Media - Rob Yorke

Guest blogs, vlogs, letters published (has its own page), talks, columns, walks, debates, book revs, opinions, interviews and ‘other stuff’ (see also Rural science)

“if we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change”

Giuseppe Lampedusa (from the Leopard)

Editor’s pick

Alliances for Nature (a 45min workshop in Ireland) lead by me
Rural culture and environmental – a workshop/pub session in Ireland hosted by me
Can conservation scientists talk more with practitioners on the research? a 60 sec vlog
Intro to ‘Carbon Calling’ pilot – 9 panellists/3 audience mics/1 hour (raw ver, 3min) – Q&A here
An excerpt from a conf in Ireland (Changing landscapes)
A river summit on farming and water – a open-mic interactive session (below, audio via headphone)

60sec vlogs via Twitter (over 1k views – see Vlog page)

Opinion pieces

Interview with Micheal Gove for BBC Countryfile Magazine – Farming Futures reblog and original interview (Defra Sec of State)
Nature Notebook Aug 15 for The Times – trees, farm and wolves (pdf) and scribd version of original text
Food and enviro Farmers Guardian
Shooting must find common ground for Shooting Times
The Field on Conflicts in conservation
Optimistic countryside post Brexit – Countryfile Mag
Moorland management for Shoot Gaz
On wildfires for ‘i‘newspaper
Farming, food and birds – RICS Land Journal
‘Gimme Shelter’ article on habitat Wild Trout Trust mag – blog here
Badger complex (Countryfile Magazine)
Curlew for Heather Trust
Transition from lead shot for Shooting Gaz
Collaboration over land use for Confor or pdf here (Page 8)
The Times Nature Notebook Aug 2014 – trout, woodland and farmland
Hen Harriers and red grouse – Scottish Sporting Gazette
What’s the Point of wildlife (in Countryfile Mag)
Green jargon fails to talk to farmers (Farmers Weekly)
Intensive farming for wildlife’s sake – RICS Modus
Contributer to Guardian article on shooting
The Times Nature Notebook Dec 2014 – woodcock, estuaries, squirrels
Thunderer on wildlife legislation The Times Aug 2010
Oxford Farming Conferences (Countryfile)
Zoological conf on food and biodiversity for Countryfile Magazine
Langholm’s grouse and hen harriers (RICS Land July-Aug 15)
100 Times letters (Farmers Weekly Sept 15)
News item on Langholm Moor for Country Life Magazine
Thunderer on wildlife conservation The Times Feb 16
Conservation tensions for Inside Ecology.
Various pieces for Brecon and Radnor newspaper and rural/wildlife col
Urban Fox (a wildlife col for London Informer)
Farm Business on farm productivity and wildlife
Farmers Guardian Open Farm Sunday
Article on vertical farming.
Upland enquiry on better conversations.
‘New Demands; old countryside‘ (pdf) (2011)

Chair – debates/events

Leading and moderating a journalist symposium on wildlife mangement in Estonia
Moderating a session on comms, wildlife and hunting for the CIC in Latvia (from 4hr.20)
Proposing and running a pilot on ‘is there room for nuance in enviro reporting’
Moderating Q&A to Local Nature Partnership
Farmed Environment (CFE – for NFU)
Oxford Real Farm Conf event.
Speaker and chair at Butterfly Conservation uplands conf.
Ruralscapes project (Welsh remote communities)
CIC symposium on wildlife and hunting. CIC wildlife/hunting Namibia
Pollinators 2016 – Friends of the Earth and Bayer et al
A talk with NFU farmers in Hampshire
Hay Festival 2018 – NFU’s president
Hay Festival 2017 – Helen Browning, David Spellar and Jake Freestone
Hay Festival 2016 – Minette Batters, Julia Aglionby, Sophie Wynne Jones
Hay Festival 2015 – George Freeman MP and Prof Tim Lang
Hay Festival 2014 x 2 – Tim Benton and Tacon. Guy Smith and Lymbery
Hay Festival 2013 – Young farmers and Simon Fairlie
Hay Festival 2012 – Head of Natural England, RASE and FACE
Podcasts of some of the Hay events above
Abergavenny Food Festival – 2017 (20 sec vlog) | 2018 | 2019
Commentary at BOU conf on birds and humans.
Chairing and speaking at a Rewilding symposium in 2019
Leading a workshop ‘Is there space for nuance in environmental journalism?‘ YouTube (whole)
Moderator at European Parliament event on wildlife and hunting with IUCN, CITES
Chairing a symposium, moderating a conference on conservation and sustainable use of wildlife
Curating and moderating countryside conversations at the Welsh Game Fair (2022) and 2023
Moderating a 2 day international conference on fisheries conservation

