“Having extended partnerships with groups and individuals is what makes efforts like these successful,” Angelo says.

“Guichon Creek highlights that we should never give up on any river, stream or creek, and that nature can heal itself if we give it a chance.”

#rewilding #water #vancouver #burnaby #ecology #restoration

rewildingmag.com/guichon-creek…

kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/… DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social - #UK - #Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show

Sandra Laville
Fri 21 Aug 2026

Excerpt: "Aerial footage of an estate in Somerset has revealed the benefits of #rewilding land in the face of #ExtremeWeather brought about by the climate crisis.

"The area of the #NationalTrust’s #HolnicoteEstate where rivers have been returned to their natural courses and #wetlands have been restored have remained green and lush during the five heatwaves across the summer. In contrast, the surrounding countryside has become parched and brown.

"The two interventions are significant #rewilding projects and provide strong evidence that #NatureBasedSolutions can protect against wildfires. This contradicts claims by some rightwing commentators, who have blamed rewilding for causing #wildfires.

" 'Nature is providing solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing society today,' said Ben Eardley, the project manager at the Holnicote estate. 'For generations as a nation we’ve drained wetlands, straightened rivers and moved water off the land as quickly as possible. Here, we’ve reversed that approach and the results are remarkable.

" 'By reconnecting river systems with the surrounding area and creating natural sponges in the landscape, we’ve created a system that stores water during #drought, keeping wetlands and the surrounding habitats healthy, and slows water during storms and periods of extreme rainfall, helping to protect villages from the risk of flooding downstream.'

"Eardley said the same natural processes that helped wildlife recover were also helping communities adapt to #ClimateBreakdown.

"More than 90% of the UK’s wetlands have been lost over the last century and restoring the habitats to make them wet again is becoming increasingly important for #ClimateAdaptation, #WaterSecurity and #NatureRecovery.

"Harry Bowell, the National Trust’s director of land and nature, called on the government to boost its efforts to invest in nature-based solutions to help the country become more resilient."

Learn more:
theguardian.com/environment/20…

#SolarPunkSunday #Rewilding #RestoreNature #WaterIsLife #ClimateChangeAdaptation #ClimateChangeResilience

"How beavers are quietly tackling Europe’s raging wildfires and helping burnt landscapes recover"
euronews.com/2026/07/29/how-be…

#SolarPunkSunday #ReWilding #Beavers #WetLands #LandScapes #WildLife #Nature #BioDiversity #WildFires #Drought #FloodPlains

This article about an estate in Britain remaining green amid the drought has some striking images.

It came as a surprise to me to learn that the UK lost 90% its wetlands over the last century.

But the situation is similar in other places—lost to farmland that crept up closer and closer to rivers, including near us.

I came across Rewilding Europe while doing work for a Carpathian ecotourism operator. That’s how I’ve learned they’ve been doing research and work downstream on the Odra river near the German border Szczecin/Swinoujscie since 2020-2021 or so.

We’re much farther upstream but in an area once was lush with water and marshlands from Odra tributaries.

Without much time and physical ability to garden this year, we accidentally rewilded a large portion of our garden, including one zone I call “the marshlands”—where the previous owners dumped trash and bits of asbestos-laced roof tile.

This, coupled with our reluctance to cut trees meant our garden was cool and pleasant most summer long, even in 40C heat. We joked that it’s unfair some people work hard to achieve this level of growth, while we did nothing except let nature run its course. If it wants to be marsh-like, so be it. It really paid off, and a few butterflies and lizards now live in it too.

Though at some point all that trash trapped underneath it will have to go, but it’s incredible how fast nature will come back and take care of itself if you let it.

theguardian.com/environment/20…

#rewilding #rewildingeurope

What excites me about solarpunk, degrowth, and sustainable living, is that we have materials and science today that make simple living far more doable, safe, comfortable, and easy than it was for our ancestors. LRT, we have glass, which can do so many things our tribal ancestors would've thought magic. Like making a solar fruit dryer. We just need to turn our attention to creating these inventions.

I've traded my 40hr per week job for a 10hr per week job, in a simple RV in the country where I'm slowly weening myself off of white colonizer culture and the need to constantly buy things, and it's BETTER. I'd rather get my hands dirty and figure out how to keep away deer through my own awkward inventions, than give that labor to some software company so that they can screw me first chance they get.

I doubt I could fully feed myself with a subsistence farm, and I still need some kind of speedy transportation way out here, but I can do things myself as much as possible, and I've got STEEL TOOLS to do it with. I can repair my clothes with a steel needle and really nice thread, I've got glass jars and glue and wire mesh and straight-cut lumber with a power drill, and it doesn't take very much of these things to live comfortably. We don't have to go all the way back to the Stone Age to live sustainably. As a society, we just need to focus our inventive powers (currently decided by "capital") on better, more fulfilling ways to do things.

I'd rather struggle against nature than against the unnatural leviathans we call corporations. And I find that much of it isn't struggle, it's learning to listen and cooperate. It's healthier and more purposeful. It feels better.

#solarpunk #degrowth #rewilding