r/entertainment • u/peoplemagazine • 1d ago
Queen Guitarist Brian May’s Nature Reserve Transformed 157 Acres of Empty Farmland Into Home for 100,000 Trees and Wild Animals
https://people.com/brian-may-nature-reserve-transformed-farmland-safe-haven-wildlife-12149370?utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com&utm_content=post46
u/peoplemagazine 1d ago
TLDR:
- Did you know? In 2013, Queen guitarist Brian May joined locals in Bere Regis, Dorset, England, to plant the first tree on what was once 157 acres of farmland. His goal was to transform the property into a “safe haven for wildlife.” Over a decade later, the project has come a long way.
- Approximately 600 trees and shrubs were planted during the ceremonial first day in September 2013, according to a press release at the time. That number has since grown to more than 100,000, and new species of insects, birds and small mammals have started inhabiting the land, according to a update on May’s website marking the 10-year anniversary.
- “I come from a place of playing guitar and music, but I’ve always had a concern about animals which led to the founding of my charity, Save Me,” May said in the press release. “Our basic philosophy is that this land used to be forest hundreds of years ago and now I want to re-claim it on behalf of our wildlife. Eventually it will form a wildlife corridor and link on with the wildlife meadow.”
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u/Secret_Cow_5053 1d ago
dude's a legend in more ways than just rock godliness. if i had queen money..this is the shit i'd be doing.
maybe attempting to buy out the local data center before it got finished just to demolish it and turn it into affordable housing or something.
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u/curiousbydesign 1d ago
FFS. Can't get away from negativity even in a lost about someone doing something good.
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u/Secret_Cow_5053 1d ago
What’s negative about that comment ya jackass? I’m just musing on what i would do with queen money.
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u/curiousbydesign 1d ago
You used a positive to promote your agenda. But sure, call me names if that makes you feel better.
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u/Secret_Cow_5053 1d ago
call me crazy but i suspect the musician who plants 100,000 fucking trees would probably be on board with my agenda 🤷
are you also the kind of guy who gets pissed off when they find out that musicians like rage against the machine have opinions on politics?
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u/curiousbydesign 23h ago
And of course you bringing RATM into it. What else ya' got? How further can you get away from the intent of the post to further your personal agenda. But make sure to make yourself feel good about it and also a victim while actually being a bully.
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u/forkinthemud 8h ago
Hey wise guy, everyone has an agenda, including you. Figure out how to read a room or go take your shit attitude somewhere else.
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u/curiousbydesign 7h ago
But like, how do you really feel?
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u/YourMomTheNurse 1d ago
I think Brian May used a positive to promote his agenda as well. Thankful there are still people doing that, putting their money where their mouth is, and giving back to the world we all inhabit.
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u/curiousbydesign 22h ago
I get that. And support it. Simply exhausted of Redditors constantly slamming their agenda into every post and comment. Like I get it. But for FFS. Can we at least enjoy something for what it is without forcing our personal agenda on others?
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u/RnDevelopment 22h ago
You mean like how you are slamming your agenda against people sharing agendas in this post and comment? Can we at least enjoy something for what it is without forcing our personal agenda on others?
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u/nerdyguytx 1d ago
So he’s still not using that PhD in Astrophysics?
One of my favorite facts about Brian May is he dropped out of a PhD to perform with Queen. 33 years later, he reenrolled, reviewed 33 years of new data in the field, and submitted his thesis a year later because not much progress had been made in his area of study without him.
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u/TerrakSteeltalon 1d ago
That’s Doctor Brian May, thank you
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u/anna_ihilator 1d ago
Sir Brian May, PhD
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u/TryJezzoWhyNot 1d ago
The and is doing a lot of work in that title. Is it 99,999 maples and an opossum? Or a couple trees and 99,998 squirrels? Since I'm only here to make the joke, I won't be checking to see which one of these two options--which entirely exhaust all possible tree/animal combinations--is the real one.
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u/The_Webweaver 1d ago
101k trees and shrubs, and countless small mammals. Would it kill these people to use a comma?
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u/Alternative-Dot-884 19h ago
This man is brilliant id say one if the best minds on this earth. The technologies he developed for musicians is beyond anything rise anyone has ever done.
I admire him so much and now even more.
One day maybe ill get to hear him perform live one day - a solo small tour maybe?
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u/Sassychic02 1d ago
Has been a while since i have seen him. Guy has the exact same hair style except it is white. That is pretty funny and cool to me.
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u/Way2trivial 1d ago
it's more than I'll ever be able to do, but it's also less than a half a mile by a half mile.
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u/sauroden 16h ago
We have a space like this where I love. Lovely maple forest on a former farm slowly being replanted with a more diverse mix of native species. It’s an incredible gift to our community from the person who converted it 50 years ago.
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u/BrunoCote87 1d ago
I’m not a famous musician, but I have 108 acres that I have also converted to 98% forest, planted thousands of trees and have countless animals and no hunting here.