🌍Connectivity occurs from local to global scales and is crucial to supporting life on Earth.
🌿Protecting, restoring and enhancing ecological connectivity underpins the survival of a wide range of species and is key to tackling the global nature and climate crises.
#RestoreWetlands #WetlandsMatter
The scale of wetland loss and degradation remains a global concern.
Wetland decline affects people’s livelihoods and wellbeing, disrupts the climate system, reduces the availability of water resources and causes the loss of species and ecosystems.
#RestoreWetlands #WetlandsMatter
Conservation of healthy and functioning wetlands is cheaper than restoration.
To conserve and restore at least 550 million hectares of wetlands, resource mobilization must scale up dramatically.
#RestoreWetlands #WetlandConservation #WetlandsMatter
Agricultural fields with a wetland in early spring. Near Runnymede Saskatchewan. Wetlands play a vital role in healthy agricultural landscapes – they regulate hydrological (water) cycles during spring floods and summer droughts, filter the undesirable heavy metals and fertilizers from field runoff, and provide a home for numerous plants and animals.
Agricultural fields with a wetland in early spring. Near Runnymede #Saskatchewan.
Wetlands play a vital role in healthy agricultural landscapes. Regrettably, wetlands are being removed from our ag lands with a neck breaking speed.
#RestoreWetlands #MakeRoomForNature #peopleneednature #biodiversity
🇫🇮 #Finland #Wetlands
Good read.
I am hoping #BC #Canada 🇨🇦 takes on a stronger stance to protect and #RestoreWetlands
scalgo.com/en-US/blog/h...
Happy International Beaver Day! #internationalbeaverday #beaverday #beaver #oregon #restorewetlands #restoreecosystems #beaverdamsaregood
Environmental Activists of the #RestoreWetlands Group Vandalize Two #Tesla Stores with Orange Paint in #Malmö and #Stockholm, #Sweden
trackingterrorism.org/chatter/rest...
Why engineers are turning to beavers for insights into managing water resources Beavers are building a kind of natural infrastructure that helps with water management and the climate. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien went to see the beavers at work during their busy season
#SaveTheBeavers […]
Happy #WorldWetlandsDay! Wetlands are critical for protecting against floods, filtering water, and providing habitats for countless species. Let’s celebrate and protect these vital ecosystems! 💧🐢 #RestoreWetlands #ConservationMatters #Wildliferesearch
A new peatmine is planned in Osby, southern Sweden.
#RestoreWetlands
#ÅterställVåtmarker
#BanPeatmining
Wetlands cover 3 % of the landmass but holds twice the amount of C02 than a l l forests.
This is sucicide.
blackatorpsmossen.com
Land conversion is risky: wetlands lost to infrastructure in Valencia, Chennai, Kochi, w/ climate change, turned into disasters. Wetlands, vital for flood control, water supply, & livelihoods. Protect ecosystems to prevent destruction and death. #RestoreWetlands
theconversation.com/valencia-flo...
"a, Proportion of threatened freshwater species (decapod crustaceans, fishes and odonates; combined and individually), extinct freshwater species (combined) and threatened tetrapods (combined) affected by each threat. The darker cells indicate a greater proportion of species affected by the threat. Threats are not mutually exclusive. Threats are coded following the IUCN Threats Classification Scheme (version 3.3) and combined for presentation as follows (the value of the highest hierarchical level is indicated; all subsequent levels are included): pollution (9); dams and water management (7.2); agriculture (2.1, 2.2 and 2.3); invasive species and disease (8.1, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6); logging (5.2 and 5.3); urban development (1); hunting and fishing (5.1 and 5.4); energy production and mining (3); climate change and severe weather (11); human intrusions and disturbance (6); other ecosystem modifications (7.3); transportation (4); fire and fire suppression (7.1); problematic native species (8.2); aquaculture (2.4); and geological events (10). For the number of species: threatened freshwater species n = 4,190, extinct freshwater species n = 82, threatened decapods n = 472, threatened fishes n = 3,032, threatened odonates n = 686 and threatened tetrapods n = 7,112." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08375-z/figures/2
🌍The main threats to freshwater species are pollution (54%), from agricultural and urban runoff, dams and water extraction (39%), disrupting habitats, and agriculture (37%), transforming wetlands and increasing eutrophication.
#CombatPollution
#SustainableWaterUse
#RestoreWetlands
After 3 Cranes? dropped deep into Joist Fen & a Barn Owl drifted over the reeds, we walked home along the River Little Ouse floodbank, the washlands wonderfully flooded, thinking that in this #UNDecadeOfRestoration @RSPBLakenheath is a prime example of how to #RestoreWetlands 5/7
