Prof Steve Carver @LandEthics Twitter profile

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Prof Steve Carver

2 years

Again, yet more conversations convincing me that the land management/hunting community don't like #rewilding because it implies a loss of control. And what’s more, they don’t like you questioning their world view. 🙄

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

4 years

#30DayMapChallenge Today is this GREEN and pleasant land... of sheep.

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

4 years

#30DayMapChallenge Today is #population . When my TweedyTweeps tell me Britain is too crowded an island for #rewilding I usually show them this...

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

8 months

"the Somerset levels are becoming the Great Lakes" ...well @WilliamSitwell I've got news for you, that's what they used to be... before drained them. The River reclaims its own.

This catastrophic flooding reminds us there is nothing natural about rewilding

Right now what we need is to intervene in nature to protect homes and livelihoods – not pursue some romantic notion of rewilding

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

4 years

Belgium! Yes.. B E L G I U M.

INBO - Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek

@INBOVlaanderen

4 years

Deze recente beelden tonen drie spelende welpen. Het vierde welpje is al een tijd niet meer gezien. Eén welp houdt wel héél erg veel van (verborgen) camera's.

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

3 years

Interested in #farming and #rewilding ? We'll be tweeting a new question each day in a "Tweet-A-Day" with the aim of building a picture of the where the two activities overlap (if at all) and writing a "state of play" article. RT. Reply. DM. With thanks in advance.

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

5 years

@rodjgrimmer @McKenzie6593 “The best argument against democracy is a 5 minute conversation with your average voter”

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

2 years

@herdyshepherd1 There are 14 roadless areas (= more than 1 kilometre from nearest public road) in Britain greater than 500 square kilometres (green), 33 greater than 250 square kilometres (amber), & 76 greater than 100 square kilometres (red) in area.

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

5 years

Yet more conversations convincing me that the land management/hunting community don't like #rewilding because it implies a loss of control.

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

5 years

Just make sure it’s the right tree in the right place. This is not a policy for more non-native commercial conifer plantations but one that needs to promote native woodland and #rewilding

Christopher Price

@RareBreedChris

5 years

Climate chiefs: UK must plant billions of trees

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

4 years

I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want... Part of the @RewildingB network?

Geri Horner reveals she is rewilding her Oxfordshire estate and wants wildcats in her back garden

The Spice Girl reveals her passion for nature as she debuts her new video series

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

4 months

@BenGoldsmith I was indoctrinating my students about #rewilding this week Ben... is that OK? And then yesterday about environmental modelling with #GIS . Is that OK too? Maybe the students just wanted his autograph?🙄

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

2 years

The comments on this thread are worth a quick read...

🌱Gary Dickenson 🇪🇺🇱🇻🇬🇧🇺🇦

@GaryDickenson

2 years

Just a normal school run. If you think boar are cute little creatures that should roam freely everywhere…

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

11 months

Well this is embarrassing...

Moorland Association Director Ben Ramsden convicted for burning on deep peat on Middlesmoor Estate...

Grouse moor owner Ben Ramsden was found guilty at Skipton Magistrates Court today of three counts of burning on deep peat on a grouse moor on the Middlesmoor Estate in Nidderdale, Yorkshire on 8 Ap…

raptorpersecutionuk.org

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

4 years

Did you know... 75% of the world's heather moorland is found in the UK, and that's rarer than rainforest?

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

11 months

Don't worry folks, we've just replaced them with 50 million+ pheasants and partridge.

Zero Hour

@zerohour_uk

11 months

70 million birds have vanished from Britain’s skies in the last 50 years. 97% of wildflower meadows have disappeared since the 1930s. We must lock the science into law. We must #RestoreNatureNow . 👉 #CEBill 🐝 #StateOfNature 🌿 #ForNature

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

3 years

Helped this little fella off the road and into the hedge.

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

3 months

My lawn 😎

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

5 years

Just finished a new blog post on why the #NoMoorMyths claim that the UK is responsible for 75% of the world's heather dominated moorland may actually be a myth in itself.

No Moor Myths?

The #NoMoorMyths hashtag was launched by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) in 2016 and promoted on Twitter with a series of short YouTube videos under the banner “The tru…

landethicsblog.wordpress.com

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

1 year

Just survived given a hour-long lesson on #rewilding with 40 inquisitive and enthusiastic 8-9 year olds. I gave them activities for their next lesson and sent them home with stuff to do and things for their parents to read. Hats off to teachers. I couldn't do their job.

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

1 year

Review of "The Book of Wilding" in @UKconservation just out...

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

3 months

@BenGoldsmith "So college students can now press their parents to choose the Maldives for their next family holiday" ..."But according to the students and their indoctrinators" There you go again Ben. Tarring us all with your same unthinking, knee-jerk brush. 🤡

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

5 years

@WestminsterWAG @Peston Jeez Sarah ...you really didn’t think that one through before hitting the send button.

