‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Recently had the good fortune to meet Jack Durant, one of the founders of Youngwilders. Great guy.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Recently had the good fortune to meet Jack Durant, one of the founders of Youngwilders. Great guy.
‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement
At Maple Farm, nature is returning in droves: nightingales, grass snakes, slowworms, bats and insects. All due to the vision of a group determined to accelerate its recovery
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM
‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Recently had the good fortune to meet Jack Durant, one of the founders of Youngwilders. Great guy.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Recently had the good fortune to meet Jack Durant, one of the founders of Youngwilders. Great guy.
Top class work these guys are doing. Video is a great guide on how to tackle rhododendron.
Nice video here on the initiative. This is a significant swamp forest restoration project that hopefully will recover quickly. The challenge for the next few years will be to do the follow up work to ensure eradication of rhododendron.
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Rhodo Control - Abbey Wood Killarney National Park
YouTube video by Killarney Mountain
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November 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Top class work these guys are doing. Video is a great guide on how to tackle rhododendron.
Reposted by David of Belfast
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Places available 👆. Learn about rewilding and how to carry it out. Make friends and connections with other rewilders and become part of a big network in UK, Ireland and further afield. Training delivered by experienced rewilders.
Places available 👆. Learn about rewilding and how to carry it out. Make friends and connections with other rewilders and become part of a big network in UK, Ireland and further afield. Training delivered by experienced rewilders.
THE REWILDING TRAINING — Embercombe
Introducing the UK’s first in-depth, blended Rewilding Training at Embercombe. This 9-month learning journey will take you from curiosity to having the confidence, knowledge, skills, and contacts to r...
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November 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Places available 👆. Learn about rewilding and how to carry it out. Make friends and connections with other rewilders and become part of a big network in UK, Ireland and further afield. Training delivered by experienced rewilders.
Places available 👆. Learn about rewilding and how to carry it out. Make friends and connections with other rewilders and become part of a big network in UK, Ireland and further afield. Training delivered by experienced rewilders.
Let's make polluters pay for the damage they do. Please sign the petition
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Make polluters worldwide pay for a greener future
While the cost of living and climate crises rage on and oil and gas companies' profits soar, something is shifting… More and more of us want big polluters to pay for the damage they cause to our plane...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Let's make polluters pay for the damage they do. Please sign the petition
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I've just signed this petition to save Lady's Island Lake, Co. Wexford. Will you sign your name too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/sa... @uplift.ie
Save Ladys Island Lake, Co. Wexford
I've just signed this petition to save Lady's Island Lake, Co. Wexford. Will you sign your name too?
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November 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I've just signed this petition to save Lady's Island Lake, Co. Wexford. Will you sign your name too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/sa... @uplift.ie
Israel digs itself into a deeper hole
Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.
Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:
“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:
“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.
Israel seems to be intercepting right now.
All eyes needed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...
Israel seems to be intercepting right now.
All eyes needed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...
October 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Israel digs itself into a deeper hole
Reposted by David of Belfast
When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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September 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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‘Some big polluter is breathing sigh of relief’: Questions remain over Blackwater fish kill
Inconclusive report must not be last word on devastating incident.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Inconclusive report must not be last word on devastating incident.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
‘Some big polluter is breathing sigh of relief’: Questions remain over Blackwater fish kill
Inconclusive report must not be last word on devastating incident, say environmentalists
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September 29, 2025 at 8:06 AM
‘Some big polluter is breathing sigh of relief’: Questions remain over Blackwater fish kill
Inconclusive report must not be last word on devastating incident.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Inconclusive report must not be last word on devastating incident.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
The fly agaric came out in force for the Ulster Wildlife AGM yesterday at Killeavy
September 28, 2025 at 7:58 AM
The fly agaric came out in force for the Ulster Wildlife AGM yesterday at Killeavy
Reposted by David of Belfast
Nobody to blame, just an unfortunate accident we are doomed to repeat and repeat with no way of knowing how to stop it.
This country is ran by people who have no interest in nature.
This country is ran by people who have no interest in nature.
September 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Nobody to blame, just an unfortunate accident we are doomed to repeat and repeat with no way of knowing how to stop it.
This country is ran by people who have no interest in nature.
This country is ran by people who have no interest in nature.
Why does the COP30 logo look like one for a petrol company?
Is that meant to be a red flame or a dying leaf? Probably both.
Is that meant to be a red flame or a dying leaf? Probably both.
September 25, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Why does the COP30 logo look like one for a petrol company?
Is that meant to be a red flame or a dying leaf? Probably both.
Is that meant to be a red flame or a dying leaf? Probably both.
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Please sign to protest against the malign Mercosur trade deal.
Please sign to protest against the malign Mercosur trade deal.
Take action: Stop the climate-wrecking EU-Mercosur Trade Deal - The Environmental Pillar
The EU-Mercosur trade agreement will benefit a handful of big corporations while driving deforestation, the climate crisis and exposing small-scale farmers to unfair competition. Join our call and say...
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September 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Please sign to protest against the malign Mercosur trade deal.
Please sign to protest against the malign Mercosur trade deal.
