Paul Whitfield
@paulwhitfield.bsky.social
Director General of Wildwood Trust
Protecting, Conserving and Rewilding British Native Species. ‘The Bison Guy’
Protecting, Conserving and Rewilding British Native Species. ‘The Bison Guy’
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What better way to celebrate #WorldAnimalDay than with a baby bison arrival? 🦬
The Wilder Blean project — led by Wildwood Trust and @kentwildlife.bsky.social — has welcomed its fifth bison calf, marking the start of a third generation living in Kent’s ancient woodland near Canterbury.
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The Wilder Blean project — led by Wildwood Trust and @kentwildlife.bsky.social — has welcomed its fifth bison calf, marking the start of a third generation living in Kent’s ancient woodland near Canterbury.
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October 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
What better way to celebrate #WorldAnimalDay than with a baby bison arrival? 🦬
The Wilder Blean project — led by Wildwood Trust and @kentwildlife.bsky.social — has welcomed its fifth bison calf, marking the start of a third generation living in Kent’s ancient woodland near Canterbury.
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The Wilder Blean project — led by Wildwood Trust and @kentwildlife.bsky.social — has welcomed its fifth bison calf, marking the start of a third generation living in Kent’s ancient woodland near Canterbury.
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This week, with the Large Herbivore Working Group, I am visiting some of the most inspiring European Bison projects in Spain.
A huge thank you to Fernando Morán for guiding us through these landscapes and for sharing both the challenges and successes of the work here.
A huge thank you to Fernando Morán for guiding us through these landscapes and for sharing both the challenges and successes of the work here.
October 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
This week, with the Large Herbivore Working Group, I am visiting some of the most inspiring European Bison projects in Spain.
A huge thank you to Fernando Morán for guiding us through these landscapes and for sharing both the challenges and successes of the work here.
A huge thank you to Fernando Morán for guiding us through these landscapes and for sharing both the challenges and successes of the work here.
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🚨BREAKING: England's largest lake, Windermere, is covered in FAECAL BACTERIA according to a new study.
Water companies have turned our most ICONIC lake into an open sewer while profiting BILLIONS.
Who else thinks this is SICK?
Water companies have turned our most ICONIC lake into an open sewer while profiting BILLIONS.
Who else thinks this is SICK?
August 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🚨BREAKING: England's largest lake, Windermere, is covered in FAECAL BACTERIA according to a new study.
Water companies have turned our most ICONIC lake into an open sewer while profiting BILLIONS.
Who else thinks this is SICK?
Water companies have turned our most ICONIC lake into an open sewer while profiting BILLIONS.
Who else thinks this is SICK?
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Rewilding on a massive scale is required across Europe, including Ireland, to protect our countryside, protect communities and minimise both fire risk and fire impact.
August 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Rewilding on a massive scale is required across Europe, including Ireland, to protect our countryside, protect communities and minimise both fire risk and fire impact.
This is a huge step forwards for the return of the Choughs.
Reintroductions are hard work but days like this make the years of hard challenges worthwhile!
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Reintroductions are hard work but days like this make the years of hard challenges worthwhile!
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Rare bird returning to county after 200 years of extinction
The red-billed chough vanished from Kent as a result of habitat loss and persecution
www.independent.co.uk
August 7, 2025 at 5:59 AM
This is a huge step forwards for the return of the Choughs.
Reintroductions are hard work but days like this make the years of hard challenges worthwhile!
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Reintroductions are hard work but days like this make the years of hard challenges worthwhile!
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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August 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
My office and home for the next few days. Looking forward to If Not Now When, Rewilding conference at Rewilding Coombshead.
It’s so important to meet up with the rewilding community and support each other in our work to restore species and biodiversity.
It’s so important to meet up with the rewilding community and support each other in our work to restore species and biodiversity.
July 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
My office and home for the next few days. Looking forward to If Not Now When, Rewilding conference at Rewilding Coombshead.
It’s so important to meet up with the rewilding community and support each other in our work to restore species and biodiversity.
It’s so important to meet up with the rewilding community and support each other in our work to restore species and biodiversity.
Happy International Lynx Day!!
It is time we had these wonderful cats back in the UK
It is time we had these wonderful cats back in the UK
June 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Happy International Lynx Day!!
It is time we had these wonderful cats back in the UK
It is time we had these wonderful cats back in the UK
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Another lynx paper hot off the press!🔥Exploring the ecological feasibility of restoring Eurasian lynx to Great Britain 🐾
A well-planned, legal, lynx reintroduction could be feasible, provided there is acceptance in key stakeholder groups.
📰Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
A well-planned, legal, lynx reintroduction could be feasible, provided there is acceptance in key stakeholder groups.
📰Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
June 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Another lynx paper hot off the press!🔥Exploring the ecological feasibility of restoring Eurasian lynx to Great Britain 🐾
A well-planned, legal, lynx reintroduction could be feasible, provided there is acceptance in key stakeholder groups.
📰Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
A well-planned, legal, lynx reintroduction could be feasible, provided there is acceptance in key stakeholder groups.
