Conservation ecologist, filmmaker, author, wildlife forensics. Film festival director - @EdiConsFilmFest Latest film https://xitter.cf/t.co/pbhnaynnxt
Edinburgh, Scotland
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Looking for something to do this weekend? Join us for the FIRST out-of-Edinburgh screening of @EdiConsFilmFest on December 14 💙
The films showcase the importance of conservation, giving us agency to make positive impacts.
Book tickets now 👉 highlandwildlifepark.org.uk/…
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Come to the Highland Wildlife Park for an afternoon of inspiring short films celebrating conservation success from around the world, from Scotland to Indonesia.
Saturday 14th December. Tickets via the Highland Wildlife Park Events page
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🐘 Bertha Chipanda works tirelessly to protect Malawi's wildlife with our partner TRACE Wildlife Forensics Network, thanks to players of @PostcodeLottery.
This #WorldRangerDay, let's celebrate the rangers dedicated to protecting our planet's wildlife! 💪
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We have a winner! If you were at one of our 2024 screenings, keep an eye on your email inbox as one of you will be receiving notification that you have won a £150 voucher from @finisterre!
I wrote a blog post for @SEFARIscot about this year's @EdiConsFilmFest. Have a read and if you like what you see come along #tonight to watch the films this evening as we are having a small screening at the @finisterre store in #Edinburgh
sefari.scot/blog/2024/05/16/…
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Come along to the Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival Partner Screening from 6 to 9pm tomorrow and check out the film by @simondures, featuring our own Ben Ross, explaining the work to protect at least 30% of our land and sea for nature by 2030. orlo.uk/3DBX6
Another chance to see some amazing short films and your chance to win a Finisterre gift voucher.
The buzz in the air after the last screening was wonderful, so come along to see what it is all about.
Tickets are still available for our @finisterre screening of this year's wonderful conservation films. Come along for an evening of positive, uplifting short films.
Sponsored by @SEFARIscot, @PostcodeLottery, @NtlMuseumsScot
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Don't forget we have another screening of this year's films and tickets are still available.
It's going to be a great event! There will be beer! 🍺
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A quick reminder, if you didn't manage to catch the Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival, we are having another screening at the Edinburgh @finisterre store this Thursday.
Come along for a wonderful, uplifting evening of films!
#Edinburgh
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Free film tonight!
It's a good doc do watch as well!!
📽️Rewilding: Why Not Scotland?
Free, this Thursday 6.30
Nature is dramatically recovering in EU. Scotland is depleted, but WNS shows how landscape ecological restoration helps nature, climate & people.
Refreshments & discussion.
#Edinburgh #Rewilding
tinyurl.com/WNS24
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In Edinburgh tonight and need something to do?
Want to see an inspiring film about the conservation potential of Scotland?
@BanzaiEdinburgh are screening the @ScotlandTBP film #WhyNotScotland!
It's well worth a watch!
Really excited that our film 'Crime Scene to Courtroom' has been selected as a finalist in the #VaasaWildlifeFestival for best Environment and Conservation film!
Our film will be screened in Vaasa, Finland this September!
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1/🧵Pleased to present new research I co-led. It’s now out in @ScienceMagazine and definitively shows that #ConservationWorks. Great news isn’t it!? It’s been a pleasure working with @pennyultimate, @wildbusiness, @IUCNscience, and others. Below, I tell you all about it
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🧵(1/4) Exciting news! A first-of-its-kind study led by Re:wild, @iucn, @dice_kent, and @oxford_uni, published in @sciencemagazine, reveals conservation efforts are effective at slowing biodiversity loss. 🌿 rewild.org/conservation-work…
#ConservationWorks #Biodiversity
Another chance to see a wonderful lineup of films
Very happy to announce we will be running another screening of the Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival at the @finisterre store in Edinburgh on 16th May.
Come along!
Tickets via our website
We had a very successful @EdiConsFilmFest yesterday!
If you want to see all the amazing films, we will have another screening with @finisterre at their store in #Edinburgh on the 16th of May.
Tickets via the festival website.
Hope to see you there!
I just premiered a new film at @EdiConsFilmFest last night. If you want to see what could be the future of conservation here in #Scotland, have a watch.
#30x30
@NatureScot @NatSciNMS @seawilding @ScotLandEstates @SEFARIscot @PostcodeLottery @ECoS_media
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