Regen ag is not a product of BigAg, it's a grass roots movement that's embarrassing a lot of so called experts. I suggest @ipes-food.org get back in their tank and do some proper thinking. Then maybe we might make some progress.

❗️🦦 Angriff auf den Artenschutz: Kürzlich sprach #Aiwanger beim Fischereitag in Oberbayern davon, den #Fischotter Schutzstatus „wie beim Wolf“ senken zu wollen. Montag gab Bundeslandwirtschaftsminister #Rainer der bayrischen Mediengruppe auf dem Weg zum EU-Agrarrat ein ganz ähnliches Statement. 😠1/x

Restoring wild rivers and wild trout youtube.com/watch?v=NH1W...

The EU aims to renovate millions of old buildings. But frequently the opposite happens: existing houses are demolished & replaced by new builds. This virtually uncontrolled demolition frenzy jeopardizes Europe's renovation plans, impacting climate, nature & tenants correctiv.org/en/europe/20...

Just looked at the site full of details of large mammal migrations in Wyoming. Really interesting

Curdled shepherd's cheese with dried thistle flowers cooked slowly at home www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGzQ...

Airborne laser scanning reveals stone walls stretching several kilometers across Europe's Karst Plateau, on the border between Slovenia and Italy, likely built over 4,000 years ago to herd and corral red deer—a legacy of coordinated hunting. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/urYx50Xir5z

New research using 46 GPS datasets from 17 wildlife species to validate our pan-Canadian connectivity model rdcu.be/eMWN5

The topic of migrating herbivores should be on everone's radar. If it's not, then please watch this excellent video from Bill Sutherland and give the Wyoming Migration Initiative a follow @wyo-migrations.bsky.social Restoring herbivore migrations will fix a whole heap of problems.

God, #waxcaps are just fabulous aren’t they? And if their grasslands get damaged they are gone. Like ‘20 years for partial recovery but maybe no coming back’ gone Makes me both full of awe (that they still exist at all, let alone in number) and so bloody scared for their future

Thank you HN and JCS. Next step: Elephant rewilding in temperate ecosystems; Europe & N. America. This could initially be explored by assisting and expanding existing elephant sanctuaries: (Elephant Haven France, Pangea Trust Portugal, Elephant Sanctuary Tennessee).

New paper - “Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain” - Fleiss - 2025 - Ecological Solutions and Evidence - besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @forestresearchuk.bsky.social

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Beaver, the engineer; a keystone species helping landscapes navigate drought. Bear and fox tracks nearby, cows and sheep grazing around. Near Sfântu Gheorghe.

🦣 New paper: Megafauna with large size & flat-footedness + less related to tropical African/Asian fauna were more likely to go extinct in recent prehistory; consistent w direct hunting including pre-sapiens human filtering👣👉 doi.org/10.1111/geb.... #Megafauna #Extinction #TraitEcology #Palaeoecology

Years of elephant movement data reveal distinct routes the animals take to access food and water, but road building and new rail lines, towns, cities and fences are increasingly cutting off their ability to move across the landscape.

Interesting! Modern hippos lived in Central Europe during the last ice age 🦏🦏🦣https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/pressreleases/detail/2025-10-09-hippos-lived-in-europe-in-the-last-ice-age #megafauna

"Pleistocene and early Holocene megafaunal extinctions can stimulate us to reevaluate what is natural in the world and what sort of natures we seek to conserve or restore. If we accept the increasing evidence for a strong human role in these early extinctions, it forces a look inwards and 1/2

Food production for people (food forests) can overlap with natural biodiversity. "In Ecuador, the figure is striking: 99% of all Afro-descendant land is in biodiversity hotspots, while in Colombia almost 92% of Afro-descendant lands are in the top 5% of areas for biodiversity."

Extinct megafauna dominated human subsistence in southern South America before 11,600 years ago Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🌍✨ Join us for #ABL2025! ✨🌍 Our annual online conference is on 📅13–14 Nov and it’s completely FREE 🌐 Streamed live on YouTube, accessible worldwide ✅ Abstract submission is now closed. We’re reviewing them and will contact presenters soon 🔗 Registration open for everyone: ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org

🎙️🎧 A new episode of #InsideBiodiversity is out today! Guest @smartenwinter.bsky.social (@unileipzig.bsky.social) explores the impact of invasive species diving into some of ecology's most-debated questions! ▶️ Listen & subscribe: insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

Such a brilliant book by Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social How mammals survived the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs as shrew-like creatures; (our ancestors), how whales had legs, the strangest mammals you've never heard of, and 300 million years of mammal evolution in 400 pages.

