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Richard S. Turner
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Evolutionary and behavioural ecologist | PhD from Australian National University | '24 and '25 field manager for @phenoweb.bsky.social | BTO bird ringer 🐥🐣 | Remote sensing | Long-term studies | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=l9Wiy-IAAAAJ&hl=en
🦫 Case study three features Nature and Nurture, a riparian woodland in Wiltshire, which has used the Countryside Stewardship grant to protect cricket bat willow from beaver damage whilst adapting to seasonal flooding.

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How Nature and Nurture is protecting its timber from Eurasian beaver damage
Read how Nature and Nurture, a riparian woodland in Wiltshire, has used the Countryside Stewardship grant to protect valuable cricket bat willow from Eurasian beaver damage whilst adapting to seasonal...
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September 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The second case study in our series is now live 🌿

Discover how @nationaltrust.org.uk has managed Holnicote Estate in West Somerset to control local deer and grey squirrel populations, and protect over 600 hectares of diverse woodland. 🌳
Holnicote Estate combines management strategies to control local deer and grey squirrel populations
Read how Holnicote Estate has combined different management strategies to optimise tree protection across 600 hectares of diverse woodland.
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September 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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July 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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July 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
If you're into podcasts, this is a fabulous chat between Blindboy and Cillian Murphy, where they discuss the novel and the film (and some of Claire Keegan's other short stories - which are also all brilliant)

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Cillian Murphy
The Blindboy Podcast · Episode
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March 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
'I who have never known men' and 'Small things like these' are both devastating, haunting, beautiful. They stick with you long after reading.

Cillian Murphy plays the role of Bill Furlong beautifully in the recent film adaptation of STLT, also. Well worth a watch.
March 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
No correspondence from the AE.
February 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I'm also curious to know how the boar was able to chase the dog down a path.

Surely, a responsible dog owner would have had their dog on a lead... which, incidentally, would have likely reduced the 'attack' in the first place.
February 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Along with the classic, "I dread to think what would happen if a child...". 🙃

I obviously must have missed the reports of maimed children throughout Eurasia due to boar. /s
February 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I can't get access to full text through my institution, but:
• does this compare natural cavities with nest boxes made from different materials? (Are there any that better mimic natural cavities?)
• are there differences in microclimate properties (for both) depending on height/aspect/tree species?
February 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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February 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM