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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Environmental science 58%

Geography 16%

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Jason Sawle @gis4schools.bsky.social · 6h

Still my favourite "What is GIS" video explainer. 60 seconds long, great animation and interesting narrative. Perfect as a class starter or refresher #geographyteacher #GIS

Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 22h

Mine has gone up!

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 22h

On an expedition, the E/V Nautilus, a U.S government-funded vessel, mapped more than 14,000 square kilometers (5,400 square miles) of the Cook Islands’ seafloor and documented deep-sea biodiversity.

Environmental activists protested the expedition, arguing it would help accelerate deep-sea mining.

Expedition charts Cook Islands seafloor, amid scrutiny over mining motives

Thousands of meters below the ocean’s surface, a camera attached to a remotely operated vehicle captured a ghostly white creature gliding above a plain of polymetallic nodules — mineral-rich rocks…

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 23h

Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.

We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.

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Thomas Hale @thomasnhale.bsky.social · 1d

Much more detail in the report: bsg.ox.ac.uk/news/climate...

And huge thanks for all the collaborators and supporters who made it possible, especially lead authors
@emmalecavalier.bsky.social and Bhavya Gupta, and all the hundreds of lawyers from the law firm network who did the heavy lifting

Climate policy strengthens globally, despite unprecedented contestation in the US and Europe

As countries meet at COP30 in the Amazon, a new survey of climate-related laws and regulations finds new and strengthened climate policies across the world, especially in Asia and emerging markets. Ov...

bsg.ox.ac.uk

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 1d

#Cop30: what are the main issues and why do they matter?

- Cop returns to its Brazilian roots and attempts to map a path to crucial emissions cuts that navigates financial, scientific and ethical aspects of the #climatecrisis

Story @fionaharvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Cop30: what are the main issues and why do they matter?

Cop returns to its Brazilian roots and attempts to map a path to crucial emissions cuts that navigates financial, scientific and ethical aspects of the climate crisis

www.theguardian.com

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Trees for Life @treesforlife.bsky.social · 1d

Beavers are nature’s #ecosystem engineers - habitat creators, #biodiversity boosters, and natural flood defenders.

We are fundraising £25,000 to bring back Scotland’s Missing Species - the architects of the wild. Help us bring back the beaver 👉 treesforlife.org.uk/missing-spec...

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Lesley Riddoch @lesleyriddoch.bsky.social · 2d

Centuries of overgrazing & muirburn for grouse moors mean Highland Scotland looks treeless & desolate. But it doesn't have to be this way. New film Scotland's Missing Forests went online y'day. Chuffed to see almost 10k views. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuTV... @chrisgpackham.bsky.social

Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 3d

All you need to know to n one handy document… iucn.org/press-releas...

IUCN Commission for Environmental Management launches new guidance on rewilding

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 9 October 2025 (IUCN) – New guidelines on rewilding practice have been launched at the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025. Evolving over many years, the guidelines ...

iucn.org

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 3d

Ed Miliband is entirely right about this. There are legitimate critiques of specific climate policies, but much of the criticism is either scientifically illiterate denialism or ‘it’s just too hard’ defeatism - and often it’s both. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Giving up would be a betrayal’: Miliband says 1.5C target still alive before Cop30

Exclusive: Environment secretary says global tipping points are possible as he rejects far-right climate ‘defeatism’

www.theguardian.com

Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 4d

Long known and appreciated from Gilbert White to Aldo Leopold.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 4d

We're told one of these land uses is 'productive', while the other is not.

But in terms of photosynthetic levels, as well as the production of clean air, water, no flooding, a stable climate, etc, etc, the natural ecosystem wins hands down.

As for biodiversity, let's not even go there.

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 4d

We updated our chart of Wilderness legislation pending in Congress.

The majority of legislation would weaken protections for Wilderness and its wildlife.

Please take a look and then TAKE ACTION to keep Wilderness wild!

>>> wildernesswatch.org/congress/

📸 Bob Wick/BLM

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 4d

Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓

itiner-e.org

We might have to have a lie-down.

A map of part of Britiain and northern europe showing loads and loads of roman roads, picked out in red.

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University of Leeds @universityofleeds.bsky.social · 5d

With 2025 declared the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation by the United Nations, this episode aims to help people understand these frozen worlds and how, by acting fast, we can secure a future where glaciers —and the billions who depend on them —endure.

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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 5d

Scotland’s land should benefit the people of Scotland.

The Scottish Parliament has just overwhelmingly passed our historic Land Reform Bill - putting more power in the hands of the people, not large landowners.

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 6d

The right-wing press is predictably freaking out that the UK govt is going to - wait for it - improve teaching in schools on climate change and media literacy.

Ignore their frothing and read what the curriculum review by Prof Becky Francis actually says...

www.gov.uk/government/p...

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 6d

EU member states finally agree new climate targets ahead of COP30. Tl;dr not as ambitious as they need to be and allows for a sizeable reliance on carbon credits, but also not as bad as they might have been given fierce opposition from some states. www.businessgreen.com/news/4521374...

