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Charlotte Maddix @cwmaddix.bsky.social · 29d

There’s no clearer way to show the people in power how important rewilding is than turning up on the doorstep of Holyrood with a hundred campaigners... and making some noise. 📣

Tomorrow, let’s call on Scotland's politicians to #StopStallingStartRewilding! 🌱🐾🌊🪸

Sign up: bit.pulse.ly/vgngy4fyli

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Rewilding Britain @rewildingbritain.org.uk · Sep 18

We love this video as a quick explainer of the role of beavers in wildfire prevention.

That's exactly why we're calling for of them!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAM9...

Beavers and Wildfire: a stop-motion story by Emily Fairfax

YouTube video by Emily Fairfax

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Charlotte Maddix @cwmaddix.bsky.social · Sep 18

We're on track to have a hundred people standing side by side outside the Scottish Parliament next month - calling on the Scottish Government to stop stalling and start rewilding. 🌱💚

Room for a few more (particularly if you've got a good costume!).

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/green-mean...

Green Means Go! Stop Stalling, Start Rewilding | Holyrood Stunt | Oct 1st

A powerful visual stunt outside Holyrood to demand action and expose the barriers to a wilder Scotland

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Charlotte Maddix @cwmaddix.bsky.social · Sep 11

Genuinely still remember getting off the train in Edinburgh for the very first time and just going...

what

what!

!!!

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Charlotte Maddix @cwmaddix.bsky.social · Sep 11

🌿 The Community Rewilding Guide is here! 🎉 Your toolkit for working with others to restore nature at scale - from forming a group to practical rewilding.

www.rewild.scot/community-rewilding-guide

Huge thanks to everyone who helped shape this resource for co-creating the #RewildingNation!

Photo image featuring words: Community Rewilding Plan: things we'll need to get started. A list with checkboxes says: a group; agreement about waht we want to do; a place we can make a difference; access to ecological know-how; a way to track progress; inspiration and support. The first and last items are ticked. Next to 'inspiration and support' it says 'found', which is circled, with an arrow leading off to a picture of a report that says REWILDING: a guide for community groups. Graphics feature a beaver and a person with a clipboard.

Photo of two copies of a report on a carpet

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Charlotte Maddix @cwmaddix.bsky.social · Aug 7

Scotland can be a Rewilding Nation - if we can break through the barriers holding rewilding back.

Green means GO! Call on the government to stop stalling - and start rewilding.

Join us outside the Scottish Parliament on 1st October.

✍️ Sign up here: bit.ly/3GYBRs9

#RewildScotland #RewildingNation

Photo of a cheering group of people in front of plants. Text says: Green means GO! Join us, Wednesday 1st October

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Charlotte Maddix @cwmaddix.bsky.social · May 29

By scrapping plans for a Galloway National Park, the Scottish Government has again proved it can't successfully plot a path to a wilder Scotland.

We need leadership – not another retreat from meaningful action.

Read the Scottish Rewilding Alliance statement here: rewild.scot/scrapping-pl...

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The Ferret @theferret.scot · May 18

🔴 NEW: A bid to release beavers in the Highlands was delayed after intensive lobbying by farmers and landowners prompted an intervention by the local MSP and deputy first minister, Kate Forbes.

Find out more: theferret.scot/beave...

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Runnymede Trust @runnymedetrust.bsky.social · May 19

People of colour and Indigenous peoples across the world are facing the worst effects of a climate and nature emergency which they didn’t cause 🌍

Yet their struggles have been repeatedly ignored by people in positions of power, often with deliberate intent.

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Elect Her @electheruk.bsky.social · Mar 19

Can you unite people? Be a Councillor!

You could make the difference. Be a champion for your community.

Our partners are running 3 💥 events this week to demystify the world of councillors!

Our 1st event is today! Two tomorrow - find out more 👉 www.elect-her.org.uk/be-a-council...

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Charlotte Maddix @cwmaddix.bsky.social · Mar 13

I love cycling at night (such quiet streets!) but the concentration of absolute roasters racing along narrow streets is definitely higher than in the daytime.

🏎🏁🤨

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Charlotte Maddix @cwmaddix.bsky.social · Feb 27

It's World Gaelic Week - so I'm resharing the rewilding video that brought me the most joy from last year: here's the amazing Hector reading extracts from the #RewildingNation Charter in Gaelic.

