🌳 Join @David_Oakes (actor and ambassador to @WoodlandTrust, @WildlifeTrusts & @DSWFWildlife) for conversations with people inspired by our natural world. 🌿

Joined December 2018
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***FIND FULL DETAILS ON BLUESKY*** (@treesacrowd.bsky.social) treesacrowd.fm/dr-sylvia-ear…
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Last year, I took a research trip to Cookham Dean - the place that inspired The Wind in the Willows, visiting the original Wild Wood - Bisham Wood - & walking the banks of the Thames. @David_Oakes joined me for a charming podcast chat @TreesACrowdpod podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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15 Jan 2025
THE HERDS are coming... We are proud to unveil our official partners for THE HERDS, our new work of public art and climate action on an unprecedented scale. We're bringing together the worlds of culture and climate across 20,000km from Congo Basin to the Arctic Circle.
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Great thread…
Fascinating trip to @KneppWilding today. Including to the facilities they’ve developed to sell their meat - which looked amazing.
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Taking a look back at Season 5: Guests driven by Roadkill, Trees, Raptor Persecution, Lynx Reintroduction, Eggs and Nests, Vultures, Landscape Recovery and Peat Bogs, Endangered British Mammals, Butterflies and Climate, Badgers and Disease, and Beetles! Any requests for S.6?!
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BRAND NEW EPISODE 🪲🪲🪲 Storytelling and the Power of Beetles 🪲🪲🪲 A walk through Kenneth Grahame's Wild Woods, and along Ratty and Moley's Towpath, with the Doyenne of Contemporary Children's Nature Fiction, @MGLnrd. 🪲🪲🪲podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas… @Buzz_dont_tweet
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10 Sep 2024
I had the absolute pleasure of walking beside the river Thames with @David_Oakes talking about beetles and birds and the power and importance of nature in stories for @TreesACrowdpod Your day will be infinitely more delightful if you join us. treesacrowd.fm/MGLeonard/
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Listen here: treesacrowd.fm/dr-catherine-… Help here: goldeneaglessouthofscotland.… …then you can see Golden Eagles up there!
A few years ago I interviewed the head of the brilliant (and hugely successful) South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project. Now, to secure their long term future, they need a little help from you. Click here to see how you can help: goldeneaglessouthofscotland.…
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The pioneering South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project has launched an appeal to help secure its long term future & put plans in place to reintroduce golden eagles to other areas of the UK where they are currently extinct. Please donate here: goldeneaglessouthofscotland.…
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It is such an exciting prospect for Cumbria and the UK. We obviously couldn’t cover it “on mic” at the time, but to get an inkling of what could happen on Skiddaw, listen to @RobStoneman here for some “ballpark landscape recovery banter”: treesacrowd.fm/rob-stoneman/
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I've been waiting months to say this, but: THE WILDLIFE TRUSTS ARE BUYING SKIDDAW! THE WILDLIFE TRUSTS ARE BUYING SKIDDAW! THE WILDLIFE TRUSTS ARE BUYING SKIDDAW! Please help @cumbriawildlife with this most brilliant endeavour! wildlifetrusts.org/news/cumb… @WildlifeTrusts
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Today I sent off my edition of the correspondence between William Golding and Faber (primarily his friend and editor, Charles Monteith). What a writer Golding was! And has there ever been a talent-spotting editor as successful as Monteith? Publication will be November 2025.
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Spending today prepping the release of next week's @TreesACrowdPod with @MGLnrd. Open to any Beetle puns that you may have lying around...!
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When 94% of bTB cases are spread from cow to cow, why do Badgers hog the limelight? Here @BadgerTrusts' Dr Hannah Trayford attempts to square the curve. For more nuance & more on how the cull has become a political hot potato, be sure to listen to this month’s episode in full.
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NEW EPISODE 🦡🦡🦡 Out in the Kentish Weald in search of Badgers (and the truth behind the ongoing cull) with two representatives from the @BadgerTrust. 🦡🦡🦡🦡 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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Legal battle coming soon spearheaded by @WildJustice_org & @BadgerTrust: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy84… If you’d like to hear more about BTb, the (small) role Badgers play in spreading it, and the resulting culls, then listen to @TreesACrowdpod tomorrow!
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Stripey new episode airing tomorrow…! @BadgerTrust
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🦋NEW EPISODE🦋 Ahead of @savebutterflies’ Big Butterfly Count, @David_Oakes meets with naturalist, nature writer and butterfly expert, @MatthewOates76. treesacrowd.fm/matthew-oates
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COMING SOON: Politics and Purple Emperors; 2 Big Counts are looming - the General Election & @savebutterflies’ Butterfly Count. We suggest participating in both. Oh! And the new podcast with @MatthewOates76, coming in 7 days!
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