#wetlands
Meet Sally the Salamander: A Wetland Wonder in the Breathing Lands
https://raventrust.com/sally-the-salamander/ #salamander #Ontario #wetlands
"The human creation of #wetlands is an extremely costly undertaking and, frankly, we're not as good at it as #beavers." #watervoles #Scotland #conservation https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/17/beavers-create-habitat-suitable-for-water-voles-in-scottish-rainforest
Suncor should be boycotted for this. #DontMineMcClelland #wetlands
Peatlands are amazing carbon sinks. According to UNEP’s Global Peatland Assessment: The State of the World’s Peatlands, “despite only covering around 3-4% of the planet’s land surface, they contain up to one-third of the world’s soil carbon.”
Currently, in Northern Alberta, Suncor plans to expand their Fort Hills oil sands project into a stunning patterned fen, the McClelland Lake Wetland Complex. Their plan is to build a wall that divides the wetland into two. They will mine half of the wetland, while guaranteeing the other half remains undisturbed. This is farcical. The experiment is bound to fail.
@permaCulture
♲ Keith D Johnson - 2024-01-27 23:17:03 GMT
A friend of mine, Ben Missimer, makes #maps (& animated maps) to help others design their land for ecological resilience; basic contour maps, #hydrology, #forest cover, #wetlands, drainage, erosion, slope, #solar aspect, satellite images, & more (also all in large hi-rez, some suitable for framing & hanging on your walls).
He's okayed sharing these exemplary files. #permaculture #design https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qeb6nfvakmk81q1/AABw5yg-uSjwqHRWml8mOoG7a?dl=0If you need reasonably priced mapwork for your projects Ben's website is https://www.pearlriverecodesign.com/
Some random point in time, along the way. Letting go of hours and minutes for a moment, feeling cool air sneak into shorter days, into earlier dusk. But there's still a scent of wet grass, of apples and plums ripe with the last weeks sun, the sound of families heading home from the gardens, the sounds of kids and dogs and bicycles altogether under skies that have seen many rainbows in just a short period of time.
#outerworld #wetlands #moving_on #autumnal_harvest #summer_moves_on
Half the nation's wetlands just lost federal protection. Their fate is up to states
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Last month, a U.S. Supreme Court decision struck down federal protections for wetlands covering tens of millions of acres across the country, leaving no regulation of those areas in nearly half the states.
The court's narrowing of the Clean Water Act has left some states scrambling to enact their own safeguards and others questioning whether their regulators can handle the workload without their federal partners.
Other states, though, see the loss of federal oversight as an opportunity to roll back corresponding state laws at the behest of developers and farmers, who argue such regulations are overly burdensome.
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The court's ruling found that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency improperly claimed authority over an Idaho couple's effort to build a house on their property. The decision limits the scope of wetlands covered by the Clean Water Act to those with a continuous surface connection to a larger body of water. It also cut protections for "ephemeral" streams that only flow seasonally.
More than half of the country's 118 million acres of wetlands could be stripped from federal oversight, estimates Earthjustice, an environmental legal group. Advocates say the ruling ignores the fact that water often flows below ground, meaning unregulated wetlands could spread contamination to nearby lakes and rivers that the law does safeguard.
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#wetlands #USSC #environment #protections #CleanWaterAct #PhysOrg #biodiversity
Supreme Court rules against EPA in dispute over regulating wetlands
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-epa-clean-water-act/
Thinking Like Water
Thinking Like Water offers a front row seat to the pioneering work of 86-year-old “water wizard” Bill Zeedyk, and his proteges and allies, who have continually devised ways of transforming degraded wetlands and drylands into more resilient ecosystems that help gird against the ravages of drought and climate change.
One project at a time, these frontline nature enthusiasts are helping the West’s forests, grasslands, meadows, semi-arid deserts and working landscapes to thrive. Through partnerships and collaborations, more communities are learning how to live in alignment with nature rather than against her…by Thinking Like Water.
