Chris Fitch

EU parliament votes to ban meat names for plant-based foods Pressure to ban meat labels for plant-based products comes from Europe's livestock farmers.

Banning the name 'veggie sausage' is, frankly, ridiculous. Grow up @europarl.europa.eu

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As for the current situation, Starmer is Bidening hard. He's banked everything on 'delivery' and spending almost zero time actually telling the country what they're doing or hyping up any achievements. Fingers crossed that situation is finally changing

Brexit was a massive curveball. The Conservatives managed to squeeze out a whole decade in power by milking it for every last drop (remember we can go 5 years between elections, which is way too long). Without the divisions that caused they could have been voted out as early as 2015

Currently reading and loving it

If you've not seen it, 'Jane' on Disney is a great insight into what it was like for Jane Goodall struggling to be taken seriously in the 60s

I'm giving a talk at @kneppwilding.bsky.social in November, and you could be there 🦋

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Narrative should be proactive, for example 'levelling up' was pure narrative. What we're experiencing is entirely reactive, it's fire fighting.

Definitely better than expected. The gallows humour around the death of journalism is maybe... cathartic?

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That's totally true, but maybe it's better if the right don't see it that way? Less polarising and maybe more palatable...?

Not exactly news, but good to be reminded

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Walkable Communities Lowered Mental Health Stressors During COVID-19 Pandemic DURHAM, N.H.—Research out of the University of New Hampshire shows that communities that were easier for people to lace up and get out for a walk during the COVID-19 pandemic also helped lower the imp...

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Access to green space a mental health lifeline during COVID-19 pandemic, research reveals A new national study led by researchers from Carleton University and the University of Toronto reveals that older adults living in greener neighborhoods were less likely to experience depression durin...

Thinking of starting a thread of all the research showing how Wild Cities were the best places to be during the pandemic

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Sorry Jonn, Everest is the world's *highest* mountain. The tallest is Mauna Kea

Proper commentary is hard. There are loads of fan commentary streams that are universally terrible. Even individual club commentators are pretty poor, in my experience. Let's not dilute one part of the media ecosystem where we've still got people who are good at their jobs

Mine still do. Small town in Devon. I think it just depends where in the country you are

Kampung Admiralty here, in Singapore, is home to abundant native birds including rare parakeets, and also bees, butterflies, dragonflies, and many other insects 🦜🐝🦋

A moment to celebrate green rooftops 🌿

It's only when you see inspiring buildings that are really embracing the opportunities available to green up their roofs, that you realise how bleak, grey and dead most cities look from above.

Otherwise take a look at the linktree where there's loooooads of reviews, links to buys, podcast info etc linktr.ee/wildcities.b...

Or just jump onto the official publisher page harpercollins.co.uk/products/wil...

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What to read this April, from a very candid Doctor Who biography to five-star fiction Martin Chilton shares his April reading highlights

Wild Cities was published in the UK in April by @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social

We received a 5⭐ review from @the-independent.com, and was chosen as the non-fiction book of the month 🙌

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How can we make 21st century human society compatible with the unpredictable, complicated, delicate planet that we live on? This is my primary concern. And given that the majority of people now live in urban areas (and rising) then cities seemed the best place to start...

This was a huge undertaking and the kind of bold project I always wanted to create, something that I felt really passionate about.

Time to re-reintroduce myself.

My name is Chris Fitch, I'm a writer and author whose latest book is Wild Cities, a scientific travelogue exploring the benefits and challenges of nature and wildlife in urban spaces

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Look, I got it wrong.

I stuck it out on twitter.
Then I switched to threads.
Two bad decisions.

It's ok, I'm here now.