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

6 years

@MoorlandAssoc He’s my MP. I’ll have to take him round some #rewilding projects & show him the many more benefits for a wider range of species & ecosystems

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

4 years

Let that just sink in a minute folks... Flanders. That’s like announcing wolves breeding in Essex. Think about it.

Christopher Price

@RareBreedChris

4 years

Flanders’ wolf pups captured on camera for first time | Flanders Today

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

5 years

Does anyone else feel just a little bit queasy at @Gameandwildlife citing Australian bush fires as justification for continued burning of grouse moor? Different geography. Different context. Different ecology. Different reasons.

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

6 years

@AndrewPBrooks @RobGMacfarlane @amongstwits Copper beech coming into leaf can be superb....

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

4 months

Ragged Robin putting on a good show again #NoMowMay …and March, April … June 🙄

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

1 year

"grouse shooting has a very limited number of participants because only God can make grouse moors and the supply of shooting is strictly limited by the landscape He created." T.Bonner 🙄 ?

Tim Bonner: Is Grouse shooting the new hunting?

Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance, Tim Bonner, discusses the increasing risk of grouse shooting becoming the new hunting.

www.countryside-alliance.org

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

4 years

Last night I was told off by a millionaire 'conservationist' for having the temerity to ask critical questions about the flagship project of another millionaire conservationist. 🤔

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

6 years

Recent conversations (still) underpinning my belief that land management interests don't like #rewilding because they feel threatened by lack of control.

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

2 years

Today marks my 30 years anniversary as a lecturer in @SoGLeeds at @UniversityLeeds . Didn't get a letter from the VC after my 25 years service. Perhaps this time? And a long service medal? Or a carriage clock?

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

2 years

Remote and well-hidden grouse butt on NYMNP today. Out of sight, out of mind? #dirtylittlesecrets

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

6 months

Tory MP calls for ‘all wild animals’ to be culled “They don’t have any predators in today’s world. Foxes, deer, badgers. We don’t want to wipe them out, we just simply want them controlled.” Why’s that then? 🙄

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

1 year

Must've been something I said? #TheTruthHurts @MoorlandAssoc

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

3 years

3 years ago this was just a concrete pond. Now… fish population increased. Attracted predators. (My office at top left) 😎

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

3 years

A walk on the moors again today. Lots of public conveniences as usual.

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

2 years

@Garfield_1971 @scottygb Perhaps cos if the Kremlin knew where he was then they might just send a missile. You think of that? 🙄

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

4 years

Well... that went ok. The host just informed me the audience totalled 27,000!! 😳

Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

4 years

Just about to give a conference paper in Beijing @Tsinghua_Uni "International Meeting on Rewilding and Ecological Restoration". I've been asked to talk about rewilding as a paradigm shift in global conservation @SoGLeeds

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

5 months

@PythonMaps You’re missing wilderness!

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

3 months

Grasses from my lawn… er meadow

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

3 years

"local estate owners were worried that the eagles would predate rare wading birds on the wetlands in north Norfolk, as well as interfere with shooting interests by eating pheasants and partridge" 🙄

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

7 months

Seen in @Waterstones 🙄

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

2 years

@RaptorPersUK @MilesKing10 @IanDenton12 @alicksimmons @IanCarter67 @natalieben @N_E_R_F @gill__lewis @RareBirdAlertUK @LeagueACS @DrAmirKhanGP I'm afraid this story just demonstrates how there's something fundamentally wrong with driven shooting... clients expecting to shoot big bags, paying huge sums to do so, pressure on gamekeepers to deliver, and land owners (and shooting organisations) calling it "conservation". 🙄

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

3 years

Wild birds to be shot so that other birds can be shot 🙄

John Heather

@jh_heather

3 years

Law change allows wild birds to be killed to protect game birds in England

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

8 months

@WilliamSitwell @Telegraph Jeez William, do you actually believe this nonsense or are you just writing for a particular niche audience? You need to do a bit of basic background research in to floods and their causes.

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

4 years

Just given a keynote paper on protected areas in UK & Europe at the International Forum on National Parks, hosted by Institute for National Parks, Tsinghua University, Beijing. All from my home office via Voov. No flights. No jet-lag. Much reduced CO2. Great. @SoGLeeds

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

3 years

The 6 rules of re(al)Wilding: #5 . Work towards a continuum of landscapes. We cannot rewild everywhere/everything. We need a continuum & mosaic of land uses/types from urban to non-intervention wild(er)ness where we can step back entirely & let nature be natural & self-willed.

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

4 years

I just noticed this on Google Maps... 😳 [open image to see label at bottom left!]

