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#rewilding

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Russ

A REWILDING MOMENT…
The sun rises and illuminates the sand dunes with its golden light.

Day comes, and I think how sunrise is a cyclic pattern in nature unremarked upon before the coming of humankind. Now, it brings forth a sense of renewal, of gratitude, a reminder that we are best when we live in accordance with nature, and sunrise is one of the most constant of natural phenomena.

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” That was Marcus Aurelius in his Meditations, a notebook he kept not with the intention of publishing it but to record the observations and learning of life.

Standing in the chilly morning air as the sun shines on the dunes reminds us that the dunes are composed of mobile sand grains and that as time passes the dunes change their shape.

“Observe constantly that all things take place by change… The universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them.”

That was Marcus Aurelius again, speaking to us this morning from 2000 years ago to tell us that the sunrise is a daily reminder of the natural order and of the impermanence of all things.

I think these are valuable things to remember, not just in the morning but through the day, and as day gives way to the silky darkness of the night. I speak to us of change, on the cycles of nature of the sheer privilege of being able to stand there in the chilly morning area and observe those cycles.

#sunrise#Tasmania#nature
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Ma Quest :ablobjam:

High drama at House Stork.
10.59 Storklets on watch.
11.05 Pa Stork flies in. Is he bringing brunch?
11.06 A young stork from a nearby nest arrives and is driven off by a storklet.
11.12 Having served a light brunch, Pa Stork flies away.
11.13 Storklets fly off too, maybe to find more brunch.
whitestorkproject.org/live-cam

White Stork ProjectLive Cam FeedHere is a live camera feed on one of our stork's nests at Knepp Estate!
#Stork#Storks#Knepp
DoomsdaysCW

#Rewilding: Can it save our #wildlife and temper #ClimateChange?

We’ve pushed #nature to the brink, but it may be capable of repairing the damage - provided we step aside and let it go back to doing what it does best.

by Jocelyn Timperley
Published: January 8, 2021

Excerpt: "More recently, Sir #DavidAttenborough adopted the term in the documentary A Life On Our Planet, his much-lauded ‘witness statement’ for the environment. 'So what do we do?' he asked, after an hour journeying through the enormous biodiversity loss the world has experienced during his 94 years. 'To restore stability to our planet we must restore its biodiversity, the very thing that we’ve removed… We must #rewild the world.'"

Read more:
sciencefocus.com/nature/rewild

BBC Science Focus Magazine · Rewilding: Can it save our wildlife and temper climate change? - BBC Science Focus MagazineWe’ve pushed nature to the brink, but it may be capable of repairing the damage - provided we step aside and let it go back to doing what it does best.
#SolarPunkSunday#Restoration#MoreTrees
DoomsdaysCW

#Rewilding should be central to global #restoration efforts

by Jens-Christian Svenning, 18 December 2020

Summary:
"Rewilding should be central to the massive restoration efforts needed to overcome the global #biodiversity crisis and enhancing the #biosphere’s capacity to mitigate #ClimateChange. Key elements include large areas for nature, restoration of functional #megafaunas and other natural #biodiversity-promoting factors, synergy with major societal dynamics, and careful socio-ecological implementation."

Excerpt:
"Rewilding should be central to the restoration efforts to overcome the biodiversity crisis while also enhancing the biosphere’s capacity to mitigate human-induced climate change in a resilient manner. Rewilding can be defined as restoration to promote self-regulating complex ecosystems through restoring non-human ecological factors and processes while reducing human control and pressures. This definition is consistent with most definitions and general usage. The relation to restoration is sometimes discussed. The Society for #Ecological #Restoration defines restoration as 'the process of assisting the recovery of an #ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed.' This readily includes rewilding. However, restoration in definition and practice also includes efforts that are clearly not rewilding, e.g., restoration of #CulturalEcosystems or other efforts based on chronic human intervention. Key reasons for a focus on rewilding are its reliance on mechanisms of long-term effectiveness, high upscaling potential, and enhancement of resilience."

Read more:
sciencedirect.com/science/arti

#SolarPunkSunday#Nature#Wildlife
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