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Beautiful and important piece on #rewilding, what we stand to lose, what we've gained and the hidden costs. (From 2 years ago, worth revisiting).
https://www.codastory.com/climate-crisis/rewilding-beavers-conservation/
Beautiful and important piece on #rewilding, what we stand to lose, what we've gained and the hidden costs. (From 2 years ago, worth revisiting).
https://www.codastory.com/climate-crisis/rewilding-beavers-conservation/
We put a small box in the library to collect seed donations for the community garden, and look at how much has been donated in just a couple of weeks!
A seed library in the making? 👀
#Solarpunk #CommunityGarden #Gardening #Rewilding #GardenLife #MutualAid #LibraryEconomy
We put a small box in the library to collect seed donations for the community garden, and look at how much has been donated in just a couple of weeks!
A seed library in the making? 👀
#Solarpunk #CommunityGarden #Gardening #Rewilding #GardenLife #MutualAid #LibraryEconomy
Some hashtags to follow on #SolarPunkSunday
#CriticalMass #RepairCafe #RepairCafes #VisibleMending #ReWilding #WildLife #SolarPunk #HopePunk #BioDiversity #Gardening #FreeStuff
Some hashtags to follow on #SolarPunkSunday
#CriticalMass #RepairCafe #RepairCafes #VisibleMending #ReWilding #WildLife #SolarPunk #HopePunk #BioDiversity #Gardening #FreeStuff
These patches of wild abandon are purposefully crafted #habitats and foraging grounds for pollinating insects, part of the city’s Pollinator #Meadows program: an initiative designed to #rewild city boulevards and parks managed by the City of Vancouver’s Parks Board.
It’s a program that, since its conception in 2020, has paid dividends.
#vancouver #bc #pollinators #rewilding #urbannature #urbanrewilding #cities
https://www.rewildingmag.com/the-city-turning-lawns-into-pollinator-meadows/
These patches of wild abandon are purposefully crafted #habitats and foraging grounds for pollinating insects, part of the city’s Pollinator #Meadows program: an initiative designed to #rewild city boulevards and parks managed by the City of Vancouver’s Parks Board.
It’s a program that, since its conception in 2020, has paid dividends.
#vancouver #bc #pollinators #rewilding #urbannature #urbanrewilding #cities
https://www.rewildingmag.com/the-city-turning-lawns-into-pollinator-meadows/
My daughter is collecting opinions on #rewilding impact on communities and colonialism.
Any contributions (and boosts) appreciated.
"The aim of this research is to explore whether there is a relationship between rewilding and colonial perspectives through the lens of two case studies, the Knepp Rewilding Project in South England and the Wildland rewilding initiative in the Scottish Highlands. Rewilding is most commonly defined as restoring the environment to what it may have looked like and the level of biodiversity it would have had before human interference. It typically opposes traditional conservation models that preserve what is there presently. Specifically, this project seeks to explore two research questions: What views and patterns of thinking are shaping the way rewilding is done at the Knepp Estate? & What approaches are reflected in the way rewilding is done at the Wildland Project in Scotland?"
From "This Day in History" on FB:
"She left civilization to live in the forest with a lynx, a wild boar, and a thieving crow. Scientists called her crazy. She proved them wrong.
In 1975, a young Polish scientist named #SimonaKossak made a decision that baffled everyone who knew her.
She had a doctorate. She had credentials. She came from one of Poland's most prestigious artistic families—her grandfather was Wojciech Kossak, the legendary painter whose work hung in museums.
She could have had a comfortable university position. A modern apartment in Warsaw. A conventional career studying nature from a safe distance.
Instead, Simona packed a single bag and walked into the #bialowiezaforest
And she stayed there for thirty years.
Białowieża is no ordinary forest. It's the last remaining fragment of the primeval wilderness that once covered all of Europe—ancient, untouched, older than recorded history. Trees there grow so tall they seem to hold up the sky. Wolves still howl at night. European bison, extinct almost everywhere else, roam freely.
It's the kind of place where you can still hear what the world sounded like before humans started building cities.
Simona found a small wooden cabin deep in the forest's heart. No electricity. No running water. No neighbors for miles.
Just trees. Silence. And the wild things.
Most people would have lasted a week.
Simona lasted decades.
But she wasn't alone.
She shared her bed with a lynx named Żabka. Not a pet—lynxes can't be pets. But Żabka had been orphaned as a cub, and Simona raised her. The massive cat would curl up beside her at night, purring like distant thunder.
She rescued a wild boar named Żabka who followed her through the forest like a devoted dog, grunting softly when she spoke.
And then there was Korasek.
Korasek was a crow—but not just any crow. He was brilliant, mischievous, and absolutely devoted to chaos. He'd dive-bomb cyclists riding through the forest, steal shiny objects from tourists' pockets, and bring Simona "gifts": coins, buttons, pieces of foil.
