William (Bill) Sutherland
@billsutherland.bsky.social
Academic. Obsessed with making conservation more effective. Enjoying making nerdy videos explaining the principles of ecology and conservation. YouTube Channel: Conservation Concepts https://youtube.com/@bill_sutherland
Exploring the power of volunteering in conservation and what motivates volunteers, such as the amazing Breckland Flora Group. youtu.be/qh_BBXCm4vc?...
Volunteering for conservation: motivations and results
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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November 24, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Exploring the power of volunteering in conservation and what motivates volunteers, such as the amazing Breckland Flora Group. youtu.be/qh_BBXCm4vc?...
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How many people walk past the ridge and furrow landforms at Grave's Park in Sheffield and don't see the historic use for arable cultivation? Or the charcoal pits in nearby woods?
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@billsutherland.bsky.social here explains how you can read a landscape and it's history.
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@billsutherland.bsky.social here explains how you can read a landscape and it's history.
November 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
How many people walk past the ridge and furrow landforms at Grave's Park in Sheffield and don't see the historic use for arable cultivation? Or the charcoal pits in nearby woods?
youtu.be/6pkWmMmv8bY?...
@billsutherland.bsky.social here explains how you can read a landscape and it's history.
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@billsutherland.bsky.social here explains how you can read a landscape and it's history.
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ICYMI hortological hues to Catz research this year:
💚 @frankiegardner.bsky.social, English PhD, on Britain's obsession with lawnmower poetry: www.caths.cam.ac.uk/...
💚 @billsutherland.bsky.social (Fellow 2008–24; Hon Fellow 2024) on risks from the ornamental plant trade:
💚 @frankiegardner.bsky.social, English PhD, on Britain's obsession with lawnmower poetry: www.caths.cam.ac.uk/...
💚 @billsutherland.bsky.social (Fellow 2008–24; Hon Fellow 2024) on risks from the ornamental plant trade:
Britain’s poetic obsession with the lawnmower
Research by a postgraduate student at St Catharine's has revealed how British poets over the last 50 years such as Philip Larkin and Andrew Motion have driven a ‘lawnmower poetry microgenre’, using the machine to explore childhood, masculinity, violence, addiction, mortality and much more. Francesca Gardner, an English PhD student, argues in her article published by Critical Quarterly that this tradition goes back to the 17th-century poet Andrew Marvell who used mowing – with a scythe – to comment on the violence of the English Civil War.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
ICYMI hortological hues to Catz research this year:
💚 @frankiegardner.bsky.social, English PhD, on Britain's obsession with lawnmower poetry: www.caths.cam.ac.uk/...
💚 @billsutherland.bsky.social (Fellow 2008–24; Hon Fellow 2024) on risks from the ornamental plant trade:
💚 @frankiegardner.bsky.social, English PhD, on Britain's obsession with lawnmower poetry: www.caths.cam.ac.uk/...
💚 @billsutherland.bsky.social (Fellow 2008–24; Hon Fellow 2024) on risks from the ornamental plant trade:
Astonishing that Mongolia has both the Gobi desert and taiga/boreal forest. Here. I try and explain how tiaga works. youtu.be/TjlHz9GwnG8?...
Taiga: the earth’s coldest forests
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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November 20, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Astonishing that Mongolia has both the Gobi desert and taiga/boreal forest. Here. I try and explain how tiaga works. youtu.be/TjlHz9GwnG8?...
Describing, with Breckland as an example, the idea of ecological palimpsests: how history underpins much of the ecology we see today youtu.be/6pkWmMmv8bY?...
Ecological palimpsests
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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November 17, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Describing, with Breckland as an example, the idea of ecological palimpsests: how history underpins much of the ecology we see today youtu.be/6pkWmMmv8bY?...
Describing, with Breckland as an example, the idea of ecological palimpsests: how history underpins much of the ecology we see today youtu.be/6pkWmMmv8bY?...
Ecological palimpsests
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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November 17, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Describing, with Breckland as an example, the idea of ecological palimpsests: how history underpins much of the ecology we see today youtu.be/6pkWmMmv8bY?...
Many visionary organisations are now reflecting on the evidence of actions as part of practice and regularly testing actions. The expectation is to be more effective and richer. Please say if your organisation, based anywhere, is keen on this journey. www.conservationevidence.com/content/page...
Conservation Evidence - Page Content
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November 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Many visionary organisations are now reflecting on the evidence of actions as part of practice and regularly testing actions. The expectation is to be more effective and richer. Please say if your organisation, based anywhere, is keen on this journey. www.conservationevidence.com/content/page...
How does fire determine distribution of Eucalyptus forest and rainforest? youtu.be/3oK2OEPJHvM?...
