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A young elephant gives itself a good belly rub on plants growing out of a termite mound while other elephants graze in the background. The young elephant looks ecstatic! Photographed in the Masai Mara in Kenya.
#elephant #elephants #masaimara #kenya #grazing #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #grasslands #giftideas #wallart #artforsale #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt @joancarroll
https://joan-carroll.pixels.com/featured/a-good-scratch-joan-carroll.html
Stockfree Farming is a Scottish-based charity that supports and assists crofters & farmers throughout the UK to transition out of animal farming into alternative forms of land management.
It was recently asked to respond to a reader’s letter published in a Scottish magazine that extolled the merits of pasture-fed adaptive or #regenerative #grazing as a solution to #ClimateChange & to other forms of #environmental degradation. Here’s the very persuasive response:
https://stockfreefarming.org/adaptive-grazing-the-climate-soils-and-biodiversity-solution/
Today the neighbours visited. They were a little monotone. Mostly just said moo.
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"Humans as Agents in the Termination of the African Humid Period"
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There is great uncertainty over the timing and magnitude of the termination of the African Humid Period (AHP). Spanning from the early to middle Holocene, the AHP was a period of enhanced moisture over most of northern and eastern Africa. However, beginning 8000 years ago the moisture balance shifted due to changing orbital precession and vegetation feedbacks. Some proxy records indicate a rapid transition from wet to dry conditions, while others indicate a more gradual changeover. Heretofore, humans have been viewed as passive agents in the termination of the AHP, responding to changing climatic conditions by adopting animal husbandry and spreading an agricultural lifestyle across the African continent. This paper explores scenarios whereby humans could be viewed as active agents in landscape denudation. During the period when agriculture was adopted in northern Africa, the regions where it was occurring were at the precipice of ecological regime shifts. Pastoralism, in particular, is argued to enhance devegetation and regime shifts in unbalanced ecosystems. Threshold crossing events were documented in the historical records of New Zealand and western North America due to the introduction of livestock. In looking at temporally correlated archeological and paleoenvironmental records of northern Africa, similar landscape dynamics from the historical precedents are observed: reduction in net primary productivity, homogenization of the flora, transformation of the landscape into a shrub-dominated biozone, and increasing xerophylic vegetation overall. Although human agents are not seen as the only forces inducing regime change during the termination of the AHP, their potential role in inducing large-scale landscape change must be properly contextualized against other global occurrences of neolithization.
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Thanks to Mic for bringing up this topic again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJTL6ttMXZw
The paper mentioned at the top: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/earth-science/articles/10.3389/feart.2017.00004/full
"When the Nazis Tried to Bring Animals Back From Extinction"
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"Their ideology of genetic purity extended to aspirations about reviving a pristine landscape with ancient animals and forests"
#freerange #grazing #grassfed #pastoral #paleo #fascism #nazi #lebensraum
"According to an article written by Driessen and co-author Jamie Lorimer, Heinz saw the extinction of the wisent as the natural progression of the result of nomadic tribes overhunting. His brother, on the other hand, became more and more interested in what he considered to be “primeval German game”—an interest increasingly shared by Nazis who sought a return to a mythic German past free of racial impurities."
"“Göring saw the opportunity to make nature protection part of his political empire,” says environmental historian Frank Uekotter. “He also used the funds [from the Nature Protection Law of 1935] for his estate.” The law, which created nature reserves, allowed for the designation of natural monuments, and removed the protection of private property rights, had been up for consideration for years before the Nazis came to power. Once the Nazis no longer had the shackles of the democratic process to hold them back, Göring quickly pushed the law through to enhance his prestige and promote his personal interest in hunting."
"“Göring had a very peculiar interest in living a kind of fantasy of carrying spears and wearing peculiar dress,” Driessen says. “He had this eerie combination of childish fascination [with the poem] with the power of a murderous country behind it.” In practical terms, this meant seizing land from Poland, especially the vast wilderness of Białowieża Forest, then using it to create his own hunting reserves. This fit into the larger Nazi ideology of lebensraum, or living space, and a return to the heroic past."
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-nazis-tried-bring-animals-back-extinction-180962739/
