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January 15, 2023January 9, 2023

Rare good news from USA. Manchin tried to attach energy bill to appropriations legislation: failed

In the USA, much to the frustration of many politicians, it is possible to attach legislation to another bill, even when there is nothing that links the two. In this case Jo Minchin’s legislation would have deregulated and changed permitting reforms for fossil fuel projects, and were supposed to be attached to a must pass defence bill. This ability to attach irrelevant legislation must be ended.

In other words, had he been allowed to do it, the bill would have had to be passed, as the defence part was required.

January 14, 2023January 9, 2023

Chimpanzees and gorillas search each other out – “friends with benefits”

Recent studies have shown that it his highly beneficial to both species when these cross species friendships are made. Indeed, it is not merely a question of chance encounters, instead each species will actively search out the other.

Benefits include protection from predators, increased social skills and finding fruiting trees.

While chimpanzees and gorillas can occasionally be seen feeding together, and captive animals can often have close relationships, recent research suggests that at least in some forests this is a common behaviour, and both species recognize its benefits

January 13, 2023January 9, 2023

The worlds 3 most destructive industries are fossil fuels, farming and fisheries, yet all three are protected by (and subsidized) by governments

Unfortunately these 3 activities appear to be most responsible for collapse or incredible pressure on ecosystems across the globe.

Both fossil fuel extraction and farming have required huge areas to be deforested

January 12, 2023January 9, 2023

Wildcats could potentially reintroduced into England for the first time in hundreds of years

Wildcats have been restricted to parts of Scotland for hundreds of years, despite once being found throughout the UK. Indeed, it is a problem where a significant number of people now refer to it as the Scottish wildcat, something that is only temporary, and should not be the case for ever.

Although looking sweet, British wild cats are impressive hunters, and can on occasion take deer

January 11, 2023January 9, 2023

Bringing the Kiwi back to Wellington wilds

The Kiwi is an interesting bird. As with many birds that developed on islands without mammals, they cannot fly.

As you can see, not really looking like a bird anymore, it is incapable of flight

In the case of new Zealand, the problem is simple. Those migrating to the island, brought with them rabbits. The rabbits escaped, and without any predators increased to silly levels. In order to control the rabbit population, stoats and similar predators were introduced, but these found the Kiwi a far easier meal.

In this instance, 11 birds have been introduced to the wilds near Wellington, for the first time in 100 years. These are the first of 250 birds that will arrive to settle in this area. Being the capital of new Zealand, it is impressive to have any surviving wildlife nearby. Yet Wellington prides itself on this work, and this is not its only move in the direction of rewilding.

It is thought that before humans arrived, as many as 12 million Kiwis roamed free in the country. Currently just 68,000 remain, however this number is growing slowly but surely. The arrival of Kiwi in this area, has required the countries biggest intensive Stoat trapping network as well as buy-in from a disparate array of land users.

January 10, 2023January 9, 2023

How do we save the worlds remaining wildlife? Animals like Orangutan need huge areas to survive and thrive

One proposal, is named as half earth. The idea is to set aside half of the land on earth as a human-free nature reserve in order to preserve biodiversity, proposed by Eo Wilson.

It is asad fact, that were humans to disappear from the planet tomorrow, Orangutans would probably recover pretty quickly. Photo credit Carine06

January 9, 2023January 9, 2023

Is the conservative party in the UK (and perhaps similar parties around the world) supporting of climate change doubt and climate change denial

The mountain of evidence which shows that climate change is real is enormous. The temperature has increased, and all of the evidence points towards carbon emissions being the reason.

If your MP is a part of this group then campaign to make sure that they loose their seat in the next election.

January 9, 2023January 9, 2023

Wild chimpanzee mother and baby sighted in Cameroon park Douala-Edea national park for the first time

It is unfortunately true, that in many of the reserves that have been formed, we do not know what lives within the park. In many places there has been so much poaching that animals keep well clear of any human visitors.

