It sets a dangerous precedent on conservation 'value'. Elusive, shy species can be supplemented by more human-tolerant ones because there is commercial value in it. That's not a functioning ecosystem, it's a functioning accounts' system.

🔥We are in 📍Torres Vedras (Portugal) delivering the “Training in Technical Fire Management” in collaboration with #GreenFlame #FábioSilva, focused on understanding fire as a tool for prevention and suppression. 👉Aimed at equipping students with the necessary qualification to safely operate with fire in prevention and suppression activities, the participants are learning and practising a range of techniques to manage fire behaviour, intensity, and spread. Thank you #SapadoresFlorestaisTorresVedras 🙌

Well done, ⁦@waitrose⁩ Now how about taking a stance on farmed salmon - extremely damaging to the environment, awful record of animal welfare and definitely not a healthy food. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgl5…

I haven’t tweeted for a good while. I don’t have so much to say these days so here is a pic of my boys and my amazing old man.

If you want to have a look at a private landholding inside a national park with lots of wildlife on a tiny budget compared with public land and nature reserves you are all welcome to come and visit me here. And there are literally millions of acres in Scotland similar to me, privately owned, delivering for nature, and working with limited resources but working at scale with both private and public partners. It’s important to get the full story. That way we get it right going forward. So before everyone uses their biases to dis private landholdings, etc etc come and visit and get the fully story. Unless of course that spoils your tired trope narratives. Please don’t take my word for it though - visit and see for yourself. Then we can discuss.

Fuck this piece of shit.

Gift share of a splendid article by Owen Williams demolishing - via ecological first principles - the arguments of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 forest nutters looking for public dosh to make a quick £ (even though they already have plenty) from the rewilding & net zero lark. scribehound.com/countryside/…

Honestly this has boiled my p*ss. PPE Medpro goes into liquidation. owing the government £148 Mn. Michelle Mone & Doug Barrowman swan off into the sunset with the added bonus of having purchased a £10 Mn house in the USA with their ill gotten gains.Disgraceful #BBCBreakfast #GMB

Oh look, it rained. Areas of the country where water companies are currently dumped sh*t into rivers and on to beaches. Brown, currently dumping sewage. Red, has been dumping sewage within the last 24 hours.

RT @TimRobbins1: I am devastated by the death of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele. He was an inspired and brilliant director and a kind, goo…

NO ONE HAS A BIGGER TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME THAN THE PIG HIMSELF.

My little cocker has sired a few pups and they all look just like him regardless of the dams colours. We’ve owned, bred & worked spaniels for many years, but we’ve never had a character like Terry (the adult in this pic).

A good news story (I hope). If you live on the Island and haven’t travelled west in recent years you really should. Let’s hope it proves popular and the timetable actually makes weekend breaks a reality 👏

Swifts nested at eye-level under Cotswold stone tiles on our last house. Gangs of them used to scream round the place, it was exhilarating. I loved them.

Where would you rather be sent? Coventry Or Sandringham ?

Extremely excited to finally be able to announce that I’ve written the book for Sir David Attenborough’s next wildlife series on the BBC! It’s called KINGDOM 👑 The book is out everywhere now & the series will air November 9th on BBC One and IPlayer!

The latest report on Atlantic salmon in England and Wales has arrived, and it's a grim read for anyone who is concerned about the future of this fish. Our Director, Shaun Leonard, explores the implications of the 2024 data for both sea trout and salmon: wildtrout.org/wttblog/salmon…