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Rewilding
February 25, 2014
In the garden of your days, cultivate festivity, play and celebrations.
-Mary Anne Radmacher, Live Boldy
-Mary Anne Radmacher, Live Boldy
In his TedTalk, "A Walk on the Wild Side", George Monbiot talks about the importance of rewilding in order to restore our environments and rebuild our sense of wonder. He gives the example of bringing wolves back to Yellowstone Park...
"Yellowstone National Park had become overrun with deer, which grazed away the vegetation dramatically. For years, biologists like Dave Foreman suggested a solution: bringing wolves back to the park, as the last ones were killed off in 1926. In 1995, wolves were finally reintroduced to Yellowstone, and the effects were dramatic. The wolves brought the deer population down to a sustainable population — but more importantly, they radically changed the behavior of the remaining deer. These deer started to move more often and avoid places in the park where they could easily be trapped, which in turn grew thick with vegetation. This allowed birds and beavers to move in, and the beavers’ dams became habitats for otters, muskrats, ducks, fish, reptiles, and amphibians. The wolves also killed coyotes, which allowed for more rabbits and mice, which in turn boosted the populations of weasels, hawks, foxes, and badgers. Meanwhile, ravens, bald eagles and bears fed on the carrion that the wolves left. In fact, even the river patterns in the park changed: the regenerating vegetation stabilized the riverbanks, which yielded less to erosion and took on straighter water flow. The wolves, small in number, transformed not just the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park — this huge area of land — but also its physical geography."
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Displaying 5 of 7 Comments [ View all ]House of Neuville Jewels
Dallas, TX, United States
*Now we have to 'rewild' our children. The effect of outdoor play in natural settings has been a major positive effect on children with ADHD and ASD.
*And we have to plant flowers with our children, to bring the bees back, and plant tree seedlings, talking about keeping our air clean, and plant gardens of fruits & vegetables, sharing thoughts with them about nutrition, so that the children have a balanced indoor/outdoor education...;)
House of Neuville Jewels
Dallas, TX, United States
*Now we have to 'rewild' our children. The effect of outdoor play in natural settings has been a major positive effect on children with ADHD and ASD.
*And we have to plant flowers with our children, to bring the bees back, and plant tree seedlings, talking about keeping our air clean, and plant gardens of fruits & vegetables, sharing thoughts with them about nutrition, so that the children have a balanced indoor/outdoor education...;)
House of Neuville Jewels
Dallas, TX, United States
*Now we have to 'rewild' our children. The effect of outdoor play in natural settings has been a major positive effect on children with ADHD and ASD.
*And we have to plant flowers with our children, to bring the bees back, and plant tree seedlings, talking about keeping our air clean, and plant gardens of fruits & vegetables, sharing thoughts with them about nutrition, so that the children have a balanced indoor/outdoor education...;)
House of Neuville Jewels
Dallas, TX, United States
*Now we have to 'rewild' our children. The effect of outdoor play in natural settings has been a major positive effect on children with ADHD and ASD.
*And we have to plant flowers with our children, to bring the bees back, and plant tree seedlings, talking about keeping our air clean, and plant gardens of fruits & vegetables, sharing thoughts with them about nutrition, so that the children have a balanced indoor/outdoor education...;)
House of Neuville Jewels
Dallas, TX, United States
*Now we have to 'rewild' our children. The effect of outdoor play in natural settings has been a major positive effect on children with ADHD and ASD.
*And we have to plant flowers with our children, to bring the bees back, and plant tree seedlings, talking about keeping our air clean, and plant gardens of fruits & vegetables, sharing thoughts with them about nutrition, so that the children have a balanced indoor/outdoor education...;)
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