This is a wonderfully simple visual of how targeted the extinctions in the late Quaternary were…
(“Target” is a deliberate word choice. Can’t believe some people still doubt we did this)

My first London talk on my #WildBoar book GROUNDBREAKERS is this Thursday at 7pm at Stanfords in Covent Garden! 🐗 Tickets here 👇
stanfords.co.uk/event-groundbr…

Once again: cheap meat requires other animals to suffer for our momentary pleasure. There is no way around it.

Happening in 45 minutes - and still time to sign up!

Heading home after attending the launch for the Right to Roam book Wild Service - an event which literally turned out to be a service (for wildness). Hope my little gift of a rowan survives the journey to a pot!

‘“Why do we so badly want this to be true?”’
A fascinating account of the twists and turns in the story of the so-called wood-wide web and Simard’s ‘Mother Tree’ hypothesis theguardian.com/environment/20…

Excited to take part on a Mammal Society panel on Sunday incl. w/ Derek Gow & Dr Merryl Gelling as part of #NationalMammalWeek ! Register to join online 👉 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Funny seeing this island up for sale - I chose it as the main setting for a YA sci-fi I wrote a few years back (before my literary big break turned out to be wild boar, ha). Even went to the Mull just so I could clap eyes on it from over the water.
Oh the dream!

When you haven’t swum in open water in the UK for one & a half years so you can only spend a few mins in the water at Chichester even though you once swam in a relay of the Channel 😂😭

Join me on Sat 11 May for Into The Light, @healrewilding’s 1st ever rewilding gathering!
I’ll be giving a talk on my boar book GROUNDBREAKERS & joining a panel w/ ChantelleNaturelle 🌕💖✨, Sean McCormack MVB 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪(he/him) & George Cook!
tickettailor.com/events/healrew…

Something old*, something new, something borrowed, something blue! Books I’m currently or about to read…

* Sorry Pádraic Fogarty, I know it isn’t THAT old but I needed to make the rhyme work 😂

My #WildBoar book GROUNDBREAKERS came out in North America today!
It won't tell you how to deal with the 30-50 feral hogs that run into your yard while your kids play but I hope readers might find it enlightening in other ways 🐗
bit.ly/49JyWvM

My #Cheltenham #WildBoar #book talk is almost here!

‘The ordinary made extraordinary through Chantal’s heartfelt connection with the boar and her tireless enquiry into the forces bearing down upon them.’
Thank you, Sue Brooks, for this dose of happy writer fuel ❤️🐗

Super excited for my first book talk in London, and at a favourite bookshop!

The guidance within the campaign - that you must not feed wild boar - is sound. But horrible messaging. There is almost zilch pig farming around the Dean. Pig World could do far more good by lobbying gov to implement border controls on pork to prevent pig diseases reaching the UK