Opinion: *** This is What Natural "Rewilding" Looks Like ***

WITH DENSE GRASS COMES WILD GRAZERS, RICH SOIL, AND A SAFE CLIMATE. IT ALL STARTS WITH RUMINANT LIVESTOCK HOLISTICALLY MANAGED.

The ignorance of livestock's role in natural ecosystem functioning and the offhanded antagonism against them, permits the likes of Bill Gates to unabashedly advocate for fertilizers and fake foods while continuing the destruction of grasslands and the depletion of their copious soil carbon stores...

The post from Allan Savory, shared herein, of elephants on his property in Zimbabwe (I know the spot well) is a perfect example of natural ecosystem restoration and "rewinding" with holistic planned grazing. The elephants are there because the grass is there. The grass is there because of the holistic planned grazing. In fact, there is abundantly more grass and wildlife at the Africa Centre for Holistic Management in Zimbabwe (where Allan lives) - which increased its livestock holdings by 5-fold - than there is at the Zambezi and Victoria Falls National Parks just 20 km away. Those parks - "conservation" areas - don't allow livestock at all. And - to no one's surprise in this group - they're turning to desert - no grass - hard capped soil - expanding gullies - "invasions" of woody brush, etc. - the textbook litany of what happens when land in semi-arid areas aren't properly impacted with herds of ruminants.

That fact that we are now in 2020 AD, with rampant desertification on the planet and atmospheric CO2 shooting over 417 ppm, and the majority of environmental scientists and climate activists are still - at best - ignorant of regenerative / restorative grazing, or - more likely - antagonistic to it, is simply horrifying and unacceptable. This has to stop.

The ignorance of livestock's role in natural ecosystem functioning and the offhanded antagonism against them, permits the likes of Bill Gates to unabashedly advocate for fertilizers and fake foods while continuing the destruction of grassland and the depletion of their copious soil carbon stores via industrial production of soy, pea, and other grains on what should be robust and biodiverse grasslands maintained with grazing.

Allan Savory is getting on in life, and he knows it, which is why in this post he refers to his "twilight years." What we need to "twilight," of course, is the Western science debasing of livestock and grazing. Yes, there are problems with the factory farm model of meat production. We get. We've gotten it for decades. Now, it's time for the livestock haters to "get it" about the alternative model of regenerative grazing that we're promoting. We need ruminants, so does the soil, so does the climate, so do the elephants.

Yebo!

- Seth

Allan Savory's post
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[video of elephants on his property]
This is why I love living in my simple mud and grass home amongst our wonderful wildlife. This herd of cow and calf elephants joined us early this evening as I sat drinking a whisky by my sitting room fire. So peaceful in such a troubled world finally giving me a chance to smell the roses in my twilight years!

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Seth J. Itzkan
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