rebeccafordwriter 🌻🐾

Travel and nature writer, historical and cultural geographer, dreamer. Find me on Instagram @rebeccafordwriter.

[rebeccafordwriter 🌻🐾 @Rebeccafwriter]

Delighted to hear that my essay on watercress and food tourism has just been Commended in the Sophie Coe Prize 2022, for writing on food history- https://t.co/AOPuiZtDmt #oxfordfood22

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Yet again, horses die!

https://t.co/tRLHoYXBvI

[rebeccafordwriter 🌻🐾 @Rebeccafwriter]

HORSE DEATHS: Highland Hunter and Ose Partir are the first horses to die at #CheltenhamFestival2024. NEVER bet on horse races – if you bet, they die. Urge Cheltenham’s sponsors to cut ties with the deadly event: #Cheltenham 🐎 #YouBetTheyDie https://t.co/ew0ldIXF4x

[Philip Lymbery @philip_ciwf]

14,000 sheep & 1,000 cattle will be re-exported to Middle East after returning to Western Australia amid security concerns in Red Sea
After being on MV Bahijah for 5 weeks it will take a further 30 days!
Indefensible & cruel #beyondwords
#BanLiveExport
https://t.co/amPfPj2nPU

[Philip Lymbery @philip_ciwf]

Several hundred cattle offloaded as export ship off WA remains in limbo
Federal government lashed for their handling of crisis

16,000 sheep & cattle have been onboard for a month in sweltering conditions
#horrific
#shame on #Australia
#BanLiveExports
https://t.co/IMZcOLAhFK

[Philip Lymbery @philip_ciwf]

Thousands of sheep & cattle stuck on Israel-bound ship halted by Red Sea attacks
“Critics claim leaving livestock on board amid 41 degree heat amounts to "animal torture"
Grave concern for 15,000 sheep & 2,000 cattle
Shame on #Australia
#BanLiveExport
https://t.co/zauiVwP6UJ

[rebeccafordwriter 🌻🐾 @Rebeccafwriter]

Delighted that my chapter on Springhead watercress grounds/food tourism in the 19th century, is in the new open access book 'Situating Foodways and Foodscapes' (GUP) https://t.co/VxoZf9pekh
Thanks eds @RobertAlexHearn, Robertacevasco, Valentina Pescini and my fellow contributors.

[Brooke 🐴🧡 @TheBrooke]

On this #RemembranceDay, please take a moment to pause and reflect by joining us in remembering the eight million horses, donkeys and mules who died in World War I.

#EveryHorseRemembered
‘A Soldiers Kiss’ by Henry Chappell, narrated by Mil Nicholson

[rebeccafordwriter 🌻🐾 @Rebeccafwriter]

Our new map reveals the effects of 20th century land-use and climate change on Britain's wild species https://t.co/eFiECfYf52 via @ConversationUK

[Tony Juniper @TonyJuniper]

Several reports today dismiss greenbelt as ‘scrubland’, the implication being that development on such land is better than what’s there now. Truth is that expanding scrub is one of the quickest ways we can make progress for Nature recovery. Quite worrying

https://t.co/DEKcpca4QD

[Marco Lambertini @ConvenerNatureP]

#Switzerland to undertake mass killing (60%) of #wolves

Purely a political decision, ignoring scientists’ guidance, int. conventions, the majority of Swiss people and solely responding to populist calls from the most regressive farmers voices

A disgrace https://t.co/RGejcnLvEW

[rebeccafordwriter 🌻🐾 @Rebeccafwriter]

@DominicCouzens Thanks Dom!

[rebeccafordwriter 🌻🐾 @Rebeccafwriter]

Congratulations to all the winners and runners up in the Yeovil Prize for Fiction. I'm pleased to have made the shortlist in the Children's and Young Adult category.

[rebeccafordwriter 🌻🐾 @Rebeccafwriter]

Here's my piece for The Telegraph on #trees and why the destruction of the Sycamore Gap tree affects us so much:
https://t.co/uN0mGCr6Hh

#sycamoregaptree #nature

[National Trust @nationaltrust]

We are shocked and desperately saddened to learn that the famous Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian's Wall has been felled overnight, in what appears to be an act of vandalism.

We know just how much this iconic tree is loved locally, nationally and by everyone who has visited.

We are working with our partners to understand what has happened and what can be done.

The incident has also been reported to the police.

[ADI @AnimalDefenders]

MOTHER BEAR KILLED IN ITALY! Horrific killing of a female brown #bear in #Italy, has left two young cubs to fend for themselves. Italy’s Environment Minister has announced that the two bear cubs must remain free and be protected.

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

So here we have it . In 2023 , in the UK , a so called ‘nation of animal lovers’ and this barbarity is still allowed . It simply has to end . If our pet dogs did this and we trampled all the crops there would be justifiable hell to pay - but here - nothing , an ‘accident’ @WiltsHuntSabs

[rebeccafordwriter 🌻🐾 @Rebeccafwriter]

@LittleToller Ooh, that looks interesting!

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It is @sainsburys - it really is!

[rebeccafordwriter 🌻🐾 @Rebeccafwriter]

@WordsByJill 😮