#restorenature — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #restorenature, aggregated by home.social.
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💚🥁 See you Saturday in Amsterdam! #ActTheFuckNow #HandsOffNature #RestoreNature #EUGreenDeal #ClimateMarch @ProgressiefNederland
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Vandaag op #dododonderdag de #bataafsestroommossel als #donderdagdodo
Sommige #levendendoden zij eigenlijk al dood maar moeten weer tot leven worden gewekt. Dat gaat dan niet om de tyrannosaurus of de wolharige mammoet maar eerder om #systeembouwers of #biobouwers zoals oesters en mosselen. Die zijn zo belangrijk voor waterzuivering dat we ons water niet schoon krijgen als zij er niet zijn. #buildingwithnature #restorenature
https://www.naturetoday.com/intl/nl/nature-reports/message/?msg=34013
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Vandaag op #dododonderdag de #bataafsestroommossel als #donderdagdodo
Sommige #levendendoden zij eigenlijk al dood maar moeten weer tot leven worden gewekt. Dat gaat dan niet om de tyrannosaurus of de wolharige mammoet maar eerder om #systeembouwers of #biobouwers zoals oesters en mosselen. Die zijn zo belangrijk voor waterzuivering dat we ons water niet schoon krijgen als zij er niet zijn. #buildingwithnature #restorenature
https://www.naturetoday.com/intl/nl/nature-reports/message/?msg=34013
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Vandaag op #dododonderdag de #bataafsestroommossel als #donderdagdodo
Sommige #levendendoden zij eigenlijk al dood maar moeten weer tot leven worden gewekt. Dat gaat dan niet om de tyrannosaurus of de wolharige mammoet maar eerder om #systeembouwers of #biobouwers zoals oesters en mosselen. Die zijn zo belangrijk voor waterzuivering dat we ons water niet schoon krijgen als zij er niet zijn. #buildingwithnature #restorenature
https://www.naturetoday.com/intl/nl/nature-reports/message/?msg=34013
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Vandaag op #dododonderdag de #bataafsestroommossel als #donderdagdodo
Sommige #levendendoden zij eigenlijk al dood maar moeten weer tot leven worden gewekt. Dat gaat dan niet om de tyrannosaurus of de wolharige mammoet maar eerder om #systeembouwers of #biobouwers zoals oesters en mosselen. Die zijn zo belangrijk voor waterzuivering dat we ons water niet schoon krijgen als zij er niet zijn. #buildingwithnature #restorenature
https://www.naturetoday.com/intl/nl/nature-reports/message/?msg=34013
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'Anything that can be built can be taken down': The largest dam removal in US history is complete – what happens next?
The #KlamathRiver is free of four huge dams for the first time in generations. But for the #Yurok tribe, the river's restoration is only just beginning – starting with 18 billion seeds.
by Lucy Sheriff, September 3, 2024
"This is decades and decades in the making," says Thompson. 'We were told it was never going to happen. That it was foolish to even ask for one removal. We were asking for four.'
"The #KlamathBasin covers more than 12,000 square miles (31,000 sq km) in southern Oregon and northern California, and was home to the JC Boyle, Copco 1, Copco 2 and Iron Gate dams, all owned by #PacifiCorp, an electric utilities company. The Klamath was once the third-largest salmon producing river on the US's West Coast before the construction of the dams blocked fish from accessing almost 400 miles (640km) of critical river habitat for almost 100 years.
"Fall #ChinookSalmon numbers plummeted by more than 90% and spring chinook by 98%. #SteelheadTrout, #CohoSalmon and #PacificLamprey numbers also saw drastic declines, and the Klamath tribes in the upper basin have been without their salmon fishery for a century, since the completion of #Copco 1 in 1922. The situation became so bad that Yurok tribe – who are known as the salmon people – began importing Alaskan salmon for their annual salmon festival, traditionally held to celebrate the first return of fall chinook salmon to the Klamath River.
"The dams also had a severe impact on #WaterTemperature and quality – growth of #ToxicAlgae behind two of the dams resulted in health warnings against water contact.
"'It was painful,' says Willard Carlson, a Yurok elder who is known as a #RiverWarrior and was part of the inter-generational campaign. 'All those years seeing our river damaged like that. I remember as a kid we'd have other people from nearby tribes making fun of our river. 'Oh, you're Yurok, your river is dirty.' For us, the #dams were a monument to the [#coloniser] people who conquered us."
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"Restoring the land
But something that does need "a helping hand is the restoration of 2,200 acres (890ha) of land that is above ground for the first time in a century following the emptying of four reservoirs.
