Advocacy. Rewilding Britain. Working to create abundant wildlife, thriving natural processes and a prosperous rural economy. he/him. Views my own.
Mid Wales.
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James Hitchcock 🏴 retweeted
Stunning photos pouring in to our Big Ranunculus Watch.
Huge thanks to Louise & Nik Le Ray for these pics taken 1km north of Hoarwithy on 6 July 2013.
Please get involved and submit your photos here:
friendsoftheriverwye.org.uk/…
James Hitchcock 🏴 retweeted
Wales Rewilding lead James and Marine Rewilding Lead Jacques attended the One Ocean Symposium in Rhyl yesterday and left feeling energised and excited about the large-scale coastal protection already taking place to protect marine habitats 🌊
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ALT Photo taken at the One Ocean Symposium of a room filled with people sat down listening to a speaker stood at the front of the room.
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The appeal is going great and has broken its targets - the more Tir raise the quicker the land can be secured.
Help create hope for nature by donating today.
📢CROWDFUNDER ENDS TODAY AT 6pm📢
🌳At 1000+ acres this site will serve to demonstrate rewilding at scale in 🏴
🤑70K already raised and every donation will go towards the land purchase.
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"We need lots more horticulture....
We need orchards and urban farms. We need vast numbers of small and diverse food businesses to spread risks....And we need to support regenerative and nature-friendly farms that are less reliant upon imported inputs"
unherd.com/2024/12/a-food-ap…
James Hitchcock 🏴 retweeted
📢Big Announcement 📢
We have an opportunity to secure over 1000 acres of land in Wales to showcase rewilding 🐖🌳🐂
Please support us by donating to our Crowdfunder 👇
Every £1 you donate will be match funded and the appeal is off to a great start!
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/cynefin-…
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📢Big Announcement 📢
We have an opportunity to secure over 1000 acres of land in Wales to showcase rewilding 🐖🌳🐂
Please support us by donating to our Crowdfunder 👇
Every £1 you donate will be match funded and the appeal is off to a great start!
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/cynefin-…
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James Hitchcock 🏴 retweeted
For me, the government reforms of Agricultural Property Relief (APR) miss two big opportunities
1. The political opportunity Labour had coming in to win over more farmers & ‘deep rural’ voters
2. The policy opportunity to use APR more imaginatively
A 🧵 on what I mean…
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James Hitchcock 🏴 retweeted
The amazing Strawberry Hill farm has been saved after @wildlifebcn raised £1.5 million. Thanks so much to everyone who read my story, spread the word and donated. Visit this beautiful place and be heartened that we together can do great things.
theguardian.com/environment/…
James Hitchcock 🏴 retweeted
New blog by me on flooding, #climate & nature solutions. As well as fair rewards by government & supply chains for public & private goods, we need skills, demo, R&D, the right £ & policy to get right hydrology via water, soil, rivers, plants. #NBS
@WildlifeTrusts @LCEF_UK @CEN_HQ
'Farming, flooding and food - how nature can help': The Wildlife Trusts' Strategic Lead on Agriculture, @vickihird, looks at nature-based solutions for water management in farming.
wildlifetrusts.org/blog/vick…
James Hitchcock 🏴 retweeted
I mean my family have been on this land for at least 800 years, but I guess as they were merely the labourers who worked the land rather than the ones who managed to grab ownership for themselves, we don’t count?
Perhaps if inheritance tax is deemed unfair by farmers we can instead have a wealth tax on all land, with the proceeds ring-fenced for a community buy out fund to allow local communities to own & control more land, as they do in Scotland?
"My family's been on this land for 375 years. I want to pass this down to my boys... you're taking that away from me... shame on you"
Welsh farmer Gareth Wyn Jones challenges Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy on #PoliticsLive over inheritance tax changes
bbc.in/494TIYh
James Hitchcock 🏴 retweeted
On Sunday, Rewilding Britain’s Rewilding Director @KevinCumming86 attended the @ReviveCoalition conference as part of @ScotRewilding🌲
During his speech, he highlighted the key role that #landreform can play in repairing Scotland’s environment and biodiversity crises. (1/5)
ALT REVIVE conference room. Credits: Kevin Cumming
James Hitchcock 🏴 retweeted
Missing context: the author of this article owns a 1,150-acre estate - making this farm larger than 90% of farms in England
mindrumestate.co.uk/
@guardianeco trust you’ll add that detail?
British farming is in a grim state and Labour’s new measures will only make it worse | Tom Fairfax theguardian.com/commentisfre…
James Hitchcock 🏴 retweeted
New bird population figures show unbearable decline, especially among farm & woodland species.
So much is riding on the new Environmental Improvement Plan. It must make nature-friendly farming profitable, make polluters pay dearly & reform planning to guarantee space for nature.
Absolutely
In Baku today it is as if there are five @DavidLammy clones. He is everywhere at COP & making a huge & hugely positive impression.
I can’t exaggerate how great it is to have such a senior figure drag the focus away from the technocratic one-dimensional focus on carbon counting towards championing the actual natural world we all depend on and without which we haven’t a hope of stabilising the climate.
It is wonderful to see & so good to have the UK back & leading on this, the most important cause of all 👏🌎👏
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James Hitchcock 🏴 retweeted
Woa! filming near Simonside, part of what we bought #Rothbury estate.. overawed by potential for nature and sustainable farming/community + determined to make it happen for everyone who loves and depends on it, knowing @WildlifeTrusts and @NorthWildlife and will deliver.
James Hitchcock 🏴 retweeted
interesting to see how the average voter responds to direct action designed to stop farming families pay any tax on their first £3m of inheritance
(and even then at half the rate of everyone else)
James Hitchcock 🏴 retweeted
We need landscape scale thinking if we are to achieve landscape scale nature recovery 🌿🐾💧
With only 6% of land managed effectively for nature in #NationalParks this survey would help deliver a much-needed boost
Read the article independent.co.uk/climate-ch…
"Campaigners have called for an 'ecological Domesday survey' requiring large landowners to report on how they're looking after land for nature"
Brilliant to have the support of @CPRE @Campaign4Parks @WCL_News Sir John Lawton & many others for this letter:
independent.co.uk/climate-ch…
James Hitchcock 🏴 retweeted
A public consultation has opened on Ireland's new national park on the Dingle Peninsula.
While strongly suspecting these are mostly mere box-ticking exercises, it might be worth telling the NPWS that actually, no, sheep do NOT belong in a national park.
agriland.ie/farming-news/pub…
