Can making a wildlife documentary put your career at risk?

Filmmaker Sarah Roberts says tackling trophy hunting cost her professional opportunities & exposed how difficult it can be to have an open conversation about conservation’s most divisive subjects

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🌿 This week on Scribehound!

From mega reservoirs and the Environment Act to rustic living, woodland care and the surprising history of the organic movement. 👀

Plenty to get stuck into!

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🧥 Forget fashion. Can your coat survive blackthorn, carry a chicken and escape a Land Rover Defender?

Farmer Tom Martin puts his 12-coat collection to the test. The results are not quite what you'd expect!

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Can Britain deliver 30by30 without farmers?

Owen questions whether the target recognises the nature recovery already happening across working farms - & argues that collaboration, not division, is key.

Are we overlooking a vital part of the solution?

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Is the government breaching the Environmental Act?

@TrooperSnooks asks whether farming policy & funding cuts put the Environment Act’s 2030 wildlife target at risk + whether conservation groups & land managers should unite in a legal challenge.

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🌱 Organic food and fascism. Not two things you’d normally put together…

But journalist @OliFletcher explores the surprising political roots of the organic movement - and the aristocrat who helped shape its story.

A history worth revisiting.

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🚜 Farmers as the fourth emergency service?
📚 Chris Packham & history
🌳 Caring for our woods
🎃 Pumpkin farming’s bright future
🎣 Eat the rainbow
🌲 Educating a wild child

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💧 Britain needs more reservoirs. But does it need mega reservoirs?

With the proposed White Horse scheme estimated at £7bn, Sarah Rundell asks whether bigger really is better & explores the alternatives.

Are we looking in the right places?

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🌿 Why historians may be hard on Packham

@Jamie_Blackett weighs up recent wins for rural interests before turning to hunting, shooting & @ChrisGPackham’s new role at the @LeagueACS

Why does he think the rural debate could be about to get nastier?

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🐑 Want to become a proper rustic?

Clean wellies & a shiny Barbour won’t cut it. You’ll need to catch runaway chickens, reverse a trailer & master the dark art of opening a sack of feed.

@Outdoors_George has some advice…

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🌳 Everyone loves the woods. Until someone starts managing them.

@RichPrideaux explores why woodland work can provoke such strong reactions - & what people might be missing about the people caring for these familiar places.

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🦅 Raptors & wind turbines
🌳 Educating a wild child
🐎 Horse racing under attack
🏞️ Abolishing Natural England?
🔴 The scourge of QUANGOs

Five stories. Plenty to debate.

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🎃 Around 15 million pumpkins are grown in the UK every year. But what can this bright orange autumn crop teach us about the future of British farming?

@AdamHenson explores how farmers adapt - and why seasonal opportunities matter.

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🐟 Could rainbow trout offer a different way to think about farmed fish?

At Scotland’s Lake of Menteith, Andy discovers what happens when trout are raised just yards from the water where they’re caught - & asks some bigger questions about fish farming.

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🚜 Farmers: Britain’s unrecognised fourth emergency service?

At Holme Fen, farmers brought bowsers, pumps & tractors to help fight a major fire.

@Farmer_Tom_UK asks: but what happens to rural resilience when the farms disappear?

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🌿 Are we making childhood too sanitised?

@Gallowaygrouse reflects on raising a wild, curious child - & asks whether muddy adventures, risky explorations and a fascination with nature are things to encourage rather than correct.

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This week on Scribehound:

🏞️ Should we abolish Natural England?
📰 The scourge of the QUANGOs
🔫 Shooting is often its own worst enemy
🇫🇮 What can the UK learn from Finland’s approach to farming?
🚜 Jeremy Clarkson takes *Tories by storm*

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🏇 Why is horse racing under attack?

Camilla Swift examines the pressures facing British racing, from gambling taxes and funding to animal-rights campaigns - and what the consequences could be for rural communities.

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📰 What makes a great countryside story?

@PaddyGalbraith of @Telegraph discusses the power of good rural journalism, the stories that capture people’s attention and why they matter.

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🦅 Why don’t British raptors crash into wind turbines?

Ian Coghill questions the UK’s wildlife figures & explores the impact of wind farms on birds, bats & our countryside.

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