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? youtu.be/6aRbp84BDEM

🦔🪲Limited impacts of simulated soil disturbance by rewilded vertebrates on above- and below-ground biodiversity vist.ly/3zjm2 #Arthropods #Grassland #Microbes #Reintroductions #Rewilding #Shrubland #SoilFunction

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

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

All power to @chrisgpackham.bsky.social and @wildjustice.bsky.social in pursuing this crucial case. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sheep are destroying precious British habitats – and we taxpayers are footing the bill | @chrisgpackham.bsky.social hits the woolly nail on the head. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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.

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🧪🌍🧮 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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

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. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

My conversation with the man behind The Rewildlife YouTube channel, Jack Morley. Learn about practical rewilding, communication about nature and much more. 🌍🦤

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.

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!! theconversation.com/tracing-the-...

@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

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/ @mostlyscarce.bsky.social‬

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

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: action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/171483/...

If you care about nature please read this and take action today. Do it now 👇👇

Densities of the endangered Large blue butterfly Phengaris arion vary by 100-fold in restored conservation grasslands 🦋🌏 The model provides a tool for determining which future sites should be prioritised for this species' endurance & for restoration 📊🧪 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Aircraft carriers of the world USA UK France Ukraine

The constant chopping and changing of budgets for nature friendly land management shows that while we do need to support nature friendly farming, we also need land for nature which is removed from the need to endlessly earn an income - either through public or charitable ownership or something else.

Free rewilding course aimed at farmers and policymakers - Agriland.co.uk ->AgriLand | #Rewilding | More info from EcoSearch

"Win or lose in the Supreme Court, we now want the government to step up and pass a right to roam act, to protect and extend public rights of access to nature across England.” @lewis-winks.bsky.social ahead of this morning’s verdict on wild camping on Dartmoor: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Breckland Landscape Recovery getting it just right. Ambitious, but achievable. Complex enough to hit objectives for nature, but straightforward enough to actually be delivered. Enthusiastic, but realistic leadership. It’s conservation Baby Bear’s porridge. Well done them 👏👏

In 48 hours, over 200 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza. Keir Starmer’s government still won’t condemn Israel or call it genocide. Won’t end arms sales. Won’t impose sanctions. Won’t stop trade. This isn’t just complicity, it’s collaboration. They have blood on their hands.

All redundancy is awful, the fear, the sense of failure, the challenge of finding other work. It's such a common disaster in the UK most families know it. But looking at my academic friends facing it now, it's particularly bad. They have twisted their whole lives around the pursuit of these roles >

WHY DO WE HAVE TO SETTLE FOR SECOND BEST? No half-arsed agreement with the EU will restore the amazing advantages that we enjoyed - and celebrated - with free movement. Let’s stop pissing about and rejoin the SM & CU and get free movement back. Only Starmer is stopping this.

Newly elected Reform councilor missing. Not seen at the count, and missed swearing in. Who are they? onthewight.com/newly-electe...

How to make a scandal out of a trans female runner finishing 6,159th place at a non-competitive public marathon. It’s not only outright fake news, it’s also the information the media only tells you hidden somewhere in the story. If a headline makes you angry, make sure to double-check.

Would love to see more river barriers removed in the UK too. And let's be really ambitious and get Cow Green on the list too. The potential for restoring a huge area for the special Teesdale flora is immense #freethetees @teesriverstrust.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"If you go down to the woods today, it's not how it used to be..." So many of our ancient woods have been felled for conifer plantations. But under the forest floors, their ghosts lie in wait. Amazing new campaign to REWILD THE GHOST WOODS launched by @wildcard.land: bsky.app/profile/wild...

"Improve & connect existing temperate rainforest" Exciting to see the new 'Dartmoor Landscape Vision' published by the Duchy of Cornwall & the tenant farmer-led Central Dartmoor Landscape Recovery project Glad to have inputted to the consultation process dartmoorfarmcluster.org/our-landscap...

“Keystone species like elk, bison and beaver play a vital role in bringing nature back to life. They help repair ecosystems and shape wild places in ways that benefit wildlife, people and the climate.” ~ Rebecca Wrigley, @rewildingbritain.org.uk

Just a few millimetres long, but the female oak flowers are turning into acorns

The Ancient Oaks of England: Distribution and density map of 3,300 oaks in England with a girth greater than 6 metres Map production: Justin Moat, GIS Unit, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

"In areas with higher disturbance levels, the clutch sizes were smaller and the chicks were lighter and had smaller tarsi, possibly caused by an increased perceived predation risk due to increased human disturbance."

An important thread. Once you see Dartmoor for what it is then you cannot unsee it. Large parts are an ecological desert.

Wild Justice are in the process of a Judicial Review challenging the Dartmoor Commoners on exactly this point. Link to their website below wildjustice.org.uk/sssis/wild-j...

This thread by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is a great guide to the many ecological disasters afflicting Dartmoor. But there’s also a good news story: the owner of Piles Copse, John Howell, has just been finalising a plan to greatly expand this temperate rainforest. bsky.app/profile/geor...

Aphids are food for many creatures Please don’t try to control them in your garden They will boost wildlife - which should be a major aim for gardeners www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Agreed. Although lots being done towards Lynx reintroduction too

Looks like a useful resource. @brecksfarmerswn.bsky.social @northpennines.bsky.social @stevejwildwriter.bsky.social

@argatyredkites.bsky.social excited by today's arrival. Looking forward to reading this. Lovely cover image 😊

Quality conservation habitat creation. Starts with the mineral soil and maximum nutrient removal; slows succession, many more generations ea. niche/ micro habitat available, allows colonisation & peak populations. Fab.

A sound long gone from British villages & gardens - a singing Wryneck. There’s Pied Flycatchers, Redstarts, Hawfinches, Tree Sparrows and Swallows around this garden too. It’s like going back in time, challenging the shifting baseline and reminding how much birds have declined in Britain.

I'm happy to agree that 'in the beginning' there was probably closed forest and a continuum to open forest, savanna/wood pasture, all in large quantities, and that they were not fixed over space or time, with some very dynamic landscapes and others on a much longer timescale (millennia).

The issue is clearly scale, in both time & space. If we have extensive wooded landscapes then there's room for the full spectrum, with dynamism on short + long spatiotemporal scales. Regular dynamic regeneration on short timescales, and old-growth forest on longer timescales. Simple! 2/2