Ex-weatherman, mountain leader and aspiring author. Put the planet first and the rest will follow.
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20 Mar 2024
I'm an unapologetic advocate of reintroducing wolves to the Highlands but acutely aware how culturally difficult that will be and how much would have to change, land management wise, for co-existence to work.
But it's nice to dream, eh? So I did just that inkcapjournal.co.uk/wolf-wat…
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2 Sep 2025
This map shows which year had the warmest summer on record, for mean temperature, area by area.
Note that for many areas, it was summer 2025.
1976 is no longer the warmest summer on record for any area.
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2 Sep 2025
All snow melted in Scotland by August 6th this year, the earliest on record by over two weeks. This graphic helps to explain the reason why.
Full melting used to be exceptional up until the early 2000s. Now survivals are becoming the exception, a 180° turn in almost no time.
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17 Aug 2025
My annual hunt for autumn has borne fruit early this year, which is remarkable given the amount of anomalous warmth kicking around in 2025.
Here she is, in all her ephemeral glory, a small pool of sub-528DAM air nosing across the west of Greenland. Winter is coming.
2 Sep 2024
Not quite as early as last year but the 528DAM line is back !!
Out west again, over Baffin Island, but the boreal autumn will be showing its hand closer to home in a week's time, with north winds bringing Svalbard its first snowfall of the season.
Good news for us winter fans😌
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25 Feb 2025
Listen to the Finnish president—this is what a real leader sounds like, unlike the nonsense Trump says.
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12 Feb 2025
Absolutely, aye. The Pictish stone carvers had only ever seen wild boar on TV.
11 Feb 2025
Wild boar or feral pigs are considered to be a non-native, invasive species in Scotland. Report sightings online at irecord.org.uk using ‘wild boar’ or by emailing wildlifeops@nature.scot
ALT African Swine Fever - wild boar are adept at breaching many standard fencing designs. Fences should be checked regularly to ensure they are kept secure and in good repair.
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21 Nov 2024
Absolutely sensational on the Ouse Washes at dusk today!! Ducks, Geese, Gulls, Waders, Swans…and then the Cranes came. I think 87, arriving together, flying straight towards me calling and then circling. One of the best things I’ve seen! 🤩 @CambsBirdClub
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22 Nov 2024
I’ve just found the solution to Britain’s grey squirrel problem. Stand aside pine marten’s !
21 Nov 2024
This is 'trail camera gold’. We love trail camera gold and we think you do too! Donations are one of the main reasons we can capture and share trail camera gold with everyone for free!
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14 Nov 2024
The amazing Strawberry Hill farm has been saved after @wildlifebcn raised £1.5 million. Thanks so much to everyone who read my story, spread the word and donated. Visit this beautiful place and be heartened that we together can do great things.
theguardian.com/environment/…
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12 Nov 2024
In Baku today it is as if there are five @DavidLammy clones. He is everywhere at COP & making a huge & hugely positive impression.
I can’t exaggerate how great it is to have such a senior figure drag the focus away from the technocratic one-dimensional focus on carbon counting towards championing the actual natural world we all depend on and without which we haven’t a hope of stabilising the climate.
It is wonderful to see & so good to have the UK back & leading on this, the most important cause of all 👏🌎👏
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10 Nov 2024
It’s winter. The buzzing has stopped - mostly.
So what’s happened to all the #bees?
You’ve been asking…so a quick thread to broadly account for our little #friends at this time of year.
Please #retweet and #share.
You know the drill.
The more informed the better for bees. 1/13
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9 Nov 2024
⬆️ @UKPowerNetworks, please can we have installed some flight deflectors on the stretch of line at TL3818180148 in Cambridgeshire to try and prevent further deaths ⬇️ 3/3
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5 Nov 2024
If you’re still on the fence about voting in this election, think about what really matters – about the values we were taught, the kind of country we want to be, and how this is a moment when your vote really does count.
Your vote could determine the fate of our republic – the world that our children and grandchildren will inherit. It’s an awesome responsibility. But what an extraordinary privilege it is to live in a democracy that gives each of us the opportunity to make our voices heard.
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30 Oct 2024
It’s not that we blame them, it’s that we’ve degraded to systems to the extent they can’t co-exist as they once would’ve.
When you lose sea otters from a kelp forest on N.America’s pacific coast, do you blame sea urchins for proliferating and eating all the kelp?
Of course not.
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28 Oct 2024
As always Paddy says much better than I ever could something I have bumbled on about for ages.
Discussions about land should be as much about state land as private land and as much about the "how" of land management as the "who" of land ownership.
28 Oct 2024
"The Government has been watching us floundering in decay for decades. Now they want a National Park, they can’t stop telling us how important we are – but we wouldn’t need a cure if we hadn’t been allowed to get sick..." via @wildforest_matt gallowayfarm.blog/2024/10/28…
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28 Oct 2024
"The Government has been watching us floundering in decay for decades. Now they want a National Park, they can’t stop telling us how important we are – but we wouldn’t need a cure if we hadn’t been allowed to get sick..." via @wildforest_matt gallowayfarm.blog/2024/10/28…
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25 Oct 2024
The season begins!
25 Oct 2024
CONFIRMED SIGHTING. 25th Oct: one at observatory - North Ronaldsay (Orkney)
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23 Oct 2024
Think how hard it is to secure footage like this - to show so clearly what these #criminals are up to, far from prying eyes, worried only about being caught out by tracking technology. How often do you think these crimes can be documented like this, and how many go unrecorded?
22 Oct 2024
Secret filming uncovers illegal killings of rare birds in England
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10 Oct 2024
Mil gracias a todos
Many thanks to all
Merci beaucoup à tous
Grazie mille à tutti
谢谢大家
شكرا لكم جميعا
תודה לכולכם
Obrigado a todos
Vielen Dank euch allen
Tack alla
Хвала свима
Gràcies a tots
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10 Oct 2024
Rafa, one post is not enough to express the respect I have for you and what you have done for our sport. You have inspired millions of children to start playing tennis and I think that’s probably greatest achievement anyone can wish for. Your tenacity, dedication, fighting spirit is going to be taught for decades. Your legacy will live forever. Only you know what you had to endure to become icon of tennis and sport in general.
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