Can ecological surgery of ant mounds help to restore grassland habitats? - www.gabrielleflinn.com/post/ecologi... @ukceh.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk Funded by John Lewis Partnership Foundation. My own ant hill work chronicled: storvaxt.blogspot.com/2025/10/enco...

Saving the Hulan: Mongolia’s wild ass youtu.be/aSsPX6B96sg?...

Among the most moving encounters I had with wild things during swims from Atana Khasab Hotel on Oman's Musandam Peninsula, was with this majestic Purple Heron. As I got closer, realised it had a brutally broken leg, foot hanging by a 🧵. Seemed to have adapted to its injury. #BirdsSeenIn2025. 🧵1/6

Discussing the importance of World Heritage status and habitat management for protecting birds such as spoon-billed sandpiper, Nordmann's greenshank and black-faced spoonbill. youtu.be/48XC2_V0f-4?...

To fill some gaps in #BirdsSeenIn2025, a highlight of an early morning respite from the IUCN World Conservation Congress last month in Abu Dhabi, was a Terek Sandpiper, among more familiar waders, Redshank & Dunlin, & a few Little Terns at Al Hidayriyyat Heritage Trail. #Birding #Birdwatching #️⃣1/5

Which bird disperses which plant? What does bird dispersed fruit look like? Why do fruit sizes differ between regions? Why does ivy fruit in winter? How can we identify the disperser and distance carried from droppings? How did this collaboration arise? youtu.be/4vZ0w97ffRM?...

Delighted my YouTube channel has >1/4 million views and >5k subscribers. Keen to find new audiences especially students and practitioners. Also keen for new subjects either in UK or online interviewing someone in the field. Ideas welcome! youtube.com/@bill_suther...

Restoring wild rivers and wild trout youtube.com/watch?v=NH1W...

Just looked at the site full of details of large mammal migrations in Wyoming. Really interesting

The topic of migrating herbivores should be on everone's radar. If it's not, then please watch this excellent video from Bill Sutherland and give the Wyoming Migration Initiative a follow @wyo-migrations.bsky.social Restoring herbivore migrations will fix a whole heap of problems.

Video considering the ecology and challenges of seasonal migration, such as by Mongolian gazelles, and the similar practicalities of herders undergoing large-scale migrations with horses or other stock - learning from the expert Davaakhuu Danzannyam youtu.be/H2QqscK3ErY?...

Delighted to have my 1st swim in catchment of that iconic Wessex chalk stream, the River Test, & only my 2nd with European Grayling (1st was in the Itchen). Also plenty Brown Trout, 9-24 inches long but no parr, & oodles of Minnows. #MySwim #Rivers #Nature #Wildlife #TeamFish #Fish #Fishsky 🧵 1/7

Discussing the conservation of arable plants at Plantlife’s wonderful reserve in Kent. youtu.be/bZaUAsvrHS0?...

Steppe and prairie is one of the great global habitats. In this video I discuss why and where it occurs and how it underpins a number of remarkable historical empires. youtu.be/Gz8skzyzVnw?...

How are sand dunes formed? How are they so dynamic? An exploration at Holkham National Nature Reserve on Norfolk coast. youtu.be/tQ54mGI5Oc0?...

How one species, the noisy miner, massively changes bird communities in Australia youtu.be/HtYDS27vLXM?...

Five-year research fellowship, based at Christ's College, Cambridge, for working at the intersection of biodiversity science and economics. www.christs.cam.ac.uk/darwin-hamie...

Przewalski Wild horse or Takhi went extinct in the wild and were doing poorly in captivity. Scientists then identified the problem as inbreeding and managed the global herd. Now hundreds in the wild in Mongolia and elsewhere. youtu.be/AN9I-zgve6w?...

At end of excellent CCI meeting about future plans we remembered Jane Goodall (who did her PhD in Zoology). Instead of a minute silence we opted for a minute noise - full of clapping and hooting. Much more suitable!

Only evidence, Lee Brook, a winterbourne #chalkstream, is still a live river through Chippenham en route to join the River Kennett at Freckenham and thence the Lark, is a bit of Fool's Watercress & some river restoration structures. Even the sewage works isn't getting it flowing. #MyWalk #Rivers 1/2

What are the ecological consequences of using different grazing species? In this video I discuss the issue with Lee Schofield, author of Wild Fell. youtu.be/ozHdOKKtpzU?...

For #CtenophoreDay an experience so extraordinary & exquisite if I hadn't captured it on camera I'd have thought it was a dream. Last month, heading into the sunset at end of #MySwim at Shimoda, found myself in a vast raft of ?Mikado Comb Jellies (Bolinopsis mikado) #cilia #CtenoTakeover #Japan🧵1/6

Absolutely.

Hugh Possingham, one of the worlds most respected conservationists, describing how embedding simple tests into practice helps deliver learning and effective conservation. Without testing there is little learning and we don’t know if effective. youtu.be/qcQvYTldF_0?...

Yep, I've spent $M's on cons proj's with no follow up, there's been $10'sM on EEC proj's (BGGW) with no baseline data, no follow up, no proper monitoring (some photos if you're lucky). Spend the budget, get the next grant. Most staff delivering don't have proper training, background or support.

Are you a student studying ecology or conservation? Do you lecture ecology or conservation? I created this playlist for you and hope it is useful. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Excellent advice from Hugh Possingham on monitoring conservation projects and why most Monitoring and Evaluation is flawed. youtu.be/qa6Ewt-W5mU?...