COP30: EU agrees 90 per cent emissions cut by 2040 ahead of Belém Summit

Climate ministers agree compromise climate deal, featuring review clause and potential for a larger contribution from carbon credits

www.businessgreen.com

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Jason Sawle @gis4schools.bsky.social · 6d

It has been great fun working on this project with a great team and presenting it at the #IUCN World Conservation Congress in the UAE last month.
#Esri is making a $10 million in-kind donation to enable the development of a new Nature-based Education geoportal with #IUCN
www.esri.com/about/newsro...

Jason Sawle with a microphone and standing in front of a large screen presenting the new Nature-based Education geoportal at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in the UAE in October.

Jason Sawle with a microphone and standing next to a large TV screen presenting the new Nature-based Education geoportal in the Education Pavilion at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in the UAE in October.

Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 6d

Rob, are large contiguous areas of heather dominated moorland themselves creating a risk? It is well known that continuous cover of any kind without a break is susceptible to disease outbreaks and infestations, while varied mosaics are more resilient, yet there is no mention of this in your blog.

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 6d

New GB Red List for vascular plants from @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social is comprehensive revision of 2005 list.

Plants are good indicators of the pressures on all our wildlife - things are not getting better.

More details: markavery.info/2025/11/05/b...

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 6d

New set of forest towns to be built between Oxford and Cambridge
www.theguardian.com/environment/... Well...it's ironic that when Natural England tried to protect the best wildlife areas of an Actual Forest (Bernwood) between Oxford and Cambridge, the Govt intervened and stopped them.

New set of forest towns to be built between Oxford and Cambridge

Communities in the middle of new national forest to show how housebuilding can be delivered alongside nature

www.theguardian.com

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Rachael Unsworth @leedstours.bsky.social · 6d

After a slog since late June to edit* this book by my local historian friend Steve Burt, the files were sent to the printer yesterday. 🎆
Due out before Christmas.

Includes a wealth of historic images - many never published before.

*Included writing a chapter & supplying >100 contemporary pics.

Mock-up of book 'The illustrated History of Chapel Allerton' by Steven Burt, editor Rachael Unsworth. Features excerpts on front and back from ‘Map of ten miles around Leeds’. Measured by Joshua Thorp, surveyed and corrected by Martin & Fox, Leeds, 1 January 1849 (Leeds Museums and Galleries; Bridgeman Images)
Due out Christmas 2025.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 6d

Bird flu is being painted as a problem wild birds are inflicting on the poultry industry, but it's precisely the reverse.

Where do they think it developed in the first place, if not in the disease incubators that are mass battery farms?
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Bird flu outbreak at commercial turkey flock in Carlow

Restriction zones have been put in place around a commercial turkey farm in Co Carlow, after an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu was detected there.

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Scottish Wild Beaver Group @scotsbeavers.bsky.social · 6d

An investigation by journalists at The Ferret found that local MSP and Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes, the National Farmers’ Union Scotland (NFUS) and landowners had “privately piled pressure” on NatureScot to derail the application.

www.thenational.scot/comment/2558...

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 6d

Catastrophic nature loss is at least as serious a problem as climate breakdown, but only gets a fraction of the (woefully inadequate) attention.

THE most critical tasks of our time are:
• Protect what remains of wild ecosystems
• Mass rewilding where damaged or lost
www.earth.com/news/africas...

Africa's natural wildlife 'power' has nearly collapsed

Scientists warn that losing Africa’s large animals is draining ecosystem energy and reshaping the continent’s biodiversity.

www.earth.com

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Andy Wightman @andywightman.scot · 7d

I have published a new briefing for MSPs for the Stage 3 debate on the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill tomorrow (wed 5 Nov). You can download a copy here andywightman.scot/2025/11/land...

Land Reform (Scotland) Bill – MSP Briefing - Land Matters

I have sent a final briefing on the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill to MSPs this morning. After a delay last week, the final session on Stage 3 amendments is taking place today (4 Nov) and the debate on w...

andywightman.scot

Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 7d

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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 7d

RSPB Scotland Director 'cautiously hopeful' that proposed amendment will provide a meaningful deterrent to stop the illegal killing of birds of prey on Scotland's grouse moors.

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/04/s...

Statement from RSPB Scotland Director on proposed amendment to close grouse moor licence loophole

Following the excellent news yesterday that the Scottish Agriculture Minister Jim Fairlie MSP has committed to closing the loophole on grouse moor licences (here), RSPB Scotland Director Anne McCal…

raptorpersecutionuk.org

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Wildlife and Countryside Link @wclnews.bsky.social · 7d

📢 40+ NGOs have written to the PM urging him to uphold the Aarhus Convention – the cornerstone of environmental justice

The Convention protects your right to:
✅ Access environmental information
✅ Have a say in decisions that affect nature
✅ Seek environmental justice affordably

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