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Mar 31, 2022

Today with the publication of my book, Wild City, I want to celebrate all the incredible people who shared their wild cities with me. People who dedicate so much of their time to observing, encouraging & supporting urban wildlife. Here’s just a few of those people… 🧵

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Excited to see these pop up on our local stretch of canal in King’s Cross. As I learnt with

@CanalRiverTrust

in Birmingham, coir rolls allow us to plant up our human-made waterways, creating habitat for wildlife and sucking up pollutants. They look beautiful too! #wildcity

Wednesday Batchelor

@OfWolfAndWhale

May 18

I just love the schools groups I’m working with for Once Upon a Planet. What little legends and future nature knights 🌳 🛡️ 🗡️ 🌍

A child’s colouring of a red fox with the words “we will do anithing to protect natchure”

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May 17

I grew up in semi-rural north Essex but it wasn’t until I moved to London that I saw a cormorant up close. Now I share the canal towpath with them daily! #wildcity

Morgan Hughes

@TheReremouse

May 16

Just in case you haven't had enough photos of baby peregrines today... instagr.am/p/CsUXjeHKBlW/

dusty gedge

@greenroofsuk

May 16

#wildlife #irony #NoMoWMay #blackheath #naturediaries comments welcome

@LezzleSE3

just for you.

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BTO

@_BTO

May 16

Pesticide and fertiliser use are the main drivers of decline in most European bird populations, reveals a new study led by

@RSPBScience

with #BTOScience input and data from

@BBS_birds

👉 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn #Ornithology #OpenAccess

Spotted Flycatcher perched on a branch with insects in its beak. Photo by Liz Cutting.

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David Noble and 7 others

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(Thanks to

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in particular for teaching me to look at plants differently!)

If a weed is simply ‘a plant out of place’ then this dandelion in our front garden is not a weed. Far from it. If we were all to become slightly lazier gardeners - which I don’t feel is a very tall ask - then just think of how much wilder our cities could become!

I once read that gardeners in Singapore were desperately trying to get their hands on a rare plant. The same plant - a tiny rendition of the sun itself - that gardeners tear out of lawns and beds over here. Dandelion flowers sustain pollinators and the seeds feed birds…

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Woodland Trust

@WoodlandTrust

May 15

💚 Spending time with #trees and woods can improve our self-esteem and boost our mood. 🌳 Access to #GreenSpace helps us relax, exercise, and cast off mental fatigue 🌱 For #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek learn how nature can improve our #MentalHealth: bit.ly/3Oci09Y

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Feargal Sharkey

@Feargal_Sharkey

May 12

There are only 2 small stretches of river in England designated as bathing waters This morning both have 'No swim' advisories posted. environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/profiles/

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They help mitigate the impact of pollution and climate change too! Thanks to

for installing it 🙏

Good morning from the green roof on our extension, which is starting to flower for the first time 🌼🌸🌱 Green roofs are an amazing way to create new habitat in our cities, which I learnt when interviewing

@greenroofsuk

for my book. Basically the opposite of

Three years ago, during lockdown, I filmed this family of ducks in Trafalgar Square fountain and they inspired the aquatic section of my book. They were relocated after I called wildlife rescuers to help, but the mother duck flew away. I wonder where they are now… #WildCity

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The Selborne Society

@SelborneSoc

Apr 22

Would be wonderful #PerivaleWood in NW London, of course! #WildCity

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Apr 22

I’m giving away a free signed copy of Wild City to celebrate #earthday! To be in with a chance of winning simply retweet and reply with your fav urban spot to encounter wildlife. #wildcity

Apr 22

I’m giving away a free signed copy of Wild City to celebrate #earthday! To be in with a chance of winning simply retweet and reply with your fav urban spot to encounter wildlife. #wildcity 🌏🦟🐸🦇🐝🦎🦊🐦🐀🦡

Art Fund

Apr 20

Help us imagine a better future for wildlife #TheWildEscape Let’s get Twitter buzzing with animals from museum & gallery collections across the UK Here are some of the amazing animals in museums that we’ve been proud to support over the years Now show us what you've got 🦦🐝🦉

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My main emotion one year ago was fear. I felt like all I heard were negatives about having a baby. If I’d known what a joyful year we were about to have it would’ve been excitement. Happy birthday to our head bopping, tower building, mischief making, belly laughing little legend.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan

Happy birthday x

The ‘re’ also feeds into a certain nostalgia - returning to what? I guess perhaps it’s just ‘wilding’ as per

@isabella_tree

although when I was on a panel recently with @merylE11 she raised v legitimate issues with the word ‘wild’ too. Perhaps I’m overthinking this!

thoughts?

maybe something to be discussed on your podcast? Don’t get me wrong I’m happy for a buzzword to be used if helpful but I think perhaps we need some additional language for this?

This is great news and I don’t want to nitpick, but I wonder if we need a term we can use in conjunction with rewilding when it comes to our urban areas. Installing a biodiverse green roof isn’t rewilding, nor is it ecological restoration - it’s creating a new space for nature…

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@MayorofLondon

Mar 20

Rewilding allows nature to take the lead and is an exciting way to create healthier ecosystems. Today, on Rewilding Day, I’m reaffirming my support for restoring London’s natural habitats by committing £1m more to rewilding the capital.

