Wild animals: The original and best carbon-capture ‘technology’

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Animating the Carbon Cycle – TWS WebinarsAugust 2025

Animating the Carbon Cycle – TWS WebinarsAugust 2025

by ACC Admin | Aug 29, 2025 | 2025, Event, More In-depth, Resources

The webinar presents the latest scientific insights about how animal species restoration and conservation can contribute to nature-based climate solutions via their underappreciated functional roles in protecting and enhancing carbon capture and storage across a broad...

Rewilding the climate: How a surprising twist on rewilding could help settle our carbon debtMarch 2025

by ACC Admin | Mar 24, 2025 | 2025, More In-depth, Press Article, Resources

In the Țarcu mountains of Romania, a pioneering experiment is changing the atmosphere around rewilding. Starting in 2014, around 100 European bison were gradually reintroduced to the area, having been wiped out by hunting more than 200 years ago. They now number more...

Rewilding’ animals could help combat climate change, study findsMarch 2023

by ACC Admin | Mar 28, 2023 | 2023, Introductory, Press Article, Resources

Restoring certain wildlife populations could aid in mitigating climate change, a new study has found. Specifically, the report highlighted how large animals like elephants, whales, bison, and sharks are as effective as forests at capturing carbon, writes the New...

Integral functions of marine vertebrates in the ocean carbon cycle and climate change mitigationMay 2021

by ACC Admin | May 11, 2026 | 2021, Peer Reviewed Scientific Paper, Resources, Technical / Scientific

Marine vertebrates range in size from millimeters to the 30 m long blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus),1,2 have lifespans from weeks to centuries,3–6 and occupy all but the lowest trophic levels. Some undertake vast migrations across oceans, while others have a home...

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