"The Rewilding Nation Pathway aims to restore nature across 30% of Scottish lands and seas in one of the most nature-depleted countries on earth.
#Rewilding would help #Scotland tackle the climate emergency and create opportunities for local communities for health, jobs, food production and repeopling."
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24778057.rewilding-nation-pathway-can-help-repeopling-highlands/
#Rewilding worked like magic on this glen:
"On 1 January 2000, the first trees were planted, and a boundary fence was erected to stop deer from grazing on the saplings.
Fast forward 22 years and the impact is enormous. What was once a denuded landscape barren of almost all life is now a thriving ecosystem replanted with native species of trees."
The research "found that #reforestation will benefit many species both locally, by increasing habitat, and globally, by mitigating climate change. These include many iconic forest species from spotted salamanders and red-bellied woodpeckers to jaguars."
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-reforestation-based-climate-mitigation-strategies.html
#Rewilding
"The bison themselves aren’t a significant carbon sink. It is their influence on the wider environment – compacting soil, dispersing seeds and creating varied habitats through their browsing – that has turbocharged its ability to absorb carbon. The area in which they roam is now soaking up 10 times the amount that it was before the bison were reintroduced."
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26535360-800-how-a-surprising-twist-on-rewilding-could-help-settle-our-carbon-debt/
#rewilding
