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Regreening the Earth – theculturalwilderness

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December 23, 2016. December 23, 2016. A fortuitous but unintended consequence of increased atmospheric CO2 levels has been carbon accumulation and increased fertilisation in plants leading to. In some regions. As discussed in the last IPCC report. CO2 fertilisation will only be a net benefit up to a certain point. This process has been observed worldwide and is understood to follow both “economic development paths” and “forest scarcity” paths towards a. Rudel et al 2016). In her 2012 book. This remarkabl...

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Rewilding as Process | Thinking like a human

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Thinking like a human. Conservation for the 21st century. Skip to primary content. August 13, 2015. To his many readers, George Monbiot’s book. But Monbiot is a relative latecomer to the rewilding party in the UK. Its doyenne is the British Association for Nature Conservation, BANC. Since the 1990s, BANC’s journal ECOS: A Review of Conservation. Has been planting and watering ideas about the wild in conservation, and how to get more of it. BANC published Peter Taylor. S book Beyond Conservation. I was th...

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Bialowiezça: the Myth of the Primeval Forest – theculturalwilderness

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Bialowiezça: the Myth of the Primeval Forest. June 1, 2016. June 2, 2016. Over the past few weeks there have a been a series of reports raising concerns about the felling of old-growth trees in the ancient Bialowiezça forest in eastern Poland. A recent piece in the Guardian begins. Urope’s last primeval forest is facing what campaigners call its last stand as loggers prepare to start clear-cutting trees, following the dismissal of dozens of scientists and conservation experts opposed to the plan. Ostensi...

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Rewilding Discourses – theculturalwilderness

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October 27, 2016. January 22, 2017. Here is my dissertation submitted for the MSc in Agroforestry, Bangor University, September 2016. Evaluating different discourses of rewilding amongst land-use stakeholders in the UK. A series of 18 semi-structured interviews were conducted with a range of stakeholders from Wales and Scotland including members of rewilding NGOs, the farming community, and professional ecologists, to answer the question:. And the subsidiary question:. Divergent perceptions of current la...

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What would Eat a Badger? Rewilding at the Hay Festival – theculturalwilderness

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What would Eat a Badger? Rewilding at the Hay Festival. May 30, 2016. In Food and Agriculture. I took a trip last week to the Hay Festival with my supervisor Dr. Sophie Wynne-Jones. Of Bangor University, and trustee of the Cambrian Wildwood group. Who was participating in a panel debate on rewwilding. Along with Minette Batters. Deputy president of the NFU, and Julia Aglionby. Executive Director of the Foundation for Common land. Chaired by independent rural commentator Rob Yorke. Badgers are the center ...

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Rewilding and Malthus – theculturalwilderness

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December 27, 2016. December 27, 2016. In September I was fortunate to attend the excellent Future of Wild Europe. Conference at Leeds University. Over three days, keynote speakers and early-career researchers in the environmental humanities gave presentations on rewilding, ethnography and many other fascinating topics related to political ecology. Irma Allen of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm also attended the conference and has written about her impressions in a thought-provoking blog,.

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Wolves in the backyard – theculturalwilderness

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Wolves in the backyard. September 21, 2016. September 29, 2016. In a Youtube video that has been viewed more than 25 million times, George Monbiot explains with masterful clarity How Wolves Change Rivers. How realistic is it? Behaviorally mediated trophic cascades. BMTCs) are highly complex and can have unintended consequences far beyond the immediate aim of reducing foraging. Mesopredator release in the form of dramatic increase in the new top-dog, coyotes,. She swallowed a spider to catch a fly…. The a...