<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: x-large;" class=""><b class="">Pastoralism and biodiversity</b></span></div><div class=""><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text"><div class="is-layout-flex wp-container-3 wp-block-columns"><div class="is-layout-flow wp-block-column" style="flex-basis:40%;"><div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" data-attachment-id="2843" data-permalink="https://pastres.org/biodiversity/square-crop/" data-orig-file="https://pastres.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/square-crop.jpg" data-orig-size="500,500" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="square-crop" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://pastres.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/square-crop.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://pastres.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/square-crop.jpg?w=500" src="https://pastres.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/square-crop.jpg?w=500" alt="" class="wp-image-2843" srcset="https://pastres.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/square-crop.jpg?w=206 206w, https://pastres.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/square-crop.jpg?w=412 412w, https://pastres.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/square-crop.jpg?w=150 150w, https://pastres.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/square-crop.jpg?w=300 300w" sizes="(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px" width="206" height="206"></figure></div></div>
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<div class="has-white-background-color is-layout-flow has-background wp-block-column has-medium-font-size" style="flex-basis:75%;"><p class=""><strong class=""><font size="3" class="">What does extensive mobile pastoralism mean for biodiversity and conservation?</font></strong></p><p class="">Six PASTRES (Pastoralism, Uncertainty & Resilience) briefs (in English, French & Spanish) explore how pastoralists can play a role in
improving biodiversity, sequestering carbon and protecting the
environment:</p><div class=""><h3 class=""><ol class=""><li class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;" class="">The benefits of pastoralism for biodiversity and the climate</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;" class="">Why tree planting in rangelands can be bad for biodiversity and the climate</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;" class="">Enhancing biodiversity through livestock keeping</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;" class="">Going up in smoke: how livestock keeping can reduce wildfires</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;" class="">Rewilding and ecosystem restoration: what is ‘natural’?</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;" class="">Collaborative conservation: </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;" class="">pastoralists as conservationists</span></li></ol></h3><div class=""><b class=""><i class=""><span style="left: 57.407px; top: 1340.59px; transform: scaleX(1.0325);" role="presentation" dir="ltr" class="">The briefs are published</span><span style="left: 57.407px; top: 1340.59px; transform: scaleX(1.0325);" role="presentation" dir="ltr" class=""> </span>in support of the IYRP 2026.</i></b><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""><i class=""><font size="4" class="">See <a href="https://pastres.org/biodiversity/" class="">https://pastres.org/biodiversity/</a></font></i></b></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">See also the report “<b class=""><font size="4" class="">Are livestock always bad for the planet</font></b>” and 3 info sheets:</div><div class=""><ol class=""><li class="">Livestock and climate change: the benefits of a systems approach</li><li class="">Ten flaws in mainstream assessments of livestock and climate change</li><li class="">Putting livestock-keepers at the centre of the climate-livestock debate</li></ol></div><div class="">The info sheets are available in Arabic, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, Turkish & Russian.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""><i class=""><font size="4" class="">See <a href="https://pastres.org/livestock-report/" class="">https://pastres.org/livestock-report/</a> </font></i></b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Chinese translation of the report can be found here: <a href="https://iyrp.info/sites/iyrp.org/files/Are livestock always bad for the planet? - Chinese version.pdf" class="">https://iyrp.info/sites/iyrp.org/files/Are%20livestock%20always%20bad%20for%20the%20planet%3F%20-%20Chinese%20version.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">
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