‘Rewilding’ the World: A Bright Spot for Biodiversity

[Staff]

‘Rewilding’ the World: A Bright Spot for Biodiversity
11 Feb 2010: Opinion
Environment 360
By Caroline Fraser

‘Rewilding’ the World: A Bright Spot for Biodiversity by Caroline Fraser: Yale Environment 360
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As burgeoning human populations place greater pressure on wild areas, a strategy is emerging for preserving threatened lands and wildlife. Known as ‘rewilding,’ it involves expanding core wilderness areas, connecting them via corridors that allow humans and animals to co-exist, and protecting and reintroducing top predators....

[Gloria]

To Staff, excellent article, Thank You.
I will be reading the book as soon as it can be acquired.

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They have also reached out to the reserve’s neighbors: Mexican ranchers, like American ones, have always shot big predators on sight, but biologists with Defenders of Wildlife designed a clever contest, equipping ranches with remote camera traps. For every picture of a live jaguar, mountain lion, or other cat, participating ranchers who promised to leave the animals unmolested were paid a handsome sum — $500 for a jaguar, $100 for a mountain lion. Asked what he would do with the money, one rancher said, “Buy more cats!”

In the United States, the restoration of wetlands is generating jobs, from Chesapeake Bay in the east to Puget Sound in the west. The Puget Sound Partnership, a network of environmental groups and state agencies — tasked with cleaning up decades of pollutants — represents one of the most massive ecological restoration projects in the nation’s history: The partnership recently identified a half-a-billion dollars worth of “shovel-ready” stimulus projects, from removing tons of fishing nets and other debris to restoring tidal salt marsh habitat, itself a powerfully-effective means of sequestering carbon.

A bit of good news is appreciated. So often the problems can seem insurmountable and I start to feel myself withdrawing .
In Africa, Mexico, The USA, and other places around the world people are working on solutions that include human population. It gives one hope...Gloria

Hope is the Thing With Feathers
Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

[Gloria]

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By Caroline Fraser

[Calliandra]

I added a thread in the library, if anyone would like to discuss the Rewilding book there:
http://www.wildlifegardeners.org/for...on-fraser.html