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Rob Yorke

8 months

“Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on” my blog set for 2024

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

6 years

A distraction. A long-tailed tit sewing its nest. From the #hedgegoggle series

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Rob Yorke

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6 years

A penguin classic. Priceless Letter in @thetimes today

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1 year

a farmer who uses very little, if any, artificial nitrogen a farmer who tests his soil every three years a farmer who moves his electric fence most mornings a farmer who has lots of insect-hawking swallows a farmer who rarely has time for a holiday #farming is hard work

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Rob Yorke

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7 years

Hummingbird hawk-moth on red valerian #NationalMeadowsDay

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Rob Yorke

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3 years

My father - countryman and forester mainly outdoors - died last month aged 84, he suffered from depression and took his own life keep an eye out

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Rob Yorke

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6 years

Back from overnight trip in town, I discover a visitor outside the office

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

2 years

A letter in today’s Times on room for both meat and alternative proteins

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Rob Yorke

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5 years

A letter from Sir James Dyson @beeswaxfarming on large scale technology-enabled commercial #farming for affordable #food and farmland #ecology

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

8 years

Here's to farmers, foresters, gamekeepers and wildlife rangers in remote lonely places on #WorldMentalHealthDay

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

3 years

On rewilding, habitat restoration, conservation, and tree planting my letter in @TheTimes today

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Rob Yorke

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3 years

#Farming , then and now pic by @RealFarmerPrice

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

1 year

UK has one of the highest ‘Trees Outside Forests’ cover otherwise known as ‘hedges’ - the subject of my upcoming vlog

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

1 year

after leading industrial and agricultural revolutions, no wonder the UK is ‘nature-depleted’ but do get outside to listen to what isn’t

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

5 years

What does a long-tailed tit use its tail for? Nest building on #hedgegoggle #ornithology

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

8 years

Excerpt from leading article @thetimes on @nationaltrust , farming, the #LakeDistrict

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

4 years

Listen to this farmer swear he's doing something right to read the full context, buy @GallowayGrouse 's brilliantly gnarly and honest book, 'Native'

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

4 years

Slow stalk #drought An important underrated issue @thetimes #farming #countryside

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

7 years

Wait for it! What goes in, must come out. Husbandry perfection from pair of long-tailed tits on #hedgegoggle

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

3 years

Mea culpa but national parks aren’t just about landscape and nature, they’re also about people

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

3 years

That IPCC climate report: triggering us not just to think trees, but about land use in all its diversity

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

4 years

10 years ago, to the day, I started on Twitter Today's treat. A stoat casing the joint

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

3 years

Can conservation scientists talk more with practitioners on the research required?

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

2 years

My review of ‘Regenesis’ by George Monbiot out now in BBC Countryfile Magazine

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

4 months

nature returns quickly: here’s a dawn chorus from a previously ‘hard used’ shifting landscape

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

6 years

My letter in the @guardian on oversimplifying complex environmental issues

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

3 years

don’t overplay environmental doom phrases, it might lose the audience

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

3 years

trees with benefits - alongside goshawk, fungi, red squirrel to boot

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

3 years

Bone-creaking sunburst on crow black, dog bark, Black Mountains

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

2 years

it’s more important to manage hedges as permanent habitat than worry about them as temporary larders

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

4 years

House martins back in the hood Double en-suite refurbed. No need for mud. Insects aplenty. Quiet neighbours (out all night, back at dawn)

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

2 years

there’s more room for other parties interested in the environment; a suggestion

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Rob Yorke

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1 year

the flail will come but habitat will be maintained: the importance of thick ‘tight’ hedges for wildlife and livestock (other options available)

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

5 years

Listening with tolerance, blending science and anecdotal, highlight complexity, sidestep social media, taking people with you Less position statement, more common ground More. Much more in 2020. Who's up for it?

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

8 months

my letter on conservationists managing wildlife in @thetimes today

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

7 years

One grateful hill pony. One blunt knife #MyVictorinox

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

2 years

a suggestion on engaging farmers’ environmental ambitions without always recycling hackneyed outdated perceptions of farming my letter in @FarmersWeekly

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

6 years

Autumn's pleasure - a poached #pheasant with a glass of claret - better than bland chicken. Wonderfully wicked letter in @thetimes

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

2 years

once solutions are aired for nature and agri-enviro schemes, does it then get harder to co-design them?

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

4 years

Curlew. On a farm. A melting pot #WorldCurlewDay

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

2 years

wrong wildlife in the wrong place, animal rights v wildlife conservation and COP15 my letter in @thetimes

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

10 months

land use bespoke - pond creation funds, soil conservation agri, wild estate habitat, perfect potato chip farming what I learnt over 2 days in a 110sec vlog (spoiler: more than reported)

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

5 years

Wet corner of field Shifting landuse syndrome 1950 drain for post-war food req 1960 spray reeds with new chems 1970 remove nearby hedge 1980 re-drained with govt grant 1990 ploughed with big tractor 2000 in agri-enviro scheme 2010 becomes SSSI 2020 paid to manage it for curlew

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Rob Yorke

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3 years

“Contrary to popular belief, trophy hunting is not a key threat to any species” letter in @thetimes from interdisciplinary #wildlife #conservation scientists

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

7 years

Well done @BASCnews in @thetimes

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

3 years

ancient hunting reserves are often today’s nature reserves: can we still harvest wild meat?