Unsere Online-Vortragsreihe Naturnahe Beweidung im Fokus beginnt! Wir haben wieder sehr spannende Gäste, auch international. Es beginnt Prof. Dr. Jens-Christian Svenning, Uni Aarhus, ein internationales Schwergewicht der Makroökologie, das wichtige Grundlagen für die naturnahe Beweidung liefert. 1/

✨NEW INTERVIEW✨ EDIACARAN ECHOES - Tracing Evolution Across the Cosmos ~ DR EMILY MITCHELL @egmitchell.bsky.social @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social #evolutionsoup #evolution #ediacaran #science #fossils 👇🏿👇🏽 youtu.be/Rr_ojpUDj0c

Wir @umwelthilfe.bsky.social hatten es kommen sehen: statt Stärkung leider Verzögerung und Deregulierung bei der wichtigsten Gesetzgebung der EU zum Schutz unserer Gewässer. 😔😡 #WRRL Doch was genau wurde in Brüssel beschlossen? 1/x

All over Europe & beyond, drinking water is increasingly polluted with #TFA, the small, mobile, toxic & persistent #PFAS. To highlight the danger & problems, EurEau is organising an expert meeting. Our Policy Officer, Salomé Roynel, is one of the speakers. www.pan-europe.info/blog/keep-us...

The woods are growing quieter. On 23 Oct, join us in partnership with @britornitholclub.bsky.social for an evening lecture at our building with @richardkbroughton.bsky.social, exploring the dramatic decline of Marsh and Willow Tits - key voices in Britain's woodland soundscape: buff.ly/k6h5bit

Pyrethroid insecticides implicated in mass mortality of monarch #butterflies at an overwintering site in California They found evidence of 15 different #pesticides within the bodies of the monarchs, with individuals containing several on average academic.oup.com/etc/advance-...

Market-driven yak herding in Gatlang, Nepal, is threatening traditional sustainable grazing practices. Policies must recognize and integrate these traditional practices to sustain mountain ecosystems. Read the article by Indra Mani Rai and coauthors: doi.org/10.1659/mrd.... #MountainsMatter

Leadership and knowledge: what do elephant elders pass on? Join Dr Lucy Bates, Oct 15, as she presents an overview of what we know (so far) about the intelligence of African savannah elephants, derived mostly from studies of wild populations. Free tickets at the link below: buff.ly/I2TYJzL

We're hiring! Could you help us support & grow the community of botanists across Northern Ireland? Manage our @daera-ni.gov.uk-funded Botanical Skills Training Project? Help boost participation in @npms.bsky.social across NI? Please apply by midnight this Sunday, 21 Sept: bsbi.org/botanical-sk...

Today is Khulan Day! A day to celebrate this majestic and essential species and the other subspecies of the #AsiaticWildAss. Join us by sharing your photo, quote or story or by just reposting our post along with #KhulanDay2025 and/or #KhulanDay. More on our Facebook (link in comment)

Sure signs of autumn on our place. If you farm livestock in a very low impact way you get all kinds of good stuff* All I need now is the waxcaps!! (Which are slow to show this year here) *you may need to wait a few decades for the results but it’s worth it!

Since when did herbivores run around telling predators not to eat meat? The only example I can think of is of vegans, with their pushy and often highly predatory behaviour.

"I don't see browsing on trees as such a negative thing. Of course, browsing is bad for closed forests as we know them—but our forests used to be more open and bright. :) Large animals belong in the forest too; we're just not used to them."

You are invited for our annual Celebration of the Prairie! Come join us at this special event on November 15th in Denver! A great evening to meet like-minded people, dance, have a drink, enjoy the food, and listen to inspiring speeches. All proceeds go to the Lesser Prairie-Chicken!

This!! 'The land still remembers'

Similar consequences in lack of seed dispersal and ubiquitous ecological decline are still playing out globally from the loss of elephant species and other mega-herbivores. Their role may be FAR more important than we collectively have yet to realize.

Huge thanks to @palaeopercs.bsky.social for inviting and hosting me! If you missed my talk on Tuesday, you can now catch up via their YouTube channel 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=x19X...

A military megaproject led to Mexico’s biggest paleontological discovery—and is now reshaping what we know about mammoths. Learn more: https://scim.ag/45PD8M0

This is why livestock and all wild herbivore populations need to dramatically increase and why giving them access to all forests and other vegetated landscapes should be at the top of everyone's agenda.

Ungulate migrations are now so rare, they're not on most people's radars Thankfully those nice people at GUIM are on the case and who knows, within a decade or two, with enough support, the maps might be crammed full of new migrations everywhere.

And if some people have their way the last remaining herbivores, aka 'the livestock' with be confined to the tiny reserve too. Question - Will humanity ever wake up to the real long term herbivore issue, or just continue to double-down on stupid?????????? Answer- rhinophallus (f*ck nose)

Peek-a-moo, I see you! 😆🐮 📍Tap mun, HK

So apparently the APVMA is supposed to release the recommendations of their review into rodenticides in Australia this month (only a few days left). It is over a year late and we still have no indication if they will do anything. Rat poison is a disaster for our wildlife. @davidpocock.bsky.social