The weekly digest is out.

Featuring: Blue Marine Foundation WWF Cymru 🌏 RSPB Leighton Moss Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Dr Craig Shuttleworth Campaign for National Parks Dartmoor National Park Jens Svenning Pollenize Margaret Renkl Patrick Barkham Robert Macfarlane and more.

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The weekly digest is out!

Featuring: Robbie Moore MP Chris Packham Rewilding Britain Dr Emma Jardine Martin Lines Dr Christian Dunn Ben Goldsmith Melissa Harrison John Lewis-Stempel Lara Williams British Ecological Society Natural England and more.

Read it here: inkcapjournal.co.uk/water-pollutio…

Sorry everyone, there's no Inkcap Journal digest today. My toddler picked up a vomiting bug, so I have had to take a couple of days off work to care for her. She's back to her usual cheeky & delightful self now, happily.

Hard to overstate how important the funding we received from the The Pebble Trust has been to our journalism over the past couple of years. It has allowed us to publish articles with a frequency and, most importantly, ambition, that would have otherwise been impossible.

For #WorldRewildingDay , here is a picture of Carrifran Wildwood, one of the places that features in NATURE'S GHOSTS. I explore what it means to re-create a specific moment in time: in this case, the dusk of the Mesolithic.

Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/nature…

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-watching-…

Hypothetical articles like this are great. I always ask students if their studies would be different in ± 100 years. Always good to think beyond the current landscape.

Wolves Scotland by 2044.... could it actually happen?

Excellent story for #WorldRewildingDay by Matt Hay in the ace Inkcap Journal. Shows how, with empathy, nuance and hard work,
it might just work...
inkcapjournal.co.uk/wolf-watching-…

NEW: In our latest feature, Matthew Hay takes a trip into the future to watch wolves in the snowless Cairngorms, a decade after their reintroduction to the Highlands.
inkcapjournal.co.uk/wolf-watching-…

NEW: In 2022, Victoria Bennett left her apothecary garden in Cumbria to start anew on Orkney. In the accounts of old botanists, she began to learn a new language of flowers.
inkcapjournal.co.uk/an-orkney-mira…

Great feature from Adam Weymouth in the Inkcap Journal discussing bere #barley , a crop that is helping farmers adapt to #climatechange .

Adam visited our International Barley Hub, learning about our research into the resilient #crop variety.

#BetterBarley

Want a long read to peruse on this rainy afternoon? Have a look at our latest feature, by Adam Weymouth, on bere barley, the Bronze Age crop that is helping farmers adapt to climate change & preserve the delicate machair ecosystems of the Outer Hebrides.

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A wonderful Adam Weymouth report on indigenous strains of “bere” barley in the Scottish isles:

“This is a hard place to live…. [But] locked away in bere is a genetic richness that provides some answers about how we might live in balance with the world.” inkcapjournal.co.uk/the-ancient-cr…

Scientists at James Hutton Institute are exploring how the genes of ancient bere barley might be crossed with modern crops to improve resilience to climate change.

Read more in our latest long read.
inkcapjournal.co.uk/the-ancient-cr…

I've written about bere for Inkcap Journal, an ancient barley with remarkable properties that I'd never heard of until I went to the Uists. But as always, it's more complex than it looks...There's a beautifully read audio, too
inkcapjournal.co.uk/the-ancient-cr…

NEW: In our latest feature, Adam Weymouth visits the Outer Hebrides to learn about bere barley, a Bronze Age crop that is helping farmers adapt to climate change and resist depopulation.
inkcapjournal.co.uk/the-ancient-cr…