Holnicote estate rewilding remains green amid drought
Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show. Excellent work by the National Trust at Holnicote. #MakeBritainWetAgain www.theguardian.com/environment/...
isyfa.bsky.social7Our small patch of 'grass' shows the same effect - the grass only area is brown, the 'weed' area is green 😉
rru.eurosky.social5kudos to @nationaltrust.org.uk for moving the needle on climate resilience and nature based solutions
davecampbellsheff.bsky.social2Tree take up huge amounts of water and release it slowly. Our pastures have lots of trees and still plenty of grass for the animals.
Names Jelmes2Re-wilding appears to have been added to the lexicon of the raving mad right wing. Apparently, it is the cause of all the wild fires (arson) in South Wales. These people are deranged.
slowlydrowning.bsky.social1Intuitively this has always felt right and now we have the evidence.
TrudyUnoWho1Blimey who knew that nature would know best. Apparently the NatTrust did
We KNOW that rewilding massively reduces flooding and the effects of drought, not to mention reversing nature loss, boosting rural communities and the wider economy, and aiding against climate collapse. Why is the government still ignoring the obvious? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
vadaga.bsky.social36Our pollinator meadow from no-mow May is the sole grass survivor of the dry Summer in the back garden. I was going to cut it back but then decided to leave it
The Nark Ascending21You can tell the difference between our rewilded smallholding in Pembrokeshire & the surrounding farmland which is barren from over-grazing & sileage harvesting. All the swallows swooping across our land and none over the other fields, & the only soil with any moisture is ours due to the long grass.
Mark Robins6Because the IFA etc has them by the balls.
darrentmn.bsky.social5The editors of the Daily Mail are gonna fkn hate it when they see that article.
Suaimhneas3Government depends on rural vote, giving farmers a disproportionate power. While food security is important, it’s time farming was brought into balance with our national development, more home grown veg, less live stock, & that they start giving a shit about the environment they are custodians of
Lightacandle3This reply to a post of mine will be of interest to you too.... bsky.app/profile/engl...
Dr Sally20This strategy needs to be taken seriously
Die Frau Jü 🎈4Schon irre. Das WISSEN wir hier in DE auch. Und auch hier fragen wir uns, warum die politisch Zuständigen NIX TUN. 🙈🙉🙊 #Klimakollaps
Damer2Everything is a system. It responds to the energy flowing through it and pushing against it. The more complex the system the more resilient it becomes. It has limits, of course, but also greater tolerance than purely man-made systems.
One in the eye for the Daily Mail, Reform politicians and other liars and disinformation spreaders, who have spouted drivel about rewilding causing UK wildfires www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Andre C2No doubt the Mail & Reform will routinely ignore this.
Gite-Milvain1There has to be a way to keep much of the intensive farming output whilst integrating varieties of crops and wildlife-friendly zones - less fertiliser, less machinery, more diversity, more wholesome food, less fire risk, more drought resistance, "calmer" countryside 🌿
benedictjephcote.bsky.social1It's great to see how well-planned nature is when it's allowed to do its thing. Many of us probably(?) don't fully grasp how many billions of years' experience nature has had to develop its own nature ?
As ever I would point out that this is good landscape management and there is nothing 'wild' about it and until we stop calling it 'rewilding' people will continue to operate with the ludicrous romantic assumption that 'nature' is self-healing and that human intervention is bad.
Tim Waterman29Just to be clear: 'nature' is tremendously rich but climate change increasingly means it needs our help everywhere to maintain that richness. Humans are and can be a force for good and we need a peopled landscape and careful landscape management.
Marianne Heaslip2Visiting family in Ireland this week, one of their neighbours has decided that 'rewilding' = 'no land or tree management', with predictably poor results.
Ian Carter2There is plenty wild about it though, of course, it‘s far from natural. Seems reasonable enough to aspire to have places that are wilder, where nature has a freer hand, alongside all the existing places where humans are so firmly in control. It’s not either one or the other.
Rudi1I hope you join the southern delta excursion at ECLAS to see prime Dutch examples of good landscape management...
Sylvia Foolproof Suddes1The point the article makes is that returning the land to its natural state (bogs, river courses) helps – and helps a lot. Reverting to its former – natural – state is called rewilding. What would you prefer?
