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Positive Wildlife News 2021
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Nottinghamshire one step closer to bringing beavers back to county
Plans to reintroduce beavers in Nottinghamshire – bringing them back to the county for the first time in 400 years – is one step closer after Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust received its Beaver Reintroduction Licence.
Nottinghamshire one step closer to bringing beavers back to county | Nottingham Trent University
Plans to reintroduce beavers in Nottinghamshire – bringing them back to the county for the first time in 400 years – is one step closer after Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust received its Beaver Reintroduction Licence.
Nottinghamshire one step closer to bringing beavers back to county | Nottingham Trent University
Good on Florida governor Ron DeSantis for signing the Florida Wildlife Corridor Act into law.
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Florida Wildlife Corridor Coalition on LinkedIn: #FloridaWidlifeCorridor #KeepFLWild #Florida
Los Angeles is Now a Certified Wildlife Habitat. Here’s Why It’s a Big Deal
With urban nature threatened by pollution, climate change, and habitat loss, the city is making a push to preserve its beautiful biodiversity.
“We saw the opportunity to certify the entire city with the National Wildlife Federation as an opportunity to do some great outreach and promote a lot of ideas and goals of our biodiversity program,” says Michelle Barton, environmental specialist for LASAN.
Historically, urban nature has been an understudied area, but interest in the subject has grown in recent years with the advent of apps like iNaturalist and eBird, which allow anyone to upload their own nature photos to potentially be used as data by researchers, and global events like City Nature Challenge, which was co-founded by community science leaders at Natural History Museum of Los Angeles and California Academy of Sciences. The certification and LASAN’s related outreach programs are more ways to engage Angelenos in local nature at a pivotal time.
L.A. Is Now a Certified Wildlife Habitat. Here's Why It's a Big Deal
With urban nature threatened by pollution, climate change, and habitat loss, the city is making a push to preserve its beautiful biodiversity.
“We saw the opportunity to certify the entire city with the National Wildlife Federation as an opportunity to do some great outreach and promote a lot of ideas and goals of our biodiversity program,” says Michelle Barton, environmental specialist for LASAN.
Historically, urban nature has been an understudied area, but interest in the subject has grown in recent years with the advent of apps like iNaturalist and eBird, which allow anyone to upload their own nature photos to potentially be used as data by researchers, and global events like City Nature Challenge, which was co-founded by community science leaders at Natural History Museum of Los Angeles and California Academy of Sciences. The certification and LASAN’s related outreach programs are more ways to engage Angelenos in local nature at a pivotal time.
L.A. Is Now a Certified Wildlife Habitat. Here's Why It's a Big Deal
Deep-sea corals off coastal Maine get permanent protection
Fisheries regulators in the Northeast permanently protected 25,000 square miles of seafloor against some types of commercial fishing, in an effort to protect sensitive deep-sea corals.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a final rule this week that bars mobile bottom-trawling gear from vast deep-sea areas along the outer continental shelf off New England and in smaller areas closer to Maine’s coast.
“The deep sea corals have a very fragile skeleton, and can be broken or displaced with a single pass of these nets, and they won’t recover,” said Gib Brogan, who directs advocacy campaigns for Oceana, a nonprofit ocean conservation group.
Deep-sea corals off coastal Maine get permanent protection
Fisheries regulators in the Northeast permanently protected 25,000 square miles of seafloor against some types of commercial fishing, in an effort to protect sensitive deep-sea corals.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a final rule this week that bars mobile bottom-trawling gear from vast deep-sea areas along the outer continental shelf off New England and in smaller areas closer to Maine’s coast.
“The deep sea corals have a very fragile skeleton, and can be broken or displaced with a single pass of these nets, and they won’t recover,” said Gib Brogan, who directs advocacy campaigns for Oceana, a nonprofit ocean conservation group.
