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What am I doing on Twitter? Reminding everyone there exactly what they are doing and getting the charity more views. I’ll crawl through fucking glass to keep us afloat.

I know this website is mostly about spreading fascist ideology but I thought I'd break that up in your feed with a video of one of the beavers who live at Warleigh Nature Reserve washing its tummy.

Video of our beaver washing

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This is exactly how you should run a charity.

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Natural England posted this map of beaver territory and sightings. Guess where Warleigh nature reserve is. Ok fine I’ll tell. It’s bang in the middle off the F on the left, which I assume stands for F**k load of Beavers.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 25/09/2026

Today I had a brilliant group of volunteers join me at Warleigh Nature Reserve, some returning some new. One was a landowner we planted with last winter, come to return the favour. We coppiced a whole lot of sycamore (way too much of it) in the ancient woodland, making dead hedges to keep deer out.

Two young women getting stuck in with an axe.

A gentleman with a pair of loppers trimming branches off a small felled sycamore tree.

General activity in the coppice area with lots of “binders” cut for use in hedgelaying

A thinned out woodland with lots of useful wood products cut. More light coming in now, with a very dark woodland in the background for work next year.

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Fine I’ll sneak out this one beaver video of matey just milling around, but if you want to see matey boy washing their belly and being cute as hell you gotta follow @protect.earth first.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 12/09/2026

Do you think Wikipedia is using a slur or are you just not aware that “Boomer” is literally the name of a generation.

Wikipedia screenshot. Baby boomers, often shortened to boomers, !! are the demographic cohort preceded by the Silent Generation and followed by Generation
X.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 11/09/2026

You folks paid for the paddleboard that @protect.earth use to scout out land drains and look for beavers. You chipped in when our storage unit was raided and they stole a new old petrol auger. Can now confirm they also stole cordless screwdriver & impact driver set. Can you help?

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 11/09/2026

Today I accidentally loaned out the van and left my wellies in the back, meaning I had to spend a few hours heaving through stingers and paddleboarding the Fishy McFishface camera into place in Birkenstocks. 🤣 Eventually picked up the beautiful boots @benwillbond.bsky.social donated me. Gorgeous.

Laying down on a paddleboard in river ducking under a tree, wearing human clothes instead of the probably better idea of a wetsuit.

Two gorgeous brushed suede waterproof boots with a background of grass

Side on of these lovely boots. Never had a pair so pretty.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 04/09/2026

Still fighting balsam in September here at Warleigh Nature Reserve. With 10+ football pitches of the stuff in tricky terrain and mixed in scrub, we’ve had our work cut out. Some areas have been cut or cleared 3-4 times this season. Some new seedlings, some cut reshooting, some pulled pile regrowth.

Some smaller Himalayan balsam only a few centimeters off the ground and mixed in with also short bramble, with trees in the background.

Small coppiced shrub of balsam, with as yet unformed seeds unready to pop or spread.

Small balsam growing from bet over and not quite crushed well enough previous efforts

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 04/09/2026

Haha I was wrong they went with Option B: igore it and hope it goes away.

The Nigel Farage and Reform foreign donations scandal excluded from all but one national newspaper front page this morning.
No sign of it at all on the front pages of the two papers which splashed the polls secretly funded by a Reform donor earlier this year

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 03/09/2026

If anyone has any hot tips for a first timer repairing a dry stone wall I’m all ears. Got two little projects for tomorrow.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 02/09/2026

How wet was it today? Wet enough to dissolve the glue on my second hand Carhart boots. 🫣 Anyone wanna donate £100 to @protect.earth to get me some actual waterproof boots (not wellies) that won’t fall apart mid job. Planting season is coming!!

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 02/09/2026

After a long morning of being in a field full of trees in the Cotswolds I’ve popped off and for a change of pace I’m now in a field full of trees in the Cotswolds. You’ll never guess what I’ll be doing next.

A bunch of varying alive and dead trees near Bourton on the Water in deer guards.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 30/08/2026

Cheaper options on the market already. www.reddit.com/r/PlugInSola...

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 30/08/2026

More options on the market already. www.reddit.com/r/PlugInSola...

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Central Brownshirt: massive radio. His identical twin: medium radio. Must be second in command. Lady Fash: Teeny tiny radio, because Reform dont want her straining her dainty little hands I guess.

