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Enthusiams: 1066 Country, gardening and absurdity. Easily distracted by: gardening and birdwatching from my office.

Joined June 2010
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Happy Rewilding Day! The one wholly good news story. This is our little nature reserve at Underhill after 10 years of rewilding.
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A reminder, for those who are confused.
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Oh my, the man I LOVE in America. His courage, his strength of purpose, his never giving up. He speaks for animals. And he never shies away. Thank you John Oberg.
Super cool to find myself mentioned in this book! 💛 And what an awesome book, too: "Beastly: The 40,000-Year Story of Animals and Us" by @KeggieC. 👏👏👏 amazon.com/Beastly-40-000-Ye…
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Bob’s starlings.
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What can I say about the incomparable Bob Gibbons who died yesterday? Exceptional naturalist, scientist, person. He blew his hand off in an experiment at 9 yrs old & became one of our finest wildlife photographers. Here he is w/ Jonathan & me. We adored him & feel utterly bereft.
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What a lovely thing to say. Thank you Ian.
A moving short film for #EarthDay - please do watch. And read Beastly, which is a phenomenal book that had (and still has) a profound impact on me, by capturing the splendour and horror of our relationship with animals.
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Tomorrow.
I'm talking Animals & Us at The Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution HLSI April 9 next Tuesday eve. #BEASTLY @Walsh_e_Patrick @simnthrgd @HighgateLitSci hlsi.net/whats-on/animals-an…
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I'm talking Animals & Us at The Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution HLSI April 9 next Tuesday eve. #BEASTLY @Walsh_e_Patrick @simnthrgd @HighgateLitSci hlsi.net/whats-on/animals-an…
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For a happier day:
Wildlife camera traps can capture the most unexpected scenes, like this orangutan acting like nobody's watching. teapawt.net/i/status/1772521206932…
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World Rewilding Day 2024. Here is joy, hope, positivity, fascination and life! Jonathan @Underhillwood talking to @BenGoldsmith about being a beaver & rewilding small patches of land. It's so uplifting, do listen.
Jonathan Thomson has created a little sanctuary for nature at his twenty-two acre site in Wiltshire, @Underhillwood Nature Reserve. To coincide with World Rewilding Day, Jonathan and I discuss how people can turn #HopeIntoAction no matter how small a patch of land you might have.  Despite not having the capacity to host keystone species, Jonathan with the help of volunteers, has been able to carry out the vital work that they do in an ecosystem themselves. This new episode is out this Wednesday on World Rewilding Day. Find it whenever you get your podcasts. 📹 - The Beautiful Truth
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At 18, one of the youngest F.A.N.Y codists to be posted to Meerut in India in 1943 to decode messages for the Free French dropping agents into Indochina. HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY
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‘Let us speak common sense with naked thunder.’ My cover story for @Perspective_tw celebrating International Women’s Day: Wild Women. 'Women as the natural custodians of the ecological movement.’ @WriterHannahBT @KateRaworth @EcocideLaw @WhitleyAwards @KrisTompkins_ etc
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Utterly delighted to contribute to December's British Wildlife magazine. Thank you @britwildlife for the gorgeous photos you chose to illustrate this piece: 'Who Do We Think They Are?' And Happy Xmas!
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Indeed Petroc & Darcey @DarceyOfficial @PetrocTrelawny @TheRoyalBallet #SecretSanta Let's do this "Listen, download, share with all your mates. Making this banging tune Christmas no.1” 👌🏾👌🏾💋💋 @LEKIDDO - Lord of The Lobsters! It's Christmas Baby open.spotify.com/track/6dlkk… 🧡
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What a beautiful soul. We should all aspire to that graciousness .
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"I fervently believe everyone should read it." Yes, thank you @James1940 so much!
“Who knew that the oldest living vertebrate is the Greenland shark, and that one caught recently was alive before the Pilgrim Fathers sailed? From start to finish, it’s fabulous”. Keggie Carew’s BEASTLY in BBC History Magazine’s Books of the Year - thank you, James Holland!
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Huge congratulations to ⁦@guyshrubsole⁩ & ⁦@WanderingGaia⁩ for Writing on Conservation & BIG thanks to ⁦@wainwrightprize⁩, ⁦⁦@CraigBennett3 &⁩ @leeinthelakes⁩ for putting on a great event.
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Thank you thank you.
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Hurrah! A loud cheer to Keggie Carew, editor Simon Thorogood and all at Canongate publishers UK on Keggie’s book, BEASTLY, shortlisting this morning for the Wainwright Conservation Prize. Huge thanks to sponsors James Cropper and all the judges, too - an utterly brilliant book.
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