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Guy Shrubsole

2 months

It's real!! Very excited to hold in my hands a hardback copy of my new book, THE LIE OF THE LAND - an expose of what the 'custodians of the countryside' have done to nature in Britain. Published 12th September - pre-order yours here:

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Guy Shrubsole

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3 months

So @TheGreenParty now have 4 seats - as many as the revolting Reform party are forecast to get. So why in god’s name is @BBCNews rabbiting on about Reform still and not talking about extraordinary Green performance??

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Guy Shrubsole

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2 years

HUGE: The National Trust is threatening to mobilise its 5.7MILLION members to oppose the government’s #AttackOnNature . @ranil @trussliz @SimonClarkeMP change course now or face a rebellion on all fronts - and electoral oblivion

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Guy Shrubsole

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4 years

The owner of the Daily Mail & MoS, Viscount Rothermere, owns 4,700 acres in Dorset & Wiltshire, some of it via offshore firms based in tax havens: But they’d rather talk about Keir Starmer’s donkey field.

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2 years

In deepest darkest Devon, I’ve found what I think is a fragment of Atlantic hazelwood: a type of temperate rainforest & a very rare habitat, more usually found in western Scotland or Ireland. Let me tell you a bit about it… 🧵1/n

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2 years

BREAKING: Wealthy landowner wins court case to extinguish the right to wild camp on Dartmoor - the only place where it’s been legal in England This is an outrage & @Right_2Roam & @EveryonesStars are mobilising - follow them to join the rebellion

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@guyshrubsole

3 years

Britain is a rainforest nation - but we cut down most of our rainforests over the centuries. Overgrazed and under-recognised, only fragments remain. Please sign my petition calling on the UK Govt to protect and restore Britain's lost rainforests:

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2 years

To me, a lichen-covered stick is as beautiful as a coral reef. Xanthoria parietina, south Devon coast.

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@guyshrubsole

2 years

On our Mass Trespass of the Duke of Somerset’s pheasant shoot woods, we’ve discovered a mass grave of scores of discarded pheasants, wire mesh fencing, & fly-tipped rubbish. We’re here to draw back the veil of secrecy that hides how landowners - not ramblers - trash nature.

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@guyshrubsole

2 years

BREAKING: Right to wild camp on Dartmoor in jeopardy as huge landowner brings legal case against Dartmoor National Park Authority claiming no such right exists Dartmoor is the only place in England where you can legally wild camp - we must all defend this

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

2 years

Happy #StGeorgesDay . Your reminder that 1% of the population own half the land in England. And we only have a Right to Roam over 8% of the country. 'Rise like Lions after slumber... Ye are many - they are few.' - Shelley

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1 year

This 10,000-acre estate was once the Duke of Buccleuch’s grouse moor - now it’s been bought out by the Langholm community & is being restored as a nature reserve! Natural regeneration, peat rewetting, orchid meadows. Thanks Jenny & Kat (Langholm Initiative) for showing me around!

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

8 months

Encountered a hunt yesterday whilst out walking at Haytor on Dartmoor. Shortly before they arrived, we'd also seen a fox bolting across the moor. Presumably the hunt had driven it from its hole ('earth') and blocked the entrance? Thought fox hunting was illegal? 🤔

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Guy Shrubsole

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3 months

@krishgm And the Labour vote share was lower partly because there was so much tactical voting - instead of wasting votes for candidates who couldn’t win, the progressive vote sorted itself extremely efficiently.

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@guyshrubsole

1 year

Buckfastleigh Moor on Dartmoor is up for sale: £1.3m for 850 acres. - Mostly SSSI, in 'unfavourable recovering' condition - Blanket bog, dwarf shrub heath, some natural regen - Wild camping rights over the moor Community buyout, anyone?

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

1 year

Pretty extraordinary that this headteacher *advised schoolkids to walk in the road* rather than walk past a plant which is only dangerous if ingested. If we think plants are more dangerous than cars, we're truly stuffed.

