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Dave Barker

@woodlanddave.bsky.social
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Founder & Director at Wildlore CIC | Woodsman, Ecologist & Nature-Based Educator | #Bioregionalism, #CitSci, #DeepEcology #Kinship, #NatureConnectedness, #Resilience & #WildService. www.wildlore.uk

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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Sometimes a gate is more than a boundary—it marks the start of a journey. I’m delighted to be formalising a lease that gives Wildlore CIC a home at Laughton Greenwood: a woodland where people can slow down, reconnect with the more-than-human world, and find belonging. #DeepEcology #Kinship
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#natureconnectedness #wildlore #mentalhealth #deepecology #kinship #ecology #wildernesstherapy #resilience #bioenchantment #ecoliteracy | Dave Barker
Sometimes a gate is more than a boundary—it marks the beginning of a journey. I’m delighted to be formalising a lease agreement that will provide Wildlore CIC with a home at Laughton Greenwood. This ...
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Agricology @agricology.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Help save Wakelyns! Wakelyns is at risk of being sold without your help. Be part of this exciting new chapter and help secure the iconic Wakelyns site for future generations. More here: agricology.co.uk/wakelyns-is-... #wakelyns #savewakelyns #agrobiodiversity #agroforestry #Groundswell2026
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Wakelyns is raising £1 million to secure its future - Agricology
Wakelyns is at risk of being sold without your help. Please buy shares in the Community Benefit Society and prevent the pioneering agroforestry research site from being sold on the open market.
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"I want to explain why the world needs saving from the bad ideas of George [Monbiot] and his fellow ecomodernists." via @chrissmaje.bsky.social #Food #Farming #Politics #FoodSecurity #RegenerativeFarming #Groundswell2026 #RegenAg #Localism #PostGrowth #Permaculture #Horticulture
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Saving the world from bad ideas: the continuing failure of food ecomodernism
This week sees a more personal anniversary for me than the Brexit celebrations/recriminations last time: it’s three years since I published my book Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future. In it, I criticised...
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Antje Otto @angie0.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The Economists have spoken. Poverty is manufactured embedded in a socially and ecologically unsustainable economic system. More than 550 signatories to date call on governments to adopt indicators beyond economic growth to enable human and environmental flourishing to dismantle poverty.
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
A true national identity — one capable of sustaining life rather than consuming it — cannot be built on abstraction or ideological rigidity. It must be grounded in relationship with the living world. #Kinship #DeepEcology #RegenerativeCulture #Happiness #Welbeing
wildlorecic.substack.com
A Love of Country
The choice before us is not between opposing ideologies or rigid positions. It is between relationship and rupture.
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Petition: the UK faces growing risks from climate & nature breakdown - from extreme weather to economic disruption & national security threats. Yet the public has never been given a clear national briefing on the scale of these risks. Government should hold an emergency briefing from leading experts
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Petition: Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks
The UK faces growing risks from climate and nature breakdown - from extreme weather to economic disruption and national security threats. Yet the public has never been given a clear national briefing ...
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"What might change if society were shaped not around extraction and productivity, but around nervous system wellbeing, ecological belonging, and relational intelligence?" #wellbeing #natureconnection #wildlore #mentalhealth #kinship #deepecology #neurodivergent
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The World Is Not Broken — It Is Narrowly Designed
What if the future of people and planet depends on neurodivergent ways of being?
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Today is Earth Day 🌍 And I find myself here again… drawn back to the quiet, living world. Not as an escape, but as a return. Wellbeing isn’t something we make, it’s something we remember. In Wildlore, kinship is felt: we belong within this web of life. Not fixing. Not forcing. Just reconnecting.
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
A beautiful film that very much resonates with our work here at Wildlore CIC Something to watch over a coffee—& maybe a little cake 🤗 #Kinship #DeepEcology #NatureConnectedness #Wellbeing #Rewilding #RegenerativeCulture #Wildlore youtu.be/7zTQrHEHdnQ?...
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The REAL meaning of life - Matthijs Schouten
YouTube video by Commonland
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
“At Wildlore CIC, we create spaces where people can heal, grow and remember their place within the world. Through earth-based practices, we cultivate reconnection, resilience, and regeneration — anchored in deep ecological ethics and a living sense of kinship with all life.” More: www.wildlore.uk
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◉●○•° @cosmoecology.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
"Forests may be growing faster—but they’re also becoming weaker, simpler, and far more vulnerable."
