Global conservation and the Birdfair that started a movement with Tim Appleton

2025-06-03

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This episode, we're catching up with Tim Appleton: co-founder of Global Birdfair and lifelong conservationist...and who possibly has the UK's best yard list.Highlights of our chat include:How one idea became the world’s largest nature tourism and bird conservation gathering—and what makes it unique125 species and counting from Tim's Rutland cottage overlooking a reservoir he helped design How Tim helped reintroduce breeding ospreys to England The goals of Global Birding and Global Bird WeekendsConservation results from Borneo to the F...

This episode, we're catching up with Tim Appleton: co-founder of Global Birdfair and lifelong conservationist...and who possibly has the UK's best yard list.

Highlights of our chat include:

How one idea became the world’s largest nature tourism and bird conservation gathering—and what makes it unique
125 species and counting from Tim's Rutland cottage overlooking a reservoir he helped design
How Tim helped reintroduce breeding ospreys to England
The goals of Global Birding and Global Bird Weekends
Conservation results from Borneo to the Falklands, murals to migration corridors, and saving seabirds from longlines

Links:

Global Birdfair website
Book: Fledgling by Hannah Bourne-Taylor
Rutland Ospreys Live Cam

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