Ben Taylor

Chumbe Island Manager. Conservationist and educator. With a hint of Stoke city FC!

[Ben Taylor @bentaylor114]

@LegacySiu Morata

[Ben Taylor @bentaylor114]

@AirTanzania just your phone keeps cutting me off after waiting 5 minutes, your email is not rejecting my emails, your website is not working to make specific bookings. How can this be?

[Ben Taylor @bentaylor114]

@stokecity is the stoke city app down? Looking to watch the game and it keeps crashing on my various devices and both WiFi and mobile internet

[Ben Taylor @bentaylor114]

I am attending the Zanzibar forum for sustainable tax development, why? True conservation efforts cannot exist without socio-economic, environment and political balance, engaging in dialogue around taxation is part of the foundations of sustainable development and conservation.

[Ben Taylor @bentaylor114]

@BenCooke135 Chumbe Island Coral Park to see how businesses can and should be run

[Clare Fitzsimmons @clare_fitz]

Thinking about resolutions for the New Year? Want to move your career in an exciting new direction? Come to @newcastlemarine @SciencesNCL and join us!! 3x fully funded PhD student ships available!! See thread below. Please Retweet!

[Ben Taylor @bentaylor114]

@fleroy1974 I think this is great actually, I can understand you see these things a negative, but for me I would be happy to do what I can to reduce my carbon footprint

[Ben Taylor @bentaylor114]

@ProfTerryHughes @DiseaseMatters @Lacertko @mimms78 Yes very true. I met a BBC journalist who had been working in the Seychelles in the 70's and he was asking me how his favorite reefs were doing, and these reefs are now algal dominated reefs.

[Ben Taylor @bentaylor114]

@DiseaseMatters @Lacertko @mimms78 @ProfTerryHughes I think the thing is, there are patches of nice coral in various places in Seychelles, but for the inner islands of Seychelles the baseline has shifted so far from 30-50 years ago.

[Ben Taylor @bentaylor114]

@scubajunkie22 @FCDOGovUK @CefasGovUK @jncc @The_MMO We are not based in Mozambique but in Tanzania, but at Chumbe Island Coral Park, we have been running a Privately Managed Marine protected for thirty years funded through our eco-tourism operations. I would be happy to connect and share our experiences.

[Ben Taylor @bentaylor114]

@GuzKhanOfficial Look forward watching it!

[Ben Taylor @bentaylor114]

@AdamCrafton_ We played yesterday without any momentum or passion, I looked at the pre-match press conference and Southgate was trying to show respect to the USA and that are team are ready and focused, draining all the excitement. E.g. Klopp and Pep, they make you/players excited and pumped.

[Ben Taylor @bentaylor114]

@AdamCrafton_ Southgate is the typical well groomed and trained modern manager, respectful, says all the right things.... But at the moment I think this is actually the issue, what we are missing, we need the players to be inspired, someone who puts a fire in the belly, gets the players going.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Ten years (and 1.6 billion views) ago, when my brother and I decided that we could make videos that could substantially help people in their high school and college educations and then give them away for free, no one was there to tell us we were wrong.

[Ben Taylor @bentaylor114]

@apriljazB @KatrinaJDavis @AlexDavidRogers @CatherineHead14 @Ana__Nuno @NancyBunbury @SIF_Seychelles @Steve__Kelly @AshSendellPrice @noam_vv @mahesituated @sheena_talma @OxfordEnvRes Big congratulations!!! Always knew you would be a doctor one day!

[Ben Taylor @bentaylor114]

@ANGIEPOPS11 Very interesting point. To me this highlights the key need in higher education, science and research etc. to facilitate people from all walks of life and backgrounds as equal stakeholders. Social mobility and inclusion is only better for the advancement of science

[Ben Taylor @bentaylor114]

@vivienne_evans Completely agree with you, I find this so disheartening that at the moment this is often completely overplayed. Can be a tool for awareness raising, maybe tourism if done correctly and or a scientific research, but restoration without recognition of true scalability is dishonest

[Ben Taylor @bentaylor114]

Attending and presenting about #chumbeisland for a webinar by @LTandC on COVID19s implications on #conservation and #tourism projects...