George Layton
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Countryside Ranger on Exmoor🌳 Ecosystem restoration and wildlife conservation. Rock climbing. SWW History and IC.
Joined January 2015
"Oh good, another documentary about how poor little Britain managed to defeat Hitler the military genius against all the odds with no resources, help, planning, engineering, science or competence but instead by being really super plucky and having stiff upper lips."
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HUGE NEWS: UK Gov't to ban bottom trawling across 41 protected areas of English seas spanning 30,000 square kms. Thank you @SteveReedMP! And on the day after David Attenborough saw Keir Starmer too. Advocacy works! Go and see the film Ocean. https://t.co/5LGZ6HmdFq
observer.co.uk
A new policy aims to protect 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030
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Nature is not a political football. Restoring wildlife is vital, not a point scoring exercise. All politicians need a GCSE in Natural History. No 10 blocks beaver release plan as officials view it as ’Tory legacy’. #gcsenathist @CarolineLucas
theguardian.com
Exclusive: Natural England furious that years of work has been undone, with minister urged to push policy through
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Fabulous to see where some of the @cairngormsnews beavers have been released at @Rothiemurchus. Brilliant signage along the path to help educate, inform and entice people to the magical wonder of beavers. Great work and well done to all involved🦫
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Glorious day in Holnicote @nationaltrust exploring the huge transformation brought by #LargeWood in the Stage-Zero #river Aller #restoration. Amazed by the blooming #wildlife and amount of #wetland. Perks of doing research @CREWW_uk @UniofExeter and more news 🔜 #grant #NERC
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This man had it right on Question Time. Beware of people who offer racism, because they don't offer anything. #BBCqt
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What an extraordinarily disingenuous tweet. Labour had nothing to do with the collapse of Northern Rock. In fact it bailed it out. Meanwhile Rishi Sunak was a hedge fund manager at TCI which caused the collapse of RBS roughly a year later.
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I disagreed strongly with Tony Blair re the Iraq war. But here, 2005, he hands Nigel Farage his arse on a plate. Farage's face is a picture. #C4News #ConManFarage
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Research that proves our long-held belief that these "eco-system engineers" really are a new solution to a systemic problem of loss of nature, loss of biodiversity and climate change. #bison
Rewilded Bison are climate heroes - new research A herd of Bison reintroduced to Romania by the teams at WWF Romania & @RewildingEurope are helping their ecosystem to draw down vast amounts of carbon - nearly 10 times more than without their presence!
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Conservationists: "You want to create wood pasture.. a lowland habitat, of mosaic scrub, natural succession, structural complexity... God what next! What does that even look like?!" Heathland: *just here, existing* If only we could visualise it, without heather.
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This is nonsense from @timfarron. Apart from anything, landowners are legally unable to evict their farmer tenants. The best Landscape Recovery schemes are the ones designed in partnership with tenants. And the surest pathway towards economic and social renewal in our upland
Many farmers are telling me that rich, wealthy landlords are using the Government's new Landscape Recovery Scheme to make a tidy profit by evicting farmers off their land. This is utterly appalling and it's happening on the Conservative Government's watch.
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This kind of sneaky vileness goes on all the time. It's not the nets or the trawlers or habitat loss or pollution or siltation of spawning grounds. Nope it's always another species with the solution desired by the narrowest of dark, medieval mindsets being the ability to kill.
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Satellite data like #Landsat are a truly powerful way to see geomorphology in action! A fantastic tool for the science!
For the past 30 years, #Landsat satellites have helped scientists track the evolution of the Padma River 🛰️ Through its twists & turns, erosion has carved away the river’s outer edges, reshaping the landscape and leaving scars where water once flowed. https://t.co/lwa9gFdKGX
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This is an *amazingly rare* and fascinating video of a wolf bounding into beaver pond and catching a beaver swimming underwater—something that has never been documented before! Further, to our knowledge, this is only the 3rd video ever of a wolf catching a beaver. And this might
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For all those complaining about beavers in Scotland I have an answer - you’re not going to like it!
This is an *amazingly rare* and fascinating video of a wolf bounding into beaver pond and catching a beaver swimming underwater—something that has never been documented before! Further, to our knowledge, this is only the 3rd video ever of a wolf catching a beaver. And this might
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This is what leadership, courage, and integrity look like. An astonishingly good speech from Robert Habeck, Germany's Vice Chancellor.
Bravo Germany. I find this incredibly moving and worthy of contemplation, especially when one considers that my Jewish grandfather had to flee Germany almost exactly 83 years ago. https://t.co/UFcF8Ru1o9
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