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

3 months

I’m 59… what cake did I get for my birthday?

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

4 years

Just been reading @scotgov National Planning Framework 4 - Analysis of responses to the Call for Ideas and see the suggestion that "Enabling the compulsory purchase and then rewilding of grouse moors could offer major environmental benefits" p139.

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

4 years

Oops... someone is not going to be happy.

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

4 years

@bernoid Nice! They're pretty darn perfect. I missed seeing any this year, but here's some from a couple of years ago...

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

4 years

3 things stand out in this letter: 1) The arrogant primacy of the human 2) No attempt to address the causes of any predator-prey imbalance (i.e. no mention of human modification of land use in favour of livestock and game) 3) whiff of using SBS/SOS as an ecological smoke screen

Raptor Persecution UK

@RaptorPersUK

4 years

ANTI-PREDATOR RHETORIC. New Chair of Scottish Land & Estates, the landowners' lobby group, continues a long tradition.

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

4 years

New article out today in @britwildlife magzine on "Rewilding: time to get down off the fence" written with friend & colleague Ian Convery @CumbriaUni @UniversityLeeds @SoGLeeds discussing the role of the fence & providing a universal set of principles of #rewilding from @IUCN CEM

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

4 years

OK, #rewilding tweeps, as we move into the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, what do you see as the relationship between #rewilding and #restoration ? Look at the figure, make your choice and complete the following twitter poll.

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

4 years

Added a Linnet for a friend 😇

Dave Rimes

@Rimesyboy

4 years

A quick'n'dirty composite of Sparrowhawk, Kestrel and Hobby that I've captured in the last few weeks - each equally backlit!

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

1 year

Wondered why the down pipe wasn’t draining properly…

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

2 years

@LesHemstock A fox is just an animal with dog hardware and cat software... or so my kids tell me.

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

2 years

@undertheraedar @NatureScot The largest contiguous area without a view of any modern human artefact is actually Torridon/Shieldaig Forest/Flowerdale Forest west of Beinn Eighe (WLA27).

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

2 years

Finally arrived! ⁦ @SoGLeeds ⁩ #newbook

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

2 years

A few folk have asked for some pics of the trail…

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

4 years

@Goodable This is what leadership looks like.

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

3 years

@westcountrybird @JFCrisp Can't remember who originally said it but a list of people that'd make a better PM than @BorisJohnson_MP included: (1) Jay Z, (2) Keith Floyd (deceased), and (3) some wasps. That last one always makes me chuckle.

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

3 years

Even green blobs in Belgium now.

Gareth Carson

@CarsonGareth

3 years

Distribution of wolves in Europe! Pity about the North Sea! #rewilding #wolves

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

1 year

In wolf country today… saw paw prints and scat. People running around screaming and panicking… not.

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

5 years

After exposing the myth that is "UK is home to 75 percent of the world’s heather moorland, which as a habitat is rarer than rainforest." @BASCnews @MoorlandAssoc @CAupdates @Gameandwildlife why do people persist in quoting this non-fact factoid?

No Moor Myths?

The #NoMoorMyths hashtag was launched by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) in 2016 and promoted on Twitter with a series of short YouTube videos under the banner “The tru…

landethicsblog.wordpress.com

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

5 years

@jeremycorbyn After Labour introduced them in the first place? 🤔

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

8 months

@_Duncan_Thomas Vermin. If there’s one word in the English language I hate, I’m afraid it’s this one. So dismissive of the intrinsic value of all/any wildlife. ☹️

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

3 years

Out for a walk on the moors today. Where’s my marker pen when I need it? 😆

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

3 years

Oh dear…

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Prof Steve Carver

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1 year

Aren’t we always?

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Prof Steve Carver

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3 years

Oh the irony!

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

2 years

Finished reading this from ⁦ @alicksimmons ⁩ last night. I gave the usual pleasantries in my review but say this “fearless to the last page, this book dares ask the questions we all too often gloss over”. Buy it. Read it. Pass it on to a friend.

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

5 years

"I used to wander these hill and enjoy what I thought was a natural landscape but now I see something very different. I see a landscape scarred and ravaged by the people who own it, I see a place in the hands of a death cult." Pretty much nails my view of the moors near me.

John D Burns

@JohnBurnswriter

5 years

In case you missed it. Here's my blog on the politics of land ownership in the Highlands @VertebratePub @Mountain_Scot @Natures_Voice @GOoutdoors

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

8 months

Gets my vote!

Baroness Patricia of Plague Island

@Patrici89225734

8 months

Please could we put Feargal Sharkey into the House of Lords instead of Tim Martin? He deserves it Martin definitely doesn't!

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Prof Steve Carver

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4 years

#30DayMapChallenge Today is Yellow and after yesterday's green sheep density map someone asked for one of cows, so here you go...

