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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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Rachael Unsworth @leedstours.bsky.social · 9h

Intensive work since June editing 'The Illustrated History of Chapel Allerton', written by my friend Steve Burt.
SO many illustrations, historic & contemporary, inc a selection of ace drone shots by a kind octogenarian.

More info & reserve your copy/ies:
leedscivictrust.org.uk/chapel-aller...

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 9h

Please take action to defend grizzly bears!

Urge your members of Congress to oppose the Grizzly Bear State Management Act of 2025.

wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/oppose-grizz...

Speak up for grizzly bears!

Urge Congress to oppose the Grizzly Bear State Management Act of 2025.

wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks Dave!

Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 11h

Aww shucks! 🙏

Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 11h

IUCN Guidelines for Rewilding “book launch” and Q&A today with Ian Convery, Krista Lyons, Rene Byers and Jess Fallon portals.iucn.org/library/node... huge thanks to Angela Andrade and all in IUCN CEM.

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 1d

This week’s wild picture…

Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 1d

Because land is wealth is power

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Ireland's Native Woodland Trust @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social · 1d

This is what we're up against. People still removing woodlands when we've already lost so much

www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...

Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork

The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

www.thejournal.ie

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 1d

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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.

observer.co.uk/news/columni...

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

observer.co.uk

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activist360 @activist360.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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

Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 4d

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

Guidelines for rewilding | IUCN Library System

portals.iucn.org

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 2d

@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 · 4d

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

Guidelines for rewilding | IUCN Library System

portals.iucn.org

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International Wader Study Group @waderstudy.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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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IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group @iucnshark.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 4d

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

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 4d

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

Guidelines for rewilding | IUCN Library System

portals.iucn.org

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 4d

We’re running live now!

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The Lifescape Project @lifescape.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 5d

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...

www.annualreviews.org

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Reposted by Steve Carver, James Connelly

Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 5d

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/...