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Steve Carver

@landethics.bsky.social

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Wildernista. Rewilding. Geographer. GIS. Old motorbikes. Professor of Rewilding and Wilderness Science, School of Geography @universityofleeds.bsky.social Co-Chair or IUCM CEM Rewilding Thematic Group.

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 10h

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 10h

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 10h

Global Rewilding Alliance supports IUCN Guidelines for Rewilding www.linkedin.com/posts/dralis...

IUCN publishes Rewilding Guidelines, a major milestone for conservation. | Alister Scott posted on the topic | LinkedIn

Rewilding takes another momentous step into the mainstream! Today, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature produces its Rewilding Guidelines. As the world's pre-eminent body that pro...

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 11h

Great piece from @marthagill.bsky.social on the state of Britain’s National Parks. Shocked highest levels of sewage discharge are on Dartmoor. Good account of historical reasons park authorities have such limited powers to manage greatest threats to park ecologies.

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In our national parks sewage flows while the funds for co...

Underfunded, over-farmed and politically sidelined, Britain’s most treasured landscapes need more than protection

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activist360 @activist360.bsky.social · 17h

Historic move: California will join the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the first U.S. state to do so. A bold stand for global climate leadership, biodiversity, and 30×30 conservation goals.

youtu.be/9BaVXf6r_Bg #ClimateAction #IUCN #Sustainability #Biodiversity #Activist360

California Seeks to Join International Union for Conservation of Nature

YouTube video by California Governor Gavin Newsom

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 1d

@ianparsons.bsky.social @iwhit.bsky.social @ianconvery.bsky.social

Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 3d

Our "Guidelines for Rewilding" published with IUCN CEM are now live! portals.iucn.org/library/node...

Guidelines for rewilding | IUCN Library System

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 1d

@rewilding.org @ark-rewildingnl.bsky.social @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social @rewildingbritain.org.uk @rewildingeurope.bsky.social @rewildingire.bsky.social @rewildscotland.bsky.social

Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 3d

Our "Guidelines for Rewilding" published with IUCN CEM are now live! portals.iucn.org/library/node...

Guidelines for rewilding | IUCN Library System

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International Wader Study Group @waderstudy.bsky.social · 1d

Today IUCN has officially declared the Slender-billed Curlew extinct, marking the first known global extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species whose range included mainland Europe, North Africa, and West Asia.

Read more here ⬇️
www.unep-aewa.org/fr/node/6632

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d

More than 60% of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis

- Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’

Story by @pgreenfielduk.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis

Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’

www.theguardian.com

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Reposted by Colin A. Simpfendorfer, Steve Carver

IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group @iucnshark.bsky.social · 2d

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has just been updated and now includes assessments of 1,266 species of sharks, rays, and chimaeras.

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Jérôme OLLIER @jeromeollier.bsky.social · 2d

Prince William to attend #COP30 UN climate summit in Brazil - @fionaharvey.bsky.social @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Prince William to attend Cop30 UN climate summit in Brazil

Prince of Wales’s decision welcomed as a means of drawing attention to the event and galvanising talks

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 3d

Our "Guidelines for Rewilding" published with IUCN CEM are now live! portals.iucn.org/library/node...

Guidelines for rewilding | IUCN Library System

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 3d

We’re running live now!

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The Lifescape Project @lifescape.bsky.social · 3d

The IUCN Commission for Environmental Management has launched new guidance on #rewilding at the #IUCNCongress 2025.

The Lifescape team are proud to have supported on the production of these ground-breaking new guidelines on rewilding practice.

Guidelines for rewilding | IUCN Library System

Complete Title Guidelines for rewilding Publication Year 2025 Language(s) English Download (2.71 MB) Description These guidelines offer both a call for change and general guidance for users. The following five guidelines, adapted from the ten guiding principles for rewilding (Carver et al., 2021), p...

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 3d

First day at IUCN World Conservation Congress. Launching our Guidelines for Rewilding at 1630!

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 4d

Our Annual Reviews paper "Rewilding: Ten Years of Evolution and Development" is now available Open Access. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Rewilding: Ten Years of Evolution and Development

Rewilding has matured into a mainstream approach in nature conservation. More than 450 academic papers on rewilding have been published since the term first appeared in print in the early 1990s. Rewil...

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 4d

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’, say environmentalists

Pleased to have signed @campaign4parks.bsky.social's letter urging Ministers to drop plans to remove the Protected Landscapes Duty on public bodies 1/

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups

Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

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Alex Raeder @alexraeder.bsky.social · 5d

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Pine martens released on Exmoor in 'positive sign for nature'

They are

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 6d

Also in Interia Zielona, Poland.
zielona.interia.pl/wiadomosci/s...
"Europe is losing 600 green pitches a day. Poland among the infamous leaders"

Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 6d

I've emailed him. Enjoy your trip.

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 6d

He was a good cricketer

Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 6d

@andreasheinem.bsky.social Hi Andreas... I've just been reading the Heather Trust "Heather Futures" report. I have questions.

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 9d

Going to #IUCNcongress next week? We'll be there presenting our new "Guidelines for Rewilding" from IUCN CEM. See us on 9th October 1600-1730 on Channel 4 Virtual Room. All welcome.

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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 9d

And the European Green to Grey project is a vivid telling of this story greentogrey.eu

Green to Grey – How Europe is squandering the little nature it has left

Green to Grey is a pioneering collaboration between journalists and scientists counting every green space lost in Europe between January 2018 and December 2023.

greentogrey.eu

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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 9d

In case you missed this, natural areas equivalent in size to Cyprus have been lost across Europe in just 5 years (2018-2023). www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development

Exclusive: 1,680 football pitches of protected natural land in England, Wales and Northern Ireland lost in five years

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Rewilding Britain @rewildingbritain.org.uk · 9d

Big news for beavers in Wales 🦫

We’re thrilled the Welsh government has legally recognised beavers as a native species requiring protection. This is a huge step forward in ensuring beavers — and the incredible ecosystem services they provide — are re-established in Wales.

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Screenshot of a BBC online article titled: "Beavers set to become a protected species in Wales", which features a photo of a beaver surrounded by twigs. It's overlayed on an aerial image of a Welsh rewilding site featuring ponds, greenery and mist. Background image credit: Alex Hyde.

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 9d

He's not on here, but I did forward the article to him on facebook.

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 9d

Their original vision of becoming the world's first conservation-based unicorn company seems to have fallen by the wayside. But, in my opinion if you're into "rewilding" to make money, then you're into it for all the wrong reasons.

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 9d

I am of course referring to Tom Opre's "The Last Keeper"

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 9d

their!! 🙄