Hemlock: Anger after poisonous plant found near Bucklesham school - BBC News

Safety concerns are raised about hemlock on a pathway close to a primary school.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

1 year

Trespass is still only a civil offence, not a criminal offence & therefore not something the police should have any interest in - so wind your neck in guys

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

2 years

Amazing turnout for #KinderInColour march today, to protest unequal access to the countryside & call for a greater Right to Roam! ⁦ @Right_2Roam ⁩ #EveryoneWelcome

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

5 years

France & Ireland now threatening to veto EU-Mercosur trade deal with Brazil over Amazon fires. Macron, Merkel, Trudeau all putting Amazon on G7 agenda. UK... has been sipping champagne with Bolsonaro's govt this week, angling for a trade deal. And Johnson is silent.

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Guy Shrubsole

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4 years

Few people realise that this country has fragments of a globally rare habitat: temperate rainforest. Can you help me map the lost rainforests of England? 👇A brief thread about my new side-project:

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1 year

Hugely excited that the Duchy of Cornwall, working with their tenant farmer & @NaturalEngland , will expand the iconic temperate rainforest of Wistman's Wood through natural regeneration I hope this inspires others to bring back Britain's lost rainforests

Prince William to expand Duchy of Cornwall’s temperate rainforest

Duchy hopes to at least double size of Wistman’s Wood, a 3 hectare fragment of ancient woodland, by 2040

www.theguardian.com

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

7 months

Under the radar, Tory MPs & landowning lobbyists are trying to undermine nature protections in England. Yesterday, Tory MP Derek Thomas tabled a Bill in Parliament to strip Natural England of its power to create nature reserves (SSSIs) & instead give that power to Ministers. 1/

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

4 years

*2 weeks to stop the criminalisation of trespass* Ramblers, wild campers, Travellers & protestors aren't criminals - but soon, they could be. Sign our petition to stop the govt criminalising trespass- 58,000 have signed; we need 100k for MPs to debate it

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

2 years

Let's bring back Britain's lost rainforests! Our new maps show that 20% of Britain has a climate suitable for temperate rainforest, but that rainforest now covers just 1% of the country. Interactive map here: Guardian article:

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

3 years

"A campaign to restore Britain’s lost rainforests has won backing from the Govt" Excited to reveal that a new £30m Nature Impact Fund explicitly backs efforts to “support and expand England’s temperate rainforests.” I spoke to @emmagatten @Telegraph : 1/n

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

2 years

It's real! Overjoyed to hold in my hands the first hardback copy of my new book THE LOST RAINFORESTS OF BRITAIN, out on 27th October - you can pre-order a copy here: or here: ... or at all good bookshops soon!

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

2 years

And we’re off! Totnes Mass Trespass heading off to the Duke of Somerset’s pheasant shoot woods #RightToRoam #TotnesTrespass @Right_2Roam

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Guy Shrubsole

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2 years

We only have a Right to Roam over 8% of England. But today sees the publication of @CarolineLucas 's new Bill to extend our Right to Roam! - @Right_2Roam worked closely with Caroline to develop this Bill. Here's what it says 🧵 1/

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

1 year

Today I have been exploring a grouse moor and pondering why we’ve let c.150 landowners wreck England’s most important carbon store for the past century and a half Pic shows eroding peat hags, leaching carbon to the air & into streams

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

4 years

We have fragments of temperate rainforest in Britain, and very few seem to know about it. This oak tree in Devon is supporting hundreds of polypody ferns on its moss-covered branches, thanks to the damp climate:

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

1 year

On the left, a symbol of selfish individualism & humanity's destructiveness #SycamoreGap On the right, a sign of humanity's last best hope: collective political action to restore nature #RestoreNatureNow Let the next year see a great uprising for nature

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

6 months

REVEALED: 18 Tory MPs have written to Environment Secretary @SteveBarclay urging him to gut @NaturalEngland ’s powers to create nature reserves (SSSIs) This latest #AttackOnNature must not succeed (Thanks to @jgmarshallwrite for obtaining the letter) Thread 1/

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

4 years

There are 48,000 acres of golf courses within London and the Metropolitan Green Belt (shown in red on map below) Why not open them up to public for exercise, as @RosamundUrwin suggests? Easier to maintain social distancing if existing parks less crowded.

Rosamund Urwin

@RosamundUrwin

4 years

Rather than closing big parks so more people end up packed into the smaller parks, how about reclaiming green space in London, like this enormous, empty golf course? Turn the golf courses into exercise spots. More green space for everyone, social distancing made easier.