It is also true, that in parks with little or no tourism infrastructure, it is incredibly difficult to find animals. Never-the-less, while this makes it clear that when setting up national parks you need to give them some resources if you wish them to be a success tourism-wise, they can still have impressive conservation successes.

In this instance, clearly chimpanzee are still surviving and even breeding.

First Chimpanzee recorded in Douala-Edea national park, and its a mother with offspring

January 8, 2023January 9, 2023

Vast seagrass forest is discovered by strapping cameras to sharks, and extend the area of seagrass by more than 40%

Tiger sharks are incredibly fierce, and can grow to be more than 16 foot (nearly 5m long). However, by strapping cameras to these fascinating animals (researchers attached cameras and trackers to the dorsal fins of tiger sharks, giving them hours of footage each time.

seagrass meadows are incredibly biodiverse, incredible carbon sinks and a huge new one increase the amount by 40%

January 7, 2023January 7, 2023

We’re back! Sorry we have been missing for a while. Dedicated server, hopefully allow the website to meet some of its aims!

Hello people, happy new year. The last few months where we have been offline, have been extraordinarily frustrating, we have finally worked through our technical issues and hope to be back with a vengeance

Seeanimalswild is back and hopefully 2023 is the year that it starts to fulfil its aims.

This website was not merely set up in order to be a blog. That is not to say that it will cease to do this, quite to the contrary. However, it was never meant to just be a blog. Our aim is to create a space where people can list wildernesses that they either live in or work in (and protect). Whether wildlife is the main use of the land or not, there is still much money that could be made from its existence.

It is not possible for me to do this alone. Sure we have several simple page builders, allowing people to quickly lay out their listing, so that all we need to do is check it, and it can go live – start inviting visitors. The bigger issue is to spread the word around the world to people who we can be useful for.

In the next few weeks and months, two membership areas will be added.

One is for supporters – those who read the blog. This will cost a bit and is your way to support our work. You will be able to help us add wilderness destinations that you have found, and businesses that require help finding people to visit them. The aim is to give everyone interested a chance to help become a part of the solution to wildlife loss. In the long-term we hope to list many thousands of destinations, and help many more find their wilderness holiday or experience, and as such help the human race protect what is left of the natural world – give the remaining wilderness a value, and those who live nearby a way to benefit from it. Alongside this will be a whole community where you will be able to get to know other people, join discussion forums, and even interact directly with the people who run this website

The other is members – this will have a series of strands.

The first and most important are those who live or work in wilderness areas. This will be the way for people to list their property for those who are interested to come and visit. The activity and duration of the visit will vary depending on what is offered on each destination. It is aimed to include everything from people sitting on a farm watching wildlife in the evening, to week long safaris, hides, but is also aimed at those working in research – give visitors the chance to see the wildlife that you are researching, while hearing what you are doing, and help support your work at the same time. There will be plenty of discussion forums, and over time an increasing knowledge bank from shared information – allowing people to share ways that they have found to stop livestock predation amongst other issues. Alongside these we are keen to list anything that is required for these journeys from flights to car rental and so many more

The next is writers. We are interested in having articles written by a whole range of people. We are interested in the advertising being natural, so everyone in the first strand will be invited to write articles from time to time, perhaps about a fantastic wildlife encounter, or a testimonial. However, this is not all we are interested in, we are keen to have guest articles and even regular entries by other blog writers. While we will not link to another blog, we are quite happy to give credit and list your blog alongside your name.

Another is those listing services or selling things. We are keen to become a useful resource for those selling anything that is relevant. From books and DVDs about the natural world that we would love to help reach a larger audience, to carbon emission reduction services and other climate change related services. We want to help anyone who is working in the field of wildlife, conservation and climate mitigation to be able to sell their goods and services.

We will take a small cut of those things that go through this site – this money along with any profits made through helping people find wilderness experiences will be ploughed back into conservation. If the website is particularly successful, we will aim to enter into direct conservation of wildernesses, but this is obviously some time in the future.

I hope that many of you, my dear readers, will join me in some context, either helping support the website or in some other way.

We should be back to work from here on in, and if we are lucky, our bandwidth issues are in the past.