Phil Sturgeon

RE: @Philsturgeon@mastodon.green

24 hours after putting that leaky dam up and send more water down the whole valley, and we e got little wet areas like this filling up beautifully. Frogs, beavers, newts, all gonna love it.

After a long day coppicing with a bunch of amazing volunteers I popped down to see how this little pond is filling up after 24 hours of leaky dam and blocked up land drain. Huge change since yesterday! The whole area is covered in an inch or two of water, and loads more water up the valley floor from the drain. #Wetland #rewilding

What if you stopped caring about everything you currently think is important.

What if you gave up your home.

Gave up comfort.

Gave up stability.

Fucked off everything on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs entirely.

Just spent ten years doing what everyone else didn’t bother doing for climate and community and it made you happy.

What then.

Today was the best thing I have done in my life and I’ve waited two years to do it. Team got stuck in to make it happen.

Digger track snapped off and we got it all done anyway with our bare hands.

So exited to see how @ProtectEarthUK@toot.protect.earth Warleigh Nature Reserve goes from here, and I’ll be there every day for months to monitor the progress. I literally live here now (on my boat over the valley). https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVRvgEljLUq/?igsh=MTIzeWd0bnFpOHhpcQ==

Hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahha.

That’s just not at all close.

Well done everyone.

Ahh no I’m getting in trouble with randos on the internet for doing the right thing. Shucks.

Whenever there is a decision to be made between improving access for people with mobility issues scrambling over a slippery wooden stile, and a fun little novelty for completely able bodied people, there is an obvious decision to make that is legally entirely ours to make. 🫡

@scattershot@merveilles.town there’s beavers all up and down the Avon. They’re even in Bristol harbour! They’re having a rough one but this site will become a haven for them.

I am really excited to finally be working on Baths largest rewilding project! We fought for two years to get this land but Protect Earth is now worryingly broke and we have a lot of work that needs doing. Please dig in, and every donation up to £250 is being DOUBLED, plus gift aid if you’re a taxpayer!! Please please help us do this. https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/warleigh-nature-reserve

People of Leeds and surrounding.

We got a small crew doing a big ancient woodland restoration job 7th and 8th February and I need a LOT more of you to mangle all this rhododendron.

Address – Weston Woods, Weston Lane, Weston, N Yorks. LS21 2HW W3W

https://www.protect.earth/events/otley-rhododendron-removal-wgg29