Tommy's Outdoors
@tommysoutdoors.com
A podcast about human-wildlife interactions and our relationship with nature. We talk about biodiversity, conservation, hunting and fishing, rewilding and more.
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What if the world's most powerful climate solution is being logged away while politicians and industry groups feed us misinformation? Why has the international science community remained largely silent about the destruction of temperate rainforests? 🌍
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I have to say that I'm largely disappointed by the updates to EU REACH plans for restrictions on lead in ammunition. Preventing the impact on defence is likely the area that requires most care and effort it is though, I feel, used as an excuse to defer restrictions that would affect hunting. 🌍
December 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I have to say that I'm largely disappointed by the updates to EU REACH plans for restrictions on lead in ammunition. Preventing the impact on defence is likely the area that requires most care and effort it is though, I feel, used as an excuse to defer restrictions that would affect hunting. 🌍
It seems to me that academia copes with AI worse than other *ahem* industries. 🧪
Stepped down as associate dean my ass. He was the corresponding author on a paper where 24 of 61 references were AI-fabrications. Why wasn't he fired from his job entirely?
A University of Hong Kong (HKU) professor has stepped down from his position as associate dean after a thesis he co-authored was found to contain non-existent references generated by artificial intelligence (AI). In full: buff.ly/mZUwStl
December 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
It seems to me that academia copes with AI worse than other *ahem* industries. 🧪
"They didn't want temperate rainforest to be designated as a climate solution and then off limits" 🌍
December 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"They didn't want temperate rainforest to be designated as a climate solution and then off limits" 🌍
What if the world's most powerful climate solution is being logged away while politicians and industry groups feed us misinformation? Why has the international science community remained largely silent about the destruction of temperate rainforests? 🌍
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December 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
What if the world's most powerful climate solution is being logged away while politicians and industry groups feed us misinformation? Why has the international science community remained largely silent about the destruction of temperate rainforests? 🌍
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This is very topical given two recent podcast episodes and my particular interest in wolf protection in the EU. 🌍🦤
Swedish courts have blocked the planned January wolf hunt that was supposed to further reduce the Swedish wolf population. The courts argue it might affect the conservation status negatively. 🦊
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Förvaltningsrätten i Luleå upphäver alla överklagade beslut om licensjakt efter varg 2026
Länsstyrelserna i Dalarna, Södermanland, Västmanland, Västra Götaland, och Örebro län har beslutat om licensjakt efter totalt 48 vargar med startdatum den 2 januari 2026. Besluten har överklagats av f...
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December 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This is very topical given two recent podcast episodes and my particular interest in wolf protection in the EU. 🌍🦤
An interesting blog post from a listener to my podcast draws on recent episodes with @hannalp.bsky.social and Helen Arusoo and discusses wolf coexistence in Sweden and what it takes to successfully coexist with wolves there.
Vi måste skjuta vargar
Du svarade inte på huvudfrågan. Skulle du fortsätta ströva fritt i de skogar som finns på Österlen även om en vargflock helt plötsligt skulle kunna dyka upp, ljudlöst utan förvarning, och attackera…
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December 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
An interesting blog post from a listener to my podcast draws on recent episodes with @hannalp.bsky.social and Helen Arusoo and discusses wolf coexistence in Sweden and what it takes to successfully coexist with wolves there.
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This is a really thought-provoking podcast for anyone interested in how modern conservation may need to evolve to be much more flexible and pragmatic.
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216: EU Wolves and the Conservation Success Conundrum with Hanna Pettersson
Can we find a middle ground between those who see the EU’s wolf downlisting as a catastrophe and those who celebrate it as good news? The debate around wolf conservation in the EU has become …
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December 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This is a really thought-provoking podcast for anyone interested in how modern conservation may need to evolve to be much more flexible and pragmatic.
tommysoutdoors.com/2025/12/09/2...
tommysoutdoors.com/2025/12/09/2...
