Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance’s Post

Listen closely... 🎧 If this is a familiar campus sound, you've probably been walking past one of our meadows or new orchid lawns. And, what can you hear? Grasshoppers. A welcome result of how we're managing our estate to encourage and protect wildlife. Learn more about our Living Campus: https://ow.ly/Q6Mt50SUvbu #Nature #Biodiversity

Discover the UK's top 8 Common Bumblebees! With 24 species buzzing around, some rare and some familiar, these eight are the ones you're most likely to spot. Check out this poster for a handy guide to identifying these buzzing beauties, lovingly created by the Bumblebee Conservation Trust. Remember, start with the tail colour, and work your way up! For more tips on identifying bumblebees, head to bumblebeeconservation.org #Bumblebees #NatureLovers #BeeIdentification Bumblebee Conservation Trust

Douglas W. Tallamy’s first book, Bringing Nature Home, awakened thousands of readers to an urgent situation: wildlife populations are in decline because the native plants they depend on are fast disappearing. His solution? Plant more natives. In this new book, Tallamy takes the next step and outlines his vision for a grassroots approach to conservation. Nature’s Best Hope shows how homeowners everywhere can turn their yards into conservation corridors that provide wildlife habitats. 🐦🏡 https://lnkd.in/gGgqAvVM

How do different ways of knowing affect how we frame wildlife health and conservation problems and thus how we conceive solutions? This question is driving some early and invigorating dialogue between the McEachran Institute and the Philosophy Department at the University of Guelph. We are starting by spending time thinking about this question before we launch into how to address it. The goal is to find ways to better promote collaborative actions.

This should be quite an interesting talk.

From small, community-focused initiatives to large, collaborative efforts, Rivers are Life Projects positively impact our world’s river ecosystems. Projects can focus on conservation, research, innovation, wildlife protection, activist campaign efforts, cleanups, among many other initiatives. They are often made up of both public and private sector collaboration. Learn more about our projects: https://bit.ly/3ItsjT4

A most practical guide for everyone with a garden…

What a wonderful write-up about the Arnold Fen! It was permanently conserved by a conservation easement about two years ago, but privately managed by a wonderful, passionate couple! Learn more about this globally rare ecosystem in the article!

From bird baths to rocks, here are seven things people put in their gardens to help wildlife, and how well they work. What animals are using your backyard? And what backyard features entice wildlife to visit? These are the questions a group of researchers from The University of Western Australia, Perth NRM and 243 citizen scientists from 30 towns and cities in southwestern Australia set out to answer. We chatted with lead researcher, Dr Bronte Van Helden, about what they found. Check out our top six takeaways in this summary of the findings, plus helpful tips for how you can set up easy features in your gardens to help wildlife. Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, NACC NRM, Bruce Webber, Paul Close, Nicki Mitchell, Leonie Valentine, Holly Kirk, Sarah Bekessy, Wildlife Queensland, Rochelle Steven, Australian Citizen Science Association take a look and please share.

Puneet Dwivedi Restoring Ecosystems is something we have to do in a big way!! In order to find knowledge that could help guide these Restoration efforts and describe what the 90 million acres looked like almost 100 years ago, could I suggest the following from 1930. This report describes rates of harvest and impacts of fires, and landscape changes. The innovative bit will come from taking forestry, logging, fire, and tree growth information and extracting or turning it into Ecological & Restoration Data. Timber Growing and Logging and Turpentining Practices in the Southern Pine Region: https://lnkd.in/greZcUqD I am happy to discuss this report and how the treasure trove of information it contains can be extracted or turned into Ecological & Restoration Data!!