Wildlife TV film maker / presented for BBC Countryfile, Springwatch, The One Show and Coast. Gallery Owner, Creator of @natureboxuk
Joined May 2010
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16 Dec 2021
Over the last few months I’ve been working to create a project that puts boxes of wildlife goodies free into new build homes, to encourage people to make their new gardens attractive to wildlife. it’s called Nature Box and the first ones head out very soon. #rewilding
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richard taylor-jones retweeted
May 29
"‘They’re a private company, run for profit!’: fury in Kent at South East Water’s outages."
Cam someone please explain to me why South East Water are still in business, how they still have an operating licence and why the public are still be asked to put up with this nonsense?
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My neighbour went for a paddle off Deal and found this. I had just been out on it too. Looks like sewage to us rather than algal blooms which, I know, you can get and have filmed before. Any experts out there have any thoughts? @WindrushWasp @sascampaigns @SOSWhitstable
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richard taylor-jones retweeted
May 20
"Billionaire Trump donor in line to make millions from Thames Water bid."
Meet who is now the de facto owner of Thames Water. It's a tragedy in 3 acts and it does not end well. 👇👇👇
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New, tougher #harecoursing sentences a 'game changer for rural communities'. 🚨
CLA National Access Adviser Claire Wright explains why the latest announcement is such a step forward for rural crime prevention: cla.org.uk/news/tougher-appr…
#poaching
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richard taylor-jones retweeted
May 17
We knew this would be a good breeding season for Barn Owls but.... The first brood we ringed this year was our largest ever, with an amazing EIGHT owlets!!!
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🎉 OCEAN WIN! Papua New Guinea just created its largest ever marine protected area - the size of the UK 🌊 The sanctuary is located in the Coral Triangle, a richly biodiverse area home to coral reefs, spinner dolphins, silky sharks, whales, and more!
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What a stunning bird. How sad to hear this…
May 16
The poorly known Timor Green Pigeon may be in danger of extinction unless urgent conservation measures are implemented: bit.ly/4nlJ9a4
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richard taylor-jones retweeted
May 13
White-tailed Eagle’s to be released at Exmoor. @NaturalEngland will closely monitor progress, including economic impacts. Birds released at the Isle of Wight found to eat fish, seabirds & carrion & attract many tourists, so have been positive for economy.
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And there is the reality.
All of the promises, all the rhetoric, all the empty, meaningless words.
Welsh Water at its finest.
PLEASE SHARE......THIS IS WHAT DWR CYMRU ARE DOING TO OUR RIVER
Location is bottom of car park at Llanrwst library heading towards Gowers Bridge
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Cmon folks. Water should never belong to private companies. We wouldn’t let them privatise air, why water?!?!? time to take back control into public ownership. Sign the petition support @Feargal_Sharkey
Apr 29
I need 100,000 signatures to win a parliamentary debate about the ownership of the water industry.
Do your thing internet.
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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richard taylor-jones retweeted
Apr 29
I resigned as U.S. Ambassador Ukraine when Trump kept siding with Putin over our democratic partner. Now, my successor is doing the same.
I knew I had to speak out and run for office because siding with dictators is just not who we are.
Apr 28
Scoop: Julie Davis, the acting US Ambassador in Kyiv, is leaving the State Department having grown frustrated with Trump's dwindling support for Ukraine. Davis's resignation follows that of her predecessor, Bridget Brink, who resigned for similar reasons early last year.
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First swifts of the year for me out over Worth Marshes…. They’re back! House Martins and Swallow too 👍😄
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richard taylor-jones retweeted
Apr 16
A conservation project in East Yorkshire is aiming to restore a key wetland plant in the hope of eventually bringing back Swallowtail to the region: bit.ly/4cfYsMq
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Apr 12
Golden eagles' return to English skies gets government backing bbc.in/4mlQciu
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richard taylor-jones retweeted
"Gas is only needed to cover demand during 15 percent of an average day in Spain, compared to nearly 90 percent in Italy."
Since 2019, Spain doubled its wind & solar capacity.
By 2025 Spain's wholesale power prices were 32% below European average.
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richard taylor-jones retweeted
Mar 23
A high proportion of our food supply depends on insects. Many studies point to recent rapid insect decline.
Mar 23
A Danish scientist counted bugs on the same windshield, same road, same conditions, every year for 20 years. By year 20, 80% of the insects were gone.
In Germany, a group of volunteer bug scientists did something even bigger. They set traps in 63 nature reserves, not farms, protected land, and weighed everything they caught. Same traps, same method, 27 years straight. The total weight of flying bugs dropped 76%. In midsummer, when insects should be peaking, it was 82% gone. A follow-up in 2020 and 2021 checked again. No recovery.
In the UK, they literally ask drivers to count splats on their license plates after a trip. The 2024 count came back 63% lower than just 2021. Three years.
A 2020 study pulled together 166 surveys from 1,676 locations around the world. Land insects are disappearing at roughly 9% every ten years.
Here’s where it hits your plate. About 75% of the food crops we grow depend on insects to pollinate them, everything from apples to almonds to coffee. One 2025 study modeled what a full pollinator collapse would look like: food prices jump 30%, the global economy takes a $729 billion hit, and the world loses 8% of its Vitamin A supply.
Birds are already feeling it. North America has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. A study from just weeks ago found half of 261 bird species on the continent are now in serious decline, and the losses are speeding up in farming regions. The birds that eat insects lost 2.9 billion. The birds that don’t eat insects? They gained 26 million. That ratio tells the whole story.
One of the German researchers behind the 27-year study drives a Land Rover. He says it has the aerodynamics of a refrigerator. It stays clean now.
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richard taylor-jones retweeted
Mar 9
A LOT of frog spawn in a little naturalistic wetland next to a relatively new housing development in #Cambridge. Housing & Nature next to one another - no problem. Blending this kind of habitat into new housing is not that complicated (& the wetland helps reduce flood risk).
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For various boring reasons we have to say that these are Hugh Grant’s views not ours, and that we definitely haven’t printed his post out and put it in a little frame on our desk
Mar 1
Dirty Business on @Channel4. Brilliantly made, devastating. Water must be nationalised now. The owners of the private water companies jailed.
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