Trees lost to drought and wildfires are not returning. Climate change is taking a toll on the world’s forests – and radically changing the environment before our eyes.
Category: Land
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50 Years Ago, This Was a Wasteland. He Changed Everything.
Almost 50 years ago, fried chicken tycoon David Bamberger used his fortune to purchase 5,500 acres of overgrazed land in the Texas Hill Country. Planting grasses to soak in rains and fill hillside aquifers, Bamberger devoted the rest of his life to restoring the degraded landscape. Today, the land has been restored to its original habitat and boasts enormous biodiversity. Bamberger’s model of land stewardship is now being replicated across the region and he is considered to be a visionary in land management and water conservation.
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The mission to restore an Australian wetland – BBC News
Walker Swamp had been artificially drained and farmed for 150 years, but it is now welcoming new life once more, after a huge restoration project.
Its revival is one “message of hope” amid so much grim environmental news, ecologists tell the BBC.
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Returning Chicago’s shoreline to a natural state
Chicago has a number of experiments underway to find the most effective ways to return its shores to nature. This video, by the Architecture with Stewart YouTube channel, explores a few sites and the techniques being employed to return them to a natural state.