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I have seen more than 450 species in general area of Lauriston Farm (map above) - all details on iRecord https://irecord.org.uk Sarah Watts @Watts_SH
There's a brand new record for Britain's highest altitude tree! We found it at 1221m on Ben Nevis, & incredibly it's a #Willow (Grey Willow; Salix cinerea). This tenacious little plant has surpassed Sitka Spruce at 1210m. On the chainsawing of the tree in the Sycamore Gap, on Hadrian's Wall...
"Hating nature, as the Anthropocene clears its throat…" Norway is gearing up for 2025, which is designated as a year of friluftsliv, literally translated as “free-air life”.
Henrik Ibsen used it to convey a spiritual connection with nature. To modern Norwegians, it means participating in outdoor activities, but also has a deeper sense of de-stressing in nature and sharing in a common culture. Could this outdoor life hold the key to Norwegians’ health and happiness? Walk in a park, hike in the forest, kayak a loch, ski in the mountains, pick berries or simply sit in the woods. 25% of Norwegians stayed outside overnight in the past year. Friluftsliv is beneficial to physical health because it often involves exercise, but the mental benefits are just as important. Studies show that being in green spaces helps reduce anxiety and improve cognition. Love nature. “Sit on a rock, listen to the birds, look around and try to root again.” Leave no trace. Today is the autumn equinox, welcoming the season of golden hues, crisp light, and incredible stargazing. It's the perfect time of year to get into the forest and find inspiration in wild nature. Thanks to Grant Willoughby for this spectacular photo of Glen Affric.
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Few trees support as much biodiversity as #Aspen, giving it an important role as a keystone species. It's home to a wide range of insects - some of which are rare or threatened and depend entirely on aspen to live - as well as fungi, lichens and mosses. Hundreds of communities around the US will share more than $1bn in federal money to help them plant and maintain trees under a federal program that is intended to reduce extreme heat, benefit health and improve access to nature.
The tree planting efforts will be focused on marginalized areas in all 50 states as well as Washington DC, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and some tribal nations. A good few of us are grateful to have benefitted from Intensive Care treatment in the NHS. ICUsteps is a friendly support group for Intensive Care patients, family and friends. We’re doing the Edinburgh Kiltwalk on 17 Sept 2023 in aid of funds for ICUsteps groups across Scotland. Thank you for your Kiltwalk kindness!
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/ICUstepsEdinburghKiltwalk It’s time for a new climate populism, to show how the super rich got us – and the planet – into this mess.
The crisis is unavoidably political. It’s about how a finite resource – the amount of emitted carbon the planet can tolerate – is to be divided up between different interests. The people super-rich have by far the largest carbon footprints, left by their frequent air travel, multiple homes and lavish consumption, they have the most to lose if lifestyles are to become climate compatible. Approximately 1.9 billion trees!
158 million trees around the planet are replanted every month. And out of the 158 million trees, 5 million are replanted each day, and approximately 7,000 are planted every minute.The world plans to plant at least 1 trillion trees by 2030. The UK planted 14.5 million trees in 2022 - the vast majority of that in Scotland, with 1/12th of the population. Planting trees assists in combating climate change, but is not the ony answer - reducing emissions from fossil fuels is also important. Since 2000, 14 million trees were cut down to make way for wind farms in Scotland, but 272 million trees were planted across the country in the same period, according to the government agency Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS).
The amount of woodland removed across Scotland's national forests and land, managed by FLS, for wind farm development is not even 1 per cent of the total woodland area, while the 14 million trees were a commercial crop that would ultimately have been felled for timber. The 272 million trees planted did not include restock planting on commercial sites. In addition, the Scottish government requires that developers that fell trees to make way for wind farms must carry out compensatory planting elsewhere. On average, FLS will plant 25 million trees every year as restock planting of commercial crops. The Energy News Beat story was copied verbatim by The Herald from the website CFACT.org, which belongs to the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow, a US-based organisation that rejects the scientific consensus on climate change. The executive publisher of Energy News Beat, Stuart Turley, is also the president and CEO of Sandstone Group. According to LinkedIn, both he and the company's former managing director (who co-hosts Energy News Beat's podcast) work for the King Operating Corporation, a "privately held Texas oil and gas company". Oh. GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS
Trees are the greatest carbon capture machines in the world, fine tuned over many millions of years, and they help to create the very air we breathe, a home for wildlife. But humans cut down over 15 billion trees every year and think they can survive in a world without trees The food was great, and disappeared very quickly - Beyond sausage and couscous, or macaroni and cheese
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