#restorenature — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #restorenature, aggregated by home.social.
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‘This place wanted to be a #wetland’: how a farmer turned his fields into a #WildlifeSanctuary
Once, Karl Wenner’s #Oregon land leaked pollution into a nearby lake. Now, 70 acres are home to waterfowl, turtles and endangered fish
by Gabrielle Canon in #KlamathFalls
Sun 22 Oct 2023"#Birdsong hums over the rumble of Karl Wenner’s truck as it bounces along the dusty trails that weave through his property. For almost 100 years, this farm in southern Oregon grew barley, but now, amid the sprawling fields, there lies a wetland teeming with life.
"Wenner installed the wetland on 70 of the farm’s 400 acres to help deal with phosphorus pollution that leaked into the adjacent Upper #KlamathLake after his land flooded each winter. With support from a team of scientists and advocates, the project has become a welcome sanctuary for migrating and native birds that are disappearing from the area.
"Today, this corner of #LakesideFarms looks far different from a typical American farm. Waterfowl nest among the vegetation, joining pond turtles and even endangered native fish near rows of sprouting barley.
"Looking out at the swaying cattails and wocus plants peeking through the water on an afternoon in June, Wenner beams: 'This place wanted to be a wetland.' "
Learn more:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/22/farm-wetland-bird-animal-sanctuary-oregon#SolarPunkSunday #Rewilding #EndangeredSpecies #RestoreNature #Wetlands
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A funny but powerful contradiction 🌳
A truck carrying cut trees, yet the message says “Plant More Trees.” It makes us smile but also think. Let this remind us: cutting without restoring harms our future. If we must use trees, let’s replace them, protect forests, and act responsibly. The joke becomes a lesson when we choose action over words.
#PlantMoreTrees #Reforestation #ProtectOurForests #ClimateAction #GreenFuture #RestoreNature -
Building bridging structures, involving regional facilitators & managing actor expectations are key to motivating & empowering farmers for collaborative agri-environmental governance at landscape scale.
Happy to share this perspective with experiences from the #KOOPERATIV project (in which we established 250 ha perennial flower areas cooperatively), now out in "People and Nature". S. Schüler et al.