Conservation ecologist, filmmaker, author, wildlife forensics. Film festival director - @EdiConsFilmFest Latest film https://xitter.gq/t.co/pbhnaynnxt
Edinburgh, Scotland
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Looking for something to do this weekend? Join us for the FIRST out-of-Edinburgh screening of @EdiConsFilmFest on December 14 💙
The films showcase the importance of conservation, giving us agency to make positive impacts.
Book tickets now 👉 highlandwildlifepark.org.uk/…
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Come to the Highland Wildlife Park for an afternoon of inspiring short films celebrating conservation success from around the world, from Scotland to Indonesia.
Saturday 14th December. Tickets via the Highland Wildlife Park Events page
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🐘 Bertha Chipanda works tirelessly to protect Malawi's wildlife with our partner TRACE Wildlife Forensics Network, thanks to players of @PostcodeLottery.
This #WorldRangerDay, let's celebrate the rangers dedicated to protecting our planet's wildlife! 💪
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We have a winner! If you were at one of our 2024 screenings, keep an eye on your email inbox as one of you will be receiving notification that you have won a £150 voucher from @finisterre!
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Come along to the Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival Partner Screening from 6 to 9pm tomorrow and check out the film by @simondures, featuring our own Ben Ross, explaining the work to protect at least 30% of our land and sea for nature by 2030. orlo.uk/3DBX6
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Don't forget we have another screening of this year's films and tickets are still available.
It's going to be a great event! There will be beer! 🍺
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A quick reminder, if you didn't manage to catch the Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival, we are having another screening at the Edinburgh @finisterre store this Thursday.
Come along for a wonderful, uplifting evening of films!
#Edinburgh
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Free film tonight!
It's a good doc do watch as well!!
📽️Rewilding: Why Not Scotland?
Free, this Thursday 6.30
Nature is dramatically recovering in EU. Scotland is depleted, but WNS shows how landscape ecological restoration helps nature, climate & people.
Refreshments & discussion.
#Edinburgh #Rewilding
tinyurl.com/WNS24
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In Edinburgh tonight and need something to do?
Want to see an inspiring film about the conservation potential of Scotland?
@BanzaiEdinburgh are screening the @ScotlandTBP film #WhyNotScotland!
It's well worth a watch!
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1/🧵Pleased to present new research I co-led. It’s now out in @ScienceMagazine and definitively shows that #ConservationWorks. Great news isn’t it!? It’s been a pleasure working with @pennyultimate, @wildbusiness, @IUCNscience, and others. Below, I tell you all about it
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🧵(1/4) Exciting news! A first-of-its-kind study led by Re:wild, @iucn, @dice_kent, and @oxford_uni, published in @sciencemagazine, reveals conservation efforts are effective at slowing biodiversity loss. 🌿 rewild.org/conservation-work…
#ConservationWorks #Biodiversity
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There are still a few tickets available for tomorrow's Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival!
Hope to see you there!
Tickets are available through our website.
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There's still time to get your tickets to this year's Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival! 📽️🦫🪰🌿
Join us this Sunday 14th April at @NtlMuseumsScot
➡️ ecff.co.uk/
ALT An advert for the event, featuring illustrations of a beaver, fish and damselfly, along with logos of the sponsors. Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival 14th April @ 1pm National Museum of Scotland Get tickets via www.ECFF.co.uk or scan the QR code Suitable for ages 12+
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🍿In Edinburgh this Sunday? Don't miss the inspiring selection of films @EdiConsFilmFest at @EdSciFest. It includes a beautiful short by festival director @SimonDures about #30x30, featuring our Head of Protected Areas, Innovation and Data, Ben Ross.👏
orlo.uk/Edinburgh_Conservati…
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Need any more incentive to come this year Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival?
How about the chance to win a £150 Finisterre gift card simply by taking part in our audience's 'Public Choice' award?
Now is your chance!! Link for tickets in our bio or via @EdSciFest
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We have a film asking 'Is Scotland ready for Lynx' in this year's Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival. You can get tickets through @EdSciFest - edinburghscience.co.uk/event…
Wildlife groups seek views over lynx reintroduction bbc.in/4aChQ3I
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Delighted to announce that WildAid's film about Cameroonian visual artist Bright Toh has been selected to show at Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival and at Junction North International Documentary Film Festival in Canada. @EdiConsFilmFest
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Get your tickets to this year's Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival.
Sunday 14th April at @NtlMuseumsScot
Book your tickets via the link in our profile or via @EdSciFest .
Sponsored by @PostcodeLottery, @SEFARIscot, @finisterre, @NHM_Science
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Join us for the family-friendly Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival at the National Museum of Scotland and learn about the importance of biodiversity conservation for all of us! @EdiConsFilmFest whatsoninedinburgh.co.uk/eve…
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Impressive, dedicated, eloquent. What a woman. Watch the interview.
#InternationalWomensDay
Happy #InternationalWomensDay2024!
Enjoy this interview with the formidable Bertha Chipanda about her work prosecuting #Wildlife crime in #Malawi with the help of TRACE Wildlife Forensics Network. Thanks to @PostcodeLottery & @TRAFFIC_WLTrade
youtu.be/iCVPFdbveVw