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Forests are changing fast and scientists are deeply concerned
Forests around the world are quietly transforming, and not for the better. A massive global analysis of more than 31,000 tree species reveals that forests are becoming more uniform, increasingly domin...
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
“Scientists on the Royal Research Ship Discovery are monitoring a key Atlantic current. Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson, who is with them, says the analysis sends a shiver down the spine.” #AMOC #climate #collapse channel4news.substack.com/p/why-shutdo...
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Why shutdown of key Atlantic current could provoke dramatic climate reaction
Scientists on the Royal Research Ship Discovery are monitoring a key Atlantic current. Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson, who is with them, says the analysis sends a shiver down the spine.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This is the report I spoke of on #bbcaq just now - ministers tried to suppress it, were finally forced to release it after an FoI, but shamefully only published a redacted version. The first duty of Govt is to protect its citizens - that starts with being honest with us about scale of threat we face
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Gathering The Tools… Travelling west to a woodland that’s gifted both a ‘thin place’ for my practice & much needed medicine for my mind. Imbolc approaches & the spirits of my ancestors demand a fire & some intention spoken aloud 🔥 #kinship #deepecology #wildlore #casstromknives #woodsman
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
PODCAST: Steve Carver (@landethics.bsky.social) on the Challenges of Implementing #Rewilding Goals Across Fragmented Geographic, Cultural, and Political Landscapes rewilding.org/episode-163-...
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Episode 163: Steve Carver on the Challenges of Implementing Rewilding Goals Across Fragmented Geographic, Cultural, and Political Landscapes
Dr. Steve Carver is Professor of Rewilding and Wilderness Science in the School of Geography, University of Leeds and Director of the Wildland Research Institut
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
What I needed to read & feel today 🙏 “Regenerative accelerationism is the practice of building alternatives with the same self-amplifying dynamics that make capitalism so powerful, but oriented toward life rather than extraction.” ✊ Great thought & call to action via @omniharmonic.bsky.social 👏
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A Regenerative Accelerationist Manifesto
Navigating the Technocapitalist Endgame
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
New UKGov National Security Assessment on imminent threats to the UK from global ecosystem #collapse which "threaten UK national security and prosperity”. READ HERE: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e... #food #farming #drought #flooding #fishing #forestry #water #health #wellbeing
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/01/2026
NEW | VIDEO ‘Europeans need to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan talks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’, the end of the western alliance - and why Keir Starmer needs to change course, fast Prefer to read? 🔗⬇️ youtu.be/0goGamFRtO0
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Europe needs a dramatic strategic revolution - now: historian Robert Kagan
YouTube video by The Nerve
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
In her annual lecture, Chatham House Director Bronwen Maddox described a world in which superpower competition threatens the peace of others, and said that US policy under President Trump amounts to a revolution. Via @chathamhouse.org youtu.be/84X-hsB9Vy4?...
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The US's 'radically new role in the world'.
YouTube video by Chatham House
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
"Can beaver-engineered #ecosystems & migratory fish thrive together?" A @beavertrust.bsky.social documentary, which explores the delicate balance between #beaver restoration & the #conservation of migratory #fish populations. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Rewilding #Angling #NatureBasedSolutions
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Balancing The Scales
YouTube video by Beaver Trust
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
“This is an urgent call to transform our human systems now before collapse becomes inevitable,” “The science is good. The solutions are known. What is required is the courage to act at the scale and speed that history demands,” #PostGrowth #EcologicalEconomics #SystemsChange
theguardian.com
‘Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour’
UN GEO report says ending this harm key to global transformation required ‘before collapse becomes inevitable’
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Tree Planting Spades… Yesterday was #RemembranceDayForLostSpecies — and what better way to honour all the creatures never to be born again through human actions than by helping to restore an ancient woodland? “One Life For All Life, and All Life For One Life” 🙏 #Kinship #DeepEcology #Community
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
WATCH: #NationalEmergencyBriefing on #Climate and #Nature by UK experts. #Wildlife #Biodiversity #Business #Culture #Health #Wellbeing #Extinction #Rewilding #Ecology #Conservation #Agriculture #Farming #Food #Leadership #Politics #Inequality #Education
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WATCH: National Emergency briefing on climate and nature by UK experts
YouTube video by GBNews
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Powerful morning of gut-punching presentations on true gravity of #climate & nature emergency from leading scientists speaking at packed #nationalemergencybriefing. Overwhelmingly clear we can only make the necessary green transition if social justice & equity are at its heart
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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Chris Packham opening proceedings at the National Emergency Briefing, Westminster… Huge numbers here in this great hall incl many MPs, Lords, journos and more… He’s holding up a pale blue dot… Us…
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
#OCEANS AND #FORESTS: A NEW DISCOVERY "...to see the land and sea as one interconnected ecosystem. To see that when we plant a tree, the ocean drinks. And when we lose a forest, the tide turns." #Ecology #Rewilding #Ecosystems #COP30 #Rainforests www.rainforestrecovery.org.uk/news/oceans-...
