The Compassionate Conservationist

Conservation blogger and journalist 🦁✍️ Husband of Sara ❤️ Booklover 📚 [email protected]

[The Compassionate Conservationist @Mr_Alex_Taylor]

.@DoncasterRaces, please cancel the upcoming live reptile market. This animal cruelty needs to stop and you have the power to end it #CazooStLeger @CazooUK @MoveTheWorldUK. Wildlife #NotPets https://t.co/3U4858cMMz

[World Animal Protection UK @MoveTheWorldUK]

Together, we have:
✍️ Submitted a petition with 75,000 signatures
📧 Sent 15,000 emails to Doncaster Racecourse’s Executive Director
📱 Shared our content to lift the lid on this cruel animal market

Wild animals belong in the wild, not kept as exotic pets.

[The Compassionate Conservationist @Mr_Alex_Taylor]

@ScotParl voted to protect mountain hares. Yet the mountain hare shooting season has begun. @ScotGov must enact mountain hare protection at the same time as the other provisions of the new animal welfare legislation. #HareCare

[The Compassionate Conservationist @Mr_Alex_Taylor]

@BBCSpringwatch Why do male and female blackcaps have different coloured caps? 🤔 #springwatch #blackcaps #birds

[The Compassionate Conservationist @Mr_Alex_Taylor]

Following on from the feature on butterflies on #springwatch, here is some fascinating research #Butterflies

[Butterfly Conservation 🦋 @savebutterflies]

The wings of a butterfly are alive, with their own heart, stress and thermal sensors!

Discover more about the major findings from the study via @nresearchnews: https://t.co/uIxpP3G7bt

@BBCSpringwatch #Springwatch

[The Compassionate Conservationist @Mr_Alex_Taylor]

Wing hearts! Thermoregulation! Just learnt more about butterflies in 5 minutes than I have for a long time! @BBCSpringwatch #springwatch #butterflies

[The Compassionate Conservationist @Mr_Alex_Taylor]

Really interesting project from @WoodlandTrust - will be very interesting to see the results!

[The Compassionate Conservationist @Mr_Alex_Taylor]

Yes please! #rewilding

[Lynx for Scotland 🐾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Lynx_Scotland]

Do you want a community and science led trial reintroduction of lynx to Scotland?

[The Compassionate Conservationist @Mr_Alex_Taylor]

Can you compile all these clips and make one long nature mindfulness programme please?! #springwatch #Springwatch2020

[BBC Springwatch @BBCSpringwatch]

In this series of Springwatch, we have been inviting you to take a moment of mindfulness during each episode. Relax as we take you to Devon and a beautiful wild hedgerow filmed by wildlife cameraman Josh Tarr

#Springwatch https://t.co/ICiZ5uG7kg 💚

[The Compassionate Conservationist @Mr_Alex_Taylor]

Great to see #rewilding featured on #springwatch tonight! #conservation

[The Compassionate Conservationist @Mr_Alex_Taylor]

The UK needs its top predators back! Please sign this petiton - Bring the Lynx back to the UK https://t.co/g6DadmSLiD #reintroduction #conservation #lynx #cats

[The Compassionate Conservationist @Mr_Alex_Taylor]

Happy #WorldBeeDay! Here's an article I wrote for @_UnderTheSkin about the Elephants and Bees Project, run by Save The Elephants - a great example of a win-win scenario for both endangered species and local people! https://t.co/ij3M8fwwdF #undertheskin #elephants #savetheebees

[The Compassionate Conservationist @Mr_Alex_Taylor]

A Pandemic of Possibilities: Part I - my latest blog for @_UnderTheSkin on the way nature has responded to the coronavirus pandemic https://t.co/pSKoAV9Zlv #undertheskin #conservation #nature #blog

[The Compassionate Conservationist @Mr_Alex_Taylor]

Hi @ZacGoldsmith - we've heard you're publishing a draft English Tree Strategy soon, but that it will only contain a weak tree cover target. 140,000 of us are urging you to be more ambitious let's double tree cover, for climate and nature: https://t.co/TNdfjjjbR8 #ReforestEngland

[The Compassionate Conservationist @Mr_Alex_Taylor]

Thanks for your fantastic contribution to my article Robbie!

[The Compassionate Conservationist @Mr_Alex_Taylor]

There are only an estimated 6 to 12 individual vaquitas remaining - surely they will be the next mammal to go extinct https://t.co/KcftEkmE6K #vaquita #conservation #extinction

[The Compassionate Conservationist @Mr_Alex_Taylor]

We are standing at the precipice of ecological ruin - will the world leaders respond to calls for urgent action and negotiate a Paris-style UN agreement on nature? https://t.co/XHJDRYeiQp #conservation #ecology #UN

[The Compassionate Conservationist @Mr_Alex_Taylor]

A day behind, but please listen to Jane Goodall urging us to save pangolins, the world's most trafficked animal #WorldPangolinDay #SaveThePangolins

[Pangolin Crisis Fund @PangolinCrisis]

A pangolin’s natural defense is to roll into a ball when threatened, which is why they’re such easy targets for wildlife traffickers. #RollWithUs this #WorldPangolinDay and help us protect these gentle creatures by following @PangolinCrisis and raising awareness for pangolins.

[The Compassionate Conservationist @Mr_Alex_Taylor]

Tribute to the legend Charles Darwin, but two current legends! #DarwinDay #DarwinDay2020

[The Royal Society @royalsociety]

In 1809 #OnThisDay, the great Charles Darwin was born. Here's Sir David Attenborough describing Darwin as "the founding father of scientific zoology and botany". See the full video here https://t.co/grMZ6Fz9Tu
#EarlyScience #TheOriginOfSpecies #CharlesDarwin #DarwinDay #Science

[The Compassionate Conservationist @Mr_Alex_Taylor]

On this International Day of Women and Girls in Science, what can we learn from animals about female leadership https://t.co/dm1siJutZq #WomenInScience #WomenInScienceDay #STEM

[The Compassionate Conservationist @Mr_Alex_Taylor]

Bumblebees are currently disappearing at rates “consistent with a mass extinction”, and are on course to be wiped out in just a “few decades” - worrying news for these animals https://t.co/0WoLtvTkFY #Bumblebees #insects #extinction