He'd sit on her shoulder while she worked, cawing commentary on everything she did.
The locals whispered that Simona was a witch. How else could you explain it? Animals followed her. Birds landed on her outstretched hand. Deer approached without fear.
She spoke to them, and somehow, impossibly, they seemed to understand.
But Simona wasn't casting spells.
She was listening.
Most people walk through nature talking, making noise, asserting their presence. Simona did the opposite. She learned to move quietly, to observe patiently, to let the forest teach her its rhythms.
She studied animal behavior not from textbooks, but by living among them. She documented species that had never been properly observed. She proved that wild animals weren't just instinct-driven automatons—they had personalities, emotions, complex social structures.
Her research changed how scientists understood wildlife.
But her most important work wasn't in journals.
It was in the forest itself.
Because while Simona was studying nature, others were trying to destroy it.
#LoggingCompanies wanted to cut down the #AncientTrees. Developers wanted to build roads through the #wilderness.
Bureaucrats argued that the forest was "too wild," that it needed to be "managed," controlled, made productive.
Simona fought them all.
She wrote letters. She filed lawsuits. She gave interviews where she spoke bluntly about what would be lost if the forest fell.
She stood in front of bulldozers.
She made powerful enemies.
She didn't care.
"This forest has survived for ten thousand years," she'd say. "Who are we to decide it should end on our watch?"
Her cabin became a symbol. Journalists came from across Europe to photograph the woman who lived with wild animals. Documentaries were made. Her story spread.
And slowly, the tide began to turn.
Public opinion shifted. International pressure mounted. UNESCO got involved. The ancient forest, in large part because of Simona's tireless advocacy, gained greater protections.
The trees she loved were saved.
Simona Kossak lived in that cabin until 2007, when illness finally forced her back to the city. She died in 2007, at the age of 71.
But her legacy didn't die with her.
Today, Białowieża Forest stands as one of Europe's last true wildernesses—a living monument to what the continent once was. Tourists walk trails where Simona once walked with Żabka the lynx. Bison graze in meadows she fought to protect.
Scientists still study the forest using methods she pioneered.
And somewhere in those ancient trees, maybe, a descendant of Korasek steals something shiny from an unsuspecting hiker.
Simona Kossak proved something the modern world desperately needs to remember:
That you don't have to choose between science and intuition. Between civilization and wilderness. Between being human and being part of nature.
She proved that sometimes the most rigorous science comes from simply paying attention. That the deepest understanding comes from respect, not dominance.
She proved that one person, living authentically and fighting fiercely for what they love, can change the fate of an entire ecosystem.
They called her a witch because she spoke to animals.
She called herself a scientist because she listened.
And she spent thirty years in a cabin without electricity, surrounded by wild things, protecting an ancient forest from a modern world that had forgotten how to be still.
Simona Kossak wasn't running away from civilization.
She was protecting something far more valuable than anything civilization could offer.
And because of her, that forest still stands."
#Rewilding #NatureLover #CitizenScientist #Nature #SaveTheForest #SolarPunkSunday #Heroes #Artemis #Witch
From "This Day in History" on FB:
"She left civilization to live in the forest with a lynx, a wild boar, and a thieving crow. Scientists called her crazy. She proved them wrong.
In 1975, a young Polish scientist named #SimonaKossak made a decision that baffled everyone who knew her.
She had a doctorate. She had credentials. She came from one of Poland's most prestigious artistic families—her grandfather was Wojciech Kossak, the legendary painter whose work hung in museums.
She could have had a comfortable university position. A modern apartment in Warsaw. A conventional career studying nature from a safe distance.
Instead, Simona packed a single bag and walked into the #bialowiezaforest
And she stayed there for thirty years.
Białowieża is no ordinary forest. It's the last remaining fragment of the primeval wilderness that once covered all of Europe—ancient, untouched, older than recorded history. Trees there grow so tall they seem to hold up the sky. Wolves still howl at night. European bison, extinct almost everywhere else, roam freely.
It's the kind of place where you can still hear what the world sounded like before humans started building cities.
Simona found a small wooden cabin deep in the forest's heart. No electricity. No running water. No neighbors for miles.
Just trees. Silence. And the wild things.
Most people would have lasted a week.
Simona lasted decades.
But she wasn't alone.
She shared her bed with a lynx named Żabka. Not a pet—lynxes can't be pets. But Żabka had been orphaned as a cub, and Simona raised her. The massive cat would curl up beside her at night, purring like distant thunder.
She rescued a wild boar named Żabka who followed her through the forest like a devoted dog, grunting softly when she spoke.
And then there was Korasek.
Korasek was a crow—but not just any crow. He was brilliant, mischievous, and absolutely devoted to chaos. He'd dive-bomb cyclists riding through the forest, steal shiny objects from tourists' pockets, and bring Simona "gifts": coins, buttons, pieces of foil.
He'd sit on her shoulder while she worked, cawing commentary on everything she did.
The locals whispered that Simona was a witch. How else could you explain it? Animals followed her. Birds landed on her outstretched hand. Deer approached without fear.
She spoke to them, and somehow, impossibly, they seemed to understand.
But Simona wasn't casting spells.
She was listening.
Most people walk through nature talking, making noise, asserting their presence. Simona did the opposite. She learned to move quietly, to observe patiently, to let the forest teach her its rhythms.
She studied animal behavior not from textbooks, but by living among them. She documented species that had never been properly observed. She proved that wild animals weren't just instinct-driven automatons—they had personalities, emotions, complex social structures.
Her research changed how scientists understood wildlife.
But her most important work wasn't in journals.
It was in the forest itself.
Because while Simona was studying nature, others were trying to destroy it.
#LoggingCompanies wanted to cut down the #AncientTrees. Developers wanted to build roads through the #wilderness.
Bureaucrats argued that the forest was "too wild," that it needed to be "managed," controlled, made productive.
Simona fought them all.
She wrote letters. She filed lawsuits. She gave interviews where she spoke bluntly about what would be lost if the forest fell.
She stood in front of bulldozers.
She made powerful enemies.
She didn't care.
"This forest has survived for ten thousand years," she'd say. "Who are we to decide it should end on our watch?"
Her cabin became a symbol. Journalists came from across Europe to photograph the woman who lived with wild animals. Documentaries were made. Her story spread.
And slowly, the tide began to turn.
Public opinion shifted. International pressure mounted. UNESCO got involved. The ancient forest, in large part because of Simona's tireless advocacy, gained greater protections.
The trees she loved were saved.
Simona Kossak lived in that cabin until 2007, when illness finally forced her back to the city. She died in 2007, at the age of 71.
But her legacy didn't die with her.
Today, Białowieża Forest stands as one of Europe's last true wildernesses—a living monument to what the continent once was. Tourists walk trails where Simona once walked with Żabka the lynx. Bison graze in meadows she fought to protect.
Scientists still study the forest using methods she pioneered.
And somewhere in those ancient trees, maybe, a descendant of Korasek steals something shiny from an unsuspecting hiker.
Simona Kossak proved something the modern world desperately needs to remember:
That you don't have to choose between science and intuition. Between civilization and wilderness. Between being human and being part of nature.
She proved that sometimes the most rigorous science comes from simply paying attention. That the deepest understanding comes from respect, not dominance.
She proved that one person, living authentically and fighting fiercely for what they love, can change the fate of an entire ecosystem.
They called her a witch because she spoke to animals.
She called herself a scientist because she listened.
And she spent thirty years in a cabin without electricity, surrounded by wild things, protecting an ancient forest from a modern world that had forgotten how to be still.
Simona Kossak wasn't running away from civilization.
She was protecting something far more valuable than anything civilization could offer.
And because of her, that forest still stands."
#Rewilding #NatureLover #CitizenScientist #Nature #SaveTheForest #SolarPunkSunday #Heroes #Artemis #Witch
Take a pause in this hectic day to learn from @cogdog this story of #rewilding in Saskatchewan. It’s a beautifully crafted metaphor for #ReclaimOpen25 but it’s also about dirt and trees and thinking and joy. Rewilding: waiting, noticing, thinking, working with.
My backyard rewilding, soil remediation & lawn replacement longterm project is going well. The mixed #clover seeds I scattered after removing useless lawn grass looks like this now.
😊💚☘️🍀💚
#iHateColonialLawns #Rewilding #Saanich #VancouverIsland #Green #SilentSunday
My backyard rewilding, soil remediation & lawn replacement longterm project is going well. The mixed #clover seeds I scattered after removing useless lawn grass looks like this now.
😊💚☘️🍀💚
#iHateColonialLawns #Rewilding #Saanich #VancouverIsland #Green #SilentSunday
“Reconciliation ecology,” a term coined in 2003, aims to increase #biodiversity in human-dominated landscapes. Think of it as #conservation for the Anthropocene.
“Reconciliation ecology,” a term coined in 2003, aims to increase #biodiversity in human-dominated landscapes. Think of it as #conservation for the Anthropocene.
Department of Good News:
Salmon had been missing from the headwaters of the Klamath River for more than a century. Just a year after the removal of a final dam, they’ve returned.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/climate/klamath-salmon-recovery.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xE8.X9_n.NeWi2BEjnmta&smid=url-share #giftarticle #nature #river #fish #rewilding
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