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Britni holds rewilding sessions in our local gardens. Photo made with permission using vintage Helios 58mm f2 lens.
A wonderful encounter of this wild Eurasian Beaver. Certainly my most challenging wildlife project to date, but well worth the effort.
... a hot day at Knepp Wildland Project ...
Knepp is a 3,500 acre estate just south of Horsham, West Sussex. Since 2001, the land – once intensively farmed - has been devoted to a pioneering rewilding project. Using grazing animals as the drivers of habitat creation, and with the restoration of dynamic, natural water courses, the project has seen extraordinary increases in wildlife. Extremely rare species like turtle doves, nightingales, peregrine falcons and purple emperor butterflies are now breeding here; and populations of more common species are rocketing.
The vision of the Knepp Wildland Project is radically different to conventional nature conservation in that it is not driven by specific goals or target species. Instead, its driving principle is to establish a functioning ecosystem where nature is given as much freedom as possible. The aim is to show how a ‘process-led’ approach can be a highly effective, low-cost method of ecological restoration - suitable for failing or abandoned farmland - that can work to support established nature reserves and wildlife sites, helping to provide the webbing that will one day connect them together on a landscape scale.
Clover the twelve year old Kemode bear relaxes on a rock. He was orphaned in northern BC and not able to rewild so spends his days in a nice large enclosure with a great mountain backdrop.
Couldn't believe my luck when this beauty flew across the track just a few feet in front of me. And I had my camera ready! A moment I've been hoping for, for the last 4 years.
A new large blue tongue comes exploring and wanders indoors!
See below.. and I panned around to the back gate..
Just invited to explore #339 15th Feb...
see #livingthedreampaddock
Here is a wonderful quote from the back of David Attenborough's new (2020) book:
"A Life on Our Planet; my witness statement and a vision for the future":
"We share Earth with the living world - the most
remarkable life-support system imaginable,
constructed over billions of years. The planet's
stability has wavered just as its biodiversity has
declined - the two things are bound together.
To restore stability to our planet, therefore, we must restore its biodiversity, the very thing we have removed. It is the only way out of this crisis that we ourselves have created. We must rewild the world."
Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca). Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve.
Love Your Wetlands Day, February 10, 2019.
Rewilding has also included allowing bird drops and natural seeding like our Hawthorn bush looking cool this Autumn.
On my way from my mother's house to see my friend at the excellent Perivale Brewery, I decided to peel off the A40 in Uxbridge to visit the area where my grandparents lived.
As a child, I would spend most weekends and school holidays in Uxbridge with Nan and Grandad, Mum always joining us after work or for the weekends. They lived in Water Tower Close, just off of North Common Road.
At the junction of Colnedale Road, Gravel Hill, North Common and West Common Road was the pond that we used to search for tadpoles in.
I was pleased to see that the trend to re-wilding has extended to the Common, which was buzzing with insects, the sound of birdsong and to cap it all, a pair of Red Kites soaring above.
Water Tower Close was largely as I remember, the houses looking fresh despite now being 40 years old. Testament to Benbow's Builders who were responsible for them.
Blue and Pink for Flickr's 20th birthday.
This is part of a piece of artwork on Eastbourne seafront created by the artist Sarah Gillings (aka SOS)
She said of the work
" i created the centrepiece for a seafront commission in Eastbourne for Eastbourne County Council in order to transform some very unloved buildings on the seafront.
It was funded by the EU @europeancommission and my piece is called THE HUNTED… portraying a pod of dolphins hunting a shoal of cod in the Uk waters… but in reality the hunted …are also hunted by us humans. We are beginning to ban trawlers in our waters from Eastbourne to Bognor for a 3 mile exclusion zone for rewilding of kelp forests which is a fantastic move in the right direction but not many people know about it… this is where public art can step in!"
From 1911-1925 Norwegian whalers brought reindeer for meat and sport hunting to South Georgia Island where no land-based animals previously existed. With the demise of the whaling industry and cessation of reindeer hunting the reindeer multiplied exponentially, threatening penguin, seal and bird habitats. From 2013-2017, Norwegian marksmen killed nearly 7,000 reindeer and eliminated them from the island. I took this photo of a King penguin fleeing from a reindeer before the elimination started. Fortuna Bay, South Georgia Island.
13/04/2024 www.allenfotowild.com
Transition from summer to winter in birch woodland. Spring is still missing thanks to lockdown, but two from winter instead.
One of my favourite images - I can look at comparisons like this for hours.
A little egret, taken at the Wildwood re-wilding centre down in Kent.
For my birthday my partner's mum got me a wildlife photography day course at the centre, where we got taught a bunch about the principles of wildlife photography, something I knew next to nothing about. It was a good day, and whilst I don't think I got anything stellar photograph wise, it's set me up to try again in the future.
I think I struggle a bit with trying to find the story to a scene with wildlife photography - I'm less interested in "here is thing" photography, but also having that say something else about the time or place.
