And now for the winner of the MSP Nature Champion of the Year 2025... @ariane-burgess.bsky.social! Ariane is the Nature Champion for the Beaver and the Aspen, and wins the award specifically for her work championing the beaver - including her support with the release of beavers in Glen Affric! 🦫

Agartha’s surge on Instagram is pushing Nazi mythology into the mainstream, with teens using the meme to target teachers by race & religion. Extremists like Martin Sellner are now leveraging the trend to normalize white nationalist ideology—another example of Meta’s failure to curb harmful content.

Newport-on-Tay brownies enjoying learning all about bats recently 😀

Don't buy 'curiosities' made of dead bats! Online stores including Amazon and Google shop are still openly selling these items, a year after we highlighted the problem. Trade in Endangered species needs to stop. #wildlife #bats #nature 🌍 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🦇 'Bats' are more than one species. They are an incredibly diverse group of mammals with 1,500 species that we know of. There is a huge diversity of sizes, colours, nose shapes, ear shapes, diet, habitat and more! In the UK, there are 18 resident species: www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...

An investigation by journalists at The Ferret found that local MSP and Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes, the National Farmers’ Union Scotland (NFUS) and landowners had “privately piled pressure” on NatureScot to derail the application. www.thenational.scot/comment/2558...

This is worse than I thought. While this is about England, you can be sure if it suceeds there, the pressure will be on the Scottish Government to do the same. Shame on our UK Government for selling our nature and destroying OUR countryside 😡😡😡 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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"The push to farm all available land to produce as much food as possible during WW2 continues into the current subsidy system. Even when farmers want to leave marginal and hard-to-manage areas alone, the subsidy system drives them to keep fighting nature." www.scottishwildbeavers.org.uk/alyth-voice/

🦇 Grooming rabies away A new study finds vampire bats can lick rabies vaccines off each other, spreading immunity through grooming. 88% of a colony was vaccinated in days. 🔗 www.science.org/content/arti... #SciComm #Zoonoses 🧪

We've had the first reports of baby bats being born in England, Scotland and Wales. READ MORE HERE: www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/06...

Sierra Leone has confirmed 15 deaths and more than 3,000 mpox infections https://go.nature.com/4kYY1ZP

In less than a week we'll be standing up for nature - join us! With one in nine species at risk of extinction in Scotland, the time to act is now. Join us to demand that our MSPs stand up for nature. 📅Thursday 12 June ⏰ 12:30-2pm 📍 Scottish parliament www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stand-up-f...

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My first paper!! If you wanna know about woodland creation 🌳, beetles 🪲, and the effects of agriculture 🚜 - go here! doi.org/10.1016/j.fo... #BeetleEcology #WoodlandCreation #Conservation #Research #FirstAuthor #Ecology

Over 800 people have already contacted their MP. Thank you for speaking up against the governments licence to kill. We need to keep the pressure up to that the government will listen to its own evidence. Please share with anyone who cares about nature. act.bats.org.uk/planning-and...

TBG members out surveying a brown long eared bat roost for the National Bat Monitoring Programme (NBMP) 😀

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Another beaver talk done 💪 This time in Crook of Devon, in the vanguard of beaver advance. One more talk in Balmaha on the 14th and then thats them finished until the autumn.

In order to address the climate and biodiversity crises, we need our leaders to be taking clear and bold actions to restore nature at scale, while creating benefits for people. Read the SRA's media statement👇 https://www.rewild.scot/scrapping-plans-for-a-Galloway-National-Park 🧵2/2

Well done to all involved in this bat rescue www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NBMP annual report 2024 was published today: second year of concern over short-term trends www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/05... @jncc.bsky.social @wclnews.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social @bbcscience.bsky.social @zslscience.bsky.social @naturescot.bsky.social @nation.cymru

Who would have thought wildfires could come to Scotland? 🔥 Yet this year drought and fire have been very real issues. Could beavers be used alongside agriculture in Scotland to help water retention and protect crops or livestock from wildfires? 👀💭 www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he may ban government scientists from publishing in top medical journals, the latest move in the Trump administration’s ongoing assault on scientific institutions.

