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Chantal Lyons

@chantallyons.bsky.social
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Sci Comms writer & naturalist. Debut non-fic GROUNDBREAKERS on the return of Britain’s wild boar out w/ Bloomsbury 1 Feb 2024! Rep’d by James Macdonald Lockhart.

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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I have taken the perfect photo of my dad and his dog
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Reminder to all in the Bristol area/surrounding environs that I'll be talking about the future of #WildBoar in Britain at the gorgeous Belmont Estate next Wednesday evening! Tickets here 👉 belmont.estate/events/
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
This book is sublime. That is all.
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Blueskyers, what do you think - is the creature in this (hilarious) video a #WildBoar or a peccary? Looks like the latter to me… www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdhT...
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RESGATANDO JAVALI INGRATO
YouTube video by Wende Crispim
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
SUPER interesting new paper here from scientists in Argentina which find that termites incorporated megafauna bones into their nests & may have thinned out the Pleistocene fossil record in parts of South America as a result! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Thank you so much Anand!
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The wonders of our world are infinite www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Killer whales and dolphins seen hunting together in rare video
Researchers say the footage, captured near the North-West Pacific coast, is the first recorded evidence of the two species working together.
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
At Chaparri Bear Reserve in Peru (bonus trip while out here for work). Their habituated peccaries take belly rubs therefore we must assume wild boar would also enjoy them
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Currently obsessed with this new paper which infers that North America is missing a large bioturbating herbivore which basically means that feral hogs are ground sloths in pig’s clothing royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Just 7 days left to enter your poem or flash story on the theme of “In the dark” to the @walklistencreate.org writing competition! (And I’m a judge 😍) write.walklistencreate.org/wr_instance/...
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Write About Walking – In the Dark
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Frustrating when you come across a glaring error in a well-reviewed book that makes you wonder if other “facts” therein are wrong too. Thylacine ancestors in Australia date back at least 30 mya? Maybe getting confused w/ dingo. Vital for authors to check & re-check text before publication…
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I did not want to see the news tonight that Jane Goodall has died. But what a life. What a human. What an impact she had on our understanding of our fellow Earthlings and their right to life. We are so much poorer for having lost her.
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
When your fiancé is reading a biography of Francis Crick, who was married to your great aunt Odile, and points out this bit and says “Look, your accident gene runs in the family”
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I was utterly charmed by @bsbicountries.bsky.social’s quest to find a medley of Britain’s endemic species. Also, YES to Pokémon references in nature writing
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Online this Tuesday evening. Delving into the exciting & urgent question of how we can include the lives & experiences of nonhumans in writing w/ fellow author Emma Geen, hosted by @walklistencreate.org! Tickets here: walklistencreate.org/walkingevent...
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Words to Light the Dark: Writing the worlds of other animals
How do we bridge the experiential gap between that of humans and other animals with writing that feels intelligible to us, while reaching for the differences in how other animals sense, think, and act...
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Peter Cairns @petecairns.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Books that intelligently poke at our complex relationship with wild nature, should be compulsory reading - this is one of them. @chantallyons.bsky.social immerses herself in the world of wild boar and those people with an opinion on their growing presence. www.waterstones.com/book/groundb...
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Believe there are still tickets going for my panel with @sophiepavs.bsky.social & Peter Cairns at the Edinburgh Book Fest tomorrow morning - if you’re around, come! www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
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Chantal Lyons, Sophie Pavelle & Peter Cairns: Landscape, and Beavers, and Boars (Oh, My!)
From Wed 20 Aug - Sharing their deep understanding of what we're lucky to have in nature and how to repair the damage done, Wainwright Prize-­shortlisted author of Groundbreakers, Chantal Lyons, To Ha...
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Two brilliant new reads on coexistence with creatures great & small - @adamweymouth.bsky.social on wolves, & @julianhoffman.bsky.social on fellow humans, bears, wrens, swallows & beyond in Greece ❤️
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
I’ve always heard that damsons are generally too sour to eat as they are - but I’ve found a tree near me whose fruit is green-fleshed yet divine (like miniature Victoria plums). Are my tastebuds off or have I found a Magical Damson Tree?
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
On 2 Sept at 7pm, I'll be holding an online @walklistencreate.org writer's salon with Emma Geen (author of one of my all-time favourite sci-fis) on the deeply fascinating question of how to write the worlds of other animals. Book a ticket and join us! walklistencreate.org/walkingevent...
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Words to Light the Dark: Writing the worlds of other animals
How do we bridge the experiential gap between that of humans and other animals with writing that feels intelligible to us, while reaching for the differences in how other animals sense, think, and act...
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Sorry but this photo of my parents’ rescue dog from Sri Lanka being walked in the rain kills me
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Thanks so much Dave :)
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Loved @argatyredkites.bsky.social’s new book on his ultimately triumphant battle to save #beavers from being shot & bring them to his land in Scotland. 1/2
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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
March 2025: Defra withdraws GL45 amid concerns of Avian Flu. June 2025: BASC starts legal proceedings against this decision June 2025: Avian Flu outbreaks start popping up across the UK, including at commercial gamebird rearing facility. Defra 1 - BASC 0. raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/07/07/d...
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DEFRA withdraws licence for release of gamebirds on Special Protection Areas due to high risk of avian flu – BASC starts legal challenge
In 2020, Wild Justice won a significant legal challenge against Defra, forcing it to introduce a licensing scheme for the release of gamebirds (Pheasants & Red-legged Partridges) on or near Nat…
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Raced through this by @drjuliashaw.bsky.social - had no idea of the issue of illegal gold miners in South Africa! Compelling storytelling throughout.
