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• But no, this was not Just Stop Oil back for another round, nor the result of a disgruntled golfer.
• Javelinas (or peccaries) are small but feisty relatives of the domesticated pig, found across the southern US and into South America.
• A study of wild boar in Spain revealed that they raided golf courses less often during the COVID lockdown, when hunting was curtailed.

The bogey of management

• But these benefits depend on good management to create a mix of habitats, including flower-filled rough grass, scrub and woodland.
• Wildlife-friendly golf course management can even benefit the game itself.
• Water draining from these courses may be polluted with pesticides or nutrients that alter the algae in adjacent streams.

• French golfers have it easy compared with some of the creatures roaming the fairways in other countries.
• Florida’s golfers, for example, would do well to keep an eye out for alligators.
• The Arizona course staff were understandably horrified by the damage done, but the javelinas have their fans too.

Rewild the fairway

• In the US, the total number of golf courses is declining, with more closures than openings since 2006 – many of them abandoned with no new purpose in mind.
• Reversing the drainage from derelict courses could create new wetland habitats capable of stalling floods during heavy rainfall.
• Projects to reverse this damage and rewild golf courses are springing up in England, the US and Australia.

• The usefulness of pigs and their kin for grubbing up the land is widely recognised in rewilding projects.
• It has become fashionable among opponents of rewilding to criticise this approach to nature conservation for taking land out of food production.

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• WaterTower Music is enchanted to announce today’s release of Wonka (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) with delectable original music performed by Timothée Chalamet in the title role, along with the movie’s phenomenal ensemble cast, including Hugh Grant, Calah Lane and Keegan-Michael Key, and many others.
• The soundtrack is available for streaming and on CD now with vinyl coming in 2024.
• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231208523203/en/
  WONKA (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) NOW AVAILABLE FROM WATERTOWER MUSIC (Graphic: Business Wire)
  “Right from the start I knew I wanted Wonka to be a companion piece to the 1971 movie for which Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse wrote such extraordinary, enduring songs as Oompa Loompa and, of course, Pure Imagination.
• But then every good thing in this world started with a dream!”
  Wonka (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is now available digitally for streaming / purchase.

• LOS ANGELES, Dec. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The California Science Center reached a major milestone toward its future display of Space Shuttle Endeavour in ready-to-launch configuration with the completed installation of the massive display's two Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs).
• When fully installed, California Science Center's space shuttle stack will tower 200-feet tall and include the orbiter Endeavour, the two Solid Rocket Boosters, and ET-94, the last remaining flight-qualified External Tank.
• The exhibit will be the star attraction in the future Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, a major expansion to the Science Center, which will be completed around the full shuttle stack.
• The roughly six-month Go for Stack process began in July with the installation of the Solid Rocket Booster Aft Skirts.

• This exhilarating live concert from 1981 is a window into Queen in their most unalloyed form, giving audiences a larger-than-life, front-row immersive experience.
• Executive producers include Geoff Kempin and Alice Webb for Mercury Studios and Jim Beach and Matilda Beach for Queen Films.
• "QUEEN ROCK MONTREAL" will be released in over 450 IMAX locations globally for four days beginning January 18.
• Directed by Saul Swimmer, "QUEEN ROCK MONTREAL" marks the first concert captured on film of this legendary and groundbreaking band.