Restoring Biodiversity - 1/30/2024

Are rising CO2 levels actually helping the planet? Complexity in the minds of goats, pigs, and other livestock. Regenerative agriculture offers a future for sustainable farming. And more.

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Climate Scientists Say We Should Embrace Higher CO2 Levels

According to this article, rising CO2 levels actually help the planet.

While governments pour billions of dollars into lowering CO2 emissions, several climate experts say CO2 is essential and higher levels are not a problem.

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What Are Farm Animals Thinking?

Quoting the article below, “These are not dumb creatures. They have a rich emotional life and personality.”

New research is revealing surprising complexity in the minds of goats, pigs, and other livestock

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Videos

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Farming Sustainably with Regenerative Agriculture | Restoring Paradise

Regenerative agriculture offers a future for sustainable farming of meat in line with nature’s needs, by using holistic management and organic/biodynamic practices and even sequestering carbon in the soil – so important in our response to our climate crisis. At Mangarara, in New Zealand’s beautiful Hawke’s Bay, Greg Hart and his family are in the process of restoring 1500 acres of land, conventionally farmed for over 150 years, into the paradise it once was.

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Photo by DK lukewarmsmore on Unsplash

Chukar Hunting in Utah’s West Desert

Adam Eakle joins Brett Wannacott and friends on a chukar hunt in the mountains of Utah’s West Desert. They show you how to hunt these devil birds for tons of fun, and shooting action.

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