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🌳 Celebrating World Rewilding Day 2024 🌳 Today, we stand at the forefront of a movement that holds the power to reshape our planet's future - Rewilding. As we mark World Rewilding Day, we're reminded of the incredible journey towards restoring nature's balance and the vital role we all play in this transformative process. Rewilding isn't just about bringing back lost species to their natural habitats; it's a comprehensive approach to healing our planet. It supports biodiversity, combats climate change, and renews natural landscapes. This World Rewilding Day, let's pledge to be part of the solution. Whether you're an individual, part of a community, or a business leader, there are countless ways to contribute to rewilding efforts and promote a healthier, more sustainable Earth. Dive deeper into the world of rewilding, understand its significance, and discover how you can make a difference. Visit https://lnkd.in/e7rqka9C to get inspired and join the global movement towards a wilder, more resilient planet. #WorldRewildingDay #Rewilding #NatureConservation #SustainableFuture

LAUNCH: The Full SkyTruth 30×30 Tracker is here! 🌎 📣 30×30 is a global movement to protect 30% of the world’s lands and waters by 2030. But how are we doing on achieving this target? The SkyTruth 30×30 Tracker is for anyone tracking, planning, and advocating for progress toward meeting the 30×30 goal—protecting 30% of both land and sea by 2030. Now encompassing both oceanic and terrestrial data, we’re excited to unveil enhanced features: 🌎 Side-by-side marine & terrestrial data. 🎯 Country-specific conservation targets. 🗺️ Interactive mapping of protected habitats. Led by SkyTruth and funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Vizzuality is proud to have partnered with SkyTruth, CEA Consulting, and An Ocean Advocate to engage more people on reaching 30×30. Join us as we strive for a healthier planet! Explore SkyTruth now (link in the comments below 👇)

EESI's briefing on natural climate solutions is happening TODAY at 1pm! Hosted in partnership with our friends at US Nature4Climate and the Bipartisan Policy Center, this discussion will focus on natural processes to reduce carbon emissions, sequester carbon, and bring new income and employment opportunities to rural America. Our panel of experts will explore the federal role in maximizing the benefits of natural climate solutions and discuss what is working, what we are still learning, and what the next phase of natural climate solutions policy could look like. Panel: 🦅 Shannon Heyck-Williams, Associate Vice President of Climate and Energy, National Wildlife Federation 🐝 Jennifer Nelligan, Chief Program Officer, The National Association of Conservation Districts 🌿 Kari Kostka, Director of External Affairs, Idaho, The Nature Conservancy 🌻 Lesley Jantarasami, Managing Director of the Energy Program, Bipartisan Policy Center If you can't join us in person, watch it live online at the link: eesi.org/livecast #Webinar #NaturalClimateSolutions #NaturePositive #Conservation #Bipartisan

And, well, what a better coincidence that #worldrewildingday coexists with #internationalhappinessday. Rewilding for sure is one human activity that has a net positive impact in our wellbeing and the environment. To rewild is to cultivate happiness. Let’s work together to further increase rewilding and prioritize it where it matters most, so we can recover natural habitats and ultimately reverse biodiversity loss, if we are able as humans / societies / enterprises / governments to leave fossil fuels underground / under the seabed.

At Pelorus Foundation, our work is at a critical junction, grappling with the urgent challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss. Already communities worldwide feel the reverberations, amplifying political, economic, and social instability. With a narrow window of roughly a decade, as indicated by science, we must pivot our course to avert catastrophic outcomes. In Response, our Strategic Plan aims to help unite efforts to safeguard our planet’s biodiversity and ecological integrity. We strive to alter our trajectory by collaborating with local, grassroots high-impact operators, nurturing a sustainable future for wildlife and wild places. Our Strategic Plan sets out our key objectives from 2024 to 2027. It outlines the actions we will take to achieve our objectives and clarifies our priority areas of focus. To do this we rely on the support and dedication of our staff, project partners, and support from our donors. Want to learn more? Have a read of our full plan through the link below: https://lnkd.in/ewvBS422 #Climate #Nature #Wildife #Conservation