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CCS/DAC boosters get so mad when you point out their favourite technowank has consistently underperformed industry predictions throughout its entire history. It’s not just “early days, it’ll get better, like solar panels”. Solar panels have always outperformed predictions.

Carbon capture capacity flat lining against all predictions barely getting off the X axis, whilst solar power has constantly risen Hocky stick style against much lower predictions

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Also dude “we would have to be burying around 1.6 billion tons, or 1,600 megatons, of CO2 per year by 2025.” You keep talking about sites offering 1.4 megatons. Are there 1000 of them actively running and storing the projected amount? No. Obviously not or this graph would match projections.

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It’s UK plug-in Solar time! This is still the only supplier in the UK, and it’s £100 cheaper if you collect it from one of their stores. If you want one in the South West I can see how many I can get in the van and drop them off between @protect.earth site visits. www.uksol.uk

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 27/08/2026

New Lake just dropped. gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario

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Busy morning of glamping hut checkout with grumpy niece, meetings in Wye Valley, and messing with GIS code after too much coffee. Now wandering through Woodland Trust land on Offas Dyke heading to a @protect.earth site, being chased by storms and no waterproofs. Don’t care. It’s nice here.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 22/08/2026

After possibly the worst week in history (the canal boat is all better now mostly and I’m over being burgled) I am taking a day off to progress the raised bed at the nature reserve. Filled it with logs, brash, then cuttings, then four reusable bags of compost from Bath’s The Urban Garden. Need more!

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 22/08/2026

Some common range arguments are: “EVs can’t haul 20 cows to market…” (some can yeah) and “EVs can’t tow 3 tonnes of oak tree I just cut down” (you should stop doing that) but a new nonsense enters the chat: “EV can’t get me from Toronto to Tuktoyaktuk in a single charge so it’s useless.” 🤣

Try your EV in the upper northern parts of Canada see how far you get especially with a grid that is nearly a 100 years away from the capacity to support them on a large enough scale for everyone to have one. I drive ride share there are 3 drivers with EVs while they are sitting charging I'm making money and often the EVs don't make it 6 hours of a 12 hour shift so they need to charge and lose 2 hours it takes 5 minutes to fill with gas

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 18/08/2026

Some toerag broke into my/charity garage and stole a few things, including a bike frame that I’d just sold on Vinted for £150. I needed that money. Barely done any client work all week with all the boat sinking drama, and charity has had me busier than usual all month.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 17/08/2026

Boat update: Electronics back online! My batteries went into protection mode. I thought they were too low for solar to bring them back, but they literally just needed to be turned off and on again. 🤣 Now I clean the engine bay. @juliancheal.dev removed the mouldy wood. Sponging out the river water.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 17/08/2026

RE my “rewilding” thread. On one side, there’s grumpy old land managers pretending all habitat creation or ecosystem restoration means “agricultural abandonment”. I was talking to them. I forgot on the other side are misinformed natural fallacy pushers who think any management at all is ecocide.

$People have some kind of compulsion to interfere with Nature. \")/ They are also ashamed of it so pretend it's 'necessary' and they are 'rewilding! Just admit you like gardening and controlling things thh. I seem to be in a minority of about 0.1% who just want Nature$ So no wild then - managed

That's not rewilding. It's creating a garden.

Rewilding is an ideological euphemism for gardening.

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The entire team has been out this summer checking up on all our woodlands, across England, Scotland, and Wales. Here are some quick shots from the very first woodland I ever planted five years ago, looking strong and glorious. With surveys in see how your local sites are doing. protect.earth/sites/

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When I am grown up I want to be a voluntary fire ranger riding around on horseback looking for trouble like the amazing community we have down at Liskeard checking on High Wood.

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I’m moored somewhere I shouldn’t be and it smells like Wessex Water, but now I can lock up and go deal with other issues. Like the charity lockup being broken into last night. Little dickheads ran off with a petrol auger that was donated to us for big orchard tree planting. Possibly more.

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Good news! I flagged down a passing boat and got towed off of the tidal Avon. We might have crashed into a few trees and smashed a bunch of plant pots but I’m free of the tides at least. Engine still out of action and electronics still doing nothing but charging my phone with solar and a pub meal.