📰Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
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Wonderful to see native UK storks successfully migrating to & from Morocco to breed in Sussex.
Reintroduction project making progress after 11 patient yrs & 25 yrs of habitat restoration. Kudos to @kneppwilding.bsky.social #WadhurstPark & @cotswoldlife.bsky.social 🏆👍🙏
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reintroduction project making progress after 11 patient yrs & 25 yrs of habitat restoration. Kudos to @kneppwilding.bsky.social #WadhurstPark & @cotswoldlife.bsky.social 🏆👍🙏
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Storks migrate back to conservation project at Knepp estate
At least six birds born in West Sussex in 2024 are back in the county after migrating to Morocco.
www.bbc.com
June 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Wonderful to see native UK storks successfully migrating to & from Morocco to breed in Sussex.
Reintroduction project making progress after 11 patient yrs & 25 yrs of habitat restoration. Kudos to @kneppwilding.bsky.social #WadhurstPark & @cotswoldlife.bsky.social 🏆👍🙏
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reintroduction project making progress after 11 patient yrs & 25 yrs of habitat restoration. Kudos to @kneppwilding.bsky.social #WadhurstPark & @cotswoldlife.bsky.social 🏆👍🙏
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Keir Starmer needs to listen not to housebuilders but nightingales! More great reporting by my colleague Helena Horton. Madness that the best place in Britain for this endangered bird is owned by a housing quango. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘All the birdsong in the world in one sound’: England’s nightingale haven at risk from planning bill
Conservationists warn that losing Lodge Hill in Kent to housing could be a catastrophe for one of Britain’s most at-risk birds
www.theguardian.com
June 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Keir Starmer needs to listen not to housebuilders but nightingales! More great reporting by my colleague Helena Horton. Madness that the best place in Britain for this endangered bird is owned by a housing quango. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The decline of large seed-dispersing animals has serious implications for trees and other flora.
It's also further proof of how very short-sighted it is to view forests as merely bunches of trees, rather than the complex *ecosystems* they are (or at least, should be).
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
It's also further proof of how very short-sighted it is to view forests as merely bunches of trees, rather than the complex *ecosystems* they are (or at least, should be).
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Drivers and impacts of global seed disperser decline - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Many plants rely on animals to disperse their seeds, but some groups of these seed-dispersing animals are facing severe declines. This Review summarizes evidence of seed disperser declines and discuss...
www.nature.com
May 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The decline of large seed-dispersing animals has serious implications for trees and other flora.
It's also further proof of how very short-sighted it is to view forests as merely bunches of trees, rather than the complex *ecosystems* they are (or at least, should be).
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
It's also further proof of how very short-sighted it is to view forests as merely bunches of trees, rather than the complex *ecosystems* they are (or at least, should be).
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Why doesn’t this Government understand that most people care deeply about nature?!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development
Whitehall analysis provides no data or research to support the government argument that environmental legislation holds up building
www.theguardian.com
May 8, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Why doesn’t this Government understand that most people care deeply about nature?!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Could be the start of something very exciting!
New enclosure to support lynx breeding plans www.bbc.com/news/article...
New enclosure to support lynx breeding plans www.bbc.com/news/article...
Wildwood Trust: 'New enclosure will support lynx breeding plans'
The trust says the enclosure at its park near Canterbury will offer an immersive visitor experience.
www.bbc.com
May 2, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Could be the start of something very exciting!
New enclosure to support lynx breeding plans www.bbc.com/news/article...
New enclosure to support lynx breeding plans www.bbc.com/news/article...
The Majesty Oak. Probably England’s oldest oak
April 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The Majesty Oak. Probably England’s oldest oak
Finally an important way to use AI! 😂
April 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Finally an important way to use AI! 😂
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Doing, researching or just interested in Rewilding?
Join us at this event on Exploring the Science of Rewilding
Hosted by the Rewilding group of the BES
Registration deadline is soon!
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/expl...
Join us at this event on Exploring the Science of Rewilding
Hosted by the Rewilding group of the BES
Registration deadline is soon!
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/expl...
Exploring The Science of Rewilding - British Ecological Society
A 2-day event on the science of rewilding, bringing together practitioners and academics working in rewilding to foster knowledge exchange in the North East of England.
www.britishecologicalsociety.org
April 17, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Doing, researching or just interested in Rewilding?
Join us at this event on Exploring the Science of Rewilding
Hosted by the Rewilding group of the BES
Registration deadline is soon!
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/expl...
Join us at this event on Exploring the Science of Rewilding
Hosted by the Rewilding group of the BES
Registration deadline is soon!
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/expl...
Wonderful to explore Durrells new rewilding site at Dalnacardoch in the Cairngorms
April 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Wonderful to explore Durrells new rewilding site at Dalnacardoch in the Cairngorms
wildwood’s adders enjoying the spring sunshine.
April 13, 2025 at 7:56 AM
wildwood’s adders enjoying the spring sunshine.
wildwood’s adders enjoying the spring sunshine.
April 13, 2025 at 7:55 AM
wildwood’s adders enjoying the spring sunshine.