Great news! A rare wild fen orchid has been brought back from the brink of national extinction. Liparis loeselii is off Britain’s Red List. By 2010, it had declined to just 3 sites in East Anglia & 1 in Wales. Recovery work means there are now 10,000 plants at 7 sites in England & 3 sites in Wales.

F*ck you and your fancy pond that you spent hours digging and years perfecting for I shall bathe in this plastic pot tray over here. Among the pots. In a tray. @rspb.bsky.social #robin #f*ckyou

I'm actually a Professor of Biodiversity, and if #biodiversity is not a political subject, I don't know what is....

Labour do not exist any more. This is despicable. Join the Greens. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/shabana-mahmood-immigration-benefits-asylum-seekers-labour-denmark-b2865885.html

#NatureBookChallenge #InvertBookClub #inverts These book posts are supposed to be free of commentary but I've gotta say, this book has solved SO MANY "what the heck is *this* Weird Thing?!?" mysteries for me.

Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews. #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky #InsectBookClub @jeffollerton.bsky.social

Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews. #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky #MycoBookClub

A new, 27-mile section of border wall could deplete springs that sustain animals in one of the last open wildlife corridors between Arizona and Mexico. Read more: buff.ly/G80YpcK

To suggest that having lived a life so grim that even an English tribunal will grant you asylum, and to have somehow managed to get here at great risk to life, is a "golden ticket" is absolutely fucking contemptible. Shame on this so-called Labour Party.

You’ve misspelled “Shabana Mahmood is expected to announce changes to Britain’s asylum system on Monday to deliberately stoke fears about immigration, a move that shames every member of this appalling government and will hasten the arrival of the real fascists.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Billionaires and corporations are causing climate breakdown. It's time to tax the rich. www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/su...

It’s a great tragic comedy, watching the raging right having all these tantrums.

Nice to hear a wildlife conservation success story. Over 7,000 ‘glow-in-the-dark' snails have been reintroduced to their French Polynesian island home as part of a zoo breeding programme to save them from extinction.

✊ We are hiring! The HOPE not hate team is growing and we’re looking to recruit for the following roles: • Investigative Journalist (Europe) • Community Tensions Researcher Find out more and apply here: hopenothate.org.uk/about-us/car...

Wow there are vultures that are even worse than me for keeping old pairs of sandals - 700 years old. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🍄 Curious things to ponder on at 2:27am…

Ladies, what helps you sleep? It’s 2am. Menopause is like jet lag without the holiday part. I’m already booze free, caffeine free, wheat free & exercising… you’d think this would make me boring enough to bore myself to sleep really wouldn’t you. 😆

New #GBRedList for vascular plants evaluated 1,720 species. 26% (up from 23% in 2005) assessed as threatened. Common Restharrow, Marsh-marigold & Harebell: all Vulnerable. Alpine Gentian: Endangered. Work was led by Pete Stroh from @bsbibotany.bsky.social & funded by @naturalengland.bsky.social

Pepperpot Earthstar Myriostoma coliforme at one of its very few GB locations. Pleasingly the scientific name means ‘like a colander with many holes’. Note also the columns that hold the sac aloft.

Alongside many others in conservation I’ve lobbied on this & unfortunately I’ve seen arrogance & ignorance from Labour on nature protection & recovery goals. Labour feels like a changing of the guard without sufficiently changing the politics. Support Greens to look after people & wildlife.

In his new book ‘The Stuff that Stuff is Made of’, Jonathan Drori encourages young readers to be curious about our relationship with plants. 🏡🌍 🧪 Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stuff-made-jonathan-drori-cbe-qi0ne/?trackingId=2hPjjPZCTrCRUoGuV7IOTQ%3D%3D

New report shows people don’t want new homes to be built at nature’s expense www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

📢 TICKET SALES END 17:00 TOMORROW Join ARC & The British Herpetological Society for a popular one-day conference covering a broad range of herpetology topics. Learn more and book 👇 https://www.arc-trust.org/Event/arc-bhs-joint-scientific-meeting-2025

Tackling wildlife crime means tackling organised crime❗ Wildlife crime offenders are involved in other serious crimes: 💥 59% linked to violence 💰 58% linked to theft or criminal damage 🐇 For poaching and hare coursing, that rises to over 70% 🚨 27% have links to domestic violence

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...

