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Justified exclusion on the Gwent levels to protect at-risk species. It's not that complicated 👍 Only wish more of the Levels were re-wetted, abundant, and accessible so we could experience the true marsh beyond the confines of the reserve. Much of the land here was once held under common right.

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Wild Service is Foyles Book of the Month. Now in shiny new paperback. shop.rossiterbooks.co.uk/product/9781...

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Lovely to see our Wild Service out in paperback, & @foylesforbooks.bsky.social Book of the Month! @righttoroam.bsky.social www.foyles.co.uk/highlights/b...

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A great walk yesterday in the sunshine on once forbidden moorland near Boulsworth Hill on the Lancs/Yorkshire border. A recce for the No-Longer-Trespass walk to be held on Sat Nov 29 in #hebdenbridge as part of national conf on right to roam. @righttoroam.bsky.social . 25th anniv of CRoW Act.

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My little bendy rowan, gifted at the @righttoroam.bsky.social book launch for Wild Service last year, is growing strong! Nurturing it through this pre-drought… @amyjanebeer.bsky.social @nicolawriting.bsky.social ❤️

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Excellent, empathetic video on @righttoroam.bsky.social & access to the outdoors from the perspective of a female solo hiker. 'a better system is possible, one that allows the public to be respectful stewards rather than "intruders"... that's the future we need' www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcyr...

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Beautiful experience at Kinder reservoir yesterday as 450+ people came together for a peaceful trespass to call for a right to swim. Only a tiny number of waterways have statutory rights of access. Much unfinished business since the famous trespass on this site in 1932. @righttoroam.bsky.social

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Today some 400 merry roamers & dippers took to a part of the High Peak we’re barred from accessing for entirely spurious reasons… the water. #righttoroam #righttoswim #kindertrespass @righttoroam.bsky.social

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Great turnout for the @righttoroam.bsky.social Kinder Scout Mass Trespass anniversary walk and wild swim. Remembering my grandfather who was there in 1932

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"A rope swing is, and will always be, inevitable. If nature and climate have conspired together to create a tree whose bow offers the perfect height for a swing, at some point in time a rope swing will appear." Lovely book extract courtesy of @jon-moses.bsky.social on how space becomes place.

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Amazing KINDER RISING swim trespass today attended by hundreds - remembering the unfinished business started by the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass in 1932, & calling on Labour to make history again by passing a Right to Roam Act. Great speech too by Labour MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social!

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Couldn't go to Kinder for the @righttoroam.bsky.social mass trespass swim, but had our own little protest swim in the Jubilee River. Access to inland waters has so many benefits and we should have the #RightToSwim

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Just a quick reminder that this weekend is Kinder Rising! There is still time to make plans to join us there. For more info about the event, follow this link - www.eventbrite.com/e/kinder-ris...

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Kinder Rising is fast approaching so make sure you have your travel plans sorted. We have coaches leaving from Sheffield and Manchester. Book your return ticket now (£10 + £1.55 booking fee) From Sheffield www.eventbrite.com/e/coach-from... From Manchester www.eventbrite.com/e/coach-from...

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Always striking how different the attitudes of the major landowner body is on access in Scotland since the Land Reform Act. "As a large estate owner.. [it] feels like a moral contract that we need to provide the basic services required for people to take safe access" bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0029zpk

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I was interviewed on BBC Countryfile podcast on the Pennine Way Tour. We speak of @righttoroam.bsky.social and the tour itself. Listen to the show 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/5Ekp...

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Join us on the 26th & 27th of April at Kinder Rising for a mass rally and swim trespass to celebrate the 93rd anniversary of the kinder Scout mass trespass. Check out the link for more info and to sign up for free ⤵️ www.eventbrite.com/e/kinder-ris...

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If I was writing a book about the Right to Roam campaign, claiming it doesn't support access exclusions for at-risk species or consider the impact of dogs I'd maybe go to the effort of... I don't know... actually reading what they have to say about it in their publicly available policy briefing?

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Is this 14,000 acre estate in West Berkshire an access-to-nature nirvana? Patrick Galbraith thinks so. This week he took @righttoroam.bsky.social to task for its criticism of the Englefield Estate, owned by the former Conservative Minister in charge of.. access to nature. I explore the reality 👇

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Things haven't got this heated in Albion since the War of the Roses...

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I'd like to nominate the Common Cockchafer. Not for any high-falutin' reasons but simply because the name makes me chuckle.

