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🇬🇧 693 scientists and 18 countries unite to sound the alarm! On March 6, Europe may make an ecological mistake: downgrading the grey wolf. A first in 50 years of the Bern Convention! This decisio...

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Job opportunity with NNP northumberlandnationalpark.o…
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New paper just published: Hawkins, S., Carver, S. & Convery, I. Rewilding’s social–ecological aims: Integrating coexistence into a rewilding continuum. Ambio (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-0… @SoGLeeds

Rewilding’s social–ecological aims: Integrating coexistence into a rewilding continuum

Ambio - This paper presents results from a grounded theory study of rewilding aims, addressing calls for broad scale studies of rewilding to contribute to the development of guidelines. The...

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Sustainable cycling scheme aims to coax Carlisle United fans onto two wheels via @CumbriaCrack businesscrack.co.uk/2024/11/…

Sustainable cycling scheme aims to coax Carlisle United fans onto two wheels – Business Crack

Carlisle United and the University of Cumbria are collaborating to see if the introduction of secure cycle parking and bike maintenance facilities would encourage more people to ride to Brunton Park...

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This @IUCN_CEM webinar tmw might be of interest to rewilding colleagues - you can sign up here: eur03.safelinks.protection.o…
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I'm watching "Pine martens have been introduced to try to boost numbers" itv.com/watch/news/pine-mart… via @ITVX @CumbriaUni @HardknottForest @DomSpracklen @cumbriawildlife @LifescapeProj @ForestryEngland @RMFrancksen

Pine martens have been introduced to try to boost numbers - Latest From ITV News

Watch the latest from ITV News - The small creatures have been released in the Lake District

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Thank you @cumbriawildlife @SteveTrotter1 @LifescapeProj @UniversityLeeds @DomSpracklen @RMFrancksen for all your support with this project
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6 Nov 2024
NEWS: Pine marten populations look set to increase due to a project led by #CumbriaUni and partners STORY: gloo.to/F5gp 📸 Mic Mayhew @cumbriawildlife @ForestryEngland @Graythwaite_ @lakedistrictnpa @NaturalEngland @RewildingEurope @LifescapeProj @UniversityLeeds
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University of Cumbria@CumbriaUni
6 Nov 2024
NEWS: Pine marten populations look set to increase due to a project led by #CumbriaUni and partners STORY: gloo.to/F5gp 📸 Mic Mayhew @cumbriawildlife @ForestryEngland @Graythwaite_ @lakedistrictnpa @NaturalEngland @RewildingEurope @LifescapeProj @UniversityLeeds
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I think they blocked you @LandEthics so thought you might enjoy this 😂
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Yet again no mention by @RSPB_Birders that the hen harrier population is at a 200-year high in England, thanks in large part to the efforts of grouse moor owners and keepers #henharrier
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Social Media for Learning in Higher Education@SocMedHE
22 Oct 2024
Delighted to announce our #SocMedHE24 keynote is Professor Amanda Taylor-Beswick @AMLTaylor66 blogs.shu.ac.uk/socmedhe/key…
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Which can be interpreted as they’re a threat to the 40 million or so game birds released in the UK each year, which do negatively impact wildlife. Lottery funds pine marten threat to wildlife – Fieldsports News, 16 Octo... youtu.be/XiSsG5JaqcM?si=olYs… via @YouTube

Lottery funds pine marten threat to wildlife – Fieldsports News, 16...

Here are the links:NGO blasts £1.8m pine marten scheme – https://n...

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Brilliant field visit to the Bavarian Forest National Park with @LifescapeProj, talking about wolf and lynx conservation and the impacts of spruce bark beetle…for once a national park that is genuinely IUCN WCPA Cat.2!
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What is suggested here is restoration - regen-agriculture, nothing wrong with either approach…BUT most rewilding definitions include a recognition of ‘self-willed land’. Continually calling any form of conservation activity rewilding dilutes meaning @LandEthics @markwilderness
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Nice BBC clip of our WTE project - well done @RMFrancksen @LifescapeProj Debs, with the usual brilliant mapping work by @LandEthics
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Interesting to see rewilding identified as one of the ‘big missing areas’ from the IUCN 20 year vision at #RCF24ENCA Bruges @IUCN_CEM @CemRtg
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Great to be in Bruges and representing @IUCN_CEM for the IUCN ECNA - inspirational start from our DG Dr Grethel Aguilar, IUCN needs to be bolder when making the case for nature. Regional Conservation Forum engage.iucn.org/group/europe… #RCF24ENCA @CemRtg @LifescapeProj @CumbriaUni
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Wonderful WTE translocation engagement day at @CumbriaUni @RMFrancksen Ambleside with @LifescapeProj @lakedistrictnpa Tim Duckmanton, @Natures_Voice and Northumberland Wildlife Trust - hopefully we’ll see these wonderful birds back in Cumbria
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…farmers outnumber conservation experts by two to one, nature rarely on agenda at board meetings, only one national park can account for the ownership of all the land it covers…as we’ve been saying for years! ⁦@markwilderness⁩ ⁦@LandEthics⁩ theguardian.com/environment/…

England’s national parks overseen by ‘bloated’, mostly white male boards

Exclusive: Campaigners call for overhaul as Guardian investigation shows nature rarely on agenda

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