Here is the latest Climate Action North demystifying blog. Writing these posts is a passion of mine because I believe in the power of making topics like rewilding accessible and understandable. #Demystifying #Blog #Rewilding #CommunityRewilding #KnowledgeIsPower #RewildingHope #Communities #Inspiration

Restoring nature for people and climate 🌱💧 The creation of water bunds - also known as ‘earth smiles’ - is an effective method for regreening drought-affected areas, by capturing rainwater that would otherwise run off the dry, hard ground. We’ve collaborated with Justdiggit to make footage of this restoration process available to storytellers through #OpenPlanet – as part of our growing collection of community-driven solutions for people, nature and climate.    Our collection with JustDiggit showcases communities in Africa working to restore landscapes, create healthier pastures for growing crops, and build resilience to the impacts of climate change. 🌱 Discover over 240 clips of JustDiggit’s land conservation and restoration projects ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gyYpGMD6 This footage is also available for commercial licensing via our partners All3Media Archive. #NatureConservation #StoriesForChange #Restoration

WORLD REWILDING DAY 🥳 What a great start of #WorldRewildingDay this morning. Walked up the glenn before dawn with my colleague Fabien Quétier, starting from the Dundreggan Rewilding Centre in the #AffricHighlands in Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. We were very lucky and watched five males black grouse on a lek. It was many years ago I saw them for the last time! Today, 20 March, is World Rewilding Day, which will see rewilding initiatives and people across the globe 🌎come together again to raise awareness of rewilding and the need for nature recovery 💚💙 Informing and inspiring people is a key part of #rewilding, Rewilding Europe, the Global Rewilding Alliance and all our partners across the continent. Europe 🇪🇺 and its people face a wide range of challenges, including biodiversity decline, rising global temperatures, and declining opportunities for rural economies. Applied at scale, rewilding can help to address these challenges simultaneously. Learn about the principles of rewilding and watch the video here👇🏼https://lnkd.in/eQwGGcEm Recovering nature to full health can mitigate scale and impact of global warming 🥵, enhance biodiversity 🍀, and create new sources of income for communities 👨🏼🌾. Rewilding also helps nature to deliver a range of other benefits that are essential to our existence, such as clean air, fertile soil, good health, wellbeing and resilience to disease. The need for nature and the wide range of benefits it provides has never been greater. This year, we aim to demonstrate how the hope rewilding offers to both nature and people translates into on-the-ground actions that effect change. Stephanie Kiel | Steve Micklewright | Peter Cairns | James Shooter | Trees for Life | SCOTLAND: The Big Picture #WRD2024 #HopeIntoAction #RewildingPrinciples #ScalingUpRewilding #LessTalkMoreAction #RestoreNature #GenerationRestoration 📷 Mark Hamblin/SCOTLAND: The Big Picture

🌏 Live & Learn is proud to be part of the Nature4Climate coalition - and they have just released an exciting new tool! 🎉 In celebration of #WorldConservationDay, Nature4Climate officially launched NatureBase, a free climate data platform designed to help unlock the potential of natural climate solutions and ensure efforts to protect, manage and restore it are optimised around the world. Key features include: 🌍 Global Mitigation Maps: Discover the climate benefit potential for all NCS pathways across every country, state, city or area. 👥 Environmental Co-Benefits: Explore the additional benefits to ecosystem services such as water and soil quality. 🗺️ Global Case Studies: Learn from real-world examples and successful projects and engage with networks for shared learning and collaboration. 🏛️ Supportive Policies: Navigate through public policies and government initiatives enabling action. 🌐 NbS resources: Access resources to ensure high quality, high-integrity implementation of nature-based solutions, such as protecting and supporting human rights. 🌍 Visit www.naturebase.org today to understand why, where and how to deploy high-integrity natural climate solutions. 🌏 #NatureBase #Nature #NatureBasedSolutions

A couple years ago I won a design competition with a proposal based on these #bunds. These half moon landforms capture water and slow infiltration retaining moisture so that vegetation has a chance to establish. The more moisture and roots there are in the soil, the healthier the soil is, the more things can grow. They can literally transform landscapes. This is a great example of how simple #naturebaseddesign gestures can solve global issues like #desertification and #foodinsecurity.