In the latest episode, once again we're taking on the never-boring topic of lowering the protection status of wolves in Europe. This time with conservation social scientist @hannalp.bsky.social.
Listen to the full episode here: pod.fo/e/362998
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Listen to the full episode here: pod.fo/e/362998
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December 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
In the latest episode, once again we're taking on the never-boring topic of lowering the protection status of wolves in Europe. This time with conservation social scientist @hannalp.bsky.social.
Listen to the full episode here: pod.fo/e/362998
🌍🦤🧪🦊
Listen to the full episode here: pod.fo/e/362998
🌍🦤🧪🦊
Can we find a middle ground between those who see the EU's wolf downlisting as a catastrophe and those who celebrate it as good news? With @hannalp.bsky.social, we discuss the frustratingly polarised debate about wolf conservation in the EU. 🌍🦤🧪🦊
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December 9, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Can we find a middle ground between those who see the EU's wolf downlisting as a catastrophe and those who celebrate it as good news? With @hannalp.bsky.social, we discuss the frustratingly polarised debate about wolf conservation in the EU. 🌍🦤🧪🦊
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What's the best app for identifying plants?
December 4, 2025 at 8:17 AM
What's the best app for identifying plants?
As a warm-up to next week's episode, this week's replay series features my conversation with Helen Arusoo, the leader of Estonia's National Animal Working Group, about the Estonian wolf conservation and management (dirty word, no?) programme. 🌍🦤🦊
Can We Coexist with Large Carnivores? Estonia Shows How.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
As a warm-up to next week's episode, this week's replay series features my conversation with Helen Arusoo, the leader of Estonia's National Animal Working Group, about the Estonian wolf conservation and management (dirty word, no?) programme. 🌍🦤🦊
Why Your House Is Full of Stuff
You'll Never Use.
You'll Never Use.
November 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Why Your House Is Full of Stuff
You'll Never Use.
You'll Never Use.
We discuss how obscene levels of wealth concentration, declining living standards for ordinary people, and the manipulation of public debate by vested interests have made it nearly impossible to build the broad coalition needed to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss. 🌍🦤
Why are we failing on climate change and biodiversity despite fifty years of campaigning? Could social inequality be the root cause undermining all our conservation efforts?
In this episode, I talk with @tonyjuniper.bsky.social about his latest book 'Just Earth'. 🌍
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In this episode, I talk with @tonyjuniper.bsky.social about his latest book 'Just Earth'. 🌍
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November 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
We discuss how obscene levels of wealth concentration, declining living standards for ordinary people, and the manipulation of public debate by vested interests have made it nearly impossible to build the broad coalition needed to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss. 🌍🦤
Why are we failing on climate change and biodiversity despite fifty years of campaigning? Could social inequality be the root cause undermining all our conservation efforts?
In this episode, I talk with @tonyjuniper.bsky.social about his latest book 'Just Earth'. 🌍
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In this episode, I talk with @tonyjuniper.bsky.social about his latest book 'Just Earth'. 🌍
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November 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Why are we failing on climate change and biodiversity despite fifty years of campaigning? Could social inequality be the root cause undermining all our conservation efforts?
