WILDLIFE WEDNESDAY

📰 Large-Scale Ecological Restoration Completed

🌍 England: Volunteers, schools and local groups participated in efforts to restore the rare magnesian limestone coastal grassland ecosystem.

🐦‍⬛ Volunteers planted, surveyed and completed other activities “to restore grasslands, improve roosting for birds and create diverse habitats and better conditions for a range of plants and wildlife.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8e8jlr20jeo

#WildlifeWednesday #EcologicalRestoration #WildlifeConservation #Biodiversity #Conservation #Environment

WILDLIFE WEDNESDAY

📰 World’s Rarest Wolf Gets Road Crossings

🚸 Safe road crossings are in the design phase for a highway that is known for the deaths of rare red wolves. This is part of a $25M grant from a US Federal Highway Administration effort, the Wildlife Crossings Pilot program.

🐺Red wolves used to roam all over the Southeastern U.S. but became extinct in the wild in 1980. Releases of captive wolves began in 1987 into North Carolina’s Alligator River Wildlife Refuge.

🚗 Once their numbers rose to about 130, they started to reduce again. One reason is that they were being hit by cars, many of which were driven by tourists going back and forth to the Outer Banks on Highway 64.

🔭 Anyone can go to the park to see the red wolves, but they typically remain hidden. At night, though, you can hear them howl.

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/new-road-crossings-help-save-world-s-rarest-wolf

@NCConnect

#WildlifeWednesday #RedWolf #EcologicalRestoration #WildlifeConservation #Biodiversity #Conservation #Environment

TURTLE (OR TORTOISE) TUESDAY

☀️ In the southern Sahara, where degraded, baked, crusted soil prevented any seedlings to establish, ecological restorationists dispatched 500 "ecosystem engineers."

More commonly known as African spurred tortoises, the ecotechnicians went to work digging burrows to avoid the desert heat and cold.
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🌧️ Water stayed in the soil. Plants grew. Insects and microorganisms moved in, followed by birds and small mammals.

🛰️ From space the region even looks alive.

✅ This is another example of a successful low-tech nature-focused rewilding effort. (Recall my incessant beaver updates.)

https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/sahara-desert-ecosystem-restoration-tortoises/

#TurtleTuesday #Environment #Rewilding #EcologicalRestoration #EnvironmentalRestoration #Conservation #Biodiversity

Underground Networks and the Future of #EcologicalRestoration

How mycorrhizal #fungi form vast underground networks that sustain #ecosystems, regulate #CarbonFlows, and support #PlantHealth.

https://veganorganic.net/2026/05/underground-networks-and-the-future-of-ecological-restoration/ #ecology #plants #nature

It’s been nearly five years in the making, and now it’s almost here! The Trees of My Country: A Natural History of India in 50 Trees, published by Aleph, will hit the bookstores soon.

It took me across India, this great country of the trees, from the steamy forests of the Andaman and Nicobar islands to the high Himalaya, from the coral atolls of Lakshadweep to the far reaches of Arunachal […]

The bats last night were spectacular. I kid you not I saw one the size of a raven in the garden. Dozens swooping and dipping and maneuvering throughout the West garden, nibbling on all the odd flying insects buzzing around.

I am so curious where the bats roost during the day - it cannot be on our property so they must fly down from the mines in the mountains. I very much wish to make some bat boxes or similar encouragement for them, they're my favorite wildlife I think.

#Bats #Wildlife #EcologicalRestoration #Cycles #Ecology #Mojave #Desert #SouthwestUS