Deep-sea corals off coastal Maine get permanent protection
It’s a gharial! After 45 yrs of wait, Odisha welcomes first hatchlings
As many as 28 hatchlings were spotted towards the end of May in the Mahanadi, in the Baladamara area near Satkosia range, and officials have been monitoring them closely since, with round-the-clock vigil including drones.
https://indianexpress-com.cdn.amppr...ural-nesting-endangered-species-7366892/lite/
As many as 28 hatchlings were spotted towards the end of May in the Mahanadi, in the Baladamara area near Satkosia range, and officials have been monitoring them closely since, with round-the-clock vigil including drones.
https://indianexpress-com.cdn.amppr...ural-nesting-endangered-species-7366892/lite/
From dirty coal mining to protected land, Norway expands national park on Svalbard
Important to protect the Van Mijen fjord as sea ice provides habitat for seals and polar bears, says Minister of Climate and Environment, Sveinung Rotevatn.
While Isfjorden (the Ice fjord) hasn’t seen sea ice over the last decade, the Van Mijen fjord on the west coast of Spitsbergen at the Svalbard archipelago still provides important winter and spring ice for polar bears to hunt for seals.
The Norwegian government on June 18 expanded what until now has been the Nordenskiöld Land national park by 2,914 square kilometers. The new name is Van Mijen fjord national park (map), covering areas all south towards the existing Sør-Spitsbergen national park.
From dirty coal mining to protected land, Norway expands national park on Svalbard
Important to protect the Van Mijen fjord as sea ice provides habitat for seals and polar bears, says Minister of Climate and Environment, Sveinung Rotevatn.
While Isfjorden (the Ice fjord) hasn’t seen sea ice over the last decade, the Van Mijen fjord on the west coast of Spitsbergen at the Svalbard archipelago still provides important winter and spring ice for polar bears to hunt for seals.
The Norwegian government on June 18 expanded what until now has been the Nordenskiöld Land national park by 2,914 square kilometers. The new name is Van Mijen fjord national park (map), covering areas all south towards the existing Sør-Spitsbergen national park.
From dirty coal mining to protected land, Norway expands national park on Svalbard
Griffon Vultures are breeding in Morocco after 40-year absence
The Griffon Vulture is once again breeding Morocco after 40 years, thanks to a reintroduction program undertaken by the Water and Forestry Department in partnership with GREPOM/BirdLife Morocco
The first step towards the reintroduction of the Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus into the wild in Morocco dates back to 2017, with the release of five vultures by the Water and Forestry Department. Since then, the department, in partnership with GREPOM/BirdLife Maroc, has made tireless efforts which have helped achieve today's success.
"It is a real pleasure to see Griffon Vultures mating and breeding for the very first time at Jbel Moussa. Griffon Vultures had been breeding in Morocco until the 1980s, but known colonies left and the species most likely disappeared from the country thereafter," says Khadija Bourass, Executive Director of GREPOM/Birdlife Maroc.
The successful project was undertaken at the Vulture Rehabilitation Centre on the southern shore of the Strait of Gibraltar, right on the summit of the majestic Mount Jbel Moussa, a biological and ecological site. The centre, co-managed by GREPOM/BirdLife Maroc and the Water and Forestry Department, was opened in May 2020 and a month later, it hosted the launch of the Griffon Vultures’ reintroduction program. Through this program, vultures in distress that are rescued during annual migration periods are placed in specialized facilities where they are provided with necessary care until their recovery.
Griffon Vultures are breeding in Morocco after 40-year absence
The Griffon Vulture is once again breeding Morocco after 40 years, thanks to a reintroduction program undertaken by the Water and Forestry Department in partnership with GREPOM/BirdLife Morocco
The first step towards the reintroduction of the Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus into the wild in Morocco dates back to 2017, with the release of five vultures by the Water and Forestry Department. Since then, the department, in partnership with GREPOM/BirdLife Maroc, has made tireless efforts which have helped achieve today's success.
"It is a real pleasure to see Griffon Vultures mating and breeding for the very first time at Jbel Moussa. Griffon Vultures had been breeding in Morocco until the 1980s, but known colonies left and the species most likely disappeared from the country thereafter," says Khadija Bourass, Executive Director of GREPOM/Birdlife Maroc.