Fire determining Eucalyptus and rainforest
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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November 13, 2025 at 7:25 AM
How does fire determine distribution of Eucalyptus forest and rainforest? youtu.be/3oK2OEPJHvM?...
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Can ecological surgery of ant mounds help to restore grassland habitats?
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@ukceh.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk Funded by John Lewis Partnership Foundation.
My own ant hill work chronicled: storvaxt.blogspot.com/2025/10/enco...
- www.gabrielleflinn.com/post/ecologi...
@ukceh.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk Funded by John Lewis Partnership Foundation.
My own ant hill work chronicled: storvaxt.blogspot.com/2025/10/enco...
November 12, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Can ecological surgery of ant mounds help to restore grassland habitats?
- www.gabrielleflinn.com/post/ecologi...
@ukceh.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk Funded by John Lewis Partnership Foundation.
My own ant hill work chronicled: storvaxt.blogspot.com/2025/10/enco...
- www.gabrielleflinn.com/post/ecologi...
@ukceh.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk Funded by John Lewis Partnership Foundation.
My own ant hill work chronicled: storvaxt.blogspot.com/2025/10/enco...
Saving the Hulan: Mongolia’s wild ass youtu.be/aSsPX6B96sg?...
Saving the Hulan: Mongolia’s wild ass
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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November 10, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Saving the Hulan: Mongolia’s wild ass youtu.be/aSsPX6B96sg?...
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Among the most moving encounters I had with wild things during swims from Atana Khasab Hotel on Oman's Musandam Peninsula, was with this majestic Purple Heron. As I got closer, realised it had a brutally broken leg, foot hanging by a 🧵. Seemed to have adapted to its injury. #BirdsSeenIn2025. 🧵1/6
November 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Among the most moving encounters I had with wild things during swims from Atana Khasab Hotel on Oman's Musandam Peninsula, was with this majestic Purple Heron. As I got closer, realised it had a brutally broken leg, foot hanging by a 🧵. Seemed to have adapted to its injury. #BirdsSeenIn2025. 🧵1/6
Discussing the importance of World Heritage status and habitat management for protecting birds such as spoon-billed sandpiper, Nordmann's greenshank and black-faced spoonbill. youtu.be/48XC2_V0f-4?...
World Heritage Sites protecting the spoon-billed sandpiper
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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November 6, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Discussing the importance of World Heritage status and habitat management for protecting birds such as spoon-billed sandpiper, Nordmann's greenshank and black-faced spoonbill. youtu.be/48XC2_V0f-4?...
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To fill some gaps in #BirdsSeenIn2025, a highlight of an early morning respite from the IUCN World Conservation Congress last month in Abu Dhabi, was a Terek Sandpiper, among more familiar waders, Redshank & Dunlin, & a few Little Terns at Al Hidayriyyat Heritage Trail. #Birding #Birdwatching #️⃣1/5
November 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
To fill some gaps in #BirdsSeenIn2025, a highlight of an early morning respite from the IUCN World Conservation Congress last month in Abu Dhabi, was a Terek Sandpiper, among more familiar waders, Redshank & Dunlin, & a few Little Terns at Al Hidayriyyat Heritage Trail. #Birding #Birdwatching #️⃣1/5
Which bird disperses which plant? What does bird dispersed fruit look like? Why do fruit sizes differ between regions? Why does ivy fruit in winter? How can we identify the disperser and distance carried from droppings? How did this collaboration arise? youtu.be/4vZ0w97ffRM?...
Fruit, frugivores, and the ecology of seed dispersal
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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November 3, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Which bird disperses which plant? What does bird dispersed fruit look like? Why do fruit sizes differ between regions? Why does ivy fruit in winter? How can we identify the disperser and distance carried from droppings? How did this collaboration arise? youtu.be/4vZ0w97ffRM?...
Delighted my YouTube channel has >1/4 million views and >5k subscribers. Keen to find new audiences especially students and practitioners. Also keen for new subjects either in UK or online interviewing someone in the field. Ideas welcome!
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Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
My mission is to explain the natural world and how to protect it. I am a conservation scientist determined to improve the planet. Each short video will explain an ecological concept and describe why ...
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November 2, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Delighted my YouTube channel has >1/4 million views and >5k subscribers. Keen to find new audiences especially students and practitioners. Also keen for new subjects either in UK or online interviewing someone in the field. Ideas welcome!
youtube.com/@bill_suther...
youtube.com/@bill_suther...
Restoring wild rivers and wild trout youtube.com/watch?v=NH1W...
Reimagining rivers and trout fisheries: evidence-based conservation in action
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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October 30, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Restoring wild rivers and wild trout youtube.com/watch?v=NH1W...
Just looked at the site full of details of large mammal migrations in Wyoming. Really interesting
The topic of migrating herbivores should be on everone's radar.