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Some people think “rewilding” means land abandonment. If rewilding means not doing anything why am I constantly knackered. Grass is scythed, topped, and grazed. Drainage ditches blocked. Controlled burns in dry old conifer plantations until they can transition back to damp temperate rainforest.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 15/08/2026

Tides are getting later so I was out there with my wasp neighbours a while. Massive fish swam up to eat bugs right in front of me. Got the boat down neat and tidy, only had to get in the water and heave the bow off the rock ledge twice. Wet and sleepy with no power or shower so night night.

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I’ll ride this tide and the morning one, then get out into position in the river to catch more solar. It’s been working a charm the last few days. Eventually RCR will come and give me good or bad news about the engine and we can drive off, or get towed to a crane out. Either way it’s not forever.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 15/08/2026

Issue 3: a friend was boat sitting for the day as I was at Warleigh Nature Reserve (we built a raised planter with coppiced hazel and wooden dowels) I didn’t mention we’ve got 40% battery, and he likes to cook big meals, and we’re stuck in the shade… so now there’s 15% battery. No alternator. 🫣

Bashing some wooden stakes into the ground with post knickers and sledge hammers

Massive bit of wood being moved creatively by two very tired but strong volunteers

Holes drilled between round timber and wooden dowels connecting them

A healthy amount of growth coming back from our first copoiced area in Hazel wood

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Weirdly the ankle deep water in the bathroom and bedroom wasn’t going anywhere after the engine bay was entirely pumped out so I had to chainsaw out a bigger hole to stick this second bilge pump down lower. Got it down to an inch of water. Today is going to be fucking horrendous.

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It’s definitely good when your neighboaters send up a bat signal and your friends recognise the boat and call you up to make sure you’re actively shitting your pants and working on it.

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What about when your boat sinks so low the exhaust hole is taking on water, and you have to shove a plastic bag up there and move all the weight on the boat to the other side. Is that good?

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Is It Good… when your boat is sinking so badly you deploy a second bilge pump in your bedroom.

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Here’s some of my “Solar farms are necessary and usually aren’t bad” credentials if you needed them. The point is “all of the above” not just only the thing that’s most profitable and sometimes is bad actually. YIMBYs like James seem confused about this but -not all land is identical-.

Phil Sturgeon
@philsturg... • 3mo
Solar panels don't damage the countryside you just don't like the way they look.
Skylarks. Linnets. Yellowhammers.
www.ecoportal.net/en/solar-pan...
Solar panels were known to attract birds, but they are now drawing in species never seen in these areas be...
New research from the University of Cambridge has found that some birds speci...
• www.ecoportal.net

Phil Sturgeon @philsturgeon.com
Putting solar panels on roofs is sensible not just for cost savings but the shade reduces cooling costs and energy further. Every warehouse/factory will have them soon, but even when they do _we'll still need utility-scale solar in fields_. Decarbonising society and industry requires a lot of juice.
Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com • 2mo
IKEA didn't build renewable generation to power 1.47 million homes because politicians told them to. They did it because the economics stacked up.
With much of the investment already paid off, savings of over half a billion USD per year on electricity costs, the fundamentals become hard to ignore.
WORLD
ECONOMIC
FORUM
IKEA will generate more energy than it consumes by the end of this year

Phil Sturgeon
@philsturge... • 1mo
Before you go complaining about solar farms and suggesting we should be putting them on warehouses and carparks instead, please know that warehouses are rapidly deploying solar panels already but the government has said they won't be requiring carpark solar.
PREO VILLA
As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports
Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest ca...
eastangliabylines.co.uk

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How he’s made this about Greens is confusing, because neither the OP or the petition creator are Greens are Greens that I recognise nor do the advertise as such on social media. So James is just seeing an opportunity to crowbar in one of his anti-Green shitposts from back in April for the clicks.

The Green Party is
STILL bad at being green
We need 'industrial-scale' solar if we want to reach Net Zero.
JAMES O'MALLEY
APR 23, 2026
6 Listen

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James does not like being challenge when his obvious distortions are called out. Blocked immediately without response.

How did you get from "which could REDUCE the need to use farmland for solar farms" to
"pretending we can JUST cover car parks"
That's pretty warped even for you James.

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