Understanding ecological communities requires understanding their history (a long interest of mine). Created a Historical Ecology playlist on YouTube. Am busy planning further videos. Suggestions welcome! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Yellow Meadow Ant (Lasius flavus) is an important species in the ecology of biodiverse, well-drained grasslands. As you will see, Prof Bill Sutherland @billsutherland.bsky.social is on the case www.youtube.com/watch?v=y37_... 🧵

Latest video has Jake Fiennes, author of Land Healer, explaining regenerative agriculture and how to achieve both food production and nature youtu.be/B7Ur03wSpuE?...

Post-breeding flocks of Swallows write their own music on the wires of the Lowther Estate in Cumbria. One of the benefits of livestock country, graced by Longhorn Cattle, in creative nature recovery mode. Here in West Suffolk, barely enough swallows for even a brief jingle. #BirdsSeenIn2025

How do we measure life on Earth? 🌍🌱 The new summary report from the 2025 US-UK Forum on Measuring Biodiversity, hosted by the NAS and @royalsociety.org, explores tools, challenges, and solutions for tackling the #biodiversity crisis. Read here: bit.ly/460RB7R

To celebrate #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay & begin a 🧵on #BirdsSeenIn2025 in Zimbabwe, around Victoria Falls, the phenomenal Vulture Restaurant at Victoria Falls Safari Lodge which does so much to raise awareness of horrific plight of African Vultures such as these White-backed & Hooded. 1/25

Thanks Nick Meade for access & @timholtwilson.bsky.social for arranging it, near Earsham had our furthest downstream swim in River Waveney, abounding in Roach, plus a pool of gorgeous Dace where the river flowed fast, constricted by a grove of Club-rush. #MySwim #Suffolk #Norfolk #rivers #fish 🧵1/8

Last month it was amazing to swim in the strobe disco of huge shimmering shoals of Minnows in Ullswater. Water surprisingly clear. Such a different story swimming in a lake compared to a river bsky.app/profile/nume.... #MySwim #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #fish #teamfish #fishsky #Nature #Wildlife 🧵1/7

After Ely Nature-Friendly Farming Zone Water Vole Survey (nul points), swam down & up 500m of River Little Ouse. Not best snork; poor vis, sun vanished, encountered none of wonders have been seeing upstream. Wish people wouldn't litter & release helium balloons. You can't win 'em all! #MySwim 🧵1/8

Great piece today by Simon Barnes, one of last to see a Slender-billed Curlew observer.co.uk/news/science... following research confirming extinction @rspb.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social @naturalis.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Fascinating Bill. My dad is a historian. I had a chat with him about this once, what the documents he studies say about farming in in the Durham Dales and uplands in the 14th & 15th Century. Not much on tree/shrub cover, but a lot fewer sheep, & more cattle than now. I'll send this to him

Thanks to expertise & interest of @timholtwilson.bsky.social, & encouragement to find them, here's his assessment of bones I found at Wretton. Not easily distinguishable from extant, now North American, Wood Bison, but probably extinct Steppe Bison, prolific in later Pleistocene of East Anglia.

So what did our uplands look like? Was it upland wood pasture with scattered trees and flower rich meadows? Did farmers used to mix trees, grassland and hay meadows? Can we recreate this habitat e.g. in Yorkshire Dales? youtu.be/YiK0mKLUzTU?...

This is a wonderful little video about meadows. Well worth the 26 minutes, especially for the horses at the end.

Understanding Cambridge’s history turned out to be key to the success of King's College's wildflower meadows. Also enjoy the shire horses making hay in front of the chapel. youtu.be/8Cywt01POXQ?...

Don't miss Sandhouse's cracking new single, with dramatic video starring Anna Sutherland and Caspar Holloway youtube.com/watch?v=MNyrdiRH1jA&list=RDMNyrdiRH1jA&start_radio=1 #NewMusic #findnewmusic #indie #Alternative #Shoegaze #indiemusic #OriginalMusicTracks #indierock #MusicSky #Sandhouse

Many of our most famous reserves, such as Minsmere, Titchwell and Cley, are coastal lagoons. Here we discuss how monitoring is key to effective management. youtu.be/UR_CGtueFAA?...

2025 is an amazing year for acorns. Here is discuss the origin of mast seeding (bonanza years followed by poor years) and the consequences youtu.be/rzsh1A8wOag?...

How they returned Holkham back to wetlands with breeding spoonbill and little, cattle and great white egret. All about water control and managing cattle grazing. youtube.com/watch?v=kirn...

This rather muggy, grey afternoon, on the Cambridgeshire chalk south of Great Abington, landscape bone dry & shrivelled, good to see chalk loving plants eg a few Lesser Calamint, big patches of Wild Marjoram, a few Hoary Ragwort & a rather sad Nettle-leaved Bellflower. #WildflowerHour #MyWalk 1/4🧵

Account of our work on making the Internet more resilient against some serious challenges by using ecological principles anil.recoil.org/notes/ecolog...

Astonished, on popping into ditch in grazing marsh on way to Little Ouse by @rspbengland.bsky.social Lakenheath Fen to find it absolutely carpeted in writhing mass of creatures reminiscent of tiny garden eels; in fact unglamorously named Sludge Worms (Tubifex tubifex). #MySwim #WormWednesday 1/19

Latest video on the 4 fundamental factors determining ecological communities and the origin of “As different as chalk and cheese” youtu.be/SFpYg0Cj1y0?...