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

1 year

if we want wild habitat diversity, organic farming operations etc we may have to manage stuff, even in May

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

7 months

citizen science - for water quality or birds - is a great opportunity to engage socially with farmers and land managers

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

6 months

designated land for nature recovery: a conundrum of an ex-grouse moor with hen harriers becoming a valley of trees

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

9 months

conservation grazing machines managing butterfly rich landscapes fostering human wellbeing with a beneficial meaty Christmas-future

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

1 year

a letter on hunting from a coalition of Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) conservation groups in Namibia today in The Times

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

5 years

My letter on farmland conservationists managing wildlife and restoring habitat in @thetimes today

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

3 years

Moorland manager turns bracken into heather he tells me the *public* are delighted with the *goods* somewhere in the Peak District - 2012 to 2020

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

5 months

keep farmers in the room: use their skills to deliver the ‘green’ transition warning: contains past context and nature-friendly agri-tech material

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

7 years

A bird knitting its nest. Watch this long-tailed tit's head closely #hedgegoggle

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

3 years

Managing land for food and nature in the same room without throwing rotten tomatoes at each other

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

7 years

@bridgetwhipsin @FrVerheggen Here's a non-parasitic brood to cheer you up #hedgegoggle

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

2 years

Landscape recovery is for everyone (not just ‘rewilders’). It is time to acknowledge and embrace diverse human complexities around land

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

3 years

Until we split the differences between food, welfare, wildlife/enviro standards, we will continue to conflate and confuse them

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

5 years

My letter on hedges, trees and farmland wildlife in @thetimes today

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

5 years

Winter feeding of farmland birds goes off the rails

Alex "Tropical" Forrest 🚉🌴

@380kmh

5 years

apparently a freight train in Minnesota was leaking corn

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Rob Yorke

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3 years

A curlew carbon countryside conundrum in 60 secs

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Rob Yorke

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6 years

After five years, house martin nest box occupied. On my birthday. Yay!

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

2 years

there is so much knowledge already embedded in the countryside, let’s use it alongside new environmental science

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

2 years

more openness on ugly nature, less opaque spikiness online: here’s to building resilience and dialogue!

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Rob Yorke

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5 years

Want more insects? Bring on the beef

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Rob Yorke

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6 years

Interesting letter from a conservation officer on agri-enviro schemes in @FarmersWeekly

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Rob Yorke

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2 years

royal patronage champions diverse egalitarian loyalty on collaborating on environmental issues (in 90secs of context)

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Rob Yorke

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4 years

Dog with a view Llanthony, Black Mountains

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Rob Yorke

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1 year

what I learned from wildlife* conservation scientists in Cambridge, UK and Tallinn, Estonia *don’t overprotect it

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

5 years

Think before you Tweet

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

2 years

calling something out ‘feels good’ but may have an unforeseen impact on collaborative conservation efforts

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

1 year

there’s so much creative potential for improving farming and wildlife productivity, yes more hares, across a richly diverse countryside

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

3 years

I like both farmland and forestry. Time to update perceptions of modern practices (in 65secs) bonus track of crossbills calling

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

5 years

King of wild meats [With secret ingredient] Anyone give me three reasons why food market not flooded with wood pigeon?

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

5 years

please if possible try to say things on twitter that you would be able to say in a conversation face to face

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

3 years

The Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) doesn’t pay enough according to some and doesn’t do enough for nature according to others

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

5 years

My extraordinary aunt 100 not out today (pic 2009)

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

3 years

Farming requires more hands - to help manage land and wildlife habitat with livestock

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

2 years

living, working in ‘green’ spaces, close to nature may not always be as idyllic as it seems

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

4 years

#Ash 'fight back' from April, report #trees within woodlands showing sign of tolerance to #chalara fungus > @FutureTreesUK

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Rob Yorke

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1 year

if we talk about creating woodland within a landscape, rather than planting onto it, we might gain more trees overall

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

1 year

look beyond the latest State of Nature media headlines to note the legacy of past policies and seek out evidence of what does work

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

2 years

I sense Twitter is furthering the ‘corporatisation’ of environmental issues into partisan cabals ‘you are either with me, coz if you’re not, you are against me’ as there’s no space for critical thinking, perhaps it’s time to move on

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

2 years

an upside of living in dark narrow tyre ripping pothole water running tree branch strewn ice encrusted steep oft impassable road areas woodcock on the 7.15am school run

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

6 years

'Forget about squirrel, it's more about where our #meat comes from - less but higher quality - maybe from British #farmers . We want #trees , but greys kill them at 15yrs old. It's about #conservation being braver and us being aware of what we #eat ' Me cramming it in #JeremyVine

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

5 years

An apology

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

6 years

Start of some good dialogue (off social media!) in 2018. Bringing together different values, no labels, building trust, learning differences, discovering common ground in a complex #countryside . More in 2019. Who's up for it?

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Rob Yorke

@blackgull

5 years

Large 'intensive' farms can do big things for wildlife #Farm24

Dyson Farming

@DysonFarming

5 years

“The results are in”our nest boxes have produced & as promised here are the stats. 🦉🦉🐣🐥 61 Barn owl chicks. 18 little owl chicks. 2 Tawny owl chicks. 43 kestrel chicks. 3 Marsh Harrier chicks. Ringed and recorded across our farms in Lincolnshire by the amazing Barn Owl Bob.