1/ My interview with @SkyNews yesterday, in four parts

“This is not the new normal. It is going to get worse and worse and worse until we stop burning fossil fuels and stop destroying nature”
2/ “I remain convinced that the only way to force our leaders to take the required action is to get out on the streets in huge numbers”
3/ “Denialism is common, the media must take some responsibility for that. For decades media organisations such as Sky News, such as yourselves, have been downplaying the risks and helping ridicule environmentalists for warning us about this”
4/ “What a Net Zero deadline of 2050 means is that we’re going to carry on making the problem worse for another 28 years”
Not sure they'll have me back, but as always we must #TellTheTruth

Thank you @PeteK_AQ for the recording

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Jul 19
Seeing lots of reports of out of control fires in today's record-breaking UK heat, so I thought I'd compile some.

Please add others I've missed.

This is round the corner from me in Norfolk - climate change symbolically blocking roads
edp24.co.uk/news/traffic/a…
Wild Ken Hill nature reserve on the West Norfolk coast
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May 27
Thrilling to see many new direct action groups around the world seemingly inspired by Insulate Britain and Just Stop Oil, and using similar tactics such as motorway blockades and/or having a simple demand right there in the name

A brief 🧵
In Canada, @saveoldgrowth have been blocking highways and disrupting meetings to try and stop deforestation 2/
In Sweden, Aterstall Vatmarker @vatmarker have been blocking roads and disrupting football matches to call for the restoration of wetlands 3/
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Dec 17, 2021
“I am not convinced that climate change is a huge threat to many species” is an extraordinary thing to hear from a leading conservation scientist, from Australia, in 2021.

It's also dangerous and needs to be countered, so here goes

🧵1.
We’ve all seen some of the disasters that biodiversity has suffered from climate-related events in recent years, from the 3 billion animals killed in the 19/20 Australian bushfires to the 1 billion animals boiled in the 2021 North American heat dome.
2.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
Less extreme weather events can also cause huge mortality in individual species. For example, in 2015 high temperature and humidity killed 200,000 saiga (a critically endangered antelope) in a mass mortality event.
3.
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
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Oct 11, 2021
A huge fire has ripped through one of the world's most important forests

Madagascar's extraordinary Menabe forest is the only home of three amazing animals, and there's now only 5000 hectares left

When it has gone, three species will be extinct in the wild 1/4
Madame Berthe's Mouse Lemur is the world's smallest primate, weighing little over an ounce

Photos @JaspaMadagaska 2/4
The kapidolo or flat-tailed tortoise might just be the world's prettiest chelonian. For now at least

Photo Jonathan Mays on Flickr 3/4
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Unpopular (but short)🧵on conservation in the climate emergency

The past 5+ mass extinctions were all prob. driven by changing climate. They occurred in an ecologically intact world where species could adapt by shifting their ranges. Nevertheless, mass extinctions occurred 1/5
Current climate change is happening in a devastated, highly fragmented world, where most non-flying species can’t shift their ranges. They’re trapped in their habitat fragments as they break down, & have to adapt with hugely reduced populations, distributions and gene pools 2/5
Given this, we're naïve to think we can still either:

i) save every species (see e.g. this Science paper calling for a global extinction rate of <1 species/yr in 2120 🤣)

Or... 3/5
science.org/doi/abs/10.112…
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I'm a conservationist, I worked for WWF for several years in Madagascar and have done research for WWF UK.

I’m also a member of Extinction Rebellion, so this week’s occupation of WWF UK by @XrYouth and others has me slightly conflicted.

I fully support it though 🧵1/
WWF do some good work. They are the biggest brand in conservation, have done a lot to raise awareness & funds, & have good projects around the world

But the action wasn’t about the good aspects of their work, obviously – it was about some very dodgy practices they engage in 2/
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Indigenous people should be partners in conservation, not treated as the enemy 3/
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