Tony Juniper
@tonyjuniper.bsky.social
Nature recovery. Writer. Chair Natural England. Fellow CISL. Chair Cool Earth. Council Member Fauna & Flora. Former Friends of the Earth, Wildlife Trusts, WWF, BirdLife International. www.tonyjuniper.com
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Tony Juniper
@tonyjuniper.bsky.social
· Jan 6
What is the gravest ecological challenge? Global heating, mass extinction, pollution? My new book, ‘Just Earth’, published by Bloomsbury Books & which is out in March, suggests it’s actually social inequalities.
Delighted to see that the great Mark Cocker has chosen ‘Just Earth’ to include in the Spectator’s Books Of The Year round up. What a good place for that book to be highlighted.
November 11, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Delighted to see that the great Mark Cocker has chosen ‘Just Earth’ to include in the Spectator’s Books Of The Year round up. What a good place for that book to be highlighted.
Marvellous. They are in Logan’s Meadow nature reserve. I have found the odd half eaten big fish by the boathouses and thought it was probably signs of Otter. Excellent to get an actual sighting and picture. Really great 👍
Central Cambridge Otter!
My friend @w-mcewan.bsky.social just saw this Otter near the boathouses! (31 Oct '25)
Incredible!
@tonyjuniper.bsky.social @jonheath.bsky.social @craigbennett3.bsky.social
My friend @w-mcewan.bsky.social just saw this Otter near the boathouses! (31 Oct '25)
Incredible!
@tonyjuniper.bsky.social @jonheath.bsky.social @craigbennett3.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Marvellous. They are in Logan’s Meadow nature reserve. I have found the odd half eaten big fish by the boathouses and thought it was probably signs of Otter. Excellent to get an actual sighting and picture. Really great 👍
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The huge biodiversity gains from restoring farm #ponds. Major evidence coming in from studies at our Heydon restored pondscape, Norfolk, eastern England @tonyjuniper.bsky.social @fwageast.bsky.social @farmwildlifeuk.bsky.social @brecksfarmerswn.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social @epcn.bsky.social
How do you get a 120% increase in wetland plants in the farmed landscape & massively increase water beetle diversity too? The answer is restore farm ponds by scrub & sediment removal - key is to go in hard & make a big impact. See new paper: share.google/VVowsJzqHdPT...
October 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The huge biodiversity gains from restoring farm #ponds. Major evidence coming in from studies at our Heydon restored pondscape, Norfolk, eastern England @tonyjuniper.bsky.social @fwageast.bsky.social @farmwildlifeuk.bsky.social @brecksfarmerswn.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social @epcn.bsky.social
En route to #sheffield for an event with my book ‘Just Earth’ at the Off The Shelf literary festival. I will be in conversation with Prof Joanna Gavins & I believe there are some tickets left if anyone fancies coming. Begins at 18.00.
offtheshelf.org.uk/events/just-ea…
offtheshelf.org.uk/events/just-ea…
https://offtheshelf.org.uk/events/just-ea…
October 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM
En route to #sheffield for an event with my book ‘Just Earth’ at the Off The Shelf literary festival. I will be in conversation with Prof Joanna Gavins & I believe there are some tickets left if anyone fancies coming. Begins at 18.00.
offtheshelf.org.uk/events/just-ea…
offtheshelf.org.uk/events/just-ea…
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I’ve just finished reading the hardback version… HIGHLY recommend that everyone should read this. Thrivalism cannot come soon enough. If you care about people and the planet, this book will resonate and educate.
October 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I’ve just finished reading the hardback version… HIGHLY recommend that everyone should read this. Thrivalism cannot come soon enough. If you care about people and the planet, this book will resonate and educate.
If anyone would like a paperback copy of ‘Just Earth’, @Waterstones are offering pre-orders with 25% discount.
October 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
If anyone would like a paperback copy of ‘Just Earth’, @Waterstones are offering pre-orders with 25% discount.
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The extraordinary and hopeful JUST EARTH from leading environmentalist @tonyjuniper.bsky.social identifies the real problem at the heart of the climate and nature crises: inequality. Don't miss the paperback edition.
October 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The extraordinary and hopeful JUST EARTH from leading environmentalist @tonyjuniper.bsky.social identifies the real problem at the heart of the climate and nature crises: inequality. Don't miss the paperback edition.
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"Looking after nature is the biggest no-brainer for the economy the world has ever seen."
The words of @tonyjuniper.bsky.social
This legend of conservation is coming to Knepp for an author supper on Thursday 16 November. He'll be talking about his new book 'Just Earth'.
📽️ World Economic Forum
The words of @tonyjuniper.bsky.social
This legend of conservation is coming to Knepp for an author supper on Thursday 16 November. He'll be talking about his new book 'Just Earth'.
📽️ World Economic Forum
October 13, 2025 at 8:35 AM
"Looking after nature is the biggest no-brainer for the economy the world has ever seen."