If it's not, then please watch this excellent video from Bill Sutherland and give the Wyoming Migration Initiative a follow @wyo-migrations.bsky.social
Restoring herbivore migrations will fix a whole heap of problems.
If it's not, then please watch this excellent video from Bill Sutherland and give the Wyoming Migration Initiative a follow @wyo-migrations.bsky.social
Restoring herbivore migrations will fix a whole heap of problems.
Video considering the ecology and challenges of seasonal migration, such as by Mongolian gazelles, and the similar practicalities of herders undergoing large-scale migrations with horses or other stock - learning from the expert Davaakhuu Danzannyam youtu.be/H2QqscK3ErY?...
October 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Just looked at the site full of details of large mammal migrations in Wyoming. Really interesting
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The topic of migrating herbivores should be on everone's radar.
If it's not, then please watch this excellent video from Bill Sutherland and give the Wyoming Migration Initiative a follow @wyo-migrations.bsky.social
Restoring herbivore migrations will fix a whole heap of problems.
If it's not, then please watch this excellent video from Bill Sutherland and give the Wyoming Migration Initiative a follow @wyo-migrations.bsky.social
Restoring herbivore migrations will fix a whole heap of problems.
Video considering the ecology and challenges of seasonal migration, such as by Mongolian gazelles, and the similar practicalities of herders undergoing large-scale migrations with horses or other stock - learning from the expert Davaakhuu Danzannyam youtu.be/H2QqscK3ErY?...
Migration and transhumance: the patterns of movement across landscapes
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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October 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The topic of migrating herbivores should be on everone's radar.
If it's not, then please watch this excellent video from Bill Sutherland and give the Wyoming Migration Initiative a follow @wyo-migrations.bsky.social
Restoring herbivore migrations will fix a whole heap of problems.
If it's not, then please watch this excellent video from Bill Sutherland and give the Wyoming Migration Initiative a follow @wyo-migrations.bsky.social
Restoring herbivore migrations will fix a whole heap of problems.
Video considering the ecology and challenges of seasonal migration, such as by Mongolian gazelles, and the similar practicalities of herders undergoing large-scale migrations with horses or other stock - learning from the expert Davaakhuu Danzannyam youtu.be/H2QqscK3ErY?...
Migration and transhumance: the patterns of movement across landscapes
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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October 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Video considering the ecology and challenges of seasonal migration, such as by Mongolian gazelles, and the similar practicalities of herders undergoing large-scale migrations with horses or other stock - learning from the expert Davaakhuu Danzannyam youtu.be/H2QqscK3ErY?...
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Delighted to have my 1st swim in catchment of that iconic Wessex chalk stream, the River Test, & only my 2nd with European Grayling (1st was in the Itchen). Also plenty Brown Trout, 9-24 inches long but no parr, & oodles of Minnows. #MySwim #Rivers #Nature #Wildlife #TeamFish #Fish #Fishsky 🧵 1/7
October 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Discussing the conservation of arable plants at Plantlife’s wonderful reserve in Kent. youtu.be/bZaUAsvrHS0?...
Conservation of arable plants
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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October 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Discussing the conservation of arable plants at Plantlife’s wonderful reserve in Kent. youtu.be/bZaUAsvrHS0?...
Steppe and prairie is one of the great global habitats. In this video I discuss why and where it occurs and how it underpins a number of remarkable historical empires. youtu.be/Gz8skzyzVnw?...
Grassland ecology: role of fire, rain, grazers and voles
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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October 20, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Steppe and prairie is one of the great global habitats. In this video I discuss why and where it occurs and how it underpins a number of remarkable historical empires. youtu.be/Gz8skzyzVnw?...
How are sand dunes formed? How are they so dynamic? An exploration at Holkham National Nature Reserve on Norfolk coast. youtu.be/tQ54mGI5Oc0?...
How sand dunes are formed
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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October 16, 2025 at 6:18 AM
How are sand dunes formed? How are they so dynamic? An exploration at Holkham National Nature Reserve on Norfolk coast. youtu.be/tQ54mGI5Oc0?...
How one species, the noisy miner, massively changes bird communities in Australia youtu.be/HtYDS27vLXM?...
One bird reshapes an ecosystem: the noisy miner
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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October 13, 2025 at 6:10 AM
How one species, the noisy miner, massively changes bird communities in Australia youtu.be/HtYDS27vLXM?...
Five-year research fellowship, based at Christ's College, Cambridge, for working at the intersection of biodiversity science and economics.
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Darwin-Hamied Senior Research Fellowship (stipendiary) in the Social Science of Biodiversity | Christs College Cambridge
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October 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Five-year research fellowship, based at Christ's College, Cambridge, for working at the intersection of biodiversity science and economics.
www.christs.cam.ac.uk/darwin-hamie...
www.christs.cam.ac.uk/darwin-hamie...