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MattVConnolly
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Journalist, writer, musician. Lake District, England. Arts-related career with a new focus on climate journalism and a developing special interest in marine permaculture and rewilding
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MattVConnolly @mattvconnolly.bsky.social · Apr 5
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📺 Watch it back: Rewilding in Ireland 🌱

Feat. Eoghan Daltun
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Mary Reynolds @wearetheark.bsky.social
Pádraic Fogarty
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#Rewilding
Rewilding in Ireland | Theory, Scale, Practice
YouTube video by Irish Wildlife Trust
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September 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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“Rewilding is learning about the native flora and fauna that evolved in your particular region and doing your best to create habitat in human spaces "
Rewild Your Yard: Help pollinators while reaping the health benefits of “un-gardening”
“Rewilding is learning about the native flora and fauna that evolved in your particular region and doing your best to create habitat in human spaces "
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May 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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50501movement.bsky.social 50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · Apr 21
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🚨 On May 1, 2025, in cities across the U.S., we will honor the legacy of the workers who gave everything for the eight-hour day—and we will carry their struggle into today’s fight for a country that serves the many, not the few.

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April 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Insect collapse is a mostly unseen calamity unfolding at terrifying speed all around us, threatening the core foundations of land-based ecosystems.
phys.org/news/2025-04...
Insects are disappearing due to agriculture—and many other drivers, research reveals
Insects are disappearing at an alarming rate worldwide, but why? Agricultural intensification tops the list of proposed reasons, but there are many other, interconnected drivers that have an impact, a...
phys.org
April 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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wildcard.land
Just come across this beautiful 7min39 film about curlew in North Wales and lovely people who care about them.

vimeo.com/1021518362?s...

#curlew
Stunned By Silence - dir Malka Holmes
A hauntingly beautiful, detailed and close up documentary short film, introducing the actions being taken to try and conserve Curlew for the future narrated by…
vimeo.com
April 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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April 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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‘Tree-mendous’ pun permitted just this once?…#rewilding

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Funding to help Cumbria's temperate rainforest in Wild Haweswater - BBC News
Thousands of trees will be planted to expand one of England's last remaining temperate rainforests.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Any more nuts out there?
Red Squirrel, Argaty Red Kites, Doune.
#scottishwildlife #UKWildlife
Red squirrel, Argaty Red Kites
November 15, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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Another Great Horned Owl, Rock River #birds #wildlife
November 15, 2024 at 11:39 AM
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On Wednesday, I found a window of drier weather that would allow me to at least do a tiny bit of birding, but the rain came back unexpectedly. Defeated, I was leaving the reserve and almost missed this cold, wet Barred Owl. #originalcontent #birds #photography 📷 (more in alt-text)
Barred Owl poised on a low branch with back toward the camera and face turned over the shoulder to look at the photographer. When I first stopped the car, the owl was looking away from me, but I waited until I was rewarded with this quick glance. The round head of the owl looks a bit wet and unkempt and features large black eyes and a yellow beak. If you zoom in, you can see raindrops and beads of water on the feathers. The bird is called a barred owl because of the streaks on its front, but we can only see the back in this photo which features rich brown feathers with white tips. The background is dismal with gray skies and bare branches. The owl might not have felt miserable, but s/he looked it.
November 15, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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Looks like a great place for a nap
November 16, 2024 at 2:13 AM
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I hadn't seen any barn owls since summer, so I was very happy to spot this cutie the other day.

#birds #owls 📷 🪶
A barn owl resting in a tree with yellow leaves.
November 15, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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Good news for once!

We’ve found a 300-year-old coral that’s so big it’s visible from space. It’s now considered the world’s largest. Best of all: it’s not yet harmed by climate change & global warming.

It’s being called a beacon of hope. Let it also be a call to action! #DoSomething 🧵
Scientists discover world’s largest coral—so big it can be seen from space
Exclusive photos reveal a sprawling, 300-year-old coral near Solomon Islands, recently discovered by the National Geographic Society’s Pristine Seas expedition team.
www.nationalgeographic.com
November 15, 2024 at 9:08 PM