This is not good 😢

🦇The National Bat Helpline is officially in its peak season and, therefore, operating an Out of Hours service for emergency bat care and crime calls only. As well as our normal weekday service, our volunteers will also answer calls from 6pm - 10pm and from 10am-10pm on weekends and bank holidays.

Discover Your Local Bats workshop coming to Blairgowrie on Sat 24th May! No experience necessary and ideal for learning a bit about bats and how to take part in citizen science surveying and monitoring them in your local area/garden 😀 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/discover-y...

Lovely peaceful evening last night taking a lovely couple of marine biologists out on a beaver tour 😀

Babies on board! See the twin bumps in this roundleaf bat's tummy. Although her babies will be almost 1/3 of her body weight at birth, she is increadibly agile and only slows her flight a little. (Photo captured in Kasanka National Park, Zambia last week). 📷🌍🦇😍 #nature #bats #wildlife #photography

Fantastic science-based article on beavers in National Geographic 😀 www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Last nights bat survey which was a lovely peaceful evening surveying a very old house and steading built in the 1660s. Two common pipistrelles were foraging round this building, occasionally meeting in the middle and chasing each other furiously 😀

Starmer’s claims about nuclear regulation ‘not true’ theferret.scot/starm...

The relationship between bats and trees runs far deeper than a safe place to rest. Learn about the many ways that trees provide critical resources for bats in our latest blog post. www.batcon.org/bats-need-tr...

Worried about picking up extra germs at the ER? 🦠That’s exactly what infection control helps avoid. In yet another reckless move, the Trump Administration just eliminated the CDC committee that sets hospital safety standards.

Announcing our Vanishing Viper 2025 conference to be held in September at Chester This special two-day event focused on our native adder, Viper berus, seeks to unlock the drivers behind adder declines & determine how research & landscape-level projects can meet the challenges #vanishingviper2025

I do this too, its very useful in case it crash lands and you a looking for a wee brown thing in amongst the brown ground and brown leaves in the dark...

I don't think the government has any idea how much of a political liability this is. When people twig what the Planning and Infrastructure Bill means - that our precious wild places will have no meaningful protection against whatever a corporation wants to do - it'll be felt as a monstrous betrayal.

They intend to rip up our environmental protections on the basis of a story for which, the government now admits, there is no evidence. Where did the story come from? Starmer has told us: "my conversations with leading CEOs". sucker (noun): someone who believes what corporate lobbyists tell him.

Appalling this government is allowing the destruction of our wildlife and their own report shows there is no evidence to back up their justification for the new bill 🤬 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🦇 It's #NationalGardeningWeek! Bats use our gardens as an important source of food & shelter. As their natural habitats become more scarce, our gardens are playing a more important role in securing a future for bats. Tips on how to make your garden more bat friendly: www.bats.org.uk/advice/garde...

In 100 days in office, US President Donald Trump has destabilized eight decades of government support for science. This has included terminating more than 1,000 grants in areas such as climate change, cancer, and HIV prevention. Will US science survive Trump 2.0? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🦇 Join the #SunsetSurvey Weekend: Help spot local bats! The Sunset Survey Weekend is on 16-18 May 2025, take part and find out if you have bats near you. Anyone, anywhere in the UK can take part – no experience needed. More info: www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/04...

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According to @sophisteria.bsky.social, president of @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social , the confusion around the purchase “makes it extremely difficult” to “trust anything” university management says theferret.scot/edinb...

🦇 Bats need a helping hand! Whether you adopt a bat for yourself, or as a unique gift for a friend or family member, you will be making a real difference to bats in the wild. buff.ly/3QGPkFE . The pack includes your very own cuddly bat and your donation helps our work to help real-life bats.

Awful but even worse this mob behaviour is becoming normalised. The rise of the far right 😢

🦇The Planning and Infrastructure Bill (PIB) is making its way through Parliament - and we urgently need your help to protect bats and other wildlife. Please ask your MP to help protect wildlife in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. More information here: www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/04...

Trump has ordered the US government to move forward with plans to mine the ocean floor an area nearly every other country considers off-limits to industrial exploitation. His executive order sidesteps a decades-old international treaty ratified by every major coastal nation except the United States.

Agree with every word!!! And the worry for us in Scotland is that if it goes ahead in England, there will be pressure to put the same in place in Scotland 😡