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Not a single freshwater invert on that list?? It's Heptagenia sulphurea for me. Stunning in adult and nymph from, a key indicator of water quality, and a food source for 🐟🐟🐟

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Can I nominate the burying beetle (Nicrophorus vespilloides)? 🪲 Recycling hero (ok, burying dead animals) 🪲 Parents care for and feed their young

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Civil war breaks out in the Right to Roam campaign as @guyshrubsole.bsky.social's Blue Ground Beetle faces off against Nadia's Green Tiger Beetle for invertebrate of the year. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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If you need a more hopeful view of the future of farming (not to mention joyous listening) it’s here. Nature rich, access friendly, community-centric: Debra & Tom Willoughby, absolute legends #AFFLO #righttoroam @righttoroam.bsky.social hhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00291nd?partner=uk.co.bbc

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If you're near Falmouth, there's a screening of Dartmoor Calling on the 2nd April -charting the radical history of the national park, from Syliva Sayer to modern campaigns for access and nature. Q&A with @hollyastle.bsky.social and I included! @righttoroam.bsky.social thepoly.org/whats-on/eve...

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Just a reminder to anyone reading this PR piece - true wild camping is covered under access rights in Scotland and does not require paying a membership fee or any fee to landowners. Official government advice on where/how to wild camp responsibly here: www.outdooraccess-scotland.scot/doc/camping-...

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Listening to one of my favourite episodes of @stoneclub.bsky.social ‘Walks and Talks’ podcasts. With longer and warmer days returning, many are thinking of exploring outdoors. But how free is the land? @righttoroam.bsky.social #StandingStoneSunday

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The physical benefits of #outdoorswimming are well known. The benefits for our mental health are becoming better understood. But what about our spiritual health? We meet Abi Millar - author of The Spirituality Gap - to learn more. Read our #OSS Q&A with Abi tinyurl.com/bdetza79 #sharetheswimlove

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Was told today that, since the pay-walling of Cirencester Park ten months ago, there has been a 72% reduction in people visiting. That's 72% fewer people accessing their green space, getting less fit, getting more stressed, all to financially benefit one of the wealthiest aristocrats in Britain.

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NFU President Tom Bradshaw boasts that last year the NFU "fended off the Right to Roam". Labour must decide whether to side with an unrepresentative lobby group, or the grassroots @righttoroam.bsky.social campaign whose ask is backed by 69% of the public. www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-...

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NFU President Tom Bradshaw once again boasting about blocking access reform (which extend rights to millions of ordinary people to do things like... go for a swim without being shouted at) all while demanding the public to foot the bill for his industry's bespoke tax arrangements.

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Yesterday I had the privilege of joining Cwmparc residents on a peaceful march, protesting the blocking of a historic right of way that separates the community from their mountain. There was rain, mud, a little bit of trespassing, and hypothermic stand-off 🌧️ Here's my report of events. /THREAD 🧵

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It's great to see @ramblers.org.uk joining The BMC in supporting the community of Cwmparc today, against the enclosure of their access route to their mountain. See the image for an illustration of the importance of that route. /THREAD

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Online! Come, join in, & bring your questions for a chat all things #WildService @righttoroam.bsky.social & so much more! With the brilliant @amyjanebeer.bsky.social

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Online event next week… with @nicolawriting.bsky.social and me. A conversation about #WildService but you know, it could go anywhere. Join us, and bring questions 🙂 @righttoroam.bsky.social

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Our supporter survey is now available here -> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We've received some great feedback so far from our mailing list community, and now we want to hear from you lot too!

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"To imply wild camping is somehow central to Dartmoor’s conservation concerns ... tests the limits of credulity." Excellent new article by Lewis Winks in response to claims made by landowner Alexander Darwall. www.countrylife.co.uk/nature/dartm...

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‘Smacks of hypocrisy’ & ‘tests the limits of credulity’: the irrepressible @lewis-winks.bsky.social dismantles Alexander Darwall’s case for banning the right to wild camp on Dartmoor - in Country Life, no less! - www.countrylife.co.uk/nature/dartm...

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One year has passed since The British Mountaineering Council launched our film 'Access Land', and started explicitly arguing for a rules-based system of access. /THREAD www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOSY...

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So looking forward to walking a few miles with @johnnycampbell.bsky.social on his epic Pennine Way tour and joining this show at the foot of Yorkshire’s most iconic peak, Pen-y-Ghent. Join us if you can for a night of rousing riffs & roaming rhymes… @righttoroam.bsky.social

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Want to have your say? Tomorrow afternoon, we’re sending out our supporter survey to our mailing list. Sign up now using the link below to be able to share your thoughts and help shape the future of the campaign. www.righttoroam.org.uk

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‘Farming can be isolating, so it’s really nice when we get people through the yard; the positives far outweigh the negatives.’ Countryfile cover our Access Friendly Farmers & Landowner panel at this year's Oxford Real Farming Conference. 👇 www.countrylife.co.uk/nature/the-f...

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@righttoroam.bsky.social 's recent exploration of inaccessible monuments took me on a journey around the isolated sites near me. I ended up discovering some amazing local heritage, and it's only reaffirmed my belief that these sites shouldn't be cut-off from the public.

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Good to see this article helping to join the dots between access and benefits for landowners. Too often the countryside access debate is polarised, whilst in reality there exists numerous mutual benefits for both public and farmers. @righttoroam.bsky.social www.countrylife.co.uk/nature/the-f...

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