptable, opportunistic species capable of avoiding conflict and coexisting with humans. It is our turn to make this happen. Pictures from László Csákány.

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Cute baby goat photos: mission accomplished. First time outside, hopping about in the grass.

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Fern had 3 kids yesterday, 2 boys and a girl. I'm working on getting cute pictures of them all but they sure are bouncy little things. Work in progress! Mini Nubians. #Herbivores #Goatsky

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Spirits soared at the White Stork and Nature Revival Festival! Thank you to everyone who came and filled the day with energy, optimism and connection. Moments like these show what’s possible when we come together for wildlife! #StorkNatureFest2025 #Wildlifecelebration

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Charles-François Daubigny, 1858: Near a small lake Nowadays when planning a conservation project that involves grazing animals we always have a hard deal with veterinarians and other authorities to enable access of cows to the water front. However, at landscape level this is a significant 1/

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I manage this client's property as a "proxy" #woodpasture. "Proxy" : because he does not own any livestock, so occasional mowing serves to "graze" the pasture. I've begun pollarding the willows and poplars, and haul the fodder to my goats at home. Mixed native, and ornamental plants abound.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

We need wild pastures for nature restoration. So many species are dependent on natural levels of herbivory to create the habitats they need. Translate option available: click settings -> subtitles -> select language.

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The first Sunday of May is International Permaculture Day (today). I went on a permaculture farm tour and participated in a plant swap to celebrate. Somehow I managed to not take a single photo of the incredible food forest I saw today, so you will have to use your imagination!

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A glorious dawn chorus at Ashcombe Bottom near Lewes, a wonderful wood of veteran oaks, hazel coppice diverse scrub and chalk grassland. In the summer you can experience Adonis Blue flying with White Admiral and Silver-washed Fritillaries if you are lucky #woodpasture #chalkgrassland

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Ancient oak wood-pasture.

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Preparation for what will undoubtedly be the highlight of my PhD. Jakub Těšitel and Jan Roleček from Brno University giving a preview of the mindblowing ecosystems of the White Carpathians which hold world records for small-scale plant species richness. 1/

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Spending time with rewilded herbivores is humbling. Every week reveals new items on the menu. New leaves of invasive Rosa rugosa are eaten, despite thorns and seemingly being out of reach #rewilding #invasive #herbivory

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Elephant species would still persist today as key ecosystem engineers in Europe and likely also distributed globally had they not been hunted to extinction. The implications of their absence should be an important consideration for conservation and rewilding efforts.

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I'm in this forest of Equisetum. Sometimes people ask me to pull this stuff for them and I chuckle. It's been here for 360 million years, and will probably be here for 360 million more. I like it.

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Push the record button before approaching the pond, not after. These ducks are very wary of hunters, and rightly so!

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Update, 2 days later.

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Mason bees have nested in the bottom of this roll of bamboo fencing in my wood shed, I suppose I can't use it now lol. I was inspired and drilled holes in a chunk of maple firewood and mounted it under an eave. They were in it as I was putting the last screws in to hold it up.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

It is a lovely planet. Happy Earth Day.

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This seems like one of the flavors of rewilding to me; PONC (Process Oriented Nature Conservation), but is intended to apply to human influenced or inhabited landscapes.

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Finished "Wild Fell" by Lee Schofield. I won't go into details, but I appreciated Lee's take on nature friendly farming. It's refreshing to hear from a rational voice seeking harmony and solutions within an otherwise polarized "farming vs. nature" debate. What about farming with nature? Recommend

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I’m growing Food while the valley fills up with birdsong While the pastures fill with wildflowers While the bats flit overhead While the otter slides through the crystal clear stream While the worms work underground Food and Nature At the same time, in the same place This is worth protecting

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