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Passive rewilding: ‘If you love it, set it free’ – DW – 10/11/2021

There are three key components to passive rewilding, according to Pereira, a professor of biodiversity conservation at the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research at the University of Leipzig. The first is restoring trophic complexity, or biodiversity, by allowing wildlife to return. This usually means restricting hunting, but in rare cases it does involve some relocation.

The second component is allowing landscapes to reconnect so that plants and animals can move around.

The third — and most crucial step — is allowing for unpredictable disturbances such as fires, pests and floods.

But letting things run wild is anathema to the traditional approaches to restoration and can be very difficult to accept for Europeans.

Pereira’s thinking is, “if you love it, set it free.”

Source: Passive rewilding: ‘If you love it, set it free’ – DW – 10/11/2021

Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a holiday celebrated in colonized countries to honor Native peoples and commemorate their histories and cultures – while governments and corporations continue to pillage and loot indigenous territories!

Barbara Crane Navarro

In the U.S., Indigenous Peoples’ Day evolved as an alternative to «Invasion Day» – Columbus Day – which celebrated Columbus’ arrival in the New World on October 12th 1492 and the beginning of the colonization of North America.

Native Americans protested honoring a man who had enabled their genocide and forced assimilation.

Across North America today, Indigenous struggles against mines and oil pipelines that are projected to run through their communities’ sacred sites or water sources are still ongoing. They call on the government to «Honor the Treaties!and to acknowledge that «Water is Life!»

Among them are the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), that endangers the water supply of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation on the Missouri river.

Line 3 is a proposed pipeline expansion to carry a million barrels of tar sands daily from Canada to Wisconsin. The Canadian company Enbridge, responsible for the largest oil spill on U.S. soil…

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Facebook plans to (finally!) act on illegal sales of Amazon rainforest! This outrageous and abusive practice has been going on for months!

Wet’suwet’en struggle continues — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Barbara Crane Navarro

Originally posted on LANDBACK Friends: It is tragic that at the same time the concepts of #LANDBACK are being embraced, resource extractive companies continue to take land, without free and prior consent. And it is ironic that this conflict is going on at a time when Canada will celebrate the first National Day forTruth…

Wet’suwet’en struggle continues — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

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New Zealand signs deal to purchase new Covid-19 treatment | RNZ News

Pharmac and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the agreement this morning. Pharmac said the oral antiviral drug would be used to treat New Zealanders with mild to moderate Covid-19 symptoms.

The agreement with supplier Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) is subject to the drug being approved by Medsafe. An initial supply of 60,000 courses will be sent to New Zealand after Medsafe approves the drug, Pharmac chief executive Sarah Fitt said in a statement.

“MSD recently announced trial results showing that molnupiravir considerably reduced hospitalisations and deaths from Covid-19. While these are interim results, they are very promising,” Fitt said.

Source: New Zealand signs deal to purchase new Covid-19 treatment | RNZ News