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Pete Cooper @petemrcooper.bsky.social · Jul 31

And my brother was the one who put forward the motion!

Pete Cooper @petemrcooper.bsky.social · Jul 30

My brother’s put forward the first motion to give a British river the same legal rights as people! Very proud and would love to see more of this from other local authorities.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Laws of nature: could UK rivers be given the same rights as people?

As more and more countries grant natural features or ecosystems legal personhood, the UK’s fight to pass nature rights laws is quietly gaining pace

www.theguardian.com

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Pete Cooper @petemrcooper.bsky.social · Jul 12

Very sorry to have had to jump out but it would’ve killed me! Hope it continues to be brill and catch up soon.

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Pete Cooper @petemrcooper.bsky.social · Jun 16

Hi Barrie, could they drop a message to [email protected]

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Ian Parsons @ianparsons.bsky.social · May 23

Thanks to @petemrcooper.bsky.social who reviews our book Great Misconceptions - Rewilding Myths and Misunderstandings in this. @markavery.bsky.social @irishrainforest.bsky.social @chrissperring.bsky.social @iancarter67.bsky.social @landethics.bsky.social
#books #rewilding

British Wildlife @britishwildlife.bsky.social · May 23

The latest British Wildlife newsletter is now available, our monthly round-up from the magazines featuring exclusive book reviews, highlights from the back catalogue, and conversations with our authors. You can read the May newsletter here: mailchi.mp/britishwildl...

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Pete Cooper @petemrcooper.bsky.social · May 11

It would’ve been!

Pete Cooper @petemrcooper.bsky.social · Feb 10

This is a really satisfying image. A new Dalmatian Pelican colony established themselves on artificial islands in Bulgaria, but this photo looks like it could easily be in front of a retail park in Norfolk!

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Pete Cooper @petemrcooper.bsky.social · Jan 10

Behind all that Lynx chat, Britain’s more successfully ‘bombed’ mammal have come a wee bit closer to home.

Somerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · Jan 9

It’s gone public… beavers are back in the Somerset Levels, specifically in the Avalon Marshes area - spreading naturally from other populations. Woohoo! We look forward to them spreading throughout the Levels, and they will always be welcome if they turn up on our sites. Somersetwildlands.org

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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · Jan 9

So this is instant dystopian #Anthropocene #ClimateChange gif material 👇

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jan 9

The wind gusts are devastating. Truly a hurricane of fire.

Video: @stuartpalley.bsky.social

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Pete Cooper @petemrcooper.bsky.social · Jan 9

Doesn’t stop the relentless tide of raptor persecution though - the nature of it means it’s very hard to get caught. It’s very unlikely even a legitimate reintroduction would be without persecution risk but it’s much more reduced than an illicit one.

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David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · Dec 27

The red-backed shrike, known as the butcher bird for its habit of impaling prey corpses on thorns etc, has been virtually extinct as a UK breeding species for decades. That it was once common is apparent from Richard Jefferies’s description of taking the train from London to Brighton in the 1880s.

Butcher-birds or shrikes are frequently found on the telegraph wires; from that [Pg 183]

elevation they pounce down on their prey, and return again to the wire. There were

two pairs of shrikes using the telegraph wires for this purpose one spring only a

short distance beyond noisy Clapham Junction. Another pair came back several

seasons to a particular part of the wires, near a bridge, and I have seen a hawk

perched on the wire equally near London.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · Dec 23

The wood is wild. The wood is wyrd. In childhood we know it as the living border with Faerie. As adults we still half-suspect it is a pocket of high strangeness. Any examination of the living current of folklore would give us plenty of reasons to reinforce this summation. – Dr. M. Benn, 1982 #Woods

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Pete Cooper @petemrcooper.bsky.social · Dec 24

And a day before that, surprise murmuration at old patch Fishlake Meadows just after a Marsh Harrier went to roost.

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Pete Cooper @petemrcooper.bsky.social · Dec 24

Christmas Eve Eve present yesterday in the form of two White-tailed Eagles at Keyhaven - who needs Santa when you have Roy Dennis.

Cherry on top of great morning’s birding with pals which included Spoonbill, Curlew, hunting Kingfisher and 100s of Brent Geese and Golden Plover.

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Pete Cooper @petemrcooper.bsky.social · Dec 24

I did get a shush from my friends birding yesterday when I let out a celebratory cackle, but that was because I’d spotted a WTE

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Pete Cooper @petemrcooper.bsky.social · Dec 22

I used to watch Barn Owls, which nested in the barn and hunted just outside, in this meadow as a teenager 13 years ago.

It’s now about as far from optimal barnie habitat as you can get. But at least the Little Egrets poking round the cattle, which I’ve never seen here before, were happy.

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Paul Whitfield @paulwhitfield.bsky.social · Dec 19

An amazing opportunity to join the WildwoodTrust team and help to lead on rewilding our UK native species as our Director of Conservation and Rewilding.

www.wildwoodtrust.org/job-vacancie...

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Pete Cooper @petemrcooper.bsky.social · Dec 17

No such thing as bad coverage eh

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Pete Cooper @petemrcooper.bsky.social · Dec 7

Well that’s just made me cry on the inside. (FYI both the dog and the aquarium are now dead)

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Pete Cooper @petemrcooper.bsky.social · Dec 6

Since doing this, I’ve had notifications of random probably bot accounts liking posts from across my timeline.

My fave has been someone really digging my announcement of my first conservation job as a harvest mouse project lead in 2017. Such simpler times.

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Pete Cooper @petemrcooper.bsky.social · Dec 6

Grey Wagtails are another one of those birds we under appreciate due to their familiarity. Just watch them, they’re like garden birds wearing met gala dresses doing dance racing. If they were super rare y’all would be all over that shit.

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Pete Cooper @petemrcooper.bsky.social · Dec 5

So I’ve just begun importing my old tweets with blue ark. 14 years of Twitter history all descending here! Feels like the last day of unpacking in a new house.

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Pete Cooper @petemrcooper.bsky.social · Dec 1

Why is @gwruk.bsky.social such a consistent fecking joke. Train to Bristol not even due to depart for another five mins and it’s like factory farming sardines in here. Not safe and absolute daylight robbery. World away from Europe.

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Pete Cooper @petemrcooper.bsky.social · Nov 29

New lil’ cultural titbit of Glow-worms added to the pile! With my unintentional recreation ‘Aurora Borealis and the Glow-worm’ from Gloucestershire this summer.

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Pete Cooper @petemrcooper.bsky.social · Nov 23

I remember downloading the app designed to pick up the calls of the New Forest Cicada over 10ya in the hope of rediscovering this species. Alas it was fruitless, but in another decade’s time let’s hope things are different thanks to this brilliant girl’s help. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Slovenian girl, 12, saves project aiming to reintroduce cicadas to New Forest

Conservationists failed to capture elusive insects this summer, so Kristina Kenda offered to step in

www.theguardian.com

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