Ich sagen den im Winter und Frühling über Biberdämme 🦫wütenden Landwirten 🚜 immer: "Reißt den Damm mal nicht weg sondern wartet erst mal ab. Der Sommer wird eh wieder sautrocken. Das überschüssige Wasser verschwindet dann schon und bis dahin sind eure Flächen gut wasserversorgt." Und siehe da...

Old, species-rich grassland in West Tanfield churchyard nr Ripon, N Yorkshire with Rough Hawkbit, Mouse-ear Hawkweed, Oxeye and Knapweed. Churchyards can preserve valuable remnants of such grassland, even in landscapes where it has all but disappeared from the surrounding countryside.

If people want to keep farming livestock in climate change England, they're going to need to factor in more trees, shrubs and wood pasture. It's amazing how many upland and lowland grazing pastures have virtually no shade at all.

Earliest Americans specialized in #megafauna hunting from Alaska to South America, analysis of 50 sites reveals - earliest Native Americans had highly specialized diets, targeting the largest animals consistentlyhttps://phys.org/news/2026-07-earliest-americans-specialized-megafauna-alaska.html

No need to seed: restoring former arable land to species‐rich grassland by mowing & natural regeneration over 18 years. Paper published today by myself, with my amazing 86 year old father & farmer Derek Sayer. A visit to the meadow is like stepping back through time. doi.org/10.1111/rec.70487

Initial consult on a native plant riverbank erosion mitigation design for a new client today, I saw one of the biggest garter snakes I've ever seen. Hard to get a sense of scale but this was a monster, by garter snake standards.

Wetland Restoration

It’s not just England where I create habitats for wildlife…😅 So glad to be back in Scotland, starting a really cool project to help wildlife on the outskirts of Edinburgh. More coming soon from this beautiful country 😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Final event of @agtransect.bsky.social took place last Thursday in Brussels 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5k5... ✅ In addition to the findings of the project, we had 3 inspiring roundtables with social movements, practitioners and policy officers Stay tuned for more! #agroecology #transdisciplinarity

Two exciting new additions to the farm species list today, a lesser stag beetle and a marbled white butterfly. Our deadwood habitats and rough grassland seem to be working their magic!

Forest disturbances are increasing across Europe - and this improves the habitat for large herbivores. 🌳🌲🦌🫎🦬🌲 New study by Julian Oeser just out in @natecoevo.nature.com 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s415... @humboldtuni.bsky.social @biogeoberlin.bsky.social

Was für ein tolles Motiv auf der Helenenruhwiese bei Zorge im Südharz. Ich kenne das Management dort nicht, aber sicher ist, dass ein solcher Thymianbult jahrelang ungemäht sein muss und nur mit Rindern geht. Die Kombi mit Färberginster, Kreuzblümchen & Bärwurz macht es ja wirklich ganz allerliebst!

Currently in the front yard pocket prairie: Foxglove beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis) Prairie cinquefoil (Drymocallis arguta) Fox sedge (Carex vulpinoidea)

Any system of mobile grazing such as amp/ mob/ cell/ holistic/ mig/ will more closely resemble natural grazing than set-stock/ continuous grazing does. The result would be higher heterogeneity, biodiversity, carbon sequestration, water infiltration and retention.

Das ist Hyperdiversität: um diesen Stubben auf einer Fläche von wenig mehr als 1 qm extensiver Kuhweide im Südharz stehen 10 Gehölzarten! Das ist Regenwald-Dimension: Birke, Sal-Weide, Brombeere, Weißdorn, Hainbuche, Eberesche, Schwarzer Holunder, Fichte, Hasel, Espe. Hundertmorgenwiese bei Zorge.

Interesting piece. I wonder at what point the word “restoration” itself is obscuring what’s needed.

Did you know that creating small clearings helps herbivores keep trees from taking over savannas?💭 This Plain Language Summary discusses how new glades draw grazers who keep young trees short. This slows woody encroachment & maintains open savannas in an affordable & scalable way🐃 🔗 bit.ly/4xfgWpX

Other interesting finds on my river walk yesterday: ghost pipe, red baneberry, purple lupine, a leaf fossil.

The same trail. Different users. New paper examining how wildlife respond to hiking and biking trails near Fernie, BC using camera traps and GPS-collared grizzly bears. Elk, bears, and other species don’t all respond to recreation the same way. Makes mgmt hard. academic.oup.com/jmammal/adva...

"Keeping [migration] paths intact in general is important to give the animals options to respond. As we chip away at that behavior, we’re chipping away at the ability to have large numbers of ungulates on the landscape.” - @claytontlamb.bsky.social therevelator.org/deer-caribou...

Ein kleines Landschaftsjuwel ist die Kuhweide südwestlich Wieda im Harz. Strukturell unglaublich divers. Im Vordergrund Trifolium medium.

Went to the river today, found this cool river viewing / salmon fishing structure. Yes, you walk on the log to get out there. More cedar waxwings than I could shake a stick at; beautiful birds which won't sit still for a photo. The blurry blob perched on top of the stick is the best I could get.

