
Pete Cooper
@PeteMRCooper
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Species Recovery with @RestoreNatureUK. Naturalist, writer. Wilding and species reintroduction specialist. Chaotic nature TikToks. Sniffer of mammal poo.
Bristol, England
Joined June 2010
Ever wondered if you could meet all your favourite wildlife biologists in a video game?
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I’ll linger here till the floodwaters have fully consumed the place in filth (it’s rising quicker by the day), but the transfer has begun. Find me at
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The key lesson of the Trump victory for us is that Labour has to deliver the significant improvement in quality of life that people can feel or we face the rise of right wing populism that has swept America. Half measures won’t be enough.
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Lib Dems Ed Davey has taken a stronger line than the PM:
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I’ve seen better
Review: Sussex Bird Report 2023 County bird reports don't come much better than this, says Ed Stubbs: https://t.co/4IQAix6xbW
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I've just learnt (thanks to Elias Daniel) about this June 2024 case from Norway of a White-tailed eagle trying to kill (unsuccessfully) a Harbour porpoise https://t.co/n0opTDbro2 Eagles vs cetaceans, wow!! #animals #eagles #whales #marinemammals
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Stories about werewolves pole-vaulting over stairs in Southampton houses really stuck with my impressionable brain reading about it in a paranormal book nearly 20 years ago, as they should do.
The Holy Grail has been found! We've been sitting on this for a couple of weeks: the @BBCArchive contacted us about a clip they'd found in the bowels of the archive and wanted to get our reactions and thoughts... it's the long-lost Nationwide clip about THE HEXHAM HEADS! 1/2
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Here we go again @MailOnline. No-one has issued an 'urgent warning to Britons' and why would they? A nature reserve with very rare species, including spiders, hardly warrants a warning. These are small, harmless animals; this particular one is all of 3mm long. @nationaltrust
Urgent warning to Britons as more than 50 different species of spider are found in a nature reserve - including one that has NEVER been seen there before https://t.co/bo0ZDZyLCo
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🚨 EXTINCTION ALERT 🚨 The @IUCN has just uplisted the African penguin from Endangered to Critically Endangered. I've spent so much time swimming with these precious birds. This is absolutely devastating. 👉📖 https://t.co/x52Q7e8m35
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When I take people to see my animals, one of the 1st questions they ask is, "what use is it?" … Does a creature have to be of direct material use to mankind in order to exist? …you are asking the animal to justify its existence without having justified your own. - G. Durrell
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Doctor Who is more famous than the concept of an owl. (2008)
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This thread is the reason that posts and conversations about biodiversity and conservation are so important: 13,000 people liked a thread that is celebrating species extinction and environmental destruction. It’s just so disappointing.
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To be silent is to be complicit. #Gaza
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This is not a model. Or taxidermy. This is a "fossilised" Wolly Rhino, discovered in Starunia mine in Carpathian Poland (now Ukraine) in 1929. Dating to the Pleistocene, its exquisite preservation is owed to a mixture of brine, oil and clays. And held on display in Krakow.
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Amazing to see the apologists for raptor persecution still deflecting in the face of actual footage of a hen harrier being shot by a keeper. You couldn’t make it up.
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Click for a bigger view of Keir Starmer staring down an apparently Komodo dragon-sized newt Stay for a dive into this government's "build build build" agenda and what it means for nature So far, green groups are onside. Can the truce hold? https://t.co/DSASMjgjBY
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The UK prime minister is going for growth. That means a fight with the green lobby.
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This weekend, we trialled a festival style meet-up (just so happened it was also my birthday). This is something the nature industry in the UK is SCREAMING for & we now know it can be done. Watch this space for October 2025......🤠🎪🥃🥳
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