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YouTube video by Steve Jones Wild Writer What makes perfect Red-backed Shrike habitat?

Flower-rich, shrubby grassland hums with wildlife. And If we're to induce Red-backed Shrikes to recolonise, we need to create lots more of this habitat

What makes perfect Red-backed Shrike habitat?
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🦔🪲Limited impacts of simulated soil disturbance by rewilded vertebrates on above- and below-ground biodiversity

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#Arthropods #Grassland #Microbes #Reintroductions #Rewilding #Shrubland #SoilFunction

Urban rewilding to combat global biodiversity decline Abstract. Rapid urbanization is contributing to unprecedented biodiversity decline worldwide. Despite biodiversity loss being more pronounced in cities, tr

Urban rewilding is more than planting trees and having more parks. It is also about bringing fauna back: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Episode 50: Howie Wolke’s Uncompromising Brand of Wilderness Advocacy About Howie Wolke Howie Wolke is a nationally-known advocate for protecting wilderness and was a co-founder of the original Earth First! He is the author of

Just finished the new intro for this season of the Rewilding Earth Podcast. New episodes coming soon! Got public lands on my mind lately and stumbled on this episode with Howie Wolke: rewilding.org/episode-50-h... #rewilding

Sheep are destroying precious British habitats – and we taxpayers are footing the bill | Chris Packham Large parts of Dartmoor have been denuded of wildlife, harmed by farming and a mess of government schemes that are costly in every way, says naturalist and broadcaster Chris Packham

All power to @chrisgpackham.bsky.social and @wildjustice.bsky.social in pursuing this crucial case.
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Sheep are destroying precious British habitats – and we taxpayers are footing the bill | Chris Packham Large parts of Dartmoor have been denuded of wildlife, harmed by farming and a mess of government schemes that are costly in every way, says naturalist and broadcaster Chris Packham

Sheep are destroying precious British habitats – and we taxpayers are footing the bill | @chrisgpackham.bsky.social hits the woolly nail on the head.
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Dartmoor is my local wild place. I love it's drama and beauty. But large areas are effectively becoming desert, mostly due to overgrazing. 💔

Great article with thoughts from @tonydartmoor.bsky.social and @guyshrubsole.bsky.social

Good luck @wildjustice.bsky.social with your legal case on thanks.

The thing is, heatwaves and drought will be an annual summer norm going forward, so she can't avoid announcing her ignorance during a period of heatwaves and drought - unless she leaves it to the coming stormy winter.

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Are you a #modeller wondering how to apply your skills to applied #conservation?
Or a #Rewilder wondering how to use limited resources to explore potential future scenarios under inevitable uncertainty?
Check our "Mathematical Perspectives on Rewilding" #preprint🧪🌍🧮
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Seems like an expensive list of useful activities to me. Presumably the ecological assessment work they state they're working on can be mirrored by independent scientists, practitioners etc?

Seems like an expensive list of useful activities to me. Presumably the ecological assessment work they state they're working on can be mirrored by independent scientists, practitioners etc?

The Mediterranean region is warming 20% faster than the global average 🌡️, a #climatechange hotspot where many vulnerabilities are increasing. Here you can see the summer anomalies for the sea surface temperature since 1982. #dataviz #rstats

Millions of tonnes of toxic sewage sludge spread on UK farmland every year Exclusive: Experts call for stricter regulation as current rules set in 1989 require testing for only a few heavy metals

At @fightingdirty.bsky.social, we sued over this issue, and lost on the grounds that the Environment Agency couldn't be in breach because the government had issued no direction. An absurdity, which means that poisons continue to be spread on farmland every day. 🧵
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My conversation with the man behind The Rewildlife YouTube channel, Jack Morley. Learn about practical rewilding, communication about nature and much more. 🌍🦤

Us taxpayers have been handing £3 billion each and every year for decades. What more do these farmers want?

Personal choice. I personally will give it a go when it's available. Whether many will remains to be seen I guess.

Why?

Why?

Lab-grown seafood is hitting restaurant menus. Would you eat it? Wildtype’s cell-cultivated salmon is the first seafood to earn FDA approval, marking a significant milestone for the alternative protein industry.

A salmon made from from cells grown in tanks became the first cell-cultured seafood to receive safety approval from the FDA.

Kann, a Haitian restaurant in Portland, is the first restaurant to offer it to diners.

Tracing the Drax family’s millions – a story of British landed gentry, slavery and sugar plantations Journalist and historian Paul Lashmar has published extensive research into the wealthy and influential Drax family of Dorset.

Interesting new work on the legacies of British slavery, taking here an holistic view of income
and wealth.

Bonus: if you buy the related book straight from the publisher, they offer a whopping 50% discount if you subscribe to the newsletter. Get buying!!

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@thetimes.com giving over print space for an extremist subject to an international arrest warrant. This is how far into extremism sympathy the Times has sunk

Part of the problem is that Defra continues to spread misinformation in its guidelines for farmers and others that is demonstrably wrong and ignores its wildlife values

It's the plant people love to hate... and it's going to be everywhere this summer.

But ragwort is actually a wildlife powerhouse. Read the blog my Knepp's lead ecologist Matt Phelps: https://knepp.co.uk/2025/06/a-big-year-for-ragwort-the-plant-we-love-to-hate/

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Quibbling over whether burning waste is better than putting it in landfill

Is like arguing over whether it is better to be poisoned by toxic air or polluted water

The answer is to reduce, re-use, recycle

That’s why we’re protesting against this madness of building incinerators

Chalk arable smoothed by endless ploughing is not a great starting point for complex community re-assembly! At Lyscombe in Dorset we'll be scraping off chalk topsoil, creating chalk rubble banks, installing brash piles etc - re-instating microtopography. Can't wait to see how nature responds!

Oak pasture of Mercheasa. Here with lot of juniper, with pear trees and thyme.

No movement yet from the Government on the Planning Bill. We’re tired of broken promises. Please add your voice to our simple e-action below:

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