What better way to celebrate #WorldAnimalDay than with a baby bison arrival? 🦬 The Wilder Blean project — led by Wildwood Trust and @kentwildlife.bsky.social — has welcomed its fifth bison calf, marking the start of a third generation living in Kent’s ancient woodland near Canterbury. 🧵1/3

This week, with the Large Herbivore Working Group, I am visiting some of the most inspiring European Bison projects in Spain. A huge thank you to Fernando Morán for guiding us through these landscapes and for sharing both the challenges and successes of the work here.

🚨BREAKING: England's largest lake, Windermere, is covered in FAECAL BACTERIA according to a new study. Water companies have turned our most ICONIC lake into an open sewer while profiting BILLIONS. Who else thinks this is SICK?

Rewilding on a massive scale is required across Europe, including Ireland, to protect our countryside, protect communities and minimise both fire risk and fire impact.

This is a huge step forwards for the return of the Choughs. Reintroductions are hard work but days like this make the years of hard challenges worthwhile! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

#standforwolves #wolfconservation

My office and home for the next few days. Looking forward to If Not Now When, Rewilding conference at Rewilding Coombshead. It’s so important to meet up with the rewilding community and support each other in our work to restore species and biodiversity.

Happy International Lynx Day!! It is time we had these wonderful cats back in the UK

Another lynx paper hot off the press!🔥Exploring the ecological feasibility of restoring Eurasian lynx to Great Britain 🐾 A well-planned, legal, lynx reintroduction could be feasible, provided there is acceptance in key stakeholder groups. 📰Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

Wonderful to see native UK storks successfully migrating to & from Morocco to breed in Sussex. Reintroduction project making progress after 11 patient yrs & 25 yrs of habitat restoration. Kudos to @kneppwilding.bsky.social #WadhurstPark & @cotswoldlife.bsky.social 🏆👍🙏 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Keir Starmer needs to listen not to housebuilders but nightingales! More great reporting by my colleague Helena Horton. Madness that the best place in Britain for this endangered bird is owned by a housing quango. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Great short film from @cnn.com on the Blean Bison Project. edition.cnn.com/2025/05/22/s...

The decline of large seed-dispersing animals has serious implications for trees and other flora. It's also further proof of how very short-sighted it is to view forests as merely bunches of trees, rather than the complex *ecosystems* they are (or at least, should be). www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Why doesn’t this Government understand that most people care deeply about nature?! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Could be the start of something very exciting! New enclosure to support lynx breeding plans www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Majesty Oak. Probably England’s oldest oak

Finally an important way to use AI! 😂

Doing, researching or just interested in Rewilding? Join us at this event on Exploring the Science of Rewilding Hosted by the Rewilding group of the BES Registration deadline is soon! www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/expl...

Wonderful to explore Durrells new rewilding site at Dalnacardoch in the Cairngorms

wildwood’s adders enjoying the spring sunshine.

wildwood’s adders enjoying the spring sunshine.

Nearly $7 trillion USD is invested annually in activities harming nature, while investments in Nature-based Solutions total only around $200 billion. It’s time to flip these numbers. Check UNEP’s State of Finance for Nature for more data: financefornature.unep.org

Bison dust bathing in the Kent sunshine at Wildwoog Trust.

Demand a wilder future for England's land ✊ Right now, the UK Government is working on the first-ever vision for how we use land in England – the Land Use Framework. 🧵1/4

A successful Rewilding Network Gathering 🌞 Network members came together for three days to connect, exchange practical knowledge, visit Purbeck Heaths and Wild Woodbury, hear talks from inspiring rewilders and go on a @harbourbirds.bsky.social boat trip – featuring four white-tailed eagles!  🧵1/2

Happy World Rewilding Day!

Boki, a European brown bear that had pioneering brain surgery to save his life, came out of hibernation looking healthy 🐻

Your February #rewildingwins have arrived 💌 February may be the shortest month, but it’s already packed with powerful #rewilding progress across Britain. On top of today's incredibly exciting beaver announcement, here are the rewilding wins from this month. (1/6)

Let’s gooo! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So it seems we will be hearing good news about beaver reintroductions soon!! About time too - if it happens it’s huge news for nature recovery! Keep your fingers crossed. 🦫🦫🦫

New poll shows support for lynx reintroduction in Scotland rises to 61% for and only 13% against! John Swinney SNP you are out of step!

🐾 Scots back lynx return🌍 New poll (Jan 2025, 2,014 Scots): ✅ 61% support legal lynx reintroduction (+9 pts since 2020) ❌ 13% oppose (-6 pts) Four lynx were illegally released in Scotland in January. FM John Swinney opposes predator reintroduction. #Wildlife #Rewilding #Conservation #Biodiversity

Lynx are recolonising much of their natural range in continental Europe, making ecosystems way more healthy, and stimulating for people to spend time in. Why should we be deprived of the same in Ireland + Britain, just because we live on islands? Lynx belong here, let's bring them back!!

It’s this sort of thing that leads directly to unlicensed releases… No one wants that but if all thr proper legal routes are blocked can you blame people?

Fun story by @bittelmethis.bsky.social on the only worthwhile Dept of Gov Efficiency — i.e., Czech beavers. Love this kicker quote from bibermeister Gerhard Schwab: “A creek without beavers is not a creek. It's just water!”

How deeply disappointing from First Minister John Swinney. Appeasing the NFU at the cost of nature as usual. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Argentina reintroducing Jaguars into cattle ranching areas for nature and nature based economies. We can’t even have lynx.

Closing discussion at the Rewilding Futures conference. Amazing day organised by @CitizenZoo . Inspirational to hear about international projects… frustrating that U.K. policy has not caught up with modern rewilding.

Deadline for applying for our PhD on Rewilding is rushing up - Monday 20th!

Large Landscape Nature Recovery in Europe. Inspiring and hopeful messages from Frans Schepers and David Thomas. At the Rewilding Futures conference.

Heading to Cambridge for the sold out Rewilding Futures conference organised by Citizen Zoo. The 450 tickets sold should just how huge the appetite is to learn more about Rewilding and how we make it happen faster at a bigger scale.

It's time for Defra to act and enable licensed wild releases to restore our landscapes. Read the blog: https://www.wcl.org.uk/the-case-for-reintroducing-beavers-into-the-wild-in-england.asp (3/3)

Wildwood Trust is one of the 49 Organisations calling on the government to implement the law and progress the reintroduction of beavers into the wild across England

Wildwood Trust is one of the 49 Organisations calling on the government to implement the law and progress the reintroduction of beavers into the wild across England

If true and the government will be blocking future beaver releases then this is despicable, cowardly and possibly unlawful. They say "under review" but that's nonsense - its been reviewed and consulted on just get out of the way and let us get on with it, lawfully and properly. t.co/MUxjsUx9RA