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Guy Shrubsole

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1 year

BREAKING: The right to wild camp on Dartmoor has been restored! Darwall's court case sparked a huge backlash & the biggest land rights protest in a generation. But this is not the end - we now need a new Right to Roam Act for England. Join @Right_2Roam !

Wild camping allowed on Dartmoor again after court appeal succeeds

Dartmoor National Park Authority had appealed against January high court ruling that outlawed practice

www.theguardian.com

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

5 months

This is a *really* great pledge by @SadiqKhan - to make the Thames (and all London rivers) clean enough to wild swim in. Other mayors & candidates take note: access to clean rivers needs to become the norm in England @Right_2Roam

Sadiq Khan: I’ll make the Thames clean enough to swim in

The London mayor intends to replicate the plans of his Parisian counterpart, who wants to reopen the Seine to swimmers as part of the city’s Olympic legacy

www.thetimes.com

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Guy Shrubsole

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4 years

BREAKING: Over 100 authors, musicians & actors - from @stephenfry to Ali Smith & Mark Rylance - call on PM @BorisJohnson to extend Right to Roam. We need greater access to nature for the sake of public health. Read the letter & sign up to the campaign:

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Guy Shrubsole

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2 years

Truss's anti-environmentalism has awakened the sleeping green giant of British politics. My new post on the #AttackOnNature :

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

2 years

Incredibly excited to reveal the cover of my next book, THE LOST RAINFORESTS OF BRITAIN - by the sublime Tolkien illustrator Alan Lee! Featuring Welsh wizards, mossy trees, Celtic myths & lichens galore, my book's out on 27th October. Pre-order here:

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1 year

If you want to control bracken, don’t spray it with a chemical banned by the EU in 2011. Take bracken as a sign the land was probably once wooded, and enable trees to regenerate on it - the trees will shade out the bracken & it can become wood pasture

Farmers want to use banned chemical to control bracken

Campaigners say there is a risk Asulam can cause cancer and that alternatives should be used instead.

www.bbc.com

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

3 months

With the 100,000-strong Restore Nature Now march today, the nature movement in the UK took a big step forward. Not only did the large NGOs mobilise; there were also thousands of people who love their local wildlife but who’d never attended a demo before. The green giant stirs.

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Guy Shrubsole

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3 months

SO, so many people marching to #RestoreNatureNow @RNNMarch Whoever forms the next government must respect existence or expect resistance!

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

2 years

Sorry to be a downer on this, but Britain cut down a third of its ancient woodland between 1950 & 1980, and much of the recent afforestation has been conifer monocultures We need much more emphasis on natural regeneration of biodiverse woods, inc temperature rainforests

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2 years

Good news of the day: Scotland's forest cover is nearly back to where it was 1,000 years ago. And many other countries are also reversing centuries of deforestation.

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Guy Shrubsole

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3 years

Left: sheep / Right: no sheep (Hillside opposite Cadair Idris, mid-Wales)

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1 year

@mrianleslie Call me old-fashioned, but since the National Trust was founded precisely to preserve natural beauty, it’s more than entitled to have opinions on the climate crisis and what this country is doing (or failing to do) about it.

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Guy Shrubsole

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3 years

REVEALED: Just 124 landowners own most of England's deep peat, our single largest carbon store. The UK Govt - and the public - urgently need to challenge these landowners to protect and restore our peatlands. My new investigation out today: 🧵1/n

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Guy Shrubsole

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2 years

Brilliant news that @WildlifeTrusts with a £38m donation from @AvivaUK will be working to restore temperate rainforests across the UK! I spoke to @alextomo for Channel 4 news to welcome the announcement & urge the Govt to do more to protect & restore Britain's rainforests:

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1 year

Farmer jailed for destroying SSSI on River Lugg - good The Judge said it was “ecological vandalism on an industrial scale" Landowners must be made to pay for crimes against nature

Farmer jailed for 'ecological vandalism' of River Lugg in Herefordshire

John Price destroyed habitats and wildlife on an unspoiled stretch of the River Lugg.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

3 years

"Just 1% of the population own half the land in England... with the other 99% having the right to roam on just 8% of the remainder." Ace to see @natalieben championing public access in Envt Bill debate yday - w/ a shout-out for the Right to Roam campaign!

