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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

TODAY we’re at the Royal Courts of Justice for the final stage of our judicial review, launched with the Badger Trust in 2024. We believe Natural England acted unlawfully when it granted 26 supplementary Badger cull licences. Watch this space for an update!

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Important data point here: “A sharp fall in Labour's performance is accompanied more often by an above average Green performance than it is by a strong Reform performance”. The Greens have already hurt Labour even before any direct gains.

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University of Exeter CEC @uniexecec.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Happy World Wildlife Day from the Centre for Ecology and Conservation 🌍 Across the department, world-leading researchers in their field are working to lead conservation strategies to safeguard wildlife globally. #exeterecology #worldwildlifeday2026

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Together Against Sizewell C @sayno2sizewellc.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

David Oakes: "Our country is one of the most nature depleted on the planet.... Where our governments fail, it is the duty of The Wildlife Trusts and its supporters to step up to save our unique and irreplaceable wild places..." www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/famous-...

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Famous faces set to ‘supercharge’ movement for nature’s recovery | The Wildlife Trusts

The Wildlife Trusts announce new vice president, David Oakes, alongside two inspiring new ambassadors, Inka Cresswell and Louis VI

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David Oakes @davidoakes.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Very proud to announce my new role with @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social: www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/famous-...

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Trees a Crowd (Podcast) @treesacrowd.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

NEW EPISODE! @davidoakes.bsky.social is in the Galápagos speaking with Professor Diana Pazmiño, a marine biologist and conservation geneticist focused on sharks, rays, and the community at the heart of the archipelago. Listen here: www.treesacrowd.fm/diana-pazmino/

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David Oakes @davidoakes.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Galápagos episodes of @treesacrowd.bsky.social coming (very) soon… Until then, watch this conversation I had with my friends on Santa Cruz at the @darwinfoundation.bsky.social: youtu.be/MSEHgjcmUaM?...

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David Oakes @davidoakes.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Can we come up with a name for them? Moth runways Pixie hedgerows Vegan tremors Worm ramparts …?

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Trees a Crowd (Podcast) @treesacrowd.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

New Episode! ❄️🐻‍❄️❄️ The Secret Trade in Polar Bears 🐻‍❄️❄️🐻‍❄️ How do you save an animal everyone thinks is already protected?! David talks with award-winning filmmaker, @abrahamjoffe.bsky.social, who's trying to do just that. www.treesacrowd.fm/abraham-joff...

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Trees a Crowd (Podcast) @treesacrowd.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

New Episode! 🦧🦍🐒 Primates, Policy, & the Power of CITES 🙉🙈🙊 A conservation conversation from the CITES COP, where self-confessed “CITES nerd”, @iris-ho.bsky.social, reveals how primate sanctuaries, trade treaties & policy tweaks can transform the fate of wildlife www.treesacrowd.fm/abraham-joff...

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Manta Trust @mantatrust.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Manta Trust patron David Oakes is at CITES CoP20 explaining why CITES is vital and why manta & devil rays need the highest protection under Appendix I. 🔗 Visit our website to learn more about manta and devil rays, and the threats they face: www.mantatrust.org

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Trees a Crowd (Podcast) @treesacrowd.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

David travels to Assam’s Kaziranga Tiger Reserve to meet Dr Bhaskar Choudhury of Wildlife Trust of India (@wti-org-india.bsky.social). They talk elephant rescues from monsoon floods, 10-yr journeys back to the wild & what it means to live alongside “elephant gods”. www.treesacrowd.fm/wildlife-tru...

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Fiona Mathews @fionamathews.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

The eyes of the world should be on Ecuador tomorrow. The Trump-backed government is holding a referendum to permit US military bases in the Galapagos, and allow changes to the country's unique constitution to facilitate mining, threatening the rights of nature and indigenous people. Disastrous! 🦤🐢🌎

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇

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Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment

Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building

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David Oakes @davidoakes.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Yup… …called it. What a sad day for British nature and British politics.

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David Oakes @davidoakes.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

When the bill returns to Parliament, should Labour whip the vote against art.130, they are proudly saying that Labour are not a party that gives a damn about nature. For a nation of nature lovers; our govt is tone deaf. Write to your MPs now, please.

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Sussex Wildlife Trust celebrates success in legal battle to stop Marine Conservation Zone dumping as licence is quashed sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/sussex-... Short-snouted Seahorse © Paul Naylor

Photograph of Short-snouted Seahorse with weed in background © Paul Naylor

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

New paper - Learning about a topic by interacting with AI chatbots rather than following links provided by web search can produce shallower knowledge Just saying ... academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

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David Oakes @davidoakes.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I met some extraordinary people at the IUCN WCC; I was even fortunate enough to record one of the conversations…:

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David Oakes @davidoakes.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

The shame of living where moving from Environment Sec. to Housing Sec. is seen as a promotion. The double shame of living where the integrity of our politicians shift according to the labels written on their office door. Remind your local MP: With no Nature, there’s no roof that can shelter them.

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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

A mandatory swift brick for every new home won't be supported by Housing Secretary Steve Reed. That's quite a u-turn from the former Environment Secretary. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Government U-turns on support for bird-friendly swift bricks in new homes

Housing minister Steve Reed refuses to back mandating measure, despite giving support while in environment job

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David Oakes @davidoakes.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Yep - @greenparty.org.uk just secured my vote. Come for the environment; stay for their social agenda. And for the naysayers; you tried Blue (a lot), Red isn’t going all that well… so maybe in three years, it’ll be time to go Green.

