Although we still have #nature in Finland it is a tiny part of the industrial land use in sectors like forestry and peat harvesting. They are restoring bogs in Hossa from industrial use! #biodiversity#ecosystems#restoration
21 Aug 1663: The first (or second, depending on how you count) Court of Claims ends its sittings in #Dublin#otd having decided on about 1,000 claims #Restoration
We first trialled cardboard plant guards back in 2019 and haven't looked back.
True that they only last a couple of seasons at best but the ability to biodegrade is a huge asset.
These plastics guards were used by contractors for a planting in 2016. Seven years later they're still there and now it's up to us a volunteers to remove them.
There are tens if not hundreds of thousands of these guards left on plants around the country.
The population of the #UK is so far behind doing sufficient #climate mitigation that to get ahead of the curve will take nothing short of a cultural #evolution
Maybe the effects of #ClimateChange will motivate a massive cultural change in the right direction, perhaps they won't.
I for one am not willing to wait & see. This post is a callout for any #rewilding projects that could use 'hands-on assistance' from a #ConservationBiologist
If you haven't already discovered Scott Mann and David Bilbrey's "The Permaculture Podcast", you should look them up - it's a great learning resource filled with case studies about people living in harmony with the land. https://terraso.org/2023/08/07/terraso-in-the-media/
So very exciting to see the sub-montane birch #regeneration really getting away at #LochOssian with a reduction in grazing pressure. No fencing & 400m above sea level; showing what is possible if we give natural processes a chance!
Last year this was all invasive bramble. My neighborhood decided to create a roadside wildflower patch here.
Bees, moths, and other pollinators are flitting around that weren't here before.
I know I'm sharing this project a lot. But of all the things I'm trying to do, all the things I'm trying to do and only making marginal progress, it's nice see a few flowers that I KNOW wouldn't have been planted.
I'm all for native plants and the reduction of invasives (ideally by them becoming food for something?), while also trying to operate from respect and understanding of non-native species. They didn't choose to be cultivated and domesticated in a foreign environment, or to end up as a seed on a truck or cargo ship traveling to a different climate/continent. This is a new frame for me, so I'm working on practicing it in reality — though there are cultures that have been integrating it, e.g. these perspectives and research from
Nicholas Reo and Laura Ogden.
Today I was restoring a specimen from the Nottingham Natural History Museum's fluid preserved collection. Thisgrass snake was suffering from a severe fungal growth that had formed a plug floating on top of the fluid and smothered the specimen inside. Nasty stuff!
Here are shots showing the same snake and jar before and after I removed the fungus, cleaned the snake and jar, and changed the fluid.
Huomisen äänestys ennallistamisasetuksesta on sen verran ratkaiseva, että tässä kohtaa ehkä pitää vain muistuttaa, miten Suomen luonnon tila on jo nyt hyötynyt EU:sta. Osa kuvien ennallistamiskohteista sai rahoitusta unionin LIFE-ohjelmasta.
We need that EU nature #restoration law tomorrow. I’ve been following restoration efforts in Finland for almost 25 yrs. To me, EU + restoration means what can be seen in these photos – nature given a chance to heal itself, partly done with EU funding.
Here's another picture of that 1920s cast iron outdoor sconce I've been slowly restoring, by the way. Finally at the point of filing and sanding, too. You can see where I used the PC-Metal in the upper corner on the right.
Delighted to see our new paper out in Journal of Applied Ecology. We examine how #wildfire and #restoration interact with community composition to determine long-term #ecosystem dynamics. This work utilizes a unique 30+ year dataset from #sagebrush steppe in the Columbia Basin WA.
This is my IBM 4979 terminal. It's part of the IBM Series/1 minicomputer ecosystem which launched in 1976 although my terminal was made 1979 or 1980. It features a 66 key IBM beamspring that was unfortunately suffering from the usual material degradation. The CRT was also non-functional with an apparent HV issue....
#Introduction: Hello! this is the account for the Green Shores project, where we will be sharing news, volunteering opportunities and pictures about this saltmarsh conservation and restoration project, based in Scotland over three sites: the Eden and Tay Estuaries and in Dornoch Firth.
This project has been made possible thanks to funding from #NatureScot, St Andrews University and other partners. #Saltmarsh#Restoration#NatureSolutions#CarbonSequestration#Scotland
Acorn Electron - An Unexpected £20 Dirty Treasure - Pixel Refresh (www.pixelrefresh.com)
Dive into the world of Acorn Computers! A £20 discovery, as I journey through my Acorn Electron restoration and history.
How the Yurok Tribe Is Bringing Back the California Condor (undark.org)
The reintroduction of the long-lived, highly social birds has offered insight into the importance of parenting in the species.
OC IBM 4979 restoration
This is my IBM 4979 terminal. It's part of the IBM Series/1 minicomputer ecosystem which launched in 1976 although my terminal was made 1979 or 1980. It features a 66 key IBM beamspring that was unfortunately suffering from the usual material degradation. The CRT was also non-functional with an apparent HV issue....