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Chris Sandom
@Nature_Based
@Nature_Based is the Twitter account of the Sandom Lab at the Uni of Sussex. We are interested in Nature-based solutions, palaeo/community ecology, #rewilding.
Nov 3, 2021 • 18 tweets • 20 min read
1/n Controversial new paper alert!

WILD LARGE HERBIVORE DENSITIES AREN’T UNNATURALLY HIGH, & imo much higher numbers in the future could be a sign of successful nature recovery!

Thread – please hear me out :)
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…
#restoration #rewilding @JAppliedEcology @JAppliedEcology 2/n My career started in the Scottish Highlands @alladale1 , and restoring the Caledonian Pine Forest was the key restoration/rewilding goal. Standing in the way were red deer eating all the saplings. Solution: reduce deer numbers or fence them out, deer were the problem.
Nov 18, 2019 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
1/8 Three typical criticisms of #rewilding are: 1) Rewilding means different things to different people 2) We don’t know what will happen if we let nature lead so it is too risky 3) Rewilding excludes people from the landscape. Some of my thinking on these: 2/8 1) To me, most words mean different things to different people. Forest, farming, conservation are all words that conjure up different visions depending on context. The broader meaning unifies and the specific details vary…