The words of @tonyjuniper.bsky.social
This legend of conservation is coming to Knepp for an author supper on Thursday 16 November. He'll be talking about his new book 'Just Earth'.
📽️ World Economic Forum
The words of @tonyjuniper.bsky.social
This legend of conservation is coming to Knepp for an author supper on Thursday 16 November. He'll be talking about his new book 'Just Earth'.
📽️ World Economic Forum
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The new European Butterfly Red List is published today, with worrying findings. Over 1/4 (28%) of Europe’s 442 species are threatened with extinction or are close to being so. The situation is far worse for our 148 endemic species, 40% are now threatened or nearly so www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...
October 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The new European Butterfly Red List is published today, with worrying findings. Over 1/4 (28%) of Europe’s 442 species are threatened with extinction or are close to being so. The situation is far worse for our 148 endemic species, 40% are now threatened or nearly so www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...
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Today is #WorldMigratoryBirdDay !🌏🐦
Celebrate the wonder of bird migration by birdwatching in your local area – every bird counts!🙌
You can contribute to conservation science and raise vital funds!🔎
Want to get involved? There’s still time!
Find out more👉 www.birdlife.org/getcounting/ #WMBD2025
Celebrate the wonder of bird migration by birdwatching in your local area – every bird counts!🙌
You can contribute to conservation science and raise vital funds!🔎
Want to get involved? There’s still time!
Find out more👉 www.birdlife.org/getcounting/ #WMBD2025
October 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Today is #WorldMigratoryBirdDay !🌏🐦
Celebrate the wonder of bird migration by birdwatching in your local area – every bird counts!🙌
You can contribute to conservation science and raise vital funds!🔎
Want to get involved? There’s still time!
Find out more👉 www.birdlife.org/getcounting/ #WMBD2025
Celebrate the wonder of bird migration by birdwatching in your local area – every bird counts!🙌
You can contribute to conservation science and raise vital funds!🔎
Want to get involved? There’s still time!
Find out more👉 www.birdlife.org/getcounting/ #WMBD2025
The release of this new film in early 2026 should create quite an impact, in setting out the seriousness of the ecological challenges now upon us, while inspiring understanding as to the positive choices we can make in meeting them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
King Charles hopes Amazon Prime nature documentary will 'inspire' viewers
The King to appear in Amazon documentary encouraging people to work with rather than against nature.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The release of this new film in early 2026 should create quite an impact, in setting out the seriousness of the ecological challenges now upon us, while inspiring understanding as to the positive choices we can make in meeting them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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For the first time ever, London has met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide.
When I became Mayor, we were told it would take 193 years. We did it 184 years earlier than expected.
Cleaner air means a healthier city and big savings for the NHS.
When I became Mayor, we were told it would take 193 years. We did it 184 years earlier than expected.
Cleaner air means a healthier city and big savings for the NHS.
October 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
For the first time ever, London has met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide.
When I became Mayor, we were told it would take 193 years. We did it 184 years earlier than expected.
Cleaner air means a healthier city and big savings for the NHS.
When I became Mayor, we were told it would take 193 years. We did it 184 years earlier than expected.
Cleaner air means a healthier city and big savings for the NHS.
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It’s a fact. Data from three decades of political violence reveals that right-wing terror attacks outnumber attacks from the left.
And it’s not even close!
And it’s not even close!
September 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
It’s a fact. Data from three decades of political violence reveals that right-wing terror attacks outnumber attacks from the left.
And it’s not even close!
And it’s not even close!
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In case you missed it: lots of amazing and heartening pond restoration going on. Research is likely to confirm that seeds "lost" in the bottom of filled-in ponds can remain viable for 100s of years so ponds and their aquatic plants leap back to life. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It’s resurrection’: 1,000-year-old seeds could grow ancient plants in England’s ice-age ghost ponds
An expert team are resurrecting ice age ponds and finding rare species returning from a ‘perfect time capsule’
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
In case you missed it: lots of amazing and heartening pond restoration going on. Research is likely to confirm that seeds "lost" in the bottom of filled-in ponds can remain viable for 100s of years so ponds and their aquatic plants leap back to life. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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In the past decade alone, the richest 1% have gained $33.9 trillion.
That’s enough to end global poverty - 22 times over.
Read the new Oxfam report: oi-files-d8-prod.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/...
That’s enough to end global poverty - 22 times over.
Read the new Oxfam report: oi-files-d8-prod.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/...
June 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
In the past decade alone, the richest 1% have gained $33.9 trillion.
That’s enough to end global poverty - 22 times over.
Read the new Oxfam report: oi-files-d8-prod.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/...
That’s enough to end global poverty - 22 times over.
Read the new Oxfam report: oi-files-d8-prod.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/...
Wonderful to be at the Wild Summit today. A real sense of common cause across a vast range of organisations & people. I said that Nature can be recovered, if we bring people & diverse sectors together in partnerships, integrate policy & foster a Nature positive culture, & it’s already starting.
