Dr Edward Stewart looks to the past to suggest an alternative future for Scotland's 'wild' places. The post Wicked Wild Wastes?: challenging contemporary ideas of wildness in Scottish Highland landscapes appeared first on Edinburgh University Press Blog.| Edinburgh University Press Blog
Today, I spent all afternoon in a junk yard on a farm filming a music video with my band. It was quite fun. The post Late Summer Light | Weeknotes appeared first on thejaymo.| thejaymo
Wildlands Ecologist Jason Mazurowski describes a day spent measuring tree diameters and collecting other ecological data at a rare patch of old forest in Vermont.| Northeast Wilderness Trust
The pier at the end of the road harboured a dredger and a few small work boats. The post Between Sea and Sky – Rewilding Lewis by Ian Grosz appeared first on Little Toller Books.| Little Toller Books
Coyotes are adaptable creatures can be found in nearly every habitat throughout New England. Yet it may come as a surprise to many that coyotes are relative newcomers to our landscape.| Northeast Wilderness Trust
In 2018, Katie Stacey and Luke Massey bought seven hectares of degraded land and named it Wild Finca. With little money or experience, they began to bring back nature.| Inkcap Journal
New York Land Steward Janelle Jones describes an encounter with a novel bird species on one of NEWT's forever-wild conservation easements.| Northeast Wilderness Trust
World Bee Day is an internationally recognised day observed annually on May 20th. It’s a day dedicated to raising awareness of the importance of bees and other pollinators for the planet’s ecosystems and food security. This day also highlights the threats that bees face and promotes actions to protect them. Bees play a vital role […] The post World Bee Day – May 20th appeared first on The Forest Bathing Institute.| The Forest Bathing Institute
This month is “No Mow May,” during which you are encouraged to abstain from mowing your lawn for the duration of the month. “No Mow May” is part of| The Forest Bathing Institute
Creating a new forest may seem a big ambition for a community group. In his latest blog, Transition Together’s Rob Hopkins talks to some of the Transition’s movements most prolific tree planters about how and why they’re seeking to make their communities shadier, leafier and fruitier.| Transition Together
The Earth apex predators will revive will be vibrant, of habitable weather, a planet that will “pay us back” with knowledge, medicine, health, spiritual experience, aesthetic elation, and wisdom—the wisdom of understanding our place in nature’s order.| Earth Tongues
Human supremacy sees with the eyes of nihilism, for nihilism (the profanation of existence) is the metaphysics of human supremacy.| Earth Tongues
As a new initiative from The Ecological Citizen, Rewilding Successes has been launched to bring readers inspiring stories about nature’s rebounding from all corners of the Earth.| Earth Tongues
It was shortly after the winter solstice, eight years ago, when I did something that I had done nothing quite like before. Triggered by the cresting of a claustrophobia that had been growing for a decade-and-a-half, from the time I left my childhood home below the dark woods of a place named Dancing Green, it began with me shifting a sofa and an armchair tight against my living room wall and sliding an oak dining table across the carpet and into a corner.| Earth Tongues
Matthew Hay takes a trip into the future to watch wolves in the snowless Cairngorms, a decade after their reintroduction to the Highlands.| Inkcap Journal
Wildlands Ecologist Jason Mazurowski describes the construction of a new beaver dam and how these furry ecosystem engineers transform the landscape.| Northeast Wilderness Trust
Dr. Mark Elbroch of Panthera, the global wildcat conservation organization, joined NEWT’s Wildlands Ecology Director Shelby Perry for a conversation about mountain lions. The post Towards Coexistence with Large Predators appeared first on Northeast Wilderness Trust.| Northeast Wilderness Trust
For this year's World Rewilding Day, NEWT staff members from across the organization reflected on why rewilding is important to them. The post NEWT Staff on What Rewilding Means to Them appeared first on Northeast Wilderness Trust.| Northeast Wilderness Trust
Author Fransje van Riel Book Overview A remarkable chronicle of Graham Cooke’s extraordinary experience raising two leopard cubs in the […] The post My Life With Leopards: Graham Cooke’s Story appeared first on Fascinating Africa.| Fascinating Africa
The other morning, I noticed that a large cocoon, which had been stuck to our bathroom wall for some time, was empty; the brand-new butterfly had emerged. Such are the cycles of nature: flora and fauna change, decay, and perish. The beauty and magic of nature lie in these transformations and in decay. The shifting […]| The Immaterialist
Damn, I thought I was being SO original… I recently read this in the concluding chapter of James Hunter’s 1995 book, ‘On the Other Side of Sorrow; Nature and People in the Scottish Highlands’: Conservation organisations nowadays take for granted that the Highlands are degraded ecologically. They are consequently committed, as this chapter has stressed, […]| Frequently Found Growing On Disturbed Ground
Efforts to return Scotland’s land to a more natural state could be spurred on by an unlikely helper: an independent, hardy and terribly cute breed of horse, the Exmoor pony. In this podcast, Naturally Speaking’s Joey Humble interviews PhD student Debbie Davy, a guardian and advocate for the Exmoor pony, who has recently introduced a […]| Naturally Speaking
In the summer of 2023, Northeast Wilderness Trust's Wildlands Ecology program kicked off a year of "BioBlitz" events at its Woodbury Mountain Wilderness Preserve.| Northeast Wilderness Trust
At Northeast Wilderness Trust’s Muddy Pond Wilderness Preserve, the Plymouth Rose Gentian and other rare and endangered species are thriving. Nestled among the densely populated suburbs of Kingston, Massachusetts just a half-hour south of Boston, Muddy Pond comprises more than 300 acres of woods and wetlands.| Northeast Wilderness Trust
A new law will allow the state’s wildlife agency to reintroduce the endangered species.| The Revelator
From pocket parks to large-scale projects, cities around the world are working to reverse a troubling trend.| The Revelator
As the dams come down, crews prepare for miles of new vegetation to rise up. That starts with thousands of tiny acorns.| The Revelator