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Jun 3, 2025 55 min

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

from Life List: A Birding Podcast Hosted by George Armistead, Alvaro Jaramillo, and Mollee Brown

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 Come for the whiskey tent stories… stay for the message of passion-driven conservation! Get more Life List by subscribing to our newsletter and joining our Patreon for bonus content. Talk to us and share your topic ideas at lifelistpodcast.com. Thanks to Kowa Optics for sponsoring our podcast! Want to know more about us? Check out George's company, Hillstar Nature; Alvaro's company, Alvaro's Adventures, and Mollee's company, Nighthawk Agency, to see more about what we're up to.

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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...

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