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Prof Steve Carver

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2 years

#GIS often produces some pretty psychedelic outputs...

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

11 months

The #StateOfNature 2023 report makes for sobering reading. While the causes are many, we need to reverse habitat loss to halt declines and create more space (and time) for wild nature to recover. How? #rewilding has to be one answer, with focus on re(al)wilding wherever possible.

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

3 years

Just about to speak at @northyorkmoors Conservation & Land Management Forum on "How can North York Moors National Park contribute to climate resilience" ...I'll try not to go on too much about #rewilding @SoGLeeds @UniversityLeeds

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Prof Steve Carver

@LandEthics

6 years

@AnglingTrust @AnglingTimesEd @AnglersMail Why not apply for licenses to introduce more beaver to British rivers to improve water quality, sedmnt control, fish spawning, inverts etc?

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Prof Steve Carver

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6 years

Meanwhile here in the UK we struggle with even the idea of reintroducing lynx. Makes you wonder 🤔

The Revelator

@Revelator_News

6 years

As Cambodia and other countries plan to reintroduce #tigers , they're looking to India for lessons:

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Prof Steve Carver

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1 year

#NoMowMay …well March, April and May to be honest 😆

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Prof Steve Carver

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3 years

This…

UK is with EU

@ukiswitheu

3 years

1/5 John Bercow #GMB ..I've known 12 prime ministers in my lifetime ..And by a country mile, Boris Johnson is the worst

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6 years

Wet and windy up @CarrifranWild today. Great progress in restoring native woodland across former sheep trod. Huge gains in biodiversity

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1 year

@JoannaBlythman @lodeslan Which is early successional stage of mature woodland. #time #patience

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Prof Steve Carver

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4 years

A few 'shrooms from this morning. Blackening waxcap, Sulphur tuft, Russula fragilis, but can my Tweeps help me identify the fourth one? 😇 #mushrooms

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4 years

What the hell is wrong with this country?

Former tree of the year felled in Warwickshire to make way for HS2

Locals say loss of 250-year-old pear tree in Cubbington is ‘absolutely devastating’

amp.theguardian.com

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Prof Steve Carver

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5 years

Anyone tell me what’s wrong with this photo?

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3 years

@GeorgeMonbiot @RewildingB Perhaps you saw this that was also published yesterday?

Moorland DOES Matter

BY DR STEVE CARVER Steve Carver replies to Dominic Wightman’s review of Ian Coghill’s book “Moorland Matters”: It matters for a whole host of reasons including carbon storage, water supply, flood m…

countrysquire.co.uk

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1 year

Uh oh... that pesky 75% non-fact factoid has started to appear again. Twice in one day! "The British Isles is home, or used to be home, to 75% of all the heather moorland in the world." Perhaps Lindsay Waddell didn't get the memo?

Is 75% of the world's heather moorland in the UK?

This figure is widely quoted by many interested parties, holding different views about the management of such environments.

www.whatthesciencesays.org

Shooting UK

@shootinguk

1 year

What will happen if we no longer manage our moors?

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5 months

One candidate has had his property attacked and received death threats for speaking out against raptor persecution, the other has publicly said that “Clearly, any illegal [hen harrier] persecution is not happening”. I know who’s getting my vote. 👍

Raptor Persecution UK

@RaptorPersUK

5 months

Raptor champion @keithtordoffMBE standing for new role of Mayor of North Yorkshire in 2nd May election. Keith has pledged to tackle the rampant killing of raptors in N Yorkshire if he's elected. Further details & how to vote ⬇️⬇️

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@CA_TimB @BBCr4today I'll take the views, opinion, knowledge and years of field experience of Jane Goodall over yours any day.

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2 years

Delighted to announce I’ve been appointed as moorland fact-checker and rewilding-lead for @AimToSustainUK starting today. Looking forward to working with all my new colleagues.

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2 years

I don't often swear on Twitter... but oh FFS!!!

IAN CONVERY

@ConveryIan

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Prof Steve Carver

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2 months

Living the life… supervising students doing fieldwork 😎

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4 years

I think I’ve just located the other 25% #rarethanrainforest 😁

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3 years

This morning… view from the tent

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3 years

The 6 rules of re(al)wilding: #3 Natural succession should be the Favourable Conservation Status (FCS) for #rewilding projects. Nature isn't fully natural when held in stasis at a predefined stage of succession by continual human intervention and interference.

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4 years

The Althingi (Icelandic Parliament) just signed a Bill of Law making mapping of #wilderness mandatory in Iceland. Proud to have had a small part in this working with some great people at ÓFEIG náttúruvernd @sifkon , Snæbjörn Guðmundsson & Ollie Kenyon

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