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Guy Shrubsole

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3 years

Bracken is thought by some to be an indicator of former woodland. New maps I've been passed reveal that bracken covers over 50,000 acres of Dartmoor & the Lake District. Can we use bracken maps as a guide for regenerating temperate rainforest? 🧵1/n

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Guy Shrubsole

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1 year

So far @UKLabour have pledged to: - End all new oil & gas drilling - Bring in a Scottish-style right to roam - Invest £28bn/ year in climate jobs - Let councils buy land cheaply to tackle housing crisis - Bring in a Community Right to Buy Sounds pretty transformational to me...

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Guy Shrubsole

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1 year

Cornish farm launches project to triple UK’s temperate rainforest Delighted to support farmer & landowner @MerlinHanbury 's Thousand Year Trust, dedicated to the restoration of temperate rainforest in Britain:

Cornish farm launches project to triple UK’s temperate rainforest

Former soldier is transforming his land on Bodmin Moor with tree planting and natural regeneration

www.theguardian.com

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

3 years

Today I went on a trespass in a felled rainforest. Dean Wood, on Dartmoor's south-east edge, is a wood whose owner has received a chunk of public subsidy - but which remains publicly inaccessible. A thread about public money for public ills, & extending our Right to Roam: 1/n

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

5 years

We have a Right to Roam on just 8% of England's land. The other 92% remains off limits. And now the Government is proposing to criminalise trespass...

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

2 years

*TAKE ACTION: DEMAND A RIGHT TO ROAM ACT* Following the biggest land justice protest in a generation, there's huge momentum for a new Right to Roam Act. But the next week is *crucial*. PLEASE HELP US by sending this letter to your MP:

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Guy Shrubsole

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2 years

Govt have today published very worrying new guidance on Investment Zones Ministers appear willing to consider Investment Zones covering SSSIs & National Parks And guidance includes mention of "a new streamlined planning system" #AttackOnNature 1/n

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

4 years

This is climate breakdown. Met Office UK rainfall records: - Left: Feb 2020. 400%+ average rainfall in North England & Wales. Massive floods - Right: May 2020. Less than 20% average rainfall for large swathes of England & Wales. Drought looming #ClimateEmergency

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Guy Shrubsole

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5 years

Revealed: English grouse moor estates got £10million in public subsidies last year. Why is the UK Government giving hand-outs to such an ecologically destructive elite sport?

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

4 years

Don’t close parks – open up golf courses so there’s more space to exercise safely. Please sign my new petition: #NaturalHealthService

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

1 year

*Drum roll* I'm writing a 3rd book: THE LIE OF THE LAND To be published by @WmCollinsBooks Autumn 2024 It will examine landowners' claims of stewardship; grouse moors; fenland drainage; invasive species - & put paid to the old lie: that only those who own land can care for it.

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

4 years

Our petition to stop the criminalisation of trespass has passed 100,000 signatures - so MPs in Parliament will debate it! THANKYOU EVERYONE! Next step: ensuring the voices of Travellers, protestors, ramblers, kayakers & everyone who'd be impacted by this are heard in the debate.

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Guy Shrubsole

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2 months

Finally, a peacock on the buddleia!

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

2 years

It's publication day! My new book THE LOST RAINFORESTS OF BRITAIN is out in all good bookshops now! Order online: or To celebrate @LouisaCasson bought me some lichen badges from @BLSlichens - support them:

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

4 years

"Intentional trespass on private land to become criminal offence" Home Office to publish details of their draconian new Police Powers Bill next week, the Telegraph reveals: Resist - write to your MP now:

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Guy Shrubsole

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9 months

As Tim Bonner here admits, it’s only “a tiny number of people who hunt”. But the so-called Countryside Alliance are obsessed with defending them. They do not represent the countryside, only the tiny elite who own it.