September 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Wonderful to be at the Wild Summit today. A real sense of common cause across a vast range of organisations & people. I said that Nature can be recovered, if we bring people & diverse sectors together in partnerships, integrate policy & foster a Nature positive culture, & it’s already starting.
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Pleased to share that my review of @tonyjuniper.bsky.social's Just Earth has been published in @britishwildlife.bsky.social's recent print edition. You can find it online here: bit.ly/4p7JU7c
Just Earth - British Wildlife
Just Earth comes at a particularly unjust and unearthly time. Mounting inequalities and crystallising environmental crises characterise the present day, and this forms the basis of Tony Juniper’s two-...
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September 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Pleased to share that my review of @tonyjuniper.bsky.social's Just Earth has been published in @britishwildlife.bsky.social's recent print edition. You can find it online here: bit.ly/4p7JU7c
So good to see Sir Partha Dasgupta & to chat about his excellent 2021 report for HM Treasury on the economic value of Nature. Striking to hear from this world-leading economist about the limitations of conventional economics & the concept of ‘growth’ as we degrade Earth’s systems
September 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
So good to see Sir Partha Dasgupta & to chat about his excellent 2021 report for HM Treasury on the economic value of Nature. Striking to hear from this world-leading economist about the limitations of conventional economics & the concept of ‘growth’ as we degrade Earth’s systems
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A pond restored in 2015. Stunning structural complexity & very high biodiversity in its 3 planty zones. Right in the middle of an arable field but no drainage in & a good buffer. Farming & conservation working together. This is what we MUST DO! @wildernorfolk.bsky.social @tonyjuniper.bsky.social
September 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
A pond restored in 2015. Stunning structural complexity & very high biodiversity in its 3 planty zones. Right in the middle of an arable field but no drainage in & a good buffer. Farming & conservation working together. This is what we MUST DO! @wildernorfolk.bsky.social @tonyjuniper.bsky.social
One more step for Nature recovery in England marked with an extension to the Ingleborough National Nature Reserve in Yorkshire. This beautiful area hosts a wealth of scarce wildlife. The Natural England team is very proud to work with such wonderful partners in making this happen.
September 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
One more step for Nature recovery in England marked with an extension to the Ingleborough National Nature Reserve in Yorkshire. This beautiful area hosts a wealth of scarce wildlife. The Natural England team is very proud to work with such wonderful partners in making this happen.
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Sunday book review: Just Earth by @tonyjuniper.bsky.social
Publisher: @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Review: markavery.info/2025/08/31/s...
'A riveting read and a convincing analysis of the problem'
#naturewriting #sustainability #wildlife #biodiversity #climate
Publisher: @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Review: markavery.info/2025/08/31/s...
'A riveting read and a convincing analysis of the problem'
#naturewriting #sustainability #wildlife #biodiversity #climate
August 31, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Sunday book review: Just Earth by @tonyjuniper.bsky.social
Publisher: @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Review: markavery.info/2025/08/31/s...
'A riveting read and a convincing analysis of the problem'
#naturewriting #sustainability #wildlife #biodiversity #climate
Publisher: @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Review: markavery.info/2025/08/31/s...
'A riveting read and a convincing analysis of the problem'
#naturewriting #sustainability #wildlife #biodiversity #climate
Thank you Mark for reading it, & for writing up a view on it. I’m delighted you liked it.
Sunday book review: Just Earth by @tonyjuniper.bsky.social
Publisher: @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Review: markavery.info/2025/08/31/s...
'A riveting read and a convincing analysis of the problem'
#naturewriting #sustainability #wildlife #biodiversity #climate
Publisher: @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Review: markavery.info/2025/08/31/s...
'A riveting read and a convincing analysis of the problem'
#naturewriting #sustainability #wildlife #biodiversity #climate
August 31, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Thank you Mark for reading it, & for writing up a view on it. I’m delighted you liked it.
Very pleased to see a review of ‘Just Earth’ from Mark Avery.
Mark has been involved with all these tricky ecological subjects for about as long as I have, so good to have his thoughts on this book (which was quite hard to write, although hopefully not hard to read)
markavery.info/2025/08/31/s...
Mark has been involved with all these tricky ecological subjects for about as long as I have, so good to have his thoughts on this book (which was quite hard to write, although hopefully not hard to read)
markavery.info/2025/08/31/s...
Sunday book review – Just Earth by Tony Juniper – Mark Avery
markavery.info
August 31, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Very pleased to see a review of ‘Just Earth’ from Mark Avery.
Mark has been involved with all these tricky ecological subjects for about as long as I have, so good to have his thoughts on this book (which was quite hard to write, although hopefully not hard to read)
markavery.info/2025/08/31/s...
Mark has been involved with all these tricky ecological subjects for about as long as I have, so good to have his thoughts on this book (which was quite hard to write, although hopefully not hard to read)
markavery.info/2025/08/31/s...
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The snake oil salesman got his way once - the result was a disaster. Don’t let him do it again
August 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The snake oil salesman got his way once - the result was a disaster. Don’t let him do it again