The successful project was undertaken at the Vulture Rehabilitation Centre on the southern shore of the Strait of Gibraltar, right on the summit of the majestic Mount Jbel Moussa, a biological and ecological site. The centre, co-managed by GREPOM/BirdLife Maroc and the Water and Forestry Department, was opened in May 2020 and a month later, it hosted the launch of the Griffon Vultures’ reintroduction program. Through this program, vultures in distress that are rescued during annual migration periods are placed in specialized facilities where they are provided with necessary care until their recovery.
Griffon Vultures are breeding in Morocco after 40-year absence
Gray Wolf Pups Are Spotted in Colorado for the First Time in 80 Years
The litter was born amid a contentious plan to reintroduce the species to the state.
Only a few weeks ago, wildlife officials in Colorado thought they were tracking two male wolves.
The gray wolves, among only a handful spotted in the state in recent years, had been described as possible hunting partners, roaming around without mates. Not only did one of them turn out to be female, but the pair has now produced a litter of gray wolf pups — the state’s first since the 1940s.
The growing family has taken up residence in Jackson County, which borders Wyoming. Colorado Parks and Wildlife personnel, observing the den site from about two miles away, recorded multiple sightings this month of the two adults with at least three pups, although there could be more since there are usually four to six pups in a wolf litter.
“We welcome this historic den and the new wolf family to Colorado,” Gov. Jared Polis said in a statement last week.
There are likely to be more sightings of the pups, which have not been photographed, as they grow bigger and venture outside the den more often, wildlife officials said.
https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproj...021/06/14/us/gray-wolf-pups-colorado.amp.html
The litter was born amid a contentious plan to reintroduce the species to the state.
Only a few weeks ago, wildlife officials in Colorado thought they were tracking two male wolves.
The gray wolves, among only a handful spotted in the state in recent years, had been described as possible hunting partners, roaming around without mates. Not only did one of them turn out to be female, but the pair has now produced a litter of gray wolf pups — the state’s first since the 1940s.
The growing family has taken up residence in Jackson County, which borders Wyoming. Colorado Parks and Wildlife personnel, observing the den site from about two miles away, recorded multiple sightings this month of the two adults with at least three pups, although there could be more since there are usually four to six pups in a wolf litter.
“We welcome this historic den and the new wolf family to Colorado,” Gov. Jared Polis said in a statement last week.
There are likely to be more sightings of the pups, which have not been photographed, as they grow bigger and venture outside the den more often, wildlife officials said.
https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproj...021/06/14/us/gray-wolf-pups-colorado.amp.html
House Passes Pro-Wildlife Infrastructure Bill
“This bill is truly a win for both people and wildlife,” said Curt Chaffin senior government relations representative at Defenders of Wildlife. “Habitat destruction is one of the main drivers of the biodiversity crisis. Investments that address habitat connectivity and protect wildlife and the places they call home are an essential part of the solution. These wildlife infrastructure provisions will protect biodiversity, increase public safety and create local jobs.”
After months of negotiations, today, the U.S House of Representatives passed its bi-partisan infrastructure bill, INVEST in America Act, H.R.3684, that includes several pro-wildlife provisions, most notably investments to establish a national wildlife corridor protection program.
House Passes Pro-Wildlife Infrastructure Bill
“This bill is truly a win for both people and wildlife,” said Curt Chaffin senior government relations representative at Defenders of Wildlife. “Habitat destruction is one of the main drivers of the biodiversity crisis. Investments that address habitat connectivity and protect wildlife and the places they call home are an essential part of the solution. These wildlife infrastructure provisions will protect biodiversity, increase public safety and create local jobs.”
After months of negotiations, today, the U.S House of Representatives passed its bi-partisan infrastructure bill, INVEST in America Act, H.R.3684, that includes several pro-wildlife provisions, most notably investments to establish a national wildlife corridor protection program.