Boxing Day hunts are backed by real people, not class warriors - Tim Bonner

Keir Starmer has to face down the anti-hunting cranks out in force this Boxing Day and side with rural communities, says the head of the Countryside Alliance

www.express.co.uk

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1 year

Got totally soaked in the rain yesterday, but it was worth it - because I found a tiny fragment of temperate rainforest, huddled in a valley on Dartmoor's edge. Even better, the old hazels were teeming with rare Hazel Gloves fungus - previously unrecorded at this location! 1/

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2 years

Fab to meet the unstoppable ⁦ @CarolineLucas ⁩ MP this morning, discuss Britain’s temperate rainforests and give her a copy of my new book :)

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11 months

So, farewell, Therese Coffey. May you roam freely into the political wilderness

Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

1 year

Yesterday the Environment Secretary said that the English public should have fewer rights of access to nature than livestock. If you think that’s a bit silly, join the @Right_2Roam campaign for a more sensible approach to access 😀

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1 year

'That someone would have destroyed this iconic tree is beyond comprehension; but what’s even more shocking is that this was pretty much the only tree in that entire landscape' #SycamoreGap

Why aren’t there more trees in the Sycamore Gap?

The tragic felling of the tree is making land managers reflect on how this barren landscape should look in future

www.theguardian.com

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REVEALED: Landowners in England have been paid £9billion in 'stewardship' payments over past 30yrs - yet nature continues to decline Large landowners should be required to publish reports showing how they are stewarding land for nature and carbon 1/

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7 months

REVEALED: Just 131 shoots and game farms are responsible for rearing and releasing 6.2million pheasants in England - according to new official figures I obtained using FOI law Pheasant shooting is an industry out of control: time for nationwide licensing

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4 years

European countries with an extensive Right to Roam. Let’s add England to this map in 2021...

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2 years

"I am a free trader and loathe subsidies", says James Dyson - despite swallowing £3.5MILLION in taxpayer farm subsidies in 2021, one of the biggest recipients - £2m of this as BPS (direct payments) One of the most tedious men in the world

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4 years

Shocked by the scenes from Clapham Common last night? TOMORROW the Govt are introducing a new #PolicingBill - but in reality it’s a #SilencingBill that will further stifle our rights to protest. ACT: tag your MP, ask them to vote against the #SilencingBill Pic @Coldwar_Steve

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3 years

I’m incredibly excited to announce that I’m writing a 2nd book, THE LOST RAINFORESTS OF BRITAIN, and that it will be published by @WmCollinsBooks in October 2022! More details in The Bookseller here: Follow the project here: (1/2)

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7 months

HUGE turnout for today’s ⁦ @Right_2Roam ⁩ mass trespass in Cirencester, to protest the Bathurst Estate’s plans to charge for public access to their vast parkland - land that the public has paid for already through farm subsidies, tax breaks & compensation for ending slavery

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4 years

Some *personal news*! After 8 years campaigning at the wonderful @friends_earth , I'm excited to say I've joined Rewilding Britain ( @RewildingB ) as their new Policy & Campaigns Coordinator. Here's my first blog for them on rewilding and land ownership:

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3 months

Hi @BBCNews @Channel4News the @TheGreenParty now have 3 confirmed seats, why on earth is your seat tally still not showing this, but still going on about bloody Farage?

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Guy Shrubsole

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4 years

There are 50,000 ACRES OF CAR PARKS in England. This is a staggering new study by @knightfrank . Think of all the affordable housing, green spaces, bike racks and trees that could replace those car parks. Seriously. Let's do it.

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2 years

Epiphytes - plants that grow on other plants - are the defining species of Britain's temperate rainforests. So to celebrate them I'm doing a thread on EPIPHYTES IN ART & LITERATURE! #Geek First off: Ernst Haeckel's Tree Lungwort (Lobaria pulmonaria), 1899 1/n

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2 years

This anti-environmental Govt wants to: - Ban solar farms - Start fracking - Rip up nature protections - Sabotage funds for regenerative farming - Create free-for-all ‘Investment zones’ & rip up planning - Remove pollution rules so even more shit goes in rivers #AttackOnNature

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1 year

Therese Coffey casually dismissing the rights of millions of people to access nature, and rather foolishly discounting the votes of the 62% of the British public who'd rather like a Scottish-style @Right_2Roam in England...

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1 year

Thérèse Coffey just told a lunch for the British Association of Shooting and Conservation “I’m frankly fed up with the right to roam campaign. The only things that have rights to roam are farmers, their pigs and cattle.”