Today, Zeedyk is a legend in the ecological restoration community. But when he began this work 25 years ago, after retiring from the U.S. Forest Service, his ideas were considered almost heretical.
Building on the work of Luna Leopold (son of famed conservationist AldoLeopold) and the river guru Dave Rosgen, Zeedyk coaxes straightened streams back on their natural meandering course, lifts the creek, raises the water table and recreates lost habitats. All while using simple restoration techniques he designed or innovated upon. These constellations of “Zeedyk structures” have slowly gained favor and now his methods have even been institutionalized.
This story hopes to celebrate and capture the philosophy and creativity at the root of Zeedyk’s decades long history of revolutionizing a field of restoration in a compelling, and sometimes humorous way, that leaves viewers enlightened, entertained, and inspired!
#ThinkingLikeWater #documentary #film #nature #environment #resilient #ecosystem #wetlands #drylands #restoration #LunaLeopold #DaveRosgen #BillZeedyk #ReneaRoberts #R3Productions #docu-films
Today's Environment News India
🙊 Ranthambore Tigers up to Twice as Inbred as Those of Central, Southern India
🙊 Navi Mumbai: Centre steps in after greens' SOS on golf course issue
🙊 Scheme to save crop from animals finds many takers
🙊 Fresh cases of bird flu detected in Kerala’s Alappuzha district
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#environment #india #community #mumbai #wildlife #wildlifeconservation #tiger #conservation #conservationeducation #research #researchmatters #reforestation #farmer #kerala #wetlands
Hank Paulson: The World's Biodiversity Is in Peril
#greenhousegasemissions #endangeredandextinctspecies #biodiversity #globalwarming #unitednationsconventiononbiologicaldiversity #conservationofresources #reefs #birds #food #fishandothermarinelife #forestsandforestry #wetlands #rabies #intergovernmentalpanelonclimatechange #greatbarrierreefaustralia #india #unitedstates #news
Leaked EU anti-deforestation law omits fragile grasslands and wetlands
The Guardian
Campaigners say draft regulation contains many loopholes, including exclusion of Cerrado and Pantanal.
The fragile Cerrado grasslands and the Pantanal wetlands, both under threat from soy and beef exploitation, have been excluded from a European Union draft anti-deforestation law, campaigners have said, and there are many other concerning loopholes. (...)
The long-awaited draft regulation, expected to be published in December, will be limited to controlling EU imports of beef, palm oil, soy, wood, cocoa and coffee, according to a report seen by the Guardian. (...)
Campaigners said the EU risks getting it wrong. They criticised the exclusion from the proposals of rubber, leather, maize and other kinds of meat, linking pigs and chickens to “embedded deforestation” through the use of soy as animal feed. (...)
The Together4Forests campaign called for the regulation to ensure protection for all kinds of ecosystems, not only forests. (...)
Other ecosystems will be excluded, even though the EU document concedes that stricter rules to protect the Amazon rainforest “have already been shown to accelerate conversion of Cerrado savannah and Pantanal wetlands for agricultural production”. It also notes that the Cerrado is “a critical region for storing carbon”, a source of water, vegetation and abundant plant life, but concludes that including such ecosystems would make it more difficult to monitor forests. (...)
The document also reveals that the law “will not specifically target the financial sector”, a blow to campaigners who argued that European banks play a role in fuelling deforestation through their lending. (...)
An endangered giant otter in a lagoon in western Pantanal – which is one of the world’s largest freshwater wetlands but is not covered by the draft law. Photograph: Nature Picture Library/Alamy.
Tags: #environment #eu #european_union #brazil #brasil #brazilie #bolivia #paraguay #cerrado #pantanal #wetlands #savannah #peatlands #cattle_farming #soy #beef #soy_plantation #palm_oil #palm_oil_plantation #deforestation #rubber #maize #wood #cocoa #coffee #plantation #coffee_plantation #maize_plantation #agriculture #Together4Forests