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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I got excited there for a moment…

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

So pleased to have you on the programme, James 👍🏻 💜

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Absolutely joyful moment, just heard a familiar scream overhead and saw my first swifts of the year in Enfield over my Mum’s house! Three so far. She has two twin boxes with long-established pairs using them. Fingers crossed they make it back safely. @katebradbury.bsky.social, any down your way yet?

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Do read the brilliant essay in this weekend’s @financialtimes.com by Philippe Sands on nature’s (our) future and giving it legal ‘personhood’, with reviews on new books by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social and @tonyjuniper.bsky.social. Inspiring piece. One day, we can but hope.

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Afternoon of tree talk with the venerable Ted Green (I asked if I could call him that). The ancient oaks of Windsor Great Park always make me feel humble.

Ted Green, founder of the Ancient Tree Forum, and Jan Stannard co-founder of Heal Rewilding, in Windsor Great Park

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Grey skies again first thing today (England), same as it has been day after day for weeks and weeks, with only brief glimpses of blue. And so much rain: hosing, drizzling, dripping. Hard to endure, so I think about droughts, find this map and feel thankful for another wet morning.

Global map of areas experiencing major drought events 2022-2024 from unccd.int

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

@katebradbury.bsky.social saw this and thought of you. It’s an American post, so wondering if applicable in England, if you know

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Reading this excellent new book by Jo Kirby. Who knew that there are 75 natural enemies of slugs and snails in the UK? The book gives a new set of strategies for reducing slug and snail damage and we’re going to try them in our new food garden at the Heal Somerset site.

Book cover image: The Good Slug Guide by Jo Kirby.

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

This is such a wonderful story of environmental recovery. ‘California tribes celebrate historic dam removal: ‘More successful than we ever imagined’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

theguardian.com

California tribes celebrate historic dam removal: ‘More successful than we ever imagined’

After four dams were blasted from the Klamath River, the work to restore the ecosystem is under way

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

How can any decent person or responsible business/charity still be active on Twitter? Elon Musk is absolutely vile.

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Such an exciting and astonishing project. The thread is great because it goes into the fieldwork detail and shows all these cheerful people collaborating. Thinking of Mary Anning and how she would have loved this!

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Nigel Farage says Elon Musk is "an absolute hero figure" to young Britons. Simply untrue for most young people YouGov had Musk approval 18-24 approve 10% disapprove 74% 25-49 Approve 20% Disapprove 64%

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

UK housing minister @matthewpennycook.bsky.social gave examples of grey belt sites incl “just low-value scrub land”. Please update the narrative on this - scrub is NOT low value. Scrub is VITAL habitat for wildlife. Getting that wrong historically is one reason nature in the UK is in such crisis.

theguardian.com

Housing must take priority over nature, says Starmer in green belt reform plan

Councils given mandatory targets to deliver 370,000 homes a year in England, including through review of green belt boundaries

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Dismal news. Good developers should be praised. Those exploiting the ‘checking up gap’ because councils are overstretched should face VERY large fines with cash ring-fenced to go back into council budgets for more checks. Well done University of Sheffield and @wildjustice.bsky.social

theguardian.com

Housebuilders supply only half of promised nature-friendly features, survey finds

Developers in England deliver 53% of features such as trees and bird boxes demanded in planning permissions, study says

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Kernow Conservation CIC @kernowconservation.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Last few days! Every £ helps! Currently at £22,787 or 45%! Help us reach our £50,000 target by sharing and donating if you can! Donations matched by the Aviva Community Fund, so for every £1 donated we receive £2! For full details and to donate: www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/kernow-con...

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

What? There are no plans to invest in the installation of lifts at Kensington Olympia Station to make the new Olympia accessible to all. Come on, really? Please sign this petition to try to get this changed: chng.it/Fw8cRBKVnD

chng.it

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Give Olympia Station a lift - make it accessible to all

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Since @healrewilding.org.uk bought Heal Somerset two years ago, hundreds of baby oaks here, not one planted by us.

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Power is back up 👏👏👏 14 hours 18 minutes. The candles were quite magical for a while. Thank you SSEN emergency crews.

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

After the storm as dusk fell (Somerset, England). Still no power (13 hours). SSEN engineers have called in, very windblown and wet, to reassure us that they are doing all they can to repair the damage. Now they are out there in inky blackness. A tough and skilled job for which I’m grateful.

Pinky-grey sky after Storm Darragh in the south west of England, with the sun going down.

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Makes me wonder about everything not being mended, enjoyed, solved, created etc as a result, speaking as someone born in the time before. (I get the irony.) Mind you, hours spent watching the telly was probably similar back in the day. Source: datareportal.com/social-media...

Page of data on social media use globally: 12 billion hours a day across the planet

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Storm Darragh raging at the Heal site (Frome, England). Second government alert came from phone just now (5.30am), very very loud, so if you weren’t awake from sound of wind (I was), you are now. Power is off. Forgot to fill a vacuum flask with coffee last night, duh.

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

@skysentry.bsky.social this is one reason, a big reason, why Bluesky is a very different place. Hitting ‘Subscribe’ initially does take a leap of faith but trust it.

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I realise, now I’m on a platform which isn’t infused with negativity and hate, that I often drafted but then deleted posts on Twitter/X. You just never knew what would come back at you.

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

This is so simple and powerful.

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The docks grew like topsy in many of our fields. Not everyone loves a dock. We do. This was a Redpoll (Lesser? Common?) feeding on the seeds of dead docks left to overwinter. #TheyNeedFoodToo

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The ephemeral stream that appears after heavy rain in our most westerly field. This is the place the Snipe like.

A temporary stream in a field in Somerset, England, where Snipe can be found.

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I’m imagining looking up into an English sky and seeing these. What a thought. Golden eagle project plans England expansion www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

South of Scotland Golden eagle project plans England expansion

A conservation project is looking to build on its success by taking the birds into England and Wales.

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Rarely post family pictures but this one… I love it so. The children of my children 💜

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Taken from one of our fixed point photography posts. This view has transformed since @healrewilding.org.uk started Heal Somerset (January 2023). You can see one of our paths for visitors to use 350/24/7. Our wildlife cameras filmed wild-living beavers just along from here in April 🦫🦫 👏

A view of part of Heal Somerset rewilding site where beavers have been seen, taken from a fixed point camera post.

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Early at desk fuelled by tea. Love this mug (from the amazing Rockaway Park, Bristol): “Would those who say it can’t be done please stand clear of those doing it”. Oh yes.

Mug of tea with words: “Would those who say it can’t be done please stand clear of those doing it”

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Wow! I’m so pleased for them. That growth is outstanding. What surprised me was how Twitter-like it is, then I looked up the provenance and understood.

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Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

This is our charity Heal Rewilding’s beautiful first site in Somerset, England. In this place, the land is healing and nature is recovering faster than you can imagine. There are skylarks, kestrels, hares and wild-living beavers 🦫 Spiders everywhere. So much life. This is what hope looks like 💜

Sun rising over rewilding land in Somerset, England

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