🌟💚🌟💚🌟💚🌟💚

Tha ath-fhiadhachadh a’ toirt dòchas dhuinn uile.

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Charlotte Maddix @cwmaddix.bsky.social · Feb 26

Inside you there are two wolves.*

"What do you want to be for World Book Day?"

"I'll wear my vampire costume."
"I want to be Mr Funny driving his car shaped like a shoe."

*children

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Feb 24

NEW – Revealed: More than half of nations fail to protect 30% of land and sea in UN nature plans | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @pgreenfielduk.bsky.social @giulianaviglione.bsky.social @yaninequiroz.bsky.social

Read here: https://buff.ly/4i76PLJ

The various pledges made by countries when it comes to protecting a proportion of their land for nature. Chart by Tom Pearson for Carbon Brief. Data source: UN CBD NBSAPs and national targets. Land area data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

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Charlotte Maddix @cwmaddix.bsky.social · Feb 20

Glad to see the Natural Environment Bill is here.

Without the detail (to follow in subsequent legislation) it's too soon to say if it'll lead to the recovery of Scotland's land and seas.

We need clear, ambitious and updatable targets for Scotland's ecosystems.

➡️ www.rewild.scot/clear-ambiti...

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Charlotte Maddix @cwmaddix.bsky.social · Feb 19

Support for lynx reintroduction in Scotland is up 9 percentage points since 2020. In rural areas, many, many more people support lynx reintroduction than oppose it.

www.rewild.scot/scottish-peo...

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Charlotte Maddix @cwmaddix.bsky.social · Feb 19

How popular and how well-proven does rewilding need to be before Scotland's government embraces it?

We're told it's a flat 'no' to lynx reintroduction - but a poll released today shows that 61% of people in Scotland want a well-managed, legal reintroduction of lynx.

So what's the bar?

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Charlotte Maddix @cwmaddix.bsky.social · Feb 17

Really interesting - and I see some parallels with large-scale nature restoration or rewilding:

."..slow progress in addressing these challenges is linked to shared biases that prevent people and institutions from judging [x] objectively and dispassionately"

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Charlotte Maddix @cwmaddix.bsky.social · Feb 17

Join the dots: let's have land reform for nature, restoring ecosystems while building community resilience.

The government needs to tackle this head on instead of making policy and legislation based on vibes.

Support rewilding. Diversify land ownership.

#NatureEmergency #Rewilding #LandReform

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Charlotte Maddix @cwmaddix.bsky.social · Feb 17

4. We have demand from the population to restore nature at scale *and* to be more involved in both decisions about land use and land ownership.

(www.thenational.scot/news/2430691...)

(treesforlife.org.uk/80-percent-o...)

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Charlotte Maddix @cwmaddix.bsky.social · Feb 17

1. We have a depleted natural environment.

2. We have a concentrated land ownership pattern.

3. We have a funding and financing system for large-scale nature restoration that's tricky for all, but best navigated by large landholdings and/or by projects with shorter-term, clearer outputs.

And...

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Charlotte Maddix @cwmaddix.bsky.social · Feb 17

Articles like this one from @washingtonpost.com fail to connect the dots on land reform and rewilding, as well as misunderstanding what rewilding is by mixing it up with how it's funded.

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

Here are four of the dots that we need to draw some lines between...

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‘Green lairds’ are buying vast estates in Scotland for carbon credits

New investors in “rewilding” want to plant forests, save butterflies and make money.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Charlotte Maddix @cwmaddix.bsky.social · Feb 17

In Edinburgh? Live for or work on rewilding? Grab a drink with fellow rewilders next Thursday - message me for a link with the details.

(Thanks to my fellow organisers for making sure this happens again - informal spaces for connecting are so important but it's been hard to find time!).

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Charlotte Maddix @cwmaddix.bsky.social · Feb 7

(Would love to be wrong, obviously. Surprise me! Please! 🙏😻)

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Charlotte Maddix @cwmaddix.bsky.social · Feb 7

John Swinney has ruled out his government reintroducing lynx: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Given we've just over a year of the current government left, this is not a surprise.

This isn't a government that will do anything surprising on ecological restoration between now and the next election.

John Swinney rules out reintroduction of lynx to Scotland

The first minister tells farmers that no carnivorous species will be reintroduced under his government.

www.bbc.co.uk

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