{"id":134469,"date":"2024-10-11T07:55:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T04:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/rewilding-how-a-herd-of-wild-bulls-reintroduced-to-the-scottish-highlands-could-store-carbon\/"},"modified":"2024-10-11T07:55:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T04:55:02","slug":"rewilding-how-a-herd-of-wild-bulls-reintroduced-to-the-scottish-highlands-could-store-carbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/rewilding-how-a-herd-of-wild-bulls-reintroduced-to-the-scottish-highlands-could-store-carbon\/","title":{"rendered":"Rewilding: How a herd of wild bulls reintroduced to the Scottish Highlands could store carbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134469\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Up to 15 tauros &#8211; a breed of huge wild cattle &#8211; are to be reintroduced to Scoltand\u2019s Highlands by 2026. It is hoped they will help restore biodiversity, store carbon and enhance eco-tourism. The project, led by Scottish conservation charity Trees for Life, aims to replicate the ecological role of their ancestors, the aurochs, an extinct species that thrived for millenia in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Classified as domestic cattle, tauros have no equivalent among other breeds, yet aurochs\u2019 DNA has survived in a number of ancient original cattle breeds. Uniquely, tauros have thus been \u2018back-bred\u2019 to genetically replicate, resemble and behave like the extinct aurochs as closely as possible. Bulls can reach up to 180cm and cows 150cm at the shoulder, similar in size to aurochs.<\/p>\n<p>The introduction of tauros in the Highlands holds great promise for climate and biodiversity. Due to their size and behavior, tauros interact with their environment more than other cattle that are smaller and less active, European studies have found. As large grazers, they contribute to the growth of native plants and create habitats for wildlife. These boost species diversity and soak up carbon dioxide. They also support healthy soils through their dung and the creation of \u2018bullpits\u2019 &#8211; bowls in the earth carved out by rutting bulls using their horns and hooves, or through strengthening their neck muscles by bashing their heads against one side of a pit. Bullpits form micro-habitats that support invertebrates, in turn eaten by small mammals and birds, and allow pioneer plant species to establish.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/10\/10\/rewilding-how-a-herd-of-wild-bulls-reintroduced-to-the-scottish-highlands-could-store-carb\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/6-599\/\">Rewilding: How a herd of wild bulls reintroduced to the Scottish Highlands could store carbon<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[575,16463,1162,16464],"class_list":["post-134469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-highlands","tag-scotland","tag-wild-bull"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}