House Passes Pro-Wildlife Infrastructure Bill
Florida enacts sweeping law to protect its wildlife corridors
The Florida Wildlife Corridor Act was passed unanimously. It aims to protect green spaces, drinking water, and wildlife such as panthers.
Florida made conservation history by enacting a bill and securing $400 million in funding to help protect the state’s vast network of natural areas.
Known as the Florida Wildlife Corridor Act, the legislation passed the Florida State Senate and House unanimously in late April. It was signed by Governor Ron DeSantis on the evening of June 29.
The act formally recognizes the existence of the Florida wildlife corridor, an interconnected web of green spaces throughout much of the state that includes forests, swamps, fields, pastures, timberlands, and even the edges of suburbs.
Florida enacts sweeping law to protect its wildlife corridors
The Florida Wildlife Corridor Act was passed unanimously. It aims to protect green spaces, drinking water, and wildlife such as panthers.
Florida made conservation history by enacting a bill and securing $400 million in funding to help protect the state’s vast network of natural areas.
Known as the Florida Wildlife Corridor Act, the legislation passed the Florida State Senate and House unanimously in late April. It was signed by Governor Ron DeSantis on the evening of June 29.
The act formally recognizes the existence of the Florida wildlife corridor, an interconnected web of green spaces throughout much of the state that includes forests, swamps, fields, pastures, timberlands, and even the edges of suburbs.
Florida enacts sweeping law to protect its wildlife corridors
Grasshopper bred in captivity returns to East Anglia marshes
Citizen zookeepers release endangered large marsh grasshopper in former strongholds
Britain’s largest grasshopper is being bred in captivity by citizen zookeepers and returned to marshes across East Anglia in a move to revive the endangered species.
The large marsh grasshopper, an elusive green insect that can appear in a striking pink-and-yellow form, is too isolated in fragments of wetland to hop back to its former strongholds.
So volunteers for Citizen Zoo, a social enterprise that promotes rewilding and community engagement, are releasing about 1,000 grasshoppers at two secret sites this summer.
https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.amp...d-in-captivity-returns-to-east-anglia-marshes
Citizen zookeepers release endangered large marsh grasshopper in former strongholds
Britain’s largest grasshopper is being bred in captivity by citizen zookeepers and returned to marshes across East Anglia in a move to revive the endangered species.
The large marsh grasshopper, an elusive green insect that can appear in a striking pink-and-yellow form, is too isolated in fragments of wetland to hop back to its former strongholds.
So volunteers for Citizen Zoo, a social enterprise that promotes rewilding and community engagement, are releasing about 1,000 grasshoppers at two secret sites this summer.
https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.amp...d-in-captivity-returns-to-east-anglia-marshes
Beavers set to be released in London as part of urban rewilding
Citizen Zoo plans to reintroduce animals in Tottenham as part of effort to ‘beaver up’ the capital
Beavers are set to be released in London in the UK’s most significant urban reintroduction, the Guardian can reveal.
It is hoped the rodents, which went extinct in the UK 400 years ago after being hunted for their fur and an oil they produce, will be brought to a site in Tottenham.
Beavers set to be released in London as part of urban rewilding
Citizen Zoo plans to reintroduce animals in Tottenham as part of effort to ‘beaver up’ the capital
Beavers are set to be released in London in the UK’s most significant urban reintroduction, the Guardian can reveal.
It is hoped the rodents, which went extinct in the UK 400 years ago after being hunted for their fur and an oil they produce, will be brought to a site in Tottenham.
