Nature Restoration Specialist | CEO, Restore | Author | Ecosystem Restoration | Species Reintroduction | https://xitter.cf/t.co/5KYTKeEHPJ
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RESTORE: it's launch day!
After six months of building our team, completing our equity raise and building our wildland & bio-abundance farming client portfolio of >76,000 acres, we are delighted to launch RESTORE with our new website.
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Benedict Macdonald retweeted
A gorgeous book every orchardist and cider maker should read. Orchard, by Benedict Macdonald and Nicholas Gates. In fact a good read for anyone with soul. Mine is well thumbed now. Great text , great woodcuts. #cider #orchards #books #ecology #conservation
Delighted to see the launch of our @RestoreNatureUK flagship project, the Pertwood Plain, in @guardian today. This is an exciting chance to restore at scale; reinstate lost processes and demonstrate what a true living ecosystem should and can become.
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Look what I got for Christmas - one chapter in before lunch - excellent @Rebirding1
After 3 years of some amazing debates & engagements on Twitter, I’ll be migrating to LinkedIn where I’ll be sharing (in longer articles) the ecological restoration journey we’re starting at RESTORE. A huge thanks to all my followers - let’s keep up the dialogue/challenge/debate!
Working in “land”, I know any praise of @ChrisGPackham can land one in trouble - but one doesn’t care. This is the most eloquently-narrated, well-crafted series I’ve ever watched in the field of science education. Every sentence brings revelation. It’s why we pay the licence fee.
4.5 billion years ago trillions of tonnes of carbonaceous chondrite meteorites and similar material came together to form planet earth .
#Earth continues tonight with 'Atmosphere' on BBC Two at 9pm , or watch now on iPlayer
@BBCStudios | #MadeByBBCStudios
Benedict Macdonald retweeted
Science now says more than half of all species on earth live in soil. So why do we pay fertilizer and pesticide companies to wage chemical warfare on them? They call it agriculture but it's really ecocide. Time to bring legal charges against firms making our planet unliveable
Benedict Macdonald retweeted
When will this fiendish British obsession with orderliness and tidiness in the countryside end?
It’s not a green and pleasant land when it’s been mowed, flailed and strimmed to within an inch of its life. Roadside verges ought to be refuges for biodiversity…
@Love_plants
I photographed these verges a few days ago, when there was lots of Rosebay willowherb in flower. Today, all flailed & this beautiful Elephant hawkmoth caterpillar was barely alive in the middle of the road! My 1st sighting of this #moth caterpillar this year.
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#Aspen trees prefer moist soils and are an ideal riparian species, providing vital shade for cold water dependent #salmon. Their leaves also boost nutrients in upland systems while deadwood shelters fry and diversifies flows➡️healthy rivers.
#Riverwoods
#PaintingScotlandYellow
Benedict Macdonald retweeted
Too often, stakeholders considering the return of #LynxToScotland are characterised as being for/against, but in truth, for many, it's a much more nuanced debate, eliciting conflicting feelings that reflect the complex costs and benefits this potential reintroduction presents.
Benedict Macdonald retweeted
1. This is a thread about the most powerful bird of all: a Guardian Giant. It’s essential to the recovery of nature – and could help farmers and landowners too. This thread explains how Eagle-owls could transform Britain: our island's most important avian keystone species.
Benedict Macdonald retweeted
Hiking outside the UK can be one of the most powerful ways of understanding how naturally impoverished the British landscape is, particularly the high places and uplands.
A thread following a trip to the Alps which vividly reminded me of what we're missing. 🧵
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I can already imagine this view, with wild boar rootling in the evening light, cranes, beaver lodges along the river and lynx skulking through the plantation behind.
This part of the Cairngorms feels like a national park should…let’s keep piecing the puzzle back together!
Benedict Macdonald retweeted
Can you help return missing species to Scotland? If so, this role might be for you. #WildlifeComeback
scotlandbigpicture.com//Imag…
This is going to be a really important read. I couldn’t have written Rebirding without the Historical Atlas of Breeding Birds. This takes things to the next level and will reveal yet again how much we have lost - and could have back.
I'm just ever so excited to announce that today is release day! My book is now officially out!🙀💚
THE ATLAS OF EARLY MODERN WILDLIFE catalogues the state of nature in Britain and Ireland between 1519-1772 CE. I've found some astonishing records!! 🐺🦫🦅🦃🐳🐟🐢🐍🦞🦐
ALT Book cover on a snowy background with eagle faded in: The Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife: Britain and Ireland between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution, by Lee Raye, from Pelagic Publishing. The cover has a wolf on it
Benedict Macdonald retweeted
What a moment! A #WhiteTailedEagle is born in England – the 1st for over 240 years! It hatched earlier this summer & has now fledged. It's the first breeding success of the birds released by @ForestryEngland & @RoyDennisWF in a landmark project to return this iconic species.
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Contrary to some claims, #rewilding is not about recreating the past. That said, we can use history as a barometer for the abundance of life that is possible in the UK. Yes, times have changed but ultimately it's about our tolerance of other species.
theconversation.com/wildlife…
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We desperately need more trees on our hillsides to reduce these kinds of muddy run-offs after heavy rainfall.
Bit of a downpour at Ullapool. Rivers across the Loch in full flow and washing a lot of mud into the sea.
@IonaMJMacDonald @BBCHighlands @bbcweather @HecMackenzie @pressjournal @STVNews @WillCopestake @UllapoolB
Hoping anyone interested in keystone species and restoring nature at scale enjoys the new paperback of Cornerstones - out now online and via all major bookshops.
Out now in paperback and on offer – Cornerstones: Wild Forces That Can Change Our World nhbs.com/cornerstones-wild-f… 2020 Wainwright Prize winner @Rebirding1 profiles 9 groups of animals and plants that might stem the tide of biodiversity loss in Britain. @chiffchat @BloomsburyBooks
