📰 Community-built Habitats are Helping Save a Threatened Frog

🌱 Arizona: Volunteers and agencies construct ponds to restore habitat for the endangered Chiricahua leopard frog.

🌽 These human-made water systems counter drought, disease, and habitat loss that pushed the species toward extinction.

🤝 A collaborative conservation effort showing how local action and simple infrastructure can revive vulnerable species.

🔗 https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27062026/efforts-to-save-threatened-frog-in-arizona/

#SolarPunkSunday
#WildlifeConservation #Wildlife #EcologicalRestoration #Frogs #HabitatRestoration #CommunityAction #Biodiversity #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateResilience

【🎉Latest accepted article】
Extreme mountain flattening and #UrbanExpansion jointly reshape forest pattern in the mountain excavation and city construction project

#TreeCrownSegmentation | #DeepLearning | #SatelliteImagery | #EcologicalRestoration

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtag129

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🌳 A new study has revealed that forest remnants are not 'islands' and efforts to retain their #biodiversity can be successful with certain interventions.

🐦‍⬛ Improving the surrounding landscapes with even modest increases in tree cover can dramatically increase a remnant's ability to retain bird species.

🐦 This is true even when the forest fragments themselves are small or isolated.

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-wildlife-friendly-landscapes-boost-biodiversity.html

#Conservation #ForestRestoration
#EcologicalRestoration #Environment #Wildlife #Forests

#WildlifeWednesday

🐇 20 years plus huge rewilding effort in the Everglades continues to be successful.

🐦 In an area drained and prepped for housing, land was purchased and infrastructure that stopped the "sheet flow" hydrology was destroyed, among other efforts.

🦇 The native wild sunflowers are returning. Endangered animal populations are increasing: red-cockaded woodpecker, Florida panther, and bonneted bat (1 foot wingspan!).

https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/everglades-restoration-project-ongoing-for-20-plus-years-sees-huge-rewilding-success

#Everglades #Rewilding #Conservation #EcologicalRestoration #Biodiversity #Environment #Wildlife

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