Amidst a snowy landscape, two Przewalski’s horses stand resilient, their thick winter coats blending with the frosty surroundings. These rare and ancient wild horses, once extinct in the wild, now roam freely again thanks to conservation efforts. Their striking features and sturdy build showcase their adaptability to harsh conditions, a testament to nature’s enduring spirit and beauty.
I got here at just the right time for this flowering plant amongst the grass and other wild herbs. Dropping Well Farm no longer grows wheat and barley because of a rewilding project. Now it's a hundred acres of wildflower meadows in the middle of nowhere well away from traffic and modern noise. You approach the farm down a long rutted track on foot. Only the farmer and nature warden drive up here. You can leave your vehicle in the car park by the main road.
Ewhurst Park, a 374-hectare rural estate in Hampshire, is known for its extensive biodiversity and sustainability project aimed at nature restoration, including the encouragement of wildflowers like daffodils. The estate is actively transforming its landscape from traditional farming to a dynamic ecosystem supporting diverse wildlife and flora.
While daffodils are a prominent feature of spring at Ewhurst Park, contributing to the overall nature recovery efforts and, organised educational and hospitality events held at the estate which offer opportunities to explore the land and learn about its wild flora and rewilding initiatives, including the daffodils that bloom there.
Narcissus jonquilla, commonly known as jonquil or rush daffodil, is a bulbous flowering plant, a species of the genus Narcissus (daffodil) that is native to Spain and Portugal but has now become naturalised in many other regions: France, Italy, Turkey, the former Yugoslavia, Madeira, British Columbia in Canada, Utah, Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio, and the southeastern United States from Texas to Maryland.
Narcissus jonquilla bears long, narrow, rush-like leaves (hence the name jonquil, Spanish junquillo, from the Latin juncus 'rush'). In late spring it bears heads of up to five scented yellow or white flowers. It is a parent of numerous varieties within Division 7 of the horticultural classification. Division 7 in the Royal Horticultural Society classification of Narcissus includes N. jonquilla and N. apodanthus hybrids and cultivars that show clear characteristics of those two species.
N. jonquilla has been cultivated since the 18th century in France as the strongest of the Narcissus species used in narcissus oil, a component of many modern perfumes.
Knepp Wildland Project ...
Storks, and yes there are chicks in the nest ...
Knepp is a 3,500 acre estate just south of Horsham, West Sussex. Since 2001, the land – once intensively farmed - has been devoted to a pioneering rewilding project. Using grazing animals as the drivers of habitat creation, and with the restoration of dynamic, natural water courses, the project has seen extraordinary increases in wildlife. Extremely rare species like turtle doves, nightingales, peregrine falcons and purple emperor butterflies are now breeding here; and populations of more common species are rocketing.
The vision of the Knepp Wildland Project is radically different to conventional nature conservation in that it is not driven by specific goals or target species. Instead, its driving principle is to establish a functioning ecosystem where nature is given as much freedom as possible. The aim is to show how a ‘process-led’ approach can be a highly effective, low-cost method of ecological restoration - suitable for failing or abandoned farmland - that can work to support established nature reserves and wildlife sites, helping to provide the webbing that will one day connect them together on a landscape scale.
knepp.co.uk/home
Rewilding in the grounds of Stourhead House - Grassland path leading to the Main drive Entrance Gate and Cottage
... I'm proud to join Manda Kalimian, president of Rewilding America Now, for a discussion of the role wild horses fill in our lives ... and the life of the nation.
Tickets available here:
www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/co-founder-of-the-wyoming-m...
Chinsegut Nature Preserve
Brooksville, Florida
As a bonus it turned out to be Florida’s Arbor Day and was gifted a potted long leaf pine at the Nature Center that I can use to rewild my property
Strathdearn, High in the Monadhliath Hills is a quiet and lonely glen that on first impressions you would think they have been left behind by man but on arriving back home I find this is so far from truth as some of the biggest Land owners i.e. Anders Holch family, Danish textile billionaires, along with Hans, Sigrid, Rausing, Tetra-pak hiers, philanthropist and out spoken supporter of the Golden Eagle are reshaping and rewilding the landscape for a better future, and outlook, for nature and it's lanscape.
At one time, this area was part of the Great Wood of Caledon. For 2000 years it has been felled, upsetting the balance of nature. Much has been rightly made of the landowners evicting the population to make way for sheep farms, but part of that transformation was also the removal of the forest. There are still sheep on the land, preventing the forest from re-establishing itself and the few ancient trees that are still hanging on are dying out. There are plots of alien trees being grown up there, Sitka Spruce, Lodgepole Pine and Japanese Larch but these do not provide the same habitat, have no vibrant understorey or wildlife. Until the landowners are forced to rewild then these wonderful vibrant woods will soon be lost forever.
This is another bit of my rewilding project. I took this last night (June 18) as the sun was setting and bathing everything in a warm orange glow.
🌳Nature Interrupted🌿
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