The Overnight News Digest is a community feature on Daily Kos since 2007. It consists of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a daily theme, original research or commentary. This is Magnifico's first diary in the new format. Colombian government has authorized a plan to cull Pablo Escobar's feral hippos. More than 15m juvenile oysters are to be released into the North Sea in one of the biggest rewilding projects in UK waters.
Alister Scott is the executive director of Global Rewilding Alliance (GRA), an umbrella organization with nearly 300 partner organizations across six continents. He talks about the essence of rewilding and how his organization brings together rewilders as the planet faces biodiversity loss and climate change.
Mongabay has published several articles about the emotional strain conservationists are under due to environmental degradation, job losses, moral injury, and a sense of isolation. Two conservation professionals co-founded Revive, a global working group of the Society for Conservation Biology, which aims to build an emotionally resilient conservation community.
A limited podcast series is about how to feed the planet without destroying the planet. The solution may lie in agroecology, a holistic approach to food, agriculture, nature, and social systems that’s already taking root around the globe. In this limited podcast, hear from farmers, scientists, food movement leaders, and other experts about what agroEcology is, how it works, and why a transition to it is needed.
Inside Climate News is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that makes its news available for free. It has bureaus from coast to coast to report local stories, collaborate with local newsrooms and co-publish articles. It earned a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting six years ago. It's the oldest and largest dedicated climate newsroom in the nation.
Erle Ellis is a professor of geography and environmental systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He is a leading researcher studying the Anthropocene, the current geological age defined by the large-scale impact of human activity on Earth. He argues that the same collective abilities that allowed societies to transform the planet can also be used to improve it.
A recent paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B argues that conservationists should ask themselves what is the monitoring for and why it's necessary. The authors outline 15 different reasons for monitoring, ranging from evaluating interventions to informing policy, securing funding, building public support, and documenting change over time.
Suzanne Simard's new book, "When the Forest Breathes," is a memoir with history, science, and politics. It's the sequel to her bestseller "Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest." Simard is a professor and researcher at the University of British Columbia. She believes that forests are interconnected ecosystems that communicate and collaborate using underground fungal networks.
On Earth Day, Slow Food Indigenous Peoples Network gathered in Mexico to talk about the importance of food sovereignty, agroecology, and Indigenous leadership in political decision-making. They believe that the Earth is an interconnected system where soil, water, seeds, food, animals, and human communities depend on one another.
Sheila Darmos is a leading voice in regenerative farming in Greece. She transformed her family's organic farm into a thriving agroforestry system with over 150 fruit trees and shrubs. Sheila shares insights on community-building, education and personal growth that comes from living in harmony with the land.