Holiday coziness with inspiring nature stories
- Nature restoration
This holiday season, take a moment to relax with your favorite warm drink and discover a collection of heartwarming nature stories. These highlights from the year remind us of the incredible things that can happen when people come together to create space for nature.
1. Frog inventories
Fredrik Engdahl, an aquatic ecologist, uses Scalgo Live to protect amphibians, such as frogs, in urban development projects.
Common toad on its way to breeding grounds. The male grooms a female and takes the opportunity to hitch a ride.
2. Idea to reality: Maximising nature’s potential on farmland through technology and collaboration
At Farrantshayes Farm in Devon, the Devon Wildlife Trust used Scalgo Live to restore wetlands, enhancing natural flood management, water quality, and habitats.
In the final design, long bunds where planned using material from the excavation.
3. Rewetting drained peatland to improve biodiversity
Rewetting drained peatlands reduces carbon emissions, improves biodiversity, and creates wildlife habitats. Ea Baden from Ekologigruppen uses Scalgo Live to plan impactful, resource-efficient restoration projects.
Out measuring ditches. To rewet the area, ditches are blocked with local materials creating dams where water rises upstream.