In this episode, I talk with @tonyjuniper.bsky.social about his latest book 'Just Earth'. 🌍
🎧➡️ pod.fo/e/35954e
In this episode, I talk with @tonyjuniper.bsky.social about his latest book 'Just Earth'. 🌍
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"The reversal of biodiversity loss is gonna come from farming community." ⬇️ 🌍
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November 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
"The reversal of biodiversity loss is gonna come from farming community." ⬇️ 🌍
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This week in the Replay series we're going back to the episode about Irish farming and talking about all the biodiversity goodness that comes with it, or that can come with it. 🌍🦤
What Regenerative Agriculture Really Means
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November 18, 2025 at 8:27 AM
This week in the Replay series we're going back to the episode about Irish farming and talking about all the biodiversity goodness that comes with it, or that can come with it. 🌍🦤
Short clip from the latest episode of the podcast "Bringing Back the Wild with Mike Arnold - A Hunter's View of Global Conservation" 🦤
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November 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Short clip from the latest episode of the podcast "Bringing Back the Wild with Mike Arnold - A Hunter's View of Global Conservation" 🦤
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Can hunting truly support conservation? Does fortress conservation offer a sustainable solution for protecting wildlife in the long term? And how do we balance the needs of impoverished communities with the preservation of fragile ecosystems? The latest episode is up! 🌍🦤
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November 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Can hunting truly support conservation? Does fortress conservation offer a sustainable solution for protecting wildlife in the long term? And how do we balance the needs of impoverished communities with the preservation of fragile ecosystems? The latest episode is up! 🌍🦤
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In today's replay series I'm bringing you back my conversation with @petercorkeron.bsky.social from which you will learn about the complex, surprising and somewhat worrying intersection of geopolitics and whale conservation. 🐳🌍🦑🦤
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November 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
In today's replay series I'm bringing you back my conversation with @petercorkeron.bsky.social from which you will learn about the complex, surprising and somewhat worrying intersection of geopolitics and whale conservation. 🐳🌍🦑🦤
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Leucistic Iberian Lynx found in Extremadura, most probably the only one in the world given the rarity and distribution of Iberian Lynx.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Leucistic Iberian Lynx found in Extremadura, most probably the only one in the world given the rarity and distribution of Iberian Lynx.
@markbirdingpinoso.bsky.social @deepfrieddna.bsky.social @fionamathews.bsky.social @mammalssuck.bsky.social @tommysoutdoors.com @markavery.bsky.social
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I'm not capitalising unless I have a good reason to. But just take a look at all this discussion under this and related posts. At this point we should start to worry about the carbon/energy footprint of all the compute used for discussing this online. 🤭
Capitalisation of vernacular names is a hill I'm also prepared to die on...
You can always send them to my blog here and my campaign analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com/2021/08/why-...
October 31, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I'm not capitalising unless I have a good reason to. But just take a look at all this discussion under this and related posts. At this point we should start to worry about the carbon/energy footprint of all the compute used for discussing this online. 🤭
What does it take to eradicate ferrets from an inhabited island? @davidgtosh.bsky.social shares the story of the LIFE Raft project on Rathlin Island - from wireless trap technology and ethical considerations to community relationships and why these projects cost so much. 🌍 🦤🧪🦊🪶
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October 28, 2025 at 7:38 AM
What does it take to eradicate ferrets from an inhabited island? @davidgtosh.bsky.social shares the story of the LIFE Raft project on Rathlin Island - from wireless trap technology and ethical considerations to community relationships and why these projects cost so much. 🌍 🦤🧪🦊🪶
🎧➡️ pod.fo/e/345989
🎧➡️ pod.fo/e/345989
I have finished @tonyjuniper.bsky.social's book "Just Earth". It is rather good, I must say. It makes the most compelling argument on why to address the nature and climate crisis we must also necessarily address social inequalities.
October 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I have finished @tonyjuniper.bsky.social's book "Just Earth". It is rather good, I must say. It makes the most compelling argument on why to address the nature and climate crisis we must also necessarily address social inequalities.
This week's podcast is delayed. Sorry for the inconvenience.
October 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This week's podcast is delayed. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Irish presidential election. Seems off topic from what I'm talking about here. Politics is unavoidable though if you talk about policy affecting what is dear to your heart. Both candidates are sorely disappointing, so as in most cases, it's going to be a matter of voting for the less shit candidate.
October 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Irish presidential election. Seems off topic from what I'm talking about here. Politics is unavoidable though if you talk about policy affecting what is dear to your heart. Both candidates are sorely disappointing, so as in most cases, it's going to be a matter of voting for the less shit candidate.