Matt Hay
@matthay44
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Ex-weatherman, mountain leader and aspiring author. Put the planet first and the rest will follow.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined April 2011
I'm an unapologetic advocate of reintroducing wolves to the Highlands but acutely aware how culturally difficult that will be and how much would have to change, land management wise, for co-existence to work. But it's nice to dream, eh? So I did just that
inkcapjournal.co.uk
Matthew Hay takes a trip into the future to watch wolves in the snowless Cairngorms, a decade after their reintroduction to the Highlands.
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This map shows which year had the warmest summer on record, for mean temperature, area by area. Note that for many areas, it was summer 2025. 1976 is no longer the warmest summer on record for any area.
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All snow melted in Scotland by August 6th this year, the earliest on record by over two weeks. This graphic helps to explain the reason why. Full melting used to be exceptional up until the early 2000s. Now survivals are becoming the exception, a 180° turn in almost no time.
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My annual hunt for autumn has borne fruit early this year, which is remarkable given the amount of anomalous warmth kicking around in 2025. Here she is, in all her ephemeral glory, a small pool of sub-528DAM air nosing across the west of Greenland. Winter is coming.
Not quite as early as last year but the 528DAM line is back !! Out west again, over Baffin Island, but the boreal autumn will be showing its hand closer to home in a week's time, with north winds bringing Svalbard its first snowfall of the season. Good news for us winter fans😌
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Hello––I'm a signatory to this campaign asking @NandosUK to: 1) publish in full the results of the independent supply chain audit to which it has agreed; 2) commit to the protection of the UK's rivers as a core pillar of its sustainability policies. Pls RT/share to encourage
🚨NEWS! Chefs, artists & campaigners join forces to demand Nando's publicly commit to protecting rivers. @NandosUK, you have the power to set a new industry standard by holding your poultry suppliers to account. Will you commit to protecting UK rivers? https://t.co/ukf0z4PVBs
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Listen to the Finnish president—this is what a real leader sounds like, unlike the nonsense Trump says.
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Absolutely, aye. The Pictish stone carvers had only ever seen wild boar on TV.
Wild boar or feral pigs are considered to be a non-native, invasive species in Scotland. Report sightings online at https://t.co/dAJwAa9vbt using ‘wild boar’ or by emailing wildlifeops@nature.scot
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Absolutely sensational on the Ouse Washes at dusk today!! Ducks, Geese, Gulls, Waders, Swans…and then the Cranes came. I think 87, arriving together, flying straight towards me calling and then circling. One of the best things I’ve seen! 🤩 @CambsBirdClub
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The amazing Strawberry Hill farm has been saved after @wildlifebcn raised £1.5 million. Thanks so much to everyone who read my story, spread the word and donated. Visit this beautiful place and be heartened that we together can do great things. https://t.co/VZH4NUPHyV
theguardian.com
Bedfordshire farm was saved through public donations after a successful £1.5m crowdfunding campaign
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In Baku today it is as if there are five @DavidLammy clones. He is everywhere at COP & making a huge & hugely positive impression. I can’t exaggerate how great it is to have such a senior figure drag the focus away from the technocratic one-dimensional focus on carbon counting
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⬆️ @UKPowerNetworks, please can we have installed some flight deflectors on the stretch of line at TL3818180148 in Cambridgeshire to try and prevent further deaths ⬇️ 3/3
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If you’re still on the fence about voting in this election, think about what really matters – about the values we were taught, the kind of country we want to be, and how this is a moment when your vote really does count. Your vote could determine the fate of our republic – the
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It’s not that we blame them, it’s that we’ve degraded to systems to the extent they can’t co-exist as they once would’ve. When you lose sea otters from a kelp forest on N.America’s pacific coast, do you blame sea urchins for proliferating and eating all the kelp? Of course not.
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As always Paddy says much better than I ever could something I have bumbled on about for ages. Discussions about land should be as much about state land as private land and as much about the "how" of land management as the "who" of land ownership.
"The Government has been watching us floundering in decay for decades. Now they want a National Park, they can’t stop telling us how important we are – but we wouldn’t need a cure if we hadn’t been allowed to get sick..." via @wildforest_matt
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"The Government has been watching us floundering in decay for decades. Now they want a National Park, they can’t stop telling us how important we are – but we wouldn’t need a cure if we hadn’t been allowed to get sick..." via @wildforest_matt
gallowayfarm.blog
There could be a way around the current National Park controversy. Ayrshire-based social media superstar Matt Cross recently put forward an alternative location for a National Park which might oil …
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Think how hard it is to secure footage like this - to show so clearly what these #criminals are up to, far from prying eyes, worried only about being caught out by tracking technology. How often do you think these crimes can be documented like this, and how many go unrecorded?
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Mil gracias a todos Many thanks to all Merci beaucoup à tous Grazie mille à tutti 谢谢大家 شكرا لكم جميعا תודה לכולכם Obrigado a todos Vielen Dank euch allen Tack alla Хвала свима Gràcies a tots
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