Guest blogs

Conservation hang ups: be braver, bolder (for Martin Harper RSPB)
Vote for Kingfisher! (for RSPB)
Silence of the (grouse) guns (for Mark Avery)
Pesticides and bees – a need for both (for Farming Futures)
Rewilding and Monbiot (for Institute of Chartered Foresters)
Bird Crime – a shooter’s view (for Martin Harper RSPB)
You can be a member of the RSPB and a gamekeeper (for Mark Avery 2013)
Guest blog on curlews for the RSPB
Insects – hosted by Knight Frank (KF)
Planning enviro – via KF
Dangerous wildlife – via KF

Reel Wars – (2001) 5 part fishing survival series for Discovery H&L – taster (intro – uploaded to YouTube June 20)
The Great Escape – (2002) 12 part farmhouse ‘survival’ series Discovery H&L – taster (12 of 12) uploaded YouTube June 20 – more to come
Copies of Reel Wars, a fishing survival Discovery Channel TV series for sale via contact. Rob also presented The Great Escape (a TV series on raw rural living) – copies available
Ready Steady Cook (2007) – no comment!
Sq uirrel cooked on ‘Jeremy Vine on 5‘ show.
Turkish TV – on trophy hunting
BBC News – 3 mins on trees.

Vlogs (see page)

Editors pick of 60sec enviro-vlogs on trees, farming, IPCC, water, land, food, science, social media

Radio/podcasts

BBC Farming Today – rewilding
BBC Wales – farm emissions
Podcast with Rob with BBC Countryfile Mag and this podfollow
Intro to school’s enviro conf – 3min keynote.
Podcaster, Ben Eagle’s interview with Rob on YouTube – Agriculture Act 20.00 min, farming 24.00, shooting 31.00, fishing 34.45, rewilding 37.20, forestry 40.13, uplands 43.00, social media 49.00, and reconciliation countryside 53.00
30min audio-only version for Meet the Farmers or here
Podcast on Langholm Moorland community buyout
Podcast with Tony Juniper – part 1 and part 2
Random vids – hare, curlew | kites biomass | long-tailed tits , knitting (more @ nature cam blog) | Langholm curlew and here | mole flood | more kites | whooper swan | polecat skull | woodcock flight | spider wrap | my qu to Jim Paice as Farm Minister Aug 2011 | My 1st twitter vid Apr 15, dawn chorus June| weasel whispering 1 and 2 | cutting verges Apr 17 | slow cow | mad pheasant | wild hills | London squirrel | slow death | beetle dung | killer wasp | woodcock over | hawkmoth | egret | ode to trout (3.3k) | tree sheep | hornet | my first vlog (2017) and another early one

Speaker/walks and talks/conversations/brokering dialogue

‘Space for nuance in environmental journalism?’ (YouTube link of #FrontlineEnviro event to come)
Brecon Beacons Park Society
Land use talk for Landmark Trust
Abergavenny Food Festival chair and panelist and 2019
Hay Walking festival
CPRW at Talgarth
Crick Walk Festival forestry and grouse uplands.
National Trust rangers
Hay Walking Festival.
Black Mountains farmers
Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science at Oxford Uni
Young Naturalists/Farmers (no-label framing)
Wye and Usk Agricultural Discussion Group ‘gut for garters’ moment
Presentation to MPs at an APPG on media
Wooly maggots or lamb chops? Harper Adams Agric Univ
Bristol Food Connections
Hay community ‘Talk on the wild side‘
Abergavenny Civic Soc and Abergavenny Rotary Club, Pontypool Ramblers
Oxford and Reading University students
Scot and Land Estates
SW Uplands conf
Crickhowell Walking Festival talk (feedback) and walk (feedback)
Kent Farm Expo panelist and feedback
Land Use Conf. in Scotland
‘Rewilding, nature and people in Cambridge
Hertfordshire County Show
a sweary chatback from Patrick Laurie (38k views)
Leading a walk and talk in the Black Mountains
In conversation with Jake Fiennes at the Abergavenny Food Festival