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3 years

"The Countryside & Rights of Way Act only provides access to 8% of England" Ace new Early Day Motion by @CarolineLucas MP in support of a greater Right to Roam! Please tag /email your MP & ask them to sign EDM 1068: Get involved:

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Guy Shrubsole

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5 years

Don't criminalise trespass! Please sign my petition: The Govt's pledge to criminalise trespass is an extreme & unnecessary attack on ancient freedoms that would threaten walkers, campers, protestors, Travellers & the wider public. Pic: @nickhayesillus1

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3 years

Pleased to see Owen Paterson continuing to help me sell copies of my book.

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4 years

England's upland peat - our largest carbon store - is owned by 150 grouse moor estates, who damage it through burning. @ZacGoldsmith has pledged to end moorland burning. Today The Times reports "plans to ban peat-burning appear to have been abandoned". Is this true, Minister?

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1 year

@bencaldecott Quick question Ben: do you agree or disagree with the RSPB that the government have lied about not weakening environmental protections?

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@guyshrubsole

10 months

I’m delighted that the Prime Minister has today announced a new rainforests strategy for England: This is something I called for in my book & campaigned for with @SeahorseEnv . Thousands of you signed our petition calling for a strategy. Thread: 1/

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28 days

Great news! Cumbria Wildlife Trust to rewild Skiddaw with temperate rainforest via @Channel4News @CraigBennett3

Exclusive – Cumbria Wildlife Trust to rewild Skiddaw with temperate rainforest

An ambitious project by the Cumbria Wildlife Trust aims to restore temperate rainforest to the summit of Skiddaw in the Lake District.

www.channel4.com

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

7 months

Picking up litter can be an unrewarding task, but today amidst the discarded drinks cans I found… a £5 note! Jackpot! 😂 Now, if only the government would finally introduce a Deposit Return Scheme, everyone who picks up litter would be quids in…

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Guy Shrubsole

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1 year

Oh for fuck’s sake Revealed: UK plans to drop flagship £11.6bn climate pledge

Revealed: UK plans to drop flagship £11.6bn climate pledge

Exclusive: Disclosure provokes fury as Rishi Sunak accused of betraying populations vulnerable to global heating

www.theguardian.com

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

3 years

Today a group of us went for a trespass in the Duke of Somerset’s woods at Berry Pomeroy near Totnes. We found a vast pheasant shoot, the publicly inaccessible wood wrecked by forestry & weight of pheasant numbers, & dying pheasants - all propped up by public money. Thread 1/n

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@guyshrubsole

4 months

A major critic of Natural England has quietly been appointed to Natural England's board by Ministers. Landowner Mark Tufnell, ex-President of the Country Land & Business Association, called for "a full scale review of NE's remit". How landed power works.

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

1 year

Today I trespassed upon land belonging to a Duke’s Trust, saw a Duke of Burgundy butterfly (appropriately!) & fields of cowslips, picked up shooting detritus, released a crow from a corvid trap, & chatted to a veteran access activist. Research for book 3, The Lie of the Land :)

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

6 years

*Drum roll...* I'm excited to reveal the front cover of my book Who Owns England? - being published by William Collins on 2nd May. You can pre-order it here:

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Guy Shrubsole

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4 years

Victory takes time. But after 5 years of emails, meetings, letters to councillors, rallies, beach parties with @BillOddie & direct action, we've finally saved Druridge Bay from an opencast coal mine. This is the end of coal in the UK. @SaveDruridge

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

5 years

If you want another reason to read ‘Who Owns England?’, I present to you today’s hatchet-job Sunday Telegraph review by the climate denying, landowner-defending, grouse-moor-loving, disgraced former Environment Secretary Owen Paterson #BadgeOfHonour cc @MilesKing10

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

2 years

Oh my god, I’ve finally seen a lynx! At ⁦ @gow_derek ⁩’s Rewilding Coombeshead enclosure in Devon. Majestic. Thanks Wilderfest!

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Guy Shrubsole

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9 months

The UK is self-sufficient in meat & dairy - production of which takes up a huge area of land - but only grows 50% of its veg. If the NFU really cared about food security it’d call for a reduction in meat & dairy production & consumption and more focus on horticulture. Will it?

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Guy Shrubsole

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3 years

The Right to Roam campaign has discovered that the Treasury have commissioned a review into public access to nature - aiming for a "quantum shift" in access to the outdoors! Help us write to Treasury calling for a greater Right to Roam:

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