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When mainstream media fails/refuses to cover 60,000+ humans marching upon our Nation’s capital to #RestoreNatureNow, it’s not surprising that individuals resort to temporarily painting Stonehenge orange. It is vital for peaceful protest to continue & intensify, until they listen.

About to head across to the #SycamoreGap for the @WoodlandTrust. It has changed a tad since I was last there and bought this postcard… Swotting up on my Sycamore Trivia by re-listening to this excellent podcast: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tre…

COMING SOON: Politics and Purple Emperors; 2 Big Counts are looming - the General Election & Butterfly Conservation 🦋’ Butterfly Count. We suggest participating in both. Oh! And the new podcast with Matthew Oates, coming in 7 days!

🦋NEW EPISODE🦋 Ahead of Butterfly Conservation 🦋’ Big Butterfly Count, David Oakes meets with naturalist, nature writer and butterfly expert, Matthew Oates. treesacrowd.fm/matthew-oates

Stripey new episode airing tomorrow…! Badger Trust

Legal battle coming soon spearheaded by Wild Justice & Badger Trust: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… If you’d like to hear more about BTb, the (small) role Badgers play in spreading it, and the resulting culls, then listen to Trees A Crowd tomorrow!

NEW EPISODE 🦡🦡🦡 Out in the Kentish Weald in search of Badgers (and the truth behind the ongoing cull) with two representatives from the Badger Trust. 🦡🦡🦡🦡 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tre…

When 94% of bTB cases are spread from cow to cow, why do Badgers hog the limelight? Here @BadgerTrusts' Dr Hannah Trayford attempts to square the curve. For more nuance & more on how the cull has become a political hot potato, be sure to listen to this month’s episode in full.

Spending today prepping the release of next week's @TreesACrowdPod with M. G. Leonard. Open to any Beetle puns that you may have lying around...!

I've been waiting months to say this, but: THE WILDLIFE TRUSTS ARE BUYING SKIDDAW! THE WILDLIFE TRUSTS ARE BUYING SKIDDAW! THE WILDLIFE TRUSTS ARE BUYING SKIDDAW! Please help CumbriaWildlifeTrust with this most brilliant endeavour! wildlifetrusts.org/news/cumbria-w… The Wildlife Trusts

Today I sent off my edition of the correspondence between William Golding and Faber (primarily his friend and editor, Charles Monteith). What a writer Golding was! And has there ever been a talent-spotting editor as successful as Monteith? Publication will be November 2025.

It is such an exciting prospect for Cumbria and the UK. We obviously couldn’t cover it “on mic” at the time, but to get an inkling of what could happen on Skiddaw, listen to Rob Stoneman here for some “ballpark landscape recovery banter”: treesacrowd.fm/rob-stoneman/

The pioneering South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project has launched an appeal to help secure its long term future & put plans in place to reintroduce golden eagles to other areas of the UK where they are currently extinct. Please donate here: goldeneaglessouthofscotland.co.uk

Listen here: treesacrowd.fm/dr-catherine-b… Help here: goldeneaglessouthofscotland.co.uk/blog/urgent-fu… …then you can see Golden Eagles up there!

I had the absolute pleasure of walking beside the river Thames with David Oakes talking about beetles and birds and the power and importance of nature in stories for Trees A Crowd Your day will be infinitely more delightful if you join us. treesacrowd.fm/MGLeonard/

BRAND NEW EPISODE 🪲🪲🪲 Storytelling and the Power of Beetles 🪲🪲🪲 A walk through Kenneth Grahame's Wild Woods, and along Ratty and Moley's Towpath, with the Doyenne of Contemporary Children's Nature Fiction, M. G. Leonard. 🪲🪲🪲podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tre… Buglife

Taking a look back at Season 5: Guests driven by Roadkill, Trees, Raptor Persecution, Lynx Reintroduction, Eggs and Nests, Vultures, Landscape Recovery and Peat Bogs, Endangered British Mammals, Butterflies and Climate, Badgers and Disease, and Beetles! Any requests for S.6?!

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