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Oceans and Forests: A New Discovery — Rainforest Recovery | Woodland Trust
Working with associate lecturer Dr. Benjamin Phillips, the Woodland Trust has discovered a groundbreaking glimpse into the important interactions between oceans and forests. Until now, these ecosystem...
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
“We go to the woods not to escape the world, but to rejoin it.” To rejoin the world is to return to relationship: with place, with one another, and with the wider web of life that holds us all. It is an act of remembering that our wellbeing is intertwined with the wellbeing of the land. #Kinship
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
"I only hope my book contributes to the appreciation that a new dark age, in the many meanings of the term, is upon us, and this needs to be the baseline for plotting the most congenial routes into the future." @chrissmaje.bsky.social #Bioregionalism #PostGrowth #Community #Resilience #Localism
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Finding Lights in a Dark Age - published today | Chris Smaje
My book, Finding Lights in a Dark Age: Sharing Land, Work and Craft, is officially published today in the UK (US publication is 11 November). It’s available in paperback, e-book and audiobook versions...
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Finally #IUCN Guidelines for #Rewilding published 👏 "The rewilding vision requires a paradigm shift in how we exist and interact with our environment on Earth." Huge gratitude to @landethics.bsky.social et al ✊ Read Guidelines Here: portals.iucn.org/library/node...
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Some of the magical moths that stopped by last night… #Ecology #Kinship #Wildlore
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The best sleep is one had hanging from the trees 🌳 🌲🌳
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
View from the hammock tonight at Laughton Greenwood I’m undertaking a 2nd moth survey for the year + I’ve also deployed a static bat detector to see what other stars of the night sky are flying about the woods. #Ecology #Kinship #Biodiversity #Rewilding #Forestry #Sussex #Bats #Moths #Wildlore
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Chris Smaje @chrissmaje.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
You can now preorder my new book 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age' from Barnes & Noble. Rewards members (it's free to sign up online) get 25% discount, premium members get a further 10% off: barnesandnoble.com/w/finding-li... Use PREORDER25 at checkout. #BNPreorder #BookSky @barnesandnoble.com
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Finding Lights in a Dark Age: Sharing Land, Work and Craft|Paperback
How we can meet the challenges of our age by moving away from the political and economic philosophies of both the left and right to a more equitable re-organization of society, economy, land and food ...
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Fixing the garden step is gonna have to wait — it’s home to a Leafcutter Bee 🐝 #Kinship #Ecology #Biocentrism #NatureConnectedness
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"...nine planetary boundaries. These are constraints on how we live. As long as humans, like any other animal, live within those nine constraints, we can do it forever, (...) If we pass one boundary, we should be shitting our pants. We’ve passed seven! (...) what we’ve got to do now is hunker down"
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‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics
"We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems," said David Suzuki in an exclusive interview with iPolitics. "For me, what we've go...
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
“It’s getting increasingly difficult to farm given the impacts we’re now seeing with #ClimateChange. We’ve gone from extreme #Drought to biblical #Floods and back to drought in the space of just a few years. It’s devastating and many of us in #Farming now fear for a sustainable future.” #Food
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More than 80% of UK farmers worried about climate crisis harming livelihood, study finds
Farmers warn of risk to Britain’s food supply as more than three-quarters take hit to income from extreme weather
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Great to hear Derrick Jensen talking to Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social ✊ #TransformativeAdaptation #DeepAdaptation #Community #Resilience #Kinship #RegenerativeCulture #Health #Wellbeing #Rewilding #Bioregionalism #Permaculture #Localism #Agriwilding #Agrarianism #Collapse #Relocalisation
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Resistance Radio Interview of Rupert Read
Podcast Episode · Resistance Radio · 14/04/2025 · 56m
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
"What would change if forests, waterways and wildlife were recognised as more than just resources?" #Kinship www.positive.news/society/givi...
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Giving non-human beings a seat at the table: Animals in the Room
What would change if the forests, waterways, and wildlife around us were recognised as more than just resources?
