Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Apr 9, 2024

Madagascar: #GiantTortoises have returned 600 years after they were wiped out https://theconversation.com/madagascar-giant-tortoises-have-returned-600-years-after-they-were-wiped-out-221615

"A six-year-old project to return giant #tortoises to the wild in #Madagascar could result in thousands of the 350kg #megaherbivores re-populating the island for the first time in 600 years. The first group of Aldabra giant tortoises (Aldabrachelys gigantea) were brought in from the #Seychelles in 2018, and have been reproducing on their own since."

Madagascar: giant tortoises have returned 600 years after they were wiped out

Re-wilding Madagascar with giant tortoises last found on the island 600 years ago could help the island mitigate climate change.

The Conversation
PachymanSep 22, 2023
Happy World Rhino Day 2023! #rhino #rhinoceros #pachyderm #megaherbivores #whiterhino #blackrhino #indianrhino #javanrhino #sumatranrhino
Tomas JärnetunSep 1, 2023
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02181-y
#megafauna #megaherbivores #alienspecies #IAS #Science #biodiversity #ecology
Megaherbivores provide biotic resistance against alien plant dominance - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Analysing camera trap data from >26,000 stations and >158,000 vegetation plots across 12 ecoregions in India, the authors find a positive relationship between megaherbivore abundance and native plant species richness and abundance, but reductions in alien plant species abundance.

Nature
Berliner PflanzeJul 17, 2023

Kann mir bitte jemand ein Stück Land und ein paar Viecher geben und ich mache aus einem Stück märkischer #sandwuste in in paar Jahren fruchtbares Weideland? Nee? Na gut. Aber der Traum bleibt... Und eigentlich soll es kein Traum bleiben.
#megaherbivores #nachhaltigeweiden #mobgrazing #permakultur #weide #weidemanagement #NachhaltigeLandwirtschaft

https://www.oekolandbau.nrw.de/fachinfo/tierhaltung/gruenland-futterbau/2020/mob-grazing-eine-alternative-weidestrategie/

Ökolandbau NRW: Mob Grazing – eine alternative Weidestrategie?

PhoenixSerenityMar 19, 2023

#Bison #contribute to increasing #biodiversity in a manner #unique among #megaherbivores . They engage in wallowing to a degree not observed in other megaherbivores. Bison wallow more than what’s needed to control parasites affecting their fur & skin. Extensive wallowing by such large & powerful animals creates depressions that augment #habitat #diversity & form #MoistureCatch basins in what otherwise would be flat, dry #prairie

https://reasons.org/explore/blogs/todays-new-reason-to-believe/how-bison-reintroduction-increases-grassland-diversity

#nature #ecosystems #ecology #environment

How Bison Reintroduction Increases Grassland Diversity

I have had several close encounters with bison while on vacations in Yellowstone and Grand Canyon National Parks and on Catalina Island. I’m glad to say that I maintained an appropriate distance and thoroughly enjoyed studying the creatures in their habitat. Researchers have also been studying these massive herbivores in recent years and their efforts […]

Reasons to Believe
Show threadGabby Palomo, PhDDec 19, 2022
#ecology #herbivores #megaherbivores #mammals #smallMammals #mammalogy