Beavers set to be released in London as part of urban rewilding
Florida’s Remarkable New Wildlife Corridor from the Panhandle to the Keys
This week, Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, who is known nationally for his unstinting impersonation of the state’s most famous new resident, signed into law a remarkable piece of environmental legislation that could become a model for the rest of the country. The project will establish the Florida Wildlife Corridor, a blueprint for the state to connect all of its large national and state parks with tracts of open land. The corridor, once complete, would create an unbroken swath of preserved land from the Alabama state line all the way to the Florida Keys, nearly eight hundred miles away. It would insure that a population of wildlife—whether it be black bears or panthers or gopher tortoises—would not be cut off from other groups of its species, which is one of the main drivers of extinction.
https://www-newyorker-com.cdn.amppr...e-corridor-from-the-panhandle-to-the-keys/amp
This week, Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, who is known nationally for his unstinting impersonation of the state’s most famous new resident, signed into law a remarkable piece of environmental legislation that could become a model for the rest of the country. The project will establish the Florida Wildlife Corridor, a blueprint for the state to connect all of its large national and state parks with tracts of open land. The corridor, once complete, would create an unbroken swath of preserved land from the Alabama state line all the way to the Florida Keys, nearly eight hundred miles away. It would insure that a population of wildlife—whether it be black bears or panthers or gopher tortoises—would not be cut off from other groups of its species, which is one of the main drivers of extinction.
https://www-newyorker-com.cdn.amppr...e-corridor-from-the-panhandle-to-the-keys/amp
Rare butterfly makes return to restored woodland commemorating Trafalgar victory
A new population of one of the UK’s rarest butterflies has been found at a woodland site where restoration work has helped wildlife return, conservationists said.
The heath fritillary, which has been brought back from the brink of extinction with the help of conservation efforts in the past two decades, has been discovered at the Woodland Trust’s Victory Wood in east Kent.
The site, once ancient woodland which was felled and ploughed up between the 1950s and 1970s and later earmarked as a potential landfill site, was saved by the charity in 2004.
It became a flagship site for the Trafalgar Woods Project to commemorate the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, and restoration work has been carried out to link surviving ancient woodland fragments, with tree planting and measures to allow woods to naturally regenerate.
Rare butterfly makes return to restored woodland... | Daily Mail Online
A new population of one of the UK’s rarest butterflies has been found at a woodland site where restoration work has helped wildlife return, conservationists said.
The heath fritillary, which has been brought back from the brink of extinction with the help of conservation efforts in the past two decades, has been discovered at the Woodland Trust’s Victory Wood in east Kent.
The site, once ancient woodland which was felled and ploughed up between the 1950s and 1970s and later earmarked as a potential landfill site, was saved by the charity in 2004.
It became a flagship site for the Trafalgar Woods Project to commemorate the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, and restoration work has been carried out to link surviving ancient woodland fragments, with tree planting and measures to allow woods to naturally regenerate.
Rare butterfly makes return to restored woodland... | Daily Mail Online
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North Carolina Coastal Land Trust Purchases Vast Floodplain Forest on the Cape Fear River near Navassa
The Coastal Land Trust is pleased to announce the purchase of 1,048 acres along 3.5 miles of the Cape Fear River and 1.5 miles of Indian Creek in Brunswick County, just north of the Town of Navassa.
“The area is a vast floodplain forest rich with wildlife,” said Coastal Land Trust Executive Director Walker Golder. “Protecting this forest will help to reduce the risk and severity of flooding to downstream communities, protect habitat for wildlife, and enhance water quality.”
The conserved land is the heart of Dollison’s Swamp, a site identified as “very ecologically significant” by the North Carolina Natural Heritage Program. This designation is due to its age and near-pristine bottomland hardwood and cypress-gum forest. It was also identified as a high-priority site for protection by the Town of Navassa and the Coastal Land Trust as culturally and ecologically significant.
The area’s floodplain forest, creeks, and freshwater marsh provide important nursery areas for anadromous fish such as striped bass, American and hickory shad, and possibly Atlantic sturgeon (a federally listed Threatened species); provide habitat for the rare Rafinesque’s Big-eared Bat (Threatened species) and Southeastern Bat (Species of Special Concern); and serve as important habitat for bottomland forest-dependent wading birds, waterfowl, raptors and songbirds, like the Prothonotary Warbler.
