Wetland

• Today, the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, announced an investment of almost $12.8 million to support 27 Indigenous-Led Natural Climate Solutions initiatives across Canada.
• These include developing the capacity for carbon accounting, educating citizens about natural climate solutions, and acquiring 40 hectares of wetlands for long-term conservation.
• The Indigenous-Led Natural Climate Solutions Program is crucial to these efforts, helping to protect ecosystems, species, and cultural heritage, while also having significant climate benefits."
• "Indigenous peoples, through their deep spiritual and cultural connection to the natural world, continue to be leaders in global conservation efforts.

• Gloomy weather, seasonal affective disorder, and more all contribute to this downshift in our collective mood.
• A study published in 2019 showed that spending at least two hours per week in nature is associated with improved health and well-being.
• Yet, an online survey of 1,000 Canadians commissioned by Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) in January 2024 suggests that as many as 43% of us are getting less than one hour per week in nature, or even no time at all.
• "Sadly, we are continuing to lose our natural spaces like wetlands, making opportunities for time in nature more scarce.

• Most of them grow from southern Oregon down into northern California, snugged up against the rugged Pacific coast.
• Redwoods, like all trees, are engineered marvels.
• They even have two kinds of leaves that help the trees adapt to both wet and dry conditions.
• Researchers and horticulturists at the botanical gardens are thinking about trees, and how to integrate them into larger landscapes, in new ways.

Redwood communities

• A structure or building typically is a sort of island unto itself, separate from its neighbors; in contrast, the coast redwood is an ecosystem with enormously broad consequences for other life forms.
• Some of these life forms rely on the tree; others on occupants in and around the tree.
• The coast redwood hosts so many different ecological interactions that it’s faintly ridiculous.
• Nestled into extensive mats of ferns that grow high up in redwood canopies, researchers find aquatic crustaceans called copepods that normally would live in larger bodies of water.

Enduring but not static

• Even species as enduring as coast redwoods are affected by climate change.
• New fire dangers put them at risk, and more frequent floods erode the big trees’ footing.
• Since these trees are so networked and interconnected, the sum is greater than its parts and isn’t easy to quantify.

New territory

• I’ve resisted giving names to this duo, although many giant redwoods have monikers like Adventure, Brutus, Nugget, Paradox and Atlas – most named by the scientists who first quantified their extreme heights.
• The redwoods outside my window are perhaps 100 feet tall – puny by comparison to their northern brethren.

Daniel Lewis does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

• DUBAI, Dec 5, 2023 - (ACN Newswire) - PT Pertamina Hulu Rokan (PHR) presented innovations in creating wetlands to manage wastewater produced from its operational activities at COP28 on Friday.
• PT Pertamina Hulu Rokan (PHR) presented its innovation in constructing wetlands to manage wastewater from its operational activities at COP28.
• Wastewater management was carried out using constructed wetlands based on hydro technology, where wetlands are formed using a hydraulic loading rate technique, so that wastewater management simply used gravity.
• PHR has built constructed wetland covering an area of 5,000 m2 in one of its Rokan Block work areas.