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David Oakes @davidoakes.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Is anyone pleased with the Planning Bill? Wildlife Groups are (rightly) ‘displeased’. The Govt. continues to spout hyperbolic claims of “unshackling” Britain. And NOWHERE can I find quotes from anyone in the building sector who is genuinely excited! www.propertyreporter.co.uk/the-planning...

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The Planning Bill pretends to help developers. In reality, it will only create chaos

Sally Hayns, CEO of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management, explores why Part 3 of the Government&rsquo;s Planning and Infrastructure Bill is far from the &ldquo;win-w...

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David Oakes @davidoakes.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

The hope that quashing environmental protection will kickstart UK building is a derided fallacy. Building stops when ppl can’t afford houses: “…the market remains uncertain…” Taylor Wimpey “…we saw build costs increase by around 33%… house price inflation (is) flat.” Persimmon It’s Not Newts!

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David Oakes @davidoakes.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

That said; with a united backing, I would call on @wclnews.bsky.social to coalesce around a strong and bold vision that is uncompromising in placing nature and the environment at the top of their agenda.

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David Oakes @davidoakes.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Anything less than a united voice is proving easily batted away by a government prioritising *Planning* above the *Environment*. @wclnews.bsky.social is our best current mechanism to mount an opposition. I call on all British eNGOs (big & small) to work together to refocus the Labour govt.

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Dr. Bibhab Talukdar @bibhab.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

In Abu Dhabi since yesterday attending the World Conservation Congress of #IUCN which will end on 15 October 2025. Great place to learn and meet #conservationists and #naturelovers @davidoakes.bsky.social

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David Oakes @davidoakes.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

PLAN: 1. Locate 2nd/3rd homes on the UK mainland worth in excess of £1m. 2. Rehouse all inhabitants of Isle of Wight into these properties (reimburse previous owners with gratitude and certificate saying they’ve provided a social good.) 3. Rewild IoW - including reintroduction of Lynx & Wolves.

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David Oakes @davidoakes.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

If you've not discovered @thenerve.news yet, their first edition is out today and is more than worth diving into.

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David Oakes @davidoakes.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Took D1 to meet @drjessfrench.bsky.social and some of her mini-beasts at the Bath Children’s Literature Festival yesterday. Jess is ALWAYS an enthusiastic whirl of joyful entomo-trivia! Flashback listen: www.treesacrowd.fm/dr-jess-fren...

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David Oakes @davidoakes.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

A renewed perspective upon the genocide we could, as a nation, work harder to halt. Please take time to read.

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David Oakes @davidoakes.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Very well deserved!! 🌳🌳🌳

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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

"10 years after the Paris Agreement, governments plan to produce more than double the volume of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C" Stark "production gap" report from @unep.org today www.sei.org/publications...

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David Oakes @davidoakes.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I would **love** to interview Walton Ford for the podcast… …if any one contemporary artist epitomises the juncture between art and nature (alongside my love of the absurd and grotesque!) then it is he; “John James Audubon meets Hieronymous Bosch” as someone once told me. @treesacrowd.bsky.social

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David Oakes @davidoakes.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Woke in Cumbria Grazing Herdwick gently purring Can I climb hill yet?

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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Today we're in court! Our case challenging overgrazing on Dartmoor will be heard over the next two days. Wish us luck. Read the press release from our lawyers: wildjustice.org.uk/sssis/legal-...

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David Oakes @davidoakes.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Spent the day promoting the Woodland Trust’s TREE OF THE YEAR 2025 competition on National and Regional Radio; and when I wasn’t doing that, I was gleefully finding baby caterpillars in fresh peas! VOTE: woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-...

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M. G. Leonard @mglnrd.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Last year, I took a research trip to Cookham Dean - the place that inspired The Wind in the Willows, visiting the original Wild Wood - Bisham Wood - & walking the banks of the Thames. @davidoakes.bsky.social joined me for a charming podcast chat podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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More M.G. Leonard: Further Furry Tales from the Riverbank

Podcast Episode · Trees A Crowd · S5, E13 Bonus · 11m

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Nick Hern Books @nickhernbooks.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

'A rumbunctious new telling of Tolstoy’s story... epic and absorbing' ★★★★ The Times Anna Karenina adapted for stage by NHB author Phillip Breen is now on at Chichester Festival Theatre. Get your playscript copy at the venue, or online: www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/anna-karenin...

Top photo: Natalie Dormer and the company of Anna Karenina at Chichester Festival Theatre. Photo by Marc Brenner. Bottom photo: Playscript cover of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, adapted by Phillip Breen.

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Slow Ways @slowwaysuk.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Calling everybody who walks, runs, wheels, cycles and rides! Who's up for helping to create the ultimate walking, running, wheeling, cycling & horse riding network for Britain and Ireland? Please check out, back and share our new #SlowWays crowdfunding campaign 👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways ⭐

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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Thousands of protected places in England are at risk from the planning bill in its current form, according to legal opinion. We must all write to our MPs – only major amendments or a Labour rebellion will stop massive near-future wildlife destruction. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals

Exclusive: Planning bill includes mechanism for developers to ‘pay to pollute’ valuable ecosystems, experts warn

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Farmers trying to do the right thing are yet again getting frozen out by this government, which seems determined to make the wrong decisions at every opportunity. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Fund for nature-friendly farming to be slashed in UK spending review

Exclusive: Defra sources say scheme, which pays farmers to protect nature, will be targeted at ‘small farms’

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David Oakes @davidoakes.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

“Anna Karenina” opens at @chichesterft.bsky.social in just under 2 weeks time! 🌳 Come to see me, a man who is fascinated by nature, the shifting of the seasons and agricultural reform, play Levin - a man who is fascinated by nature, the shifting of the seasons and agricultural reform…

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