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DoomsdaysCW

8 Cities #Rewilding Their Urban Spaces

by Linnea Harris, Jun 15, 2021

"In the midst of a massive, global loss of nature, cities around the world are finding ways to protect and expand open spaces and '#rewild' their communities.

"Between 2001 and 2017, the United States alone lost 24 million acres of natural area – or the equivalent of nine Grand Canyon national parks – largely due to housing sprawl, agriculture, energy development, and other anthropogenic factors, according to a 2019 Reuters report. Every day, 6,000 acres of open space – parks, forests, farms, grasslands, ranches, streams, and rivers – are converted for other uses.

"Rewilding restores an area to its original, uncultivated state, shifting away from the centuries-long practice of controlling and managing nature for human need. It incorporates both the old and the new, allowing wildness to reclaim an area and/or incorporating new elements of architectural or landscape design, like growing greenery on the facades of buildings.

"The practice of rewilding is frequently carried out in wild areas; many projects aim to restore biodiversity in an ecosystem, often by reintroducing animal species that are high on the food chain, which in turn stabilizes lower species. One of the most famous cases of rewilding is the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park in 1995.

"Cities too have begun rewilding; but, although these were spaces were once as wild as Yellowstone, introducing apex predators to New York City or Tokyo might not be the best method for success. Rewilding in urban areas might instead include reintroducing native plant species, building parks on empty lots, incorporating more biophilic design when building new structures, or simply allowing nature to reclaim space. A major draw to rewilding in urban areas is the proven positive impact of nature on human health – particularly for city-dwellers with less access to outdoor spaces."

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ecowatch.com/cities-rewilding-
#RewildingCities #GreenCities #Greenspace #SolarPunkSunday

EcoWatch · 8 Cities Rewilding Their Urban Spaces - EcoWatchIn the midst of a massive, global loss of nature, cities around the world are finding ways to protect and expand open spaces and "rewild" their communities. Between 2001 and 2017, the United States alone lost 24 million acres of natural area – or the equivalent of nine Grand Canyon national parks – largely due to housing sprawl...
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Caitlin Waddick

@ntnsndr For anyone, the Open Social Incubator project is ... colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/0
...an example of how people can build technical #skills to create #communities in online spaces that are democratically-run, open #SocialNetworks, not corporate spaces that are run by autocrats.
#PeerToPeer #mentoring #mentorships #skillBuilding #activism #SolidarityEconomy #artists #sustainability #bioregionalism #permaculture, #journalism #publicInterest, #socialMedia, #BlueSky #network #rewild #art

Media Economies Design LabOpen Call: Join the Open Social IncubatorApplications are now closedDo the online communities and groups that you participate in use digital tools that truly serve your values? Do you want to break
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Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her)

All spring, summer & fall, I've been working to rewild a patch of my yard. (Landscapers rewilded two other patches, but this one is all mine.) I pulled invasive species, turned a dead bush into a wood pile, pulled up old landscaping fabric, & researched native plants. Today was the final step it had all led up to: sowing the seeds.

It feels like an incantation, casting these tiny seeds on a steep hill that is not ideal. It feels absurd that it could work.

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#Climate #rewild #native #plants

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Keith D Johnson

#Rewild yourself.
#Permaculture Zone 4/5 Design Strategies
Patchy #SilvoPasture & Increased #Biodiversity Linked....
"Making a forest patchy is easier than making an open grassland patchy, since it’s easier to chop down trees & for open-ground plants to colonize the gaps. Making an open, grassy location patchy means planting trees (& them surviving) in places too dry or cold to support tree growth.
LAND WITHOUT PEOPLE MAY HAVE LESS BIODIVERSITY
"Many people today advocate for enhancing biodiversity by minimizing human influence on landscapes. Often this takes the form of #rewilding, which aims to “let nature lead”.
Yet our results suggest that in many places – though not all – minimally human-modified landscapes had fewer different types of plants. Often, human disturbances enhanced rather than eroded biodiversity. Indeed, many of Europe’s biodiverse places today are traditionally managed, low-intensity farmlands such as Alpine meadows & the dehesas & montados in Spain & Portugal. " theconversation.com/the-first-

The ConversationThe first farmers often made landscapes more biodiverse – our research could have lessons for rewilding todayScientists analysed thousands of years of pollen data and made a surprising discovery.
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Ms. Que Banh

5 years ago, this spot was just useless colonial lawn. Now, it's full of #biodiversity & attracts multiple pollinators, birds & beneficial insects. There's lots of buttercups, nettles, clovers, miner's lettuce, wild violets, sedges, buckwheat & tall grasses growing now. You can even see some self seeded chive flowers in background.

#Rewilding takes longtime, consistent efforts, over a few years. It's worth the time & effort! Rewilding is one way that I actively & personally contribute, locally, to essential #ClimateAction 🙌 I believe in living true to your core values & ethics. I love hearing/seeing/discussing #rewild subjects with folks - offline or online 😀

Rewilded meadow with lots of buttercups & many other plants.
#Saanich#GrowPlantsNotLawns#Nature
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Albert Cardona

@futurebird

"Nothing defines sense of place like the native plants that grow there. We live in an age where place almost means nothing, because in a homogenous consumer culture every place looks the same - just as ugly and bland as the rest. Killing the lawn allows us to restore that sense of place to where we live, but more importantly it allows us to grow the plants that once formed the living skin of the land that we live on, and it allows us to develop a bond and connection with the living world around us, as human beings have done for hundreds of thousands of years."

True that–deeply so. And also shows us the fauna that fed on and pollinated such plants. Living on forgotten margins of our suburban wastelands, they come back and seize any chance such as a rewilded lawn. If only we let nature do its thing.

crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/k

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn'tKILL YOUR LAWN — Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't
#rewild#noLawn
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Francesco Orsenigo (he/him)

My father died four years ago and left me some money.
It's not much, but I was considering whether it would make sense to try and buy a piece of deteriorated land and restore / #rewild it, in his memory.

The goal would be to turn it into a #carbonsink and sanctuary for local species.

The problem is that I know nothing about ecology and restoration, and while I plan to study and do my homework, the risk of doing worse is there.

I live in Sweden.

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Bianca Nogrady

What does it mean to '#rewild' Australia's #deserts; landscapes that have been peopled by #Indigenous Australians for tens of thousands of years, and which have been relatively untouched by the harms of #colonisation?
The answer may lie more in the idea of 're-caring' than #rewilding: theguardian.com/environment/20

The GuardianBeyond the fence: what does it mean to rewild the Australian desert?By Bianca Nogrady
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Rewilding Magazine

"We, collectively and as individuals, DO have the power to make the world a wilder place. Don’t underestimate your ability to contribute and make a positive impact. Choose one small thing, then another, and become part of a caring community of like-minded humans trying to do their best to protect and #rewild the Earth."

Learn how to contribute on #WorldRewildingDay and beyond >> rewildingmag.com/how-to-rewild

Rewilding Magazine · How to Rewild: 10 Ways to Take ActionFrom writing letters to supporting wildlife corridors, these ideas will help you make a difference in ways both large and small.
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