Without people like

no one would know creatures like these Slow Worms even existed - lost without a trace along with their habitat. Sadly this meadow of ‘undeveloped’ land in Kingston will soon be gone. We need to do better for urban nature.

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⁦@Flo_Wilk⁩ visiting the wildlife at #Kingsmeadow read about the Slow Worms in ‘Wild City’.

Alison Fure

@alison_fure

Mar 15

we are institutionalising the destruction of nature. Councils, understand that it takes ~30 years for a tree to begin tree-functions; in our changed climate, urban trees don’t live that long. Felling more than xno. trees should require independent scrutiny. Its damaging us all

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🔊 Starlings in Regent’s Park - a magnificent urban soundscape heard all too rarely today - according to

@_BTO

starling numbers have fallen by 66% since the mid-1970s - to think these birds used to be considered pests! Glad to see

@theroyalparks

have fenced the area off too.

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The Wildlife Trusts

@WildlifeTrusts

Mar 8

Our native plants are in trouble! 📣 The findings of the new Plant Atlas, a 20-year project, are a huge wake-up call. Since the 1950s, 53% of our native plants have declined 📉 wildlifetrusts.org/news/20-year-r (1/4)

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Happy world book day! 📚 And yes, I am shamelessly using my infant to plug my book…

With

as Prime Minister and

@RachelReevesMP

as Chancellor, Britain will secure the highest sustained growth in the G7. Labour will end 13 years of sticking plaster politics and provide economic security for families and businesses in every community.

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Very much looking forward to reading this, and what a beautiful cover!

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

Mar 2

Publication day for Ten Birds that Changed the World! Huge thanks to everyone involved, especially @LucyMcRobert1 @BrooDoherty and all at @FaberBooks especially @LauraHassanLDN Fred Baty and @BriceLouise

Liz Power

@epuddick

Feb 24

On my very last day at the Museum helped make this short film about ⁦

⁩ and the impact it had on me and ⁦

@waterandsteam

⁩ which looks stunning in every shot 😍

Carbon Literacy case study: London Museum of Water and Steam

Liz Power from the London Museum of Water and Steam explains how the museum have taken up carbon literacy training, to help their staff gain awareness of the...

Feb 24

Climate change can feel vast, intangible, unassailable. But it is very much here and we will all be grappling with it for years to come. The good news is there are little things we can all do that add up - and the first step is getting carbon literate!

While working

, a superb museum that tells the story of our energy use of the past,

@epuddick

decided to look to the future. She explains how carbon literacy training helped her take the first step: youtu.be/RCrN__-hN3g

Carbon Literacy case study: London Museum of Water and Steam

Liz Power from the London Museum of Water and Steam explains how the museum have taken up carbon literacy training, to help their staff gain awareness of the...

Here’s fellow urban wildlife fan, the inspirational

@OfWolfAndWhale

of Tuille House on why carbon literacy is a vital step towards protecting and promoting biodiversity: youtu.be/TZrbSTn3vHk

Carbon Literacy case study: Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery

Wednesday Batchelor at Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery explains how the museum have taken carbon literacy training to help their staff gain awareness of ...

Here’s a film about the amazing work

@theboxplymouth

is doing as result of their carbon literacy training: youtu.be/ZoKQ3l10qK4

Carbon Literacy case study: The Box, Plymouth

Ian Cooper at The Box in Plymouth explains how the museum have taken up carbon literacy training, to help their staff gain awareness of the climate crisis an...

So excited to finally share these films, which

@tobijams

and I made for

and

- the first starring the fabulous

@LoveSsega

: youtu.be/bF5Z_5zoh5E. If you work in the museum sector (or any other sector for that matter) it’s time to get carbon literate!

Help create an environmentally aware and active sector with Carbon...

Join artist and musician Love Ssega as he introduces Art Fund's new collaboration with the Carbon Literacy Project to offer museums free carbon literacy trai...

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I worked for Keir Starmer – he plans to be PM for 10 years

Ben Nunn

@BenNunnUK

Feb 23

The test for Keir Starmer's missions will not come today or in 18 months' time. It’s in 2029 and whether he can stand on the steps of Downing Street and convince people they are better off under Labour. My piece for

@theipaper

inews.co.uk

Starmer’s purpose – as I have long argued and was spelt out today – must be growth

Craig Bennett

@CraigBennett3

Feb 22

This is incredibly disappointing, and out of touch with where the vast majority of British public and even many farmers are at on this issue Ask yourself this question; if these animals where still present, would the public support their eradication? No, they would not

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Colin Fernandez

@colin_gram

Feb 22

Therese Coffey is no fan of rewilding - says she will not support reintroduction of lynxes and wolves in UK as farmers don’t need that #nfu23

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The Wildlife Trusts

@WildlifeTrusts

Feb 19

Whale whale whale, if it isn’t #WorldWhaleDay. Did you know a number of different whales visit or live in the UK’s seas? Here’s a 🧵 about UK whales. (1/6)

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The New Statesman

@NewStatesman

Feb 19

I’ve seen women go through hell breastfeeding because of the supposed benefits which, though they certainly exist, simply do not justify this level of pain and suffering, writes