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Ian Barrett @IanBarrettSW
Joined November 2011
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Wittenham Clumps to get major upgrade with new visitor hub

Earth Trust, the environmental charity that cares for Wittenham Clumps, has begun work on its long-planned Gateway to Nature project.

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Earth Trust@earth_trust
24 Apr 2025
Meet Tim, #WittenhamClumps is his special place in nature.🌱 As a child, he climbed its hills, and now, as a ranger, he's caring for this extraordinary landscape. Please donate today and help us protect this much cherished place: ow.ly/ku7i50VCUni 🙏
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Earth Trust@earth_trust
3 Dec 2024
🌳Can you help us connect more people to create thriving local green spaces? This week, donations to our appeal are matched in @BigGive #ChristmasChallenge - which means your gift can have double the impact! 🐝🐝 👉donate.biggive.org/campaign/… #GivingTuesday youtube.com/watch?v=mGi68cgv…

Nature for neighbourhoods – Big Give

Access to nature makes us healthier, happier, and kinder to our environment. That’s why we’ve been bringing people together to nurture the nature in their neighbourhoods for over 40 years. With your...

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Earth Trust@earth_trust
22 Oct 2024
📣We're thrilled to announce Ian Barrett as our new Chief Executive. Ian brings a wealth of experience in nature recovery, community empowerment & partnership working and we’re excited to work with him as we scale up our impact. 👉earthtrust.org.uk/earth-trus… 📷 JonCraig
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We need political parties to prioritise nature & reverse the decline of ecosystems (which underpin all life) #RestoreNatureNow #Election2024
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#itvdebate what are the parties doing to address the nature crisis? Nature underpins the whole of life on earth, we're losing species at record rates and risk ecosystem collapse - but the parties are hardly mentioning it
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Alastair Driver@AliDriverUK
2 May 2024
Another great rewilding site (perhaps unsurprisingly) attracting Nightingales. We CAN do this.
Andrew Waddison BEM@AWPRCO
2 May 2024
Nightingale at @WildKenHill !!! Build it and they will come.
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Avon Wildlife Trust@avonwt
18 Apr 2024
Today, we’re launching our Green Match Fund campaign to restore woodland homes for wildlife. 🌳 Donate online between 18 - 25 April and Big Give will double your gift! 👇 avonwildlifetrust.org.uk/woo… One donation, twice the progress towards a wilder future. 💚 Thank you!
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"Solving the housing crisis does not need to involve an ecologically unforgivable project of mass-scale housebuilding" - thought proking article theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
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"I don’t think the message has quite sunk in, that without a world brimming with nature, we ourselves are sunk." belfastlive.co.uk/news/north….

My faith in councils to protect nature is sorely depleted

When I was child, our countryside was brimming with life, birdsong and more... now it's a very different landscape

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This is why we need legislation to stop peat extraction for horticulture. #peatfree
Sally Nex@SallyNex
7 Feb 2024
I don't usually name & shame but this appals me. This is Auchencloss Moss, Midlothian - once a carbon-absorbing #peat bog, now being stripped for use in potting compost for gardeners. William Sinclair trades as Westland. Licence to extract runs till 2042. #notinmyname #gopeatfree
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Aggie Thompson@aggie_thompson
16 Jan 2024
Incredible bird survey at our #rewilding sites yesterday! Goshawk, woodcock & merlin all new records at #WilderLittleDuxmore & SE owl at #WilderNunwell. Great to see new species using the sites, nature is returning! Snaps of other species seen & an Exmoor pony of course!
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Restoring missing wildlife such as wlidebeest, wolves, beavers, bison, whales and marine fish to their former abundance is one if the most powerful and important things we can do to reverse dangerous climate change #wilding bbc.com/future/article/20231…

Wildebeest and wolves: The secret weapons against climate change

When scientists examined the effect just nine groups of animals have on the climate the results were startling. So what would happen if we did more to protect them?

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Avon Wildlife Trust@avonwt
2 Dec 2023
The My Wild City project in Bristol ends, but its legacy is just beginning! 🏡🦊🐝🌼 We look back and celebrate the great work of volunteers and communities from all over this wild city in our latest blog 👇 avonwildlifetrust.org.uk/blo… 💚 #MyWildCity
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Nice article @PeteMRCooper bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…

The man rescuing Britain's 'magical' glow worms

Glow worms are a rare sight in the UK but one young conservationist is trying to bring them back.

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Avon Wildlife Trust@avonwt
5 Oct 2023
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@IanBarrettSW, Chief Executive of Avon Wildlife Trust, talks from the #RestoreNatureNow rally last week. 📢 The State of Nature report highlighted the devastating decline in wildlife nationwide. Find out how you can help #DefendNature on the link below 👇 wildlifetrusts.org/defend-na…
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Avon Wildlife Trust@avonwt
28 Sep 2023
Outside the @defragovuk offices in Bristol today! 📢 Conservation charities and environmental groups from all over the country gathered outside Defra offices, asking the government to #RestoreNatureNow! @ChrisGPackham 📉 Find out how you can help! 👇 wildlifetrusts.org/defend-na…
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Ten years of StateOfNature reports show the UK's wildlife is in a perilous state and continuing to decline. It's time for action. #DefendNature #RestoreNatureNow bristol247.com/news-and-feat…

Environmental groups hold rally outside Defra office

The national day of action was organised by presenter and conservationist Chris Packham

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Campaigners have been very successful in making the narrative about climate change,” said @TonyJuniper “What is less obvious, but just as urgent, is the parallel crisis in terms of the decline of nature" osborneclarke.com/news/recov…
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