Search results for rewilding

Ecology Apr 25, 2024

Climate change could become the main driver of biodiversity decline by mid-century, analysis suggests

Global biodiversity has declined between 2% and 11% during the 20th century due to land-use change alone, according to a large multi-model study published in Science. Projections show climate change could become the main ...

Ecology Apr 18, 2024

Rewild the soil: The largest urban rewilding project is going underground

The largest urban rewilding project in the U.K. is happening on an old golf course.

Ecology Apr 19, 2024

Wild and domestic ungulates are key to Mediterranean ecosystem sustainability, finds study

Researchers from Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) have conducted a vegetation analysis over the last 30 years using satellite images from two environments in the Sierra de Cazorla Natural Park (southeast Spain)—one ...

Plants & Animals Apr 17, 2024

Rewilding amphibians: Protecting endangered species to restore ecosystems

In a recent paper published in Biological Conservation, iDiv researchers suggest that given amphibians' ability to act as "canaries in the coal mine" for aquatic environments, they should be reintroduced or rewilded. Rewilding ...

Plants & Animals Apr 17, 2024

Surrogate otter mom at aquarium is rehabilitating pup 'better than any human ever can'

Millie, a fatigued mother of an infant, was ready for a nap. So she grabbed her baby, flipped it around, threw it on her belly and started grooming its tail—a soothing behavior.

Ecology Feb 7, 2024

The social life of mouse immune systems

Hanging out a lot with the same crowd can make immune systems of individual animals similar, even if the crowd is not related. That's according to a recent paper published in Science Advances that teased out connections between ...

Ecology Feb 12, 2024

Wolves are back in Colorado's wilderness: Here's why that's great for Earth

For the first time in U.S. history, a federally listed endangered species has been reintroduced to the wild by the efforts of a lone state. Wolves in Colorado were not a mandate from Washington, D.C.; Coloradans voted for ...

Biotechnology Feb 1, 2024

NZ has the energy resources to adopt alternative food technologies—it just needs a plan

The potential for alternative foods to displace and disrupt conventional agricultural production has been discussed and debated for some time. While it may still be too early to make firm predictions, the trends are clear.

Earth Sciences Feb 26, 2024

New study highlights rewilding's role in tackling flood and drought challenges

A comprehensive review of evidence led by researchers at Queen Mary University of London, in collaboration with the University of Sussex, Environment Agency, National Trust, Rewilding Britain, and Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, ...

Plants & Animals Mar 15, 2024

Is grizzly bear reintroduction 'a death sentence' or restoring nature? Idaho comments are torn

A proposal to reintroduce grizzly bears to part of Central Idaho has roiled tensions, with advocates saying the action is decades late and critics claiming it's a step toward gruesome maulings.

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