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Planting Trees to Avoid Losing Soil Carbon: Insights from Snaizeholme Valley, Yorkshire Dales

Darvill et al. share their experience investigating soil organic carbon stocks in a new native woodland in the Yorkshire Dales, UK, highlighting the importance of careful woodland design. Targeting the Right Soils: How Woodland Design Shapes Soil Carbon Outcomes Tree planting is widely promoted as a nature-based response to climate change. New woodlands can reduce flood risk, improve air quality, support biodiversity, and capture carbon … Continue reading Planting Trees to Avoid Losing Soil Carbon: Insights from Snaizeholme Valley, Yorkshire Dales

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Studying habitat requirements at the edge of a species’ range: lessons from a critically endangered warbler in the Italian Alps

Ceresa et al. share their experience investigating the conservation of peripheral populations, focusing on the critically endangered barred warbler Curruca nisoria in the Italian Alps. Peripheral populations — those living at the edges of a species’ distribution — are often small and isolated. Yet they can be disproportionately important for conservation, harbouring unique genetic diversity and local adaptations that may help species cope with environmental change. … Continue reading Studying habitat requirements at the edge of a species’ range: lessons from a critically endangered warbler in the Italian Alps

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Qualitatively Assessing Carbon Management Trade-offs at the Nature Conservancy’s Meyer Preserve

Written by Rylee McMillan and Adrienne Keller At The Nature Conservancy’s Newell and Ann Meyer Preserve in Wisconsin, USA, managers face an increasingly difficult challenge: understanding the trade-offs and benefits of managing for carbon outcomes among other management objectives.  This challenge is not unique. Ecosystems globally are witnessing clear and intensifying effects of climate change, driving a growing interest in using natural lands for their … Continue reading Qualitatively Assessing Carbon Management Trade-offs at the Nature Conservancy’s Meyer Preserve

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Where Could Ireland and Britain’s Temperate Rainforest Actually Go?

Katerina Chernyuk highlights the need to understand the various factors impacting temperate rainforests and shares her team’s research investigating the potential climate envelopes in Ireland and Britain. Recently, temperate rainforests have captured public awareness across Ireland and Britain, with everything from award-winning books, media articles and restoration projects, leading to attention from both NGOs and governments. Temperate rainforests have become a flagship habitat for Irish … Continue reading Where Could Ireland and Britain’s Temperate Rainforest Actually Go?

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Turning camera-trap overload into actionable wildlife monitoring in African rainforests

To support adaptive management, Magaldi et al. have developed a deep-learning model to analyse ground-level camera traps in African tropical forests. A familiar problem If you work in wildlife research or protected-area management, you’ll know the feeling: camera traps are brilliant at “being there” 24/7 in dense forest, but they come with a hidden cost—an avalanche of photos and videos that someone has to sort, … Continue reading Turning camera-trap overload into actionable wildlife monitoring in African rainforests

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Amidst the resplendence of Munnar’s sky islands

Madhumay Mallik from the Wildlife Trust of India recounts their experience researching grass frogs, and details what is being done to ensure that these and other frog species continue to thrive despite increasing challenges. Far away on the mountain peak were cotton clouds in restless sleep, tossing and turning. Before me, a lush pasture of smooth grass and wild flowers, blanketing a steep terrain and … Continue reading Amidst the resplendence of Munnar’s sky islands

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Scotland’s iconic Red deer threatened by invasive ‘super Sika’

Calum Brown and his team share their findings on managing native and non-native deer species in Scotland and discuss potential solutions. Scotland’s deer numbers are thought to be at an all-time high. Although estimates vary, something like a million deer currently roam the land, around double the numbers present in 1990. This growing population has serious impacts, including limiting the regeneration of our small, fragmented … Continue reading Scotland’s iconic Red deer threatened by invasive ‘super Sika’

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Quarries and garbage dumps inside the Galapagos National Park: How can we restore them?

Anna Calle-Loor, co-author of a new publication, shares her team’s experience assessing the survival of plant species in the Galapagos to inform decision-making amongst stakeholders. When you think of the Galapagos Islands, what comes to mind? Perhaps volcanic landscapes, giant tortoises and other unique wildlife, scenes that could easily belong in a nature documentary. But behind this iconic scenery lies a less picturesque reality: the … Continue reading Quarries and garbage dumps inside the Galapagos National Park: How can we restore them?

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Project to restore and expand Scotland’s ancient forests provides a boost to moth biodiversity

Patrick Cook and his team share their experience investigating how moths respond to a landscape-scale woodland expansion project at Mar Lodge Estate in the Scottish Highlands. Background Upland landscapes in Scotland have a low cover of native woodland yet provides an excellent opportunity to expand woodland cover for biodiversity. For instance, native pinewood now covers less than 18,000 hectares in 84 small areas and an … Continue reading Project to restore and expand Scotland’s ancient forests provides a boost to moth biodiversity

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Restoring Forests, Engaging Landowners, Advancing Science – All in One Place

What would it look like to combine scientific research, public education, and ecosystem restoration all in one place? By Anna Funk, Holden Forests & Gardens Less than fifteen kilometres from Lake Erie’s southern shore, researchers, land managers, and educators have teamed up to create a forest that is simultaneously a restoration project, living research laboratory, and forestry demonstration site. This 27-hectare forest is the Working … Continue reading Restoring Forests, Engaging Landowners, Advancing Science – All in One Place

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