Guest blogs, vlogs, letters published (has its own page), talks, columns, walks, debates, book revs, opinions, interviews and ‘other stuff’ (see also Rural science)
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- Moderating a roundtable discussion with CITES, and Enviro Minister, IUCN et al
- Can conservation scientists talk more with practitioners on the research? a 60 sec vlog
- Field intel trip around Devon and a food conf -London
- A walk and talk on land use at the Crickhowell Walking Festival (walk 62)
- Provided the template for this research paper: ‘Birds and people: from conflict to coexistence’
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- 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)
- 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.
- Curating and moderating countryside conversations at the Welsh Game Fair
- 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
- Moderating a 2 day international conference on fisheries conservation
- 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!
- Squirrel cooked on ‘Jeremy Vine on 5‘ show.
- Turkish TV – on trophy hunting
- BBC News – 3 mins on trees.
- Editors pick of 60sec enviro-vlogs on trees, farming, IPCC, water, land, food, science, social media
- 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
- ‘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
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- Rewilding in English uplands (contributor)
- Rewilding in Wales (cited)
- Farmers Weekly letter – space for land managers to change
- Star letter (shooting and conservation work for nature) GWCT mag
- Letter in Farmers Weekly – bypass NFU and ignore environmentalists
- Farmers Weekly. A blunt letter re lynx and farmers
- Letters on lead shot in CLA and BASC mags
- Letter on New Zealand in Farmers Weekly
- On dialogue in Farmers Weekly
- On conflating food security and self-sufficiency in Farmers Guardian
- Letter in Farmers Weekly on rewilding
- Challenge to Welsh farmers (Farmers Weekly letter)
- Blunt letter in FW Nov 16 – adapt or….
- On harriers and combines in Farmers Weekly
- Predator control in Farmers Guardian
- On water in Farmers Guardian
- A letter in Farmers Weekly about keeping farmers in the room
- Fighting for Birds – Mark Avery
- Feral – George Monbiot
- Farmageddon – Philip Lymbery
- What Nature does for Britain – Tony Juniper
- Ethical Carnivore – Louise Gray
- Red 67 – BTO
- Native – Patrick Laurie
- ‘Beak, Tooth & Claw’ – Mary Colwell
- A review of Regenesis by George Monbiot
- Jake Fiennes’ ‘Land Healer’
- Interview with Micheal Gove (Defra Sec of State)
- Interview with George Monbiot Countryfile Magazine 2013
- and version for Inst Welsh Affairs ‘Boars should replace sheep’
- Interview with NFU Cymru president 2013
- Interview with Ben Goldsmith 2019
- Interview with Welsh Natural Resources Minister Brecon & Radnor Express
- Interview with George Monbiot Aug 13 on farming page of B&R Express
- Interview with Prof David Hughes in Farmers Guardian Full here
- Interview with Minette Batters at Hay Festival
- Simon Phelps on Rob and nuance in conservation
- Nature cam footage via Twitter of long-tailed tits (#hedgegoggle), chiffchaff (#warblersworld), buzzard (#carrioncam), wren (#wreninaden), pied flycatcher (#pieflycam), redstart (#redboxstart)
- Comments from me published on Natural England’s blogs: land managers | blanket bogs | trees | burning.
- Game Fair, Abergavenny Food Festival, CLA panel, Walks Crickhowell Walking Festival ‘Curlew calling’
- Rock pooling (Countryfile)
- Dear Sir, The Times
- Nature Notebook The Times
- The crowded birdtable
- Grouse shooting in Countryfile Magazine
- Hay Festival food/farming debate May 14 Brecon & Radnor Express
- Inextricable farming and state of nature (Farmers Weekly letter)
- Changing countryside Outdoor Writers Guild
- Staying in a mountain bothy (Merchant & Makers)
- Wild trout fishing (M&M)
- Prawn hunting (M&M)
- Winter’s night on the hill (M&M)
- Pollock on the rocks (M&M)
- Goose shooting in Uist (Shooting Gazette 2007)
- Red legs (Shooting Times 2007)
- A conversation with Rob on farming (14min)
- Defra’s Eustice on gene edit in The Times Jan 2021
- What do farmers think of rewilding? In Countryfile Mag
- We need trust and data
- On-site field intelligence gathering.
- Conservation in crisis – British Wildlife
- Moral Maze, eh?!
- Three blogs on my rewilding debate at Hay May 16- here, here and herehttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2000.tb07679.x
- Communicating with farmers (Farmers Weekly)
- Tilting at wildlife (conservation conflict) Redpath el al (pdf)
- Mark Avery in The Field on hen harriers quotas – 2011
- Reawakening to the delights of wild bird shooting
- Micheal McCarthy (Independent) on partridges, shooting and wildlife
- Prof David Hughes – Tough Times – Newsletter April 24
- Food production and biodiversity (land share/spare) Benton et al
- Culture of killing – British Birds 2013 and author resp
- Charles Nodder in The Field – 2013
- Social media and wildlife GWCT APPG – via twitter
- Shooting Times editorial re working together (via twitter)
- Lowlands farmland birds – 20 yrs jct RSPB/GWCT research: pdf
- On sink habitat, ecological traps
- Conservation in Crisis – Barkham in Brit Wild Oct 20
- Way back from 1990, I found my project on farming and conservation…