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Steve Carver
@landethics.bsky.social
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Wildernista. Rewilding. Geographer. GIS. Old motorbikes. Professor of Rewilding and Wilderness Science, School of Geography @universityofleeds.bsky.social Co-Chair or IUCM CEM Rewilding Thematic Group.

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 1d
Our "Guidelines for Rewilding" published with IUCN CEM are now live! portals.iucn.org/library/node...
Guidelines for rewilding | IUCN Library System
portals.iucn.org
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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 1d
We’re running live now!
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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 1d
First day at IUCN World Conservation Congress. Launching our Guidelines for Rewilding at 1630!
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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 2d
Our Annual Reviews paper "Rewilding: Ten Years of Evolution and Development" is now available Open Access. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Rewilding: Ten Years of Evolution and Development
Rewilding has matured into a mainstream approach in nature conservation. More than 450 academic papers on rewilding have been published since the term first appeared in print in the early 1990s. Rewil...
www.annualreviews.org
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 2d
Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’, say environmentalists

Pleased to have signed @campaign4parks.bsky.social's letter urging Ministers to drop plans to remove the Protected Landscapes Duty on public bodies 1/

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups
Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law
www.theguardian.com
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Alex Raeder @alexraeder.bsky.social · 3d
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Pine martens released on Exmoor in 'positive sign for nature'
They are
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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 4d
Also in Interia Zielona, Poland.
zielona.interia.pl/wiadomosci/s...
"Europe is losing 600 green pitches a day. Poland among the infamous leaders"
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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 4d
I've emailed him. Enjoy your trip.
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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 4d
He was a good cricketer
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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 5d
@andreasheinem.bsky.social Hi Andreas... I've just been reading the Heather Trust "Heather Futures" report. I have questions.
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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 7d
Going to #IUCNcongress next week? We'll be there presenting our new "Guidelines for Rewilding" from IUCN CEM. See us on 9th October 1600-1730 on Channel 4 Virtual Room. All welcome.
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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 7d
And the European Green to Grey project is a vivid telling of this story greentogrey.eu
Green to Grey – How Europe is squandering the little nature it has left
Green to Grey is a pioneering collaboration between journalists and scientists counting every green space lost in Europe between January 2018 and December 2023.
greentogrey.eu
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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 7d
In case you missed this, natural areas equivalent in size to Cyprus have been lost across Europe in just 5 years (2018-2023). www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development
Exclusive: 1,680 football pitches of protected natural land in England, Wales and Northern Ireland lost in five years
www.theguardian.com
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Rewilding Britain @rewildingbritain.org.uk · 7d
Big news for beavers in Wales 🦫

We’re thrilled the Welsh government has legally recognised beavers as a native species requiring protection. This is a huge step forward in ensuring beavers — and the incredible ecosystem services they provide — are re-established in Wales.

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Screenshot of a BBC online article titled: "Beavers set to become a protected species in Wales", which features a photo of a beaver surrounded by twigs. It's overlayed on an aerial image of a Welsh rewilding site featuring ponds, greenery and mist. Background image credit: Alex Hyde.
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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 7d
He's not on here, but I did forward the article to him on facebook.
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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 7d
Their original vision of becoming the world's first conservation-based unicorn company seems to have fallen by the wayside. But, in my opinion if you're into "rewilding" to make money, then you're into it for all the wrong reasons.
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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 7d
I am of course referring to Tom Opre's "The Last Keeper"
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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 7d
their!! 🙄
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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 8d
Interesting how some folk making films about Scotland have used Kinrara as there reference for rewilding.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 8d
Good to see this example of totally phoney 'rewilding' ignominiously end.

Going by all I've heard, it was a farce, and did nothing but bring the word rewilding into disrepute.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
BrewDog sells Scottish ‘rewilding’ estate it bought only five years ago
Latest disposal by ‘punk’ beer company follows £37m loss and closure of 10 pubs
www.theguardian.com
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 8d
Our group of rewilders and river runners from the U.S., Mexico, and Argentina traveled away from the international border and into the #wild ahead.
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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 8d
It's a good point, but wildness is a function of ecosystem integrity (lack of, or rather level of human modification) and absence of human features such as settlement, agriculture, transportation and other infrastructure. I agree is a somewhat fuzzy (if otherwise important) concept.

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 8d
Also in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...
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Ordo Fraterna Fibonacci @ordofibonacci.bsky.social · 8d
Extinct megafauna dominated human subsistence in southern South America before 11,600 years ago
Science Advances
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Extinct megafauna dominated human subsistence in southern South America before 11,600 years ago
The high position of megafauna among the hunting prey of humans in South America reinforces their central role in extinctions.
www.science.org
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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 9d
Had the honour of meeting her back in 2009.
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 9d
Urge Congress to pass the Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection and Pollution Prevention Act to defend clean water and Wilderness!

>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/no-mining-in...

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Will mining destroy America’s most-visited wilderness?
The Trump administration is moving rapidly to approve a mine next to the Boundary Waters that many fear will pollute the pristine wilderness area.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Jonathan Watts @jonathan-watts.bsky.social · 9d
“You remind me of my favourite chimp, David Greybeard.”

I will never cherish a compliment more than this one from Jane Goodall.

RIP to an extraordinary human being and an inspiring campaigner for nature.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Jane Goodall: 'Change is happening. There are many ways to start moving in the right way'
The primatologist and ecological activist on why population isn’t the only cause of climate change, and why she’s encouraging optimism
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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 9d
Outrageous and unacceptable. La Rioja, Spain now permits hunters to take wolf heads and pelts as trophies. This small Iberian wolf population faces serious danger, and years of protection are at risk. #stoptrophyhunting #protectwolves

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Wolf hunters in Spain allowed to keep heads as trophies
La Rioja has become the first region to permit souvenirs from killing the animals, to the disgust of conservationists
www.thetimes.com
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Simon Hedges @simonhedges.bsky.social · 9d
RIP Jane Goodall

Full obituary in NYT, gift article

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 9d
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” ― Jane Goodall
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