Misuse of the increasingly popular rewilding concept risks alienating communities and harming existing #biodiversity. These 10 #rewilding principles can help rewild safely bit.ly/3PSbHWk Via IUCN

We've published a review of biodiversity metrics based on interviews with an incredibly knowledgeable cross-sectoral group of experts and our own experience at the #NaturalCapital Laboratory. Read our insights here: lifescapeproject.org/resources/ #BiodiversityMetrics #RewildingResearch

I’m delighted that the Prime Minister has today announced a new rainforests strategy for England: gov.uk/government/new… This is something I called for in my book & campaigned for with Seahorse Environmental. Thousands of you signed our petition calling for a strategy. Thread: 1/

Good news! NatureScot have approved our licence application to bring beavers back to the National Park. We’ll continue to work closely with landowners and partners over the next few weeks ahead of beavers being released into the wild. Stay tuned for updates 🦫 📸 Beaver Trust

Beavers are back in the Cairngorms! 🎉 This is the first out-of-range translocation (beyond where natural expansion would be expected in the short term) & sees the return of beavers to the area for the first time in around 400 years 🙌 Find out more 👇 buff.ly/3RudzYj

The request to the Parish Council for one small area of grass to be left unmown has had four discussions over a period of 6 months with a mountain of information regarding the environmental benefits of longer, undisturbed grass. Here's the final response 🙄

For anyone wanting to learn more about DNA extraction and eDNA, here's a very useful preprint by @jess_rieder and colleagues that aims to help ecologists, conservation managers, and future eDNA researchers understand how DNA extraction methods work. It's written for readers

if anyone wants to get serious about rehydrating the west, let me present my three-step plan:

Last week we were delighted to release a beaver family into a site in Suffolk. This is the first time this keystone species is thought to have been present in the county for over 400 years.

Last spring we asked you for your views on beavers in Wales through an online survey led by the University of Exeter. The results are now in, and you can read the full survey findings here 👉rb.gy/09hzwf. Thank you to all who took part in the survey. 📷© Beaver Trust

Thanks to everyone at #UKDNAWG24 for such a lovely response to my first ever talk!

🎥✨ I’m very pleased to share my latest animation, in collaboration with the awesome Beaver Trust! It was a mega project, pushing me to learn loads about river restoration and a bunch of new animating skills! Hope you enjoy 🤗 ➡️ youtu.be/VQHvFRd-cMQ?si…

Beavers Using Tools! Tool use among rodents is extremely rare; however, beavers are the first rodents documented using sticks in disputes along their territory borders.

MEEB co-funded #MScRes studentship using #eDNA approaches to illuminate vertebrate diversity from invertebrate samples as part of SUPERB - forest restoration ecology, close 31st May #UKDNAWG24 Bangor University Environmental & Natural Sciences @ Bangor Univ. BU Biology & Zoology mefgl.bangor.ac.uk/opportunities.…

A beautiful place within a globally designated site of importance for biodiversity with potential for European Protected Species - now destroyed without survey. Signed off by Natural England. What’s even the point of designating sites, Tony Juniper? What is the point? 🌱💔

Great news! A study reveals that reintroduced white-tailed eagles haven’t conflicted with livestock farming on the Isle of Wight 🦅 Reintroduced in 2019 on the Isle, the eagles thrive on cuttlefish and rabbits, avoiding livestock entirely. Learn more: i.mtr.cool/tjtbiuaokj

Two litters of wildcat kittens have been born in the Cairngorms 🎉 Following the release of 19 wildcats last summer, two females have successfully given birth in the wild, marking a huge milestone in our efforts to restore wildcats in Scotland ➡ savingwildcats.org.uk/kittensborninw…

This time of year, most of us have been busy carrying out fieldwork. Here Clare Cowgill (plus many others) helped me collect samples for my river eDNA modelling work. It was gruelling, as fieldwork often is. I'm due to return the favour, with a much easier trip in a few weeks!

National support for rewilding continues to grow 🌱 83% of the British public now support rewilding in Britain, and 89% of Labour voters support rewilding.* *stats from a new YouGov opinion poll commissioned by Rewilding Britain (1/4)

🌟We’re over the moon that the Welsh government gives thumbs up to beavers in Wales! 🐾 (1/2) wtwales.org/news/welsh-gov…