#Schwarzenegger's Big Five: water buffalo, Konik horses, cattle, donkeys & European bison - grazing 20 hectares of former farmland in Austria's Weinviertel back to life. Monoculture becomes mosaic. Small scale. Big idea. 🦬 #Rewilding #Weinviertel fm4.orf.at/story/rewild...

Regenerative agriculture figured out 40 years ago that moving herbivores around more closely simulates natural grazing dynamics, resulting in ecological benefits. Yet most rewilding projects are still set-stocking. Anyone else curious about what happens when rewilding gets regenerative?

A hay meadow almost dominated by Pepper Saxifrage in the Lower Derwent Valley. The fascinating thing about these meadows is that each is different, reflecting a combination of soil, hydrology and management history. @ldvnnr.bsky.social

Grote hoefdieren maken de Stille Kern het mooiste gebied van Flevoland. Wat een weelde.

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Just found my first ever Northern Alligator Lizard on my property. Actually I saw it's tail twitching on the driveway, and then found the lizard under a plantain...escaped from a brush with death, the lizard lives on.

What is “tending the wild” (and when did you start to forget the need to)

Last night I saw a nightjar or should I say…last night I saw a nightjar!!! Wild to be walking toward a rock on the pavement that suddenly flies. Even my dog was surprised. Such cool birds, with a special place in grassland lore and ecology…

Distelsvlinders zijn gek op kadavers. Alles wordt afgeslobberd om de waardevolle mineralen te bemachtigen. Dat is toch fantastisch. 🤩 #kadaverbar #dooddoetleven #natuur #mineralenkringloop #nutriëntenkringloop #vlinders @ark-rewildingnl.bsky.social @vlinderstichting.eurosky.social

Some good news: church grounds and graveyards across Ireland are becoming havens for birds, bees and bats as part of a biodiversity project inspired by Pope Francis. www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

One of the challenges, and potential places for advancement in nature recovery, is finding ways for people to live with nature in harmony, (or at least tolerance.) We can change the perception of beavers by highlighting their benefits.

Herbivores (foreground) & fire (background) in the Cantabrian Mountains, two processes shaping landscapes. Picos de Europa, N Spain 🧪🌍🔥🐎

Weidelandschaft von Feinsten #Lippeaue

Natural air conditioning

Sayer's Old Meadow is covered in wildflowers 21 yrs post-arable. The soil must have healed & every 2 paces there are oak or other tree saplings. If we did not mow it would rapidly be trees. So do we really have to plant trees to get forest on former farmland? Or just patience & trusting in nature?

What is the Great Drying? Human activities have degraded 75% of land on Earth, spreading drought. But we can fix it. Water isn't just a physical system. It needs life to work. Slow water enables life, rebalances rain -& even helps stabilize the climate. My TEDx talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vKu...

Ghostpingo #pond restorations are doing what they needed to do! We are recovering a lost wetland flora buried alive out in the corn fields by careful digging @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @patrickbarkham.bsky.social @wildernorfolk.bsky.social @brecksfarmerswn.bsky.social @farmwildlifeuk.bsky.social

Increasingly rare endemic Mariposa Lilly bloomin, one of five on site this year. Found one fortuitously last year, and returned to make note of the single leaf blade they prop up to charge with in spring, which led me to ID several others in two clusters. Only 1 in 5-10 go on to flower each yr.

Help with this sedge at edges of a #ghostpingo #pond, Norfolk. Want to call Common Yellow Sedge (Carex viridula agg.) which have had before but no beak on fruits. Help!!! Needs a proper botanist!!! @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social @bramblebotanist.bsky.social @astridbiddle.bsky.social

The thing where rattlesnakes are becoming more dangerous because they’re losing their rattles because the ones that warn us get killed preferentially is really peak humanity

Londen omarmt de bever: "Beaver engineering can turn the landscape into a sponge, allowing it to hold more water when it rains, meaning less runs off to flood downstream." edition.cnn.com/2026/06/18/c... @cnn.com #naturebasedsolutions #rewilding #NbS #klimaatadaptatie

A new webinar presentation just released by Dr. Paul Jepson, author of the book: "Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery"

I was born a couple of miles from this amazing old tree, so I know it well and I'd been in it's trunk cavity many times before it was fenced off. RIP Major Oak.

"Landscaping with native plants is just the beginning. Each additional resource added, including duplicates, will have compounding benefits that will greatly increase the activity, abundance and diversity of the creatures living in your garden." www.rewildingmag.com/5-things-eve...

When people talk about “rewilding your garden” letting the grass grow & providing flowers for pollinators is not enough Encourage many trophic interactions - predation, herbivory, scavenging, decomposition, etc eg, resources for birds & mammals: nest sites, invert & plant food, cover, & pathways

I don't know what drew me this little bit of water on Thorne moor today, but closer inspection showed Bladderwort flowers poking up above the water. Below are the 'bladders' that trap small prey to consume.

Hi guys A butterfly question. Is this a small heath? It was small. It had an orange upper wing that was very tricky to see as it rested with wings firmly closed. Dartmoor. Devon. On knapweed. Near ‘everything’ inc trees, bracken, species rich pasture et al! Thanks!

Beavers and large herbivores are medicine for water and land.