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
"Engaging with #Nature offers a low-cost, scalable solution—boosting our #Wellbeing and inspiring us to act for the planet. But how do visiting nature and feeling connected to it work together to deliver these benefits?" #NatureConnection #NatureConnectedness #Health #MentalHealth #Kinship
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Bioregioning is a practice, a journey of connection, learning, and action... “Bioregions define the appropriate scale for regional self-reliance, responsible environmental action and human participation in the community of life.” — Daniel Wahl (2001) #Bioregionalism #Biocentrism #Kinship #Ecology
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Bioregioning: the defining practice of regenerative cultures
“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.” — Wendell Berry (2001)
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
“The relationship between climate and conflict is becoming increasingly clear in our own time, so these findings aren’t just important for historians. Extreme climate conditions lead to hunger, which can lead to societal challenges, which eventually lead to outright conflict.”
theguardian.com
British rebellion against Roman legions caused by drought, research finds
The pivotal ‘barbarian conspiracy’ of AD367 saw Picts, Scotti and Saxons inflicting crushing blows on Roman defences
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
🚨 New Website 🚨 “Time is running out for our precious rainforests. The fragile woods along our rainforest zone need expert care to survive. We must act now before it’s too late, to ensure a secure future for this rare habitat.” #Rewilding #Forestry www.rainforestrecovery.org.uk?fbclid=PAZXh...
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Rainforest Recovery | Explore & Conserve | Woodland Trust
Discover and protect the rare temperate rainforests of the Southwest, vital for biodiversity and climate. Learn, volunteer, and support our crucial conservation efforts.
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
“If you don’t know Nature [kinship] — you don’t know the potential [health & wellbeing].” #Bioregionalism #Kinship #Ecology #NatureConnection #NaturesRecovery #NatureBasedSolutions #Localism #Biocentrism #Community #Grassroots #Resilience #Biodiversity #Wildlife #RewildYourLife #RewildYourself
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Why Not Scotland? | The Rewilding Nation documentary
Join Flo, a young Scot from Glasgow, on an intensely personal journey, as she seeks out examples of nature recovery around Europe. Like many of her generation, Flo is concerned by the state of nature and fearful about an uncertain future. But during her travels, she discovers places where nature is making a spectacular comeback, breathing life back into the landscape and revitalising human communities. Encouraged by these stories of hope and renewal, she is prompted to wonder: Why Not Scotland? A Scottish Rewilding Alliance film, forming the central pillar of the Rewilding Nation campaign. Produced by rewilding charity SCOTLAND: The Big Picture. Starring Flo Blackbourn. Produced and directed by Mat Larkin. Executive producer: Peter Cairns. Assistant producer: Tierney Lloyd. Find out more at www.scotlandbigpicture.com/why-not-scotland Sign up for Rewilding Nation updates: www.rewild.scot/newsletter-sign-up
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
“Deep-rooted cultural beliefs and legal protections continue to play a crucial role in safeguarding snow leopards, supported by awareness campaigns that reinforce traditional practices and conservation,” a new commentary explains. #Kinship #Rewilding #DeepEcology
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How cultural and religious beliefs combine for snow leopard conservation (commentary)
In November 2023, at 4 a.m., four snow leopards made their way into Mingmar Gurung’s livestock corral in Dhakmar village, Mustang district, Nepal. Hearing the goats’ commotion so early in the morning,...
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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 02/04/2025
Is #RegenerativeAgriculture the solution to delivering for both food and nature? A new report by the British Ecological Society brings together 40 academics, practitioners and farmers across the UK to explore the evidence. 👇 shorturl.at/s9TM4
An image of a wheat field is to the right. On the left, against a beige backdrop, the text says, 'Regenerative agriculture,
does it work for farmers and nature? New BES report looks at the evidence'
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
"Science ‘storytelling’ urgently needed amid climate and biodiversity crisis." #Ecology #Conservation #Rewilding #Kinship #Biodiversity #Wildlife #ClimateCrisis #BiodiversityCrisis #Agroecology #Agroforestry #RegenerativeFarming #Storytelling #Communication #NatureConnnection
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Scientists 'must experiment with storytelling'
Science ‘storytelling’ urgently needed amid climate and biodiversity crisis.
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Interspecies Sunset Watching… #Kinship
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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
At Last… #Education #Ecology #Kinship #Biocentrism
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
It's fun how capitalists say "we can't have socialism because people don't trust the state!" Mate, we don't trust the state because it is captured by capital and serves the interest of the capitalist class. It is precisely *because* of capitalism that no one trusts the state.
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