The meat industry's war on wildlife: Each year, a federal program kills 1.5 to 5 million wild animals, most of them in an effort to protect the livestock industry. Ex-employees and conservationists say it's ineffective and inhumane. vox.com/future-perfect…

'Since their invention, cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people and injured at least 2 billion'

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Once absent across most of Europe, wolves made a remarkable comeback thanks to legal protection ✨

👎 European Commission proposal to lower their protection can undo the decades of conservation work!

Sign WWF France 🐼's petition to protect wolves in Europe: wwf.fr/petition-loup

The EU Common Agriculture Policy might be the most environmentally ruinous government programme ever invented – and it just got *even worse*. Love or hate Brexit, I think we can all agree that being out of the EU’s grotesque CAP is a huge blessing for the UK.

‘Meet Britain’s new nature defenders: guerrilla guardians who don’t own the places they protect but care for them anyway’

Very proud to be one of the chapter authors of Wild Service, a new anthology book by Right to Roam & friends, published today!

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Historic European Parliament vote today!

I applaud the positive vote & full support for the EU ratification of the High Seas Treaty #BBNJ aiming to protect 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030.

Now we must bring along all international counterparts to ratify it as fast as possible!

It was a privilege to have known & worked closely with Frank in the 10 yrs I was an MP. He was in many respects the model MP- independent minded, compassionate, intelligent & courageous

Frank Field obituary: free spirit devoted to helping the poor

thetimes.co.uk/article/00b495…

Rewilding charity Heal Rewilding is hosting a two-day Into the Light event on Friday 10 and Saturday 11 May, at their beautiful 460 acres Somerset site; talks and panels, finance for nature and the nature tech, stories of hope about wilder nature, go go. tickettailor.com/events/healrew…

Let’s make history! 

From today until 25 April, every donation made via the Big Give Green Match Fund will be doubled and go towards the @Scotrewilding #RewildingNation campaign to help make a wilder future a reality. 

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The Bahamas banned longlines in 1993 and all commercial shark fishing and trade in 2011.

Today, it’s among the world’s top sharks sanctuaries and a global dive destination.

Since 2000, shark tourism has brought around $1 billion USD to the Bahamian economy. 🇧🇸

80% of dairy farms in Wales (and two thirds in England) in breach of environmental regulations in recent years, data released to RiverActionUK (and seen by @theENDSReport) reveals

(Context is that farming is biggest contributor to river pollution)
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St George’s Day, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 & the five year anniversary of me arriving to be Chair Natural England.

It’s been a busy half decade, but quite a lot has happened, with huge potential for positive progress during the coming years.

Here’s a blog on all that ⬇️

naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2024/04/23/a-h…

In the most recent episode of Rewilding the World I’m joined by Andy Whitworth of Osa Conservation, an organisation which is busy rewilding Costa Rica’s ever wilder Osa Peninsula.

It’s an area where Andy and his team are focused on plans to reintroduce white-lipped peccaries,

Sympathies with the parents of all these ‘anti-fascist’ students in expensive universities across the West who in the rabidity of their efforts to impose purity have ended up being more fascist than any generation since the 1930s.

On June 13, 2020, during Covid, the NY Legislature repealed a law providing for the criminal punishment of any person who:

'Being masked or in any manner disguised by unusual or unnatural attire or facial alteration, loiters, remains or congregates in a public place with other

It’s so simple. Without a healthy planet we have absolutely nothing.

Nothing else matters. #EarthDay #EarthDay 2024

Save the planet = save yourself.

Wildlife Services, often known as the killing arm of the Dept. of Agriculture, recently published their 2023 program data detailing the number of animals killed and the methods used. The numbers were as staggering as always with 1.4 million animals killed nationwide. tinyurl.com/4jacypvn

A refusal to tolerate wolves, lynx and even beavers in our landscapes is sort of understandable, if blindly wrong. But *moles*? Tiny harmless moles in their velvet suits whose tunnelling is essential in aerating the ground? Truth is, there are a lot of ‘custodians’ who’d really

The Somerset Levels was once a vast wild wetland. From pelicans to beavers it would have teemed with life. Somerset Wildlands is bringing back life and wildness to the Levels through rewilding. Suport us now and see your donation DOUBLED. Thank you! donate.biggive.org/campaign/a0569…