Coastal Land Trust Purchases Vast Floodplain Forest on the Cape Fear River near Navassa
The Coastal Land Trust is pleased to announce the purchase of 1,048 acres along 3.5 miles of the Cape Fear River and 1.5 miles of Indian Creek in Brunswick County, just north of the Town of Navassa.
“The area is a vast floodplain forest rich with wildlife,” said Coastal Land Trust Executive Director Walker Golder. “Protecting this forest will help to reduce the risk and severity of flooding to downstream communities, protect habitat for wildlife, and enhance water quality.”
The conserved land is the heart of Dollison’s Swamp, a site identified as “very ecologically significant” by the North Carolina Natural Heritage Program. This designation is due to its age and near-pristine bottomland hardwood and cypress-gum forest. It was also identified as a high-priority site for protection by the Town of Navassa and the Coastal Land Trust as culturally and ecologically significant.
The area’s floodplain forest, creeks, and freshwater marsh provide important nursery areas for anadromous fish such as striped bass, American and hickory shad, and possibly Atlantic sturgeon (a federally listed Threatened species); provide habitat for the rare Rafinesque’s Big-eared Bat (Threatened species) and Southeastern Bat (Species of Special Concern); and serve as important habitat for bottomland forest-dependent wading birds, waterfowl, raptors and songbirds, like the Prothonotary Warbler.
Coastal Land Trust Purchases Vast Floodplain Forest on the Cape Fear River near Navassa
Critically endangered antelope saiga makes comeback
The population of a rare type of antelope has more than doubled since 2019, in a remarkable turn around in fortunes.
According to the first aerial survey in two years, the number of saiga in their Kazakhstan heartland has risen from 334,000 to 842,000.
There were fears the animal was on the brink of extinction following a mass die-off in 2015.
Distressing images of carcasses strewn over the steppes made world headlines.
That, together with the natural resilience of the species, gives hope for their future, said Albert Salemgareyev of the Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan (ACBK).
"They give birth to twins every year, which gives high potential for the species to quickly recover," he told BBC News.
Critically endangered antelope saiga makes comeback
The population of a rare type of antelope has more than doubled since 2019, in a remarkable turn around in fortunes.
According to the first aerial survey in two years, the number of saiga in their Kazakhstan heartland has risen from 334,000 to 842,000.
There were fears the animal was on the brink of extinction following a mass die-off in 2015.
Distressing images of carcasses strewn over the steppes made world headlines.
- Ice-Age antelope poachers kill ranger
- Antelopes dying out in Kazakhstan
- Scientists probe antelope deaths
That, together with the natural resilience of the species, gives hope for their future, said Albert Salemgareyev of the Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan (ACBK).
"They give birth to twins every year, which gives high potential for the species to quickly recover," he told BBC News.
Critically endangered antelope saiga makes comeback
How Tourism Is Helping Save Pumas in Patagonia
Some ranchers and cats have found a way to coexist.
After years of hostilities, ranchers and pumas in Patagonia might have found a way to peacefully coexist thanks to tourists, a new study finds.
https://www-treehugger-com.cdn.ampp.../tourism-helping-save-pumas-patagonia-5190518
Some ranchers and cats have found a way to coexist.
After years of hostilities, ranchers and pumas in Patagonia might have found a way to peacefully coexist thanks to tourists, a new study finds.
https://www-treehugger-com.cdn.ampp.../tourism-helping-save-pumas-patagonia-5190518
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Here is another relevant article.
Almost extinct Saiga antelopes remerge in Kazakhstan following conservation efforts
Marking good news for environmentalists and conservationists, a rare type of antelope which was on the brink of extinction has reemerged in Kazakhstan.
Marking a good news for environmentalists, a rare type of antelope which was on the brink of extinction has reemerged in Kazakhstan. The population of Saiga has more than doubled since 2019 pushing its numbers from 334,000 to 842,000 just within two years. Since 2002, the medium-sized hoofed mammal has been categorized as 'critically endangered' in the IUCN list.
Almost extinct Saiga antelopes remerge in Kazakhstan following conservation efforts
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