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Wonderful to see the @wainwrightprize.bsky.social going from strength to strength & to see so many deserving books on the longlist this year! It remains an absolute honour for my book to have been Highly Commended in the Conservation category last year ❤️ wainwrightprize.com/news/longlis...
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Longlists and Judging Panels Announced for 2025 Wainwright Prizes - Wainwright Prize
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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
An entire Dorset village faces eviction, proof that private money rules rural England. On 5 July, join Right to Roam for a peaceful trespass at Bridehead to protest the feudal grip on land. #RightToRoam #Bridehead #LittleBredy #Dorset www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England | George Monbiot
This scandalous story gives lie to the claim that the biggest threat to country life comes from city dwellers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
We must protect the precious babirusa 🥲
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Thank you so much Nic 😍 (I think we spoke at the Small City Bookshop event?)
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Thank you so much Tom - it’s always a pleasure to get a nuanced review like this one!
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I could watch boar wallow videos all day
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Thanks so much Bill! Libraries are the BEST
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Alick Simmons @parliamentarygoose.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
My book ‘Treated Like Animals’ is now available in paperback - direct from the publisher, from bookshops, physical and on-line. pelagicpublishing.com/products/tre...
Extract from Pelagic Publishing’s new books  newsletter showing a book by Alick Simmons entitled Treated Like Animals.
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
This article about the boom in baby lions as pets in Thailand is… one of the most disgusting things I’ve read in a long time. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘People buy a lion and can’t handle it’: inside the farms breeding cubs for TikTok and Instagram likes
In Thailand, exotic pets are increasingly popular among the wealthy elite, but few are prepared for a long-term commitment and campaigners say many animals are kept in cruel conditions
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Crying at how bad the new Walking with Dinosaurs is compared to the original one in 1999 😭😭😭 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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Walking With Dinosaurs - Everything you need to know about the ground-breaking series
Discover the incredible life stories of more long-lost giants as the landmark series returns this May
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 24/05/2025
🚨 BATH: Lidl are once again trying to trash a wildflower meadow in Bath. There’s beavers living there, and this land should be protected and enhanced not tarmaced (which will obviously make the flooding worse.) Please object asap and donate to legal transitionlarkhall.wordpress.com/save-baths-w...
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Save Bath’s Wildlife Haven
Help Keep the Lambridge’s Green Meadow Safe from Development into a LIDL Supermarket Please OBJECT by 7th June 2025 at B&NES Planning Portal using Planning Application Reference Number 25…
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
BRISTOLIANS! @sophiepavs.bsky.social, @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social & I are at @smallcitybookshop.bsky.social this Thursday eve, talking about the tightrope line between care and control of the environment. Do join us! www.thesmallcitybookshop.co.uk/event-detail...
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Nature Conservation : The Uneasy Line Between Care & Control | Small City Bookshop
Chaired by Environmental Historian, Marianna Dudley, join us for a riveting discussion from three nature writing power-houses, Chantal Lyons, Sophie Pavelle & Hugh Warwick.
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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
LIFELINES is published today, 25 years after my wife and I arrived in northern Greece with the aim of changing our lives. It's a book about shelter and generosity, borders and brown bears, people and pelicans. It's about how the lifelines of the world hold together the greater home of us all.
A copy of the book LIFELINES stood in a granite rock with the mountains and lakes of Prespa in the background.
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Feeling invigorated & inspired by my recent trip to Slovenia to explore how people there rub along pretty darn well with a population of about 900 brown bears 1/6
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I love stumbling on unexpected books in charity shops. This is my latest - a well written and compelling account from the 1970s of building an oxhide boat based on a monk’s writings and crossing the Atlantic in it… (w/ a few charming wildlife encounters along the way)
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WildDartmoor @tonydartmoor.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Went up to the Cut Hill burn site today. On left - degraded peat with lots of Molinia, lots of fire. On the right, restored peat with much less Molinia, and a lot wetter - still burned but much much lighter … and …
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Is this brown bear scat? I think it is, but would appreciate peer review. Seen near Caldes, Trentino. (It was “moist fresh” but I couldn’t detect any warmth when I hovered my hand an inch over it…)
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
The Orso del Pradel artwork was awe-inspiring in person. I hiked with the hope of seeing a bear and also the hope of not seeing one.
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I do this quite often and usually the library says yes to my request! (For other people’s books, not mine 😂) I bloody love libraries.
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
My little bendy rowan, gifted at the @righttoroam.bsky.social book launch for Wild Service last year, is growing strong! Nurturing it through this pre-drought… @amyjanebeer.bsky.social @nicolawriting.bsky.social ❤️
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I rather love this story about a city in Poland planting flowers “unpalatable” to #WildBoar to keep them from digging up public green spaces and verges. Forest of Dean next?? euroweeklynews.com/2025/04/30/f...
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Polish city fights wild boars with plants
Gdynia, a city in northern Poland, has adopted a surprising tactic in its struggle with wild boars.
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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
These guys got the first living footage of the Indonesian coelacanth! Amazing work. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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First record of a living coelacanth from North Maluku, Indonesia - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - First record of a living coelacanth from North Maluku, Indonesia
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Landowners release 50million pheasants a year into the British countryside - and a new study shows how this is boosting the number of ticks carrying Lyme disease www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
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We’re Releasing Millions Of Birds. The Ticks Are Thriving
Each year, millions of pheasants are released into woods and fields in the U.K. for recreational shooting. As a result the bacteria that cause Lyme disease are increasing.
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Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Two recent reads I thought were fantastic - ‘Stronghold’ is a compelling account of preserving salmon in the Pacific; ‘A Tale of Trees’ by @derekniemann.bsky.social lays bare the damage done to our woodlands in the 20th century & deepened my understanding of woodland ecology 1/2
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Just a few more signatures & we’re there!
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