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Steve Carver
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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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Sir Jack Caramac @jackcaramac.bsky.social · 2d
Ken is 10 times the man Kruger is #bbcqt

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 3d
That is such a different take than the @moorlandassoc.bsky.social's "Scientists Warn: Ending Grouse Moor Management Could Accelerate Bird Declines ... Red grouse numbers may drop by up to 80% under climate change if management stops."

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Rachael Unsworth @leedstours.bsky.social · 4d
Digging around trying to clear space on computer I happened across this saved quotation from the deeply wise & inspiring @popovaprof.bsky.social

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 4d
A new study warns that deforestation across Ghana, Niger and Nigeria is intensifying West Africa’s water crisis, threatening the health and livelihoods of more than 122 million people.

For every 1,000 hectares of forest cleared in Niger and Nigeria, 9.25 hectares of surface water disappear.
Study finds deforestation fuels West Africa’s water crisis
A new study warns that deforestation across Ghana, Niger and Nigeria is intensifying West Africa’s water crisis, threatening the health and livelihoods of more than 122 million people. Drawing on 12…
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Jason Sawle @gis4schools.bsky.social · 4d
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

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 5d
Plantation forestry is an ecocidal abomination across the entire planet, not just Ireland.
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‘Green desert’: the farmers winning a battle with Brazil’s wood-pulp giant
Eucalyptus production is dominated by large multinationals that convert farmland and forest into monoculture plantations
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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 5d
Mine has gone up!

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 5d
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 · 5d
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 · 5d
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...
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 5d
#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
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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 · 6d
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 · 6d
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

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 7d
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 ...
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 8d
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’
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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 8d
Long known and appreciated from Gilbert White to Aldo Leopold.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 8d
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 · 9d
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 · 9d
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 · 9d
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 · 10d
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 · 10d
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 · 10d
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 · 10d
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
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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 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 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.

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 10d
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 · 10d
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 · 10d
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
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Rachael Unsworth @leedstours.bsky.social · 10d
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 · 10d
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 · 11d
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.

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