Un elefante procesado en EAK (Olduvai) hace 1,78 Ma: implicaciones para el origen de la cooperación Viajemos a uno de mis periodos favoritos en la evolución humana: aquel en que algunos representantes de Homo tempranos comienzan a desarrollar comportamientos de cooperación. Se trata de grupos de …

Un elefante procesado en EAK (Olduvai) hace 1,78 Ma: implicaciones para el origen de la cooperación

Do synthetic fertilisers feed a growing population?
or
Has their use actually grown the population?

-World grain production has tripled since 1960 and in that time the population has grown from 3 billion to 8.3 billion

Did one cause the other, and if so, which one?

OK, I look forward to that.

You have a good range of topics in your conference and all of them are very important, here's hoping it's a humdinger and that it leads to more herbivores on the ground.

Is there a link for the online?

Bridge over a troubled highway Tribes, state to provide elk safe passage over Highway 20.

In Washington, the Stillaguamish Tribe, Upper Skagit Tribe, Tulalip Tribe and Washington State Department of Transportation are working together to build a wildlife overpass on a stretch of State Route 20 that elk frequently try to cross.

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I'm primarily a herbivore ecologist and this eventually led to an interest in looking at the differences between herbivore and carnivore behaviours.

From what I can see humans should be given a special trophic level at least 3 stages higher than a croc or lion.

Is anyone else looking at this?

Pastoralism = migrating herbivores

I'm open to dialogue, sharing info and active collaboration with anyone and everyone.

I'm also looking for projects to get involved with and my DM's are always open.

Thanks for the repost, Sabrina.

I have a stack of proposals and techniques on how this might be put into practice. Much of it could be self-funding and be open to community engagement.

Some of the techniques have been tested and await scaling up and others need trial and development.

Probably food.

That's why most animals migrate.

Mobile hunters following migrating prey.

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Arable farmer Tom Pearson is transitioning to a regenerative approach. 🌾

Tom stopped using insecticides and cut diesel by 50%. Reducing more inputs was a balancing act. 

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How do global commitments turn into conservation action?

Article by @gridarendal.bsky.social shows how CMS helps connect global ambition, regional cooperation & local implementation for migratory species.

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Me too, but society isn't conducive to large herbivores running around.

That's one of the reasons why I advocate for supervised grazing and migrations, with either wild herbivores or livestock, or both.

We need a herbivore infrastructure network to get them into as many places as possible.

Herbivores of all kinds once shaped habitats and provided many of the impacts necessary for functional ecological dynamics in all vegetated regions ever since life colonised the land.

The issue we face now is that herbivores are statistically rare in far too many places.

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Eine Lovestory in der @taz.de über wilde Moorweiden. 😍🐃 „Sie wirken zugleich archaisch und erstaunlich zeitgemäß – als hätten sie schon lange gewusst, wohin die Reise geht. Brandenburg jedenfalls steht ihnen gut. Und sie ihm auch.“ Wasserbüffel-Turbo gegen Dürre und für Klimaschutz - wie wär’s?!?

Migratory animals have a special role as ecological keystone species and as indicators of the state of our natural world.

Their conservation is essential to maintain healthy ecosystems and we must work together to keep habitats connected around the world, for their sake and for ours. 🌍 🔗

On the topic of tree-browsing herbivores, those nice people at @agricology.bsky.social have produced a useful guide to edible foliage.

Just think of how many billions of trees no longer get browsed because of extinct or excluded herbivores.

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An exceptional example of farming done well with tangible progress for nature recovery: Woodland expansion, regenerative grazing, tree hay, mosaic landscapes, and quality food.

Plus a reminder to all forest ecologists that many species of trees have edible leaves, yet most of our forests now support very few herbivores and as a result of this they have dwindling populations of wildlife.

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Rewilding is still stuck in set-stocking. (That's a tongue twister.)

While the leading ecological grazing systems of pulse/amp/holistic/cell/mob (whatever you want to call it- mooving herbivores around) - are fully adopted by pastoralists and regen / holistic farmers. Rewilding needs to upgrade.

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This is an excellent point and it's exactly why herbivores have legs.

With the current ungulate migration maps showing very few migrations over vast areas of land, it wasn't really that long ago since they would have covered the entire vegetated landmass.

The baselines certainly have shifted.

Secondly-

Ecologists & Rewilders desperately need the help, advice and logistical know-how of how to manage and move herbivores around. (migratrions)

This can be gained from traditional pastoralists and the growing numbers of holistic livestock farmers.

This also needs to happen ASAP

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Firstly-

My long-held view is that Ecologists & Rewilders would be better off working very closely with all existing land managers and land owners, with the aim of improving the vegetation structures on as much land as possible.

This needs to happen ASAP

1/2

Farming is where it is as a result of many decades of exceedingly poor government policy and almost zero meaningful imput from ecologists.
The situation is not helped by so much widespread confusion at all levels of society about food, herbivores (wild and domesticated) and about nature itself.

I agree, many holistic livestock farmers are light years ahead of rewilding and academia for good vegetation structures & the pastoralists can help with connectivity via migrations.

The land most in need of help is our embarrassing forests, urban areas and crop lands and livestock can help here too

Neanderthals are now thought to have been skilled, adaptable hunters. This is further evidence of that. 🏺🧪

If trophic levels were measured by behaviour and ecological impact instead of just dietary position in the food hierarchy, Homo (and likely Neanderthals) would probably sit at 3 or 4 levels higher than a crocodile or lion.

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A massive once-in-500-years chimpanzee civil war has broken out

A massive once-in-500-years chimpanzee civil war has broken out (link fixed!) 🦧
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