"'Removing the dams is one thing, restoring the land is quite another,' says Thompson, a civil engineer and part of the crew working on the restoration project – which is being managed by Resource Environmental Solutions, an ecological restoration company."
#KarukTribe #YurokTribe #KlamathRiverRenewal #RestoreNature #Decolonize #WaterIsLife #NativeAmericans
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The largest dam removal project in the US is completed a major win for #Indigenous tribes
The #KlamathRiver dams removal project was a significant win for tribal nations on the #Oregon-#California border who for decades have fought to restore the river back to its natural state.
By Rachel Ramirez, CNN
Published Sep 2, 2024"The largest dam removal project in US history is finally complete, after crews last week demolished the last of the four dams on the Klamath River. It’s a significant win for tribal nations on the #OregonCalifornia border who for decades have fought to restore the river back to its natural state.
"The removal of the four hydroelectric dams — #IronGateDam, #CopcoDams 1 and 2, and #JCBoyleDam — allows the region’s iconic #salmon population to swim freely along the Klamath River and its tributaries, which the species have not been able to do for over a century since the dams were built.
"Mark Bransom, chief executive officer of the #KlamathRiverRenewal Corporation, the nonprofit group created to oversee the project, said it was a 'celebratory moment,' as his staff members, conservationists, government officials and tribal members gathered and cheered on the bank of the river near where the largest of the dams, Iron Gate, once stood.
"Federal regulators approved the plan to raze the dams in 2022. The next year, the smallest of the four dams, Copco No. 2, was removed. Crews then began releasing water from the dams’ reservoirs at the beginning of this year, which was necessary before dismantling the last remaining dams.
"The river system has been steeped in controversy: During the recent historic #WesternDrought that dried up the #KlamathBasin, an intense #WaterWar pitted local farmers against #Indigenous tribes, government agencies and conservationists.
"But anxiety turned to joy for the #IndigenousPeople who have lived for centuries among the Klamath and its tributaries.
"'We all came together in the moment with a feeling that ranged from pure joy to anticipation to excitement,' Bransom told CNN. 'For the first time in over 100 years, the river is now back in its historical channel, and I think that was an extraordinarily profound moment for people to actually witness that — the reconnecting of a river.'
"The #Yurok Tribe in Northern California are known as the '#SalmonPeople.' To them, the salmon are sacred species that are central to their culture, diet and ceremonies. As the story goes, the spirit that created the salmon also created humans and without the fish, they would cease to exist."
#RestoreNature #ProtectTheSacred #WaterIsLife #SolarPunkSunday
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Fight to save #PugetSound #KelpBed underscores NW #habitat challenges
July 25, 2024
"The #WashingtonState Department of Natural Resources and the #SquaxinIslandTribe have announced a partnership to conserve the #SquaxinIsland Kelp Bed, the last major kelp bed in South Puget Sound.
"DNR and the Squaxin Island Tribe will work to surround the kelp bed with a priority habitat zone, try to reduce #environmental stresses to improve the kelp bed’s health, and partner with #PugetSoundRestorationFund on future #restoration projects, according to a news release.
"Since 2013, DNR and Squaxin Island staff have seen a 97% decline in the kelp bed, which holds both ecological and cultural significance. In #Oregon, the #coastline lost more than two-thirds of its canopy of #BullKelp.
"'We recognize how important it is to protect this critical resource,' said #KrisPeters, Squaxin Island Tribe chairman, in a statement. '#Squaxins can’t do it alone; it takes us all coming together as partners. That is why this local inter-governmental agreement is so important and monumental.'
"The Squaxin Island Kelp Bed is the first habitat DNR is prioritizing in its statewide #KelpForest and #Eelgrass Meadow Health and Conservation Plan, which state legislation directed DNR to hatch in response to the loss of bull kelp and eelgrass on the Washington coastline.
"The plan’s goal is to conserve and restore at least 10,000 acres of kelp forest and eelgrass meadow habitat by 2040.
"Restoration efforts will initially focus on three pilot sub-basins: South Puget Sound, the Eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca and Grays Harbor. As DNR works toward its 10,000-acre goal, it intends to explore conservation and recovery in all sub-basins, according to DNR’s website.
"'Squaxin people have been stewarding these waters and lands for thousands of years,' Peters said in a statement. '#KelpBeds have also been stewarding these waters for thousands of years, providing nourishment and a critical ecosystem for the many plants, animals, and fish of the #SalishSea.'"
#Northwest #LandBack
#NativeKnowledge #Nature #IndigenousKnowledge #conservation #sustainability #decolonization #PacificNorthwest #PNW #environmental
#IndigenousLedProject
#reclamation #decolonialism #Restoration #Landback #Rewilding #RestoreNature #Salish #SolarPunkSunday