Billionaire real-estate developer Donald Bren helped turn a significant portion of California’s historic Irvine Ranch into…
Tag: Habitat Restoration
In 1993, California’s thumb-sized Pacific pocket mouse was rediscovered after being thought extinct; 33 years later, 530+ have been reintroduced and a third reintroduced population established
In 1993, California’s pocket mouse was rediscovered; 33 years later, 530+ have been reintroduced (Image Credit:…
In 2024, Texas biologists turned more than 160 donated Christmas trees into an underwater reef at Granger Lake, where fish can use them as habitat within 15 minutes
The Christmas season is around the corner, and the must-have Christmas tree often ends up on…
An Essex family set aside its entire farm roughly 30 years ago; after farming resumed in 2014, 50 acres stayed wild, regenerated with oak and scrub, and helped inspire a 200-acre nature-recovery plan
An Essex estate has launched a 200-acre nature-recovery project after seeing how a smaller area of…
Fourteen US projects will restore or protect wildlife movement across more than 206,000 acres and improve 225 miles of fencing after a new $17.1 million conservation investment across the West
Mule deer moving through a landscape (Representational photo) The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) has…
About 200,000 endangered Indiana bats spend summers around Missouri’s Mark Twain Lake; crews are now thinning trees to reopen flight, foraging corridors as habitat work targets one of the species’ largest remaining concentrations
As per the report, treatments are carried out in late summer and early autumn, when trees…
San Diego crews removed more than 60 tons of dried brush and invasive plants from 750+ acres of Mission Trails; the work targets wildfire fuel in a park where the 2003 Cedar Fire burned about 2,800 acres
San Diego crews remove 60+ tons of brush from 750+ acres to reduce Mission Trails fire…
In 2004, Phillip Island launched a campaign to eliminate foxes after nine of its 10 little-penguin colonies had vanished; alongside habitat restoration, the surviving colony grew from 12,000 to 40,000 birds
Phillip Island’s little penguins once faced a crisis that threatened to erase much of their presence…
Maine removed a 60-year-old river barrier where only about 25 wild adult Atlantic salmon return each year; a new nature-like fishway aims to reopen migration routes
Atlantic Salmon leaping waterfalls (Photo credit: Canva) Maine has removed a 60-year-old river barrier on the…
Alabama agencies released about 1,500 rare native mussels into the Paint Rock River after years of streambank repair and barrier removal, using the animals themselves to help filter and restore the river
Representative Image (AI-genearted) A river once reshaped by human intervention is now being helped back to…