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If only there was as much land rewilded as there are golf courses
If only there was as much land rewilded as there are golf courses
Turning a Celtic Tiger golf course into native woodland
The former Glen of the Downs Golf Course greens are now covered in 80,000 native trees, planted by Anke and John Moran. Video: Dan Dennison
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September 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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If only there was as much land rewilded as there are golf courses
If only there was as much land rewilded as there are golf courses
Help save Beer Mill Farm. Matched funding for your donation 👇
A Crowdfunder to save Beer Mill farm - 112 acres of rare, species rich land in Devon. There's matched funding, so your donation would be doubled. Please chip in if you can. @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @rewildingbritain.org.uk
PLEASE SAVE BEER MILL FOR NATURE
Help us save 112 acres of rare, species-rich land in Devon for nature
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September 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Help save Beer Mill Farm. Matched funding for your donation 👇
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🎉BREAKING: The High Seas Treaty has reached 60 ratifications — enough to enter into force!
This landmark agreement creates a pathway to help protect the high seas — waters beyond any one country’s authority that cover nearly half our planet. https://oceana.ly/3VqpI2Y
This landmark agreement creates a pathway to help protect the high seas — waters beyond any one country’s authority that cover nearly half our planet. https://oceana.ly/3VqpI2Y
September 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
🎉BREAKING: The High Seas Treaty has reached 60 ratifications — enough to enter into force!
This landmark agreement creates a pathway to help protect the high seas — waters beyond any one country’s authority that cover nearly half our planet. https://oceana.ly/3VqpI2Y
This landmark agreement creates a pathway to help protect the high seas — waters beyond any one country’s authority that cover nearly half our planet. https://oceana.ly/3VqpI2Y
Reposted by David of Belfast
Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.
Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot
Once, I believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Now, I know you can’t speak truth to power if power controls your words, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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September 20, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.
Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Please sign if you haven't already www.environmentalpillar.ie/hands-off-na...
Hands OFF Nature! - The Environmental Pillar
Take action to save Europe’s environmental laws Across the World, right-wing political forces are working to dismantle decades of environmental and social progress. Under the Trojan Horse of “competi...
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September 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Please sign if you haven't already www.environmentalpillar.ie/hands-off-na...
Reposted by David of Belfast
Just 1 day left to speak up for nature! Across Europe, our forests are thinning, our rivers are drying, and our wildlife is vanishing. Now the European Commission wants to weaken the laws that protect them. Tell them to keep their #HandsOffNature. Speak up now: environmentalpillar.ie/hands-off-na...
September 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Just 1 day left to speak up for nature! Across Europe, our forests are thinning, our rivers are drying, and our wildlife is vanishing. Now the European Commission wants to weaken the laws that protect them. Tell them to keep their #HandsOffNature. Speak up now: environmentalpillar.ie/hands-off-na...
How can individuals & groups be more resilient and effective in climate action? New book: The Psychology of Climate Action looks at this.
Touches on anger, moral considerations, activist burnout, perception of protests, and general theories of socio-ecological change.
E-book is free to download.
Touches on anger, moral considerations, activist burnout, perception of protests, and general theories of socio-ecological change.
E-book is free to download.
⚡Calling all environmental researchers and members of the climate movement - big news! ⚡
We’ve just released our new book, The Psychology of Collective Climate Action - and it’s Open Access!
You can download the book from Routledge or on our Wandelwerk page: www.wandel-werk.org/en/materialien
We’ve just released our new book, The Psychology of Collective Climate Action - and it’s Open Access!
You can download the book from Routledge or on our Wandelwerk page: www.wandel-werk.org/en/materialien
September 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM
How can individuals & groups be more resilient and effective in climate action? New book: The Psychology of Climate Action looks at this.
Touches on anger, moral considerations, activist burnout, perception of protests, and general theories of socio-ecological change.
E-book is free to download.
Touches on anger, moral considerations, activist burnout, perception of protests, and general theories of socio-ecological change.
E-book is free to download.
Georgeous. Some of the devil's finest work 😂
Discover some of the best plants for bees: Devil's bit scabious youtu.be/7FQ0LgljTos? An absolute beauty :)
Best plants for bees: Devil's bit scabious
YouTube video by Dave Goulson
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September 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Georgeous. Some of the devil's finest work 😂
Something that could be done in Irish uplands as well...
So what did our uplands look like? Was it upland wood pasture with scattered trees and flower rich meadows? Did farmers used to mix trees, grassland and hay meadows? Can we recreate this habitat e.g. in Yorkshire Dales? youtu.be/YiK0mKLUzTU?...
Upland wood pasture: a forgotten habitat
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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September 8, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Something that could be done in Irish uplands as well...
In Cavan last week on a great nature friendly farm. Lots of biodiversity. We discovered marsh fritillary caterpillars 🐛🦋. First time ever recorded on that site. 💚 Also painted ladies, red admirals and speckled woods.
September 7, 2025 at 7:47 AM
In Cavan last week on a great nature friendly farm. Lots of biodiversity. We discovered marsh fritillary caterpillars 🐛🦋. First time ever recorded on that site. 💚 Also painted ladies, red admirals and speckled woods.
Everyone should read John's book 👇
"The eyes of future generations are on this generation, silently urging us to act bravely and quickly on the #climate emergency".
An extract from THE LIE OF THE LAND is now published in the Irish Examiner.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
An extract from THE LIE OF THE LAND is now published in the Irish Examiner.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
John Gibbons: The lie of the land — adapt or die
Does Ireland need to appoint a Ministry for the Future or a Future Generations Commissioner asks journalist and author John Gibbons in his new book The Lie of the Land
www.irishexaminer.com
September 7, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Everyone should read John's book 👇