This, by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social, is a brilliant, fascinating and definitional article. If you want to understand what's happening around the world, you should read it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Mr Sakila didn’t just become passively unresponsive at the scene - the video shows multiple men restraining him on the ground with their body weight, including one who knelt and then with his hands pressed down in his neck. Truly disturbing footage www.thejournal.ie/yves-sakila-...

The purple Polanski or brindled Burnham gets my vote. Certainly not a dingy Farage or grizzled Starmer 😂.

A way of greatly speeding up ash seed germination.

"This is a landmark legal ruling for ocean protection, which is set to make waves across Europe. The Dutch court has unequivocally confirmed that bottom trawling in protected areas cannot be ignored" Fantastic news from the Netherlands! oceanographicmagazine.com/news/dutch-c...

What the...? Beavers... in trees? Another of rewilding's many wonderful nature surprises 😂

...and to cap it all Starmer thinks Reform is taking most Labour votes when its really the Greens. Totally clueless.

Micheál Martin talking about a nuclear power station and now this Olympic standard bull... Stupid or doing the bidding of wealthy donors? Likely both.

BREAKING: First Ever Green Mayor Win 🎉 Zoë Garbett has been elected Mayor of Hackney – huge congratulations!

🚨Fish, birds and even dogs have been killed by toxic algae in the UK and Ireland’s largest lake: Lough Neagh. Abuse of our waters must stop. Sign this @friends-earth.bsky.social petition to demand practical action before any more damage is done⏰ action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/sav...

We wrote to the Dept of Education and Youth today over school materials promoting Sitka Spruce Forestry while omitting ecological harm. The booklet by industry bodies is one-sided, ignoring biodiversity loss and water quality impacts. IWT calls for safeguards on school messaging iwt.ie/sitka_spruce/

"Just as we make ourselves more energy-secure by switching from fossil fuels to renewables, we make ourselves more food-secure by switching from animals to plants." - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

David Attenborough takes on PHEASANTS! “Native to Asia, but now released into our countryside on an industrial scale, over 30 million every year… eating vast numbers of insects, reptiles and amphibians every day.” Time for the Government to regulate this out-of-control industry #SecretGarden

If you read one thing today ... An essential article by the great @billmckibben.bsky.social billmckibben.substack.com/p/big-oil-br...

If a 600-ton excavator can be converted from diesel to electric, pretty much anything can. And thanks to Dementia Don and the oil crooks pulling his strings, the world is now - finally - scrambling to break decisively with fossil fuels. electrek.co/2026/04/18/m...

Wonderful dynamic landscape caused by the behaviour of bison.

Oostvaardersplassen. European rewilding was kick started by an oil crisis. Perhaps it can happen again. In 1973 the downturn caused by oil shortages led to the abandonment of a large polder near Amsterdam. 1/3

So BnM, Irish Independent and govt., explain how trashing rare habitat, damaging a carbon sink and releasing CO2 is a good idea?

We are in a politico-bioclimate crisis. Rich and powerful idiots have captured politics for their own ends so they can profit by trashing the world and destroying life. Wouldn't it be poetic justice if the moron king brings the whole corrupt house down.

More nauseating industry propaganda being pumped into our schools with no State regulation or oversight whatever, endorsed by that biodiversity champion, MHR. Industrial forestry taking a leaf from livestock sector playbook.

Polls have consistently shown that the Irish public does not support our intensive forestry model. Instead of tackling the root causes of this dissatisfaction, the Irish forestry sector seems determined to “educate” the public. A strategy that seems to involve brainwashing our children.

Oostvaardersplassen. European rewilding was kick started by an oil crisis. Perhaps it can happen again. In 1973 the downturn caused by oil shortages led to the abandonment of a large polder near Amsterdam. 1/3

It's the Second Dumbing.

This is how it's done! "a core reserve where fishing is banned outright, surrounded by a buffer zone that allows some artisanal fishing — designed to allow local fishing communities to retain their traditional livelihoods" www.conservation.org/news/brazil-...

"around 95% of species being hauled up were not the intended target of the fishery" The destructive power of bottom trawling has been known for a long time yet authorities still allow it in so-called 'protected areas' oceanographicmagazine.com/news/world-f...

¡Viva España!

Want to learn more about woodlands, hedges, fencing, wetland management and more? The excellent Conservation Volunteer Handbooks are now free to access online. Consider a donation if you find them useful. youtube.com/watch?v=0jps...

Nice to see politicians defending the EU's LIFE programme. It's the only dedicated funding for biodiversity and the European Commission wants to scrap it as a stand alone programme in the name of 'simplification' www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Just what we don't need. Already, our rivers are overloaded with both human and livestock waste, leading in many cases to #rivercide. Now the government, responding as always to lobbyists, wants to make it worse. Then it wonders why it loses public support. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This will put the cat among the pheasants! 😂 Attenborough's new series to look at the ecological effects of these pets and pheasant releases www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

"Despite knowing since the 1950s their industry would cause catastrophic global heating, in 1988 US oil majors inaugurated the permanent, globalised, anti-climate policy disinformation campaign." Report 👇 recommends criminalisation of such organised anti-climate, and clean energy disinformation.

At present, politics is downstream from money.

The visionary Gelderse Poort rewilding project at Nijmegen. A role model for river restoration. Thriving nature & millions of € saved in flood alleviation. Jobs too. In 2018 Nijmegen won European Green Capital status. Thanks to this success river rewilding now becoming more common across Europe.

A pioneering rewilding site in Europe entailed transforming the river Rhine. The flood risk has been massively reduced saving billions of euros; the local economy has been revitalised. Delighted to film Wouter Helmer explaining how he created it. youtu.be/gr5YyyCHI4o?...

The global food system is systemically fragile in the same way that the global financial system was before the 2008 crash. If it goes it down, we’re looking, as complex societies, at a potential termination event. This week's column. Please read it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Is there anything they can't do 😂? Amazing beavers. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Created Rewilding playlist to celebrate world Rewilding day and launch of Rewilding Expertise Centre in Wageningen youtube.com/playlist?lis...

More on the exciting Earth Rover Program.

1. One of the things I mention as a secondary issue in this week’s column is a lie so deeply embedded in official narratives that we seldom even notice it: capitalism = “free markets”. In reality, capitalism is *the opposite* of the free market. A short 🧵. 1/8 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'The Voice of Hind Rajab' didn't win an Oscar tonight. Here's a reminder of the smear campaign it faced in Hollywood:

Fascinating. How genes are turned on and off by environmental conditions.

There are quite a few cynical and sinister figures in British public life. But Tony Blair is among the very worst. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

It really is that easy but we are fed a narrative by governments and the powerful that says the opposite www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Very interesting. Importance of seedling banks in tropical & temperate forests.

On Mon was at great BSBI workshop on conifer ID taken by Charles Shier. Focused on 20 common species & looked at many more in Castlewellan walled garden. 🌲🌲🌲

The cave that rewrote Britain’s Ice Age youtu.be/MMVcGvX5gYI?...

When Extinction Rebellion peacefully protested at the gates of Leinster House, they were swiftly removed by a phalanx of Gardai and arrested. Yet when IFA members have occupied Bord Bia HQ or Agriculture House, the state’s response has been far more accomodating. www.thejournal.ie/extinction-r...