🇪🇺 Today was my last day in my science editor job for the European Commission. I’ve worked with some very lovely brilliant people and on some really interesting science - on wildlife conservation & environment. I’m on my way home now, with nice gifts of flowers and… a new tent (random freebie!) 😃💐🥰

Slime mold in local woods. Fascinating stuff.

I’m so tired of hearing news I cannot change & feeling crippling guilt & anxiety for things I did not do. It’s not my bad. I do everything I can, I have for years. It’s not my fault. I’m not in power. I vote against it. My carbon footprint has been below 3 tonnes/pa for years. I live simply.

Imagine being as catastrophically wrong as it’s possible to be about a subject, costing your country’s people huge amounts of money and devaluing their pensions, and STILL being allowed to talk bollocks in national news media opinion pieces.

Loads of people are still clinging to the bad place. Isn’t it weird how difficult it is to convince folk to walk away from the devil they know & choose something better? I work with a lot of comms people who blame the lack of analytics tools here, but we can simply see that X is worse than useless.

Predictable response to the petition against airport expansion: GrOwTH is what matters above all else (you poor misguided fools), other countries are doing it (so more wrongs make a right?) and technology will magic any environmental problems away (yeah and pigs might fly). To oblivion and beyond!

Good piece. Spot on. The rapid rise of #Greens is a #Halloween horror to right wing media: bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/23/t... “Cosy tabloid silos are in deep shock...If you want to propose doing anything about climate, genocide, grotesque inequality, these people lose the plot.” #Churnalism

🦇 Temp full time bat job going - maternity cover. www.bats.org.uk/the-trust/jobs-careers/bats-in-churches-advisor-maternity-cover

Hedgehog #fungi in Oakwoods, Mayo.

Beautiful Black chanterelles in Oakwood, Mayo. #fungi

Morning... #FungiFriends

Calling botanical researchers, the School of Natural Science at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity and Conservation. I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat! my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

"A powerful documentary about American book bans" (The Hollywood Reporter) ★★★★★ "One of the most important films of the year.” (Irish Examiner) ★★★★★ (Culturefly) ★★★★ (The Guardian) @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social is available to watch at home now and screening in select UK cinemas.

Mehdi Hasan, "Is rejoining the EU a Green Party aim" Zack Polanski, "Yes it is" And just like that, the Green Party have leapfrogged the LibDems

If any of you are freelance writers the deadline is tomorrow to respond to this www.nuj.org.uk/resource/sto...

The British Museum might know where the stolen jewels are.

This upcoming webinar series on grassland restoration across Europe looks very interesting. A series of weekly talks by experts in the field, running from 6 Nov to 18 Dec. See below for info on speakers, topics, free registration etc. www.interregnorthsea.eu/expbio/news/... #GenerationRestoration

🐭 Today is National Harvest Mouse Day. If you’d like to get involved with helping these cute little mammals, here’s your chance. No skills needed. 🧵 📷 Phil Orris #harvestmouse #mice #mammals #cuteanimals #wildlife #britishwildlife #environment #nature #CitizenScience #ConservationVolunteering

On the day Zack Polanski announced his leadership campaign, the Green Party had 60,000 members. They now have 128,000 - an increase of 113%. He doubled the membership in just 5 months.

"Sir Keir Starmer has been warned that Labour is being deserted by a so-called Green wave of left-wing voters who are disillusioned with the party’s shift to the right on welfare, migration and transgender rights." www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

The hateful right-wing billionaire-owned uk media are doing a fantastic job of promoting the Green Party.

Please think of wildlife on #BonfireNight Lots of creatures, including hedgehogs, voles, mice, amphibians and reptiles easily mistake bonfires for a cosy place to hunker down for winter. #GuyFawkesNight ⁠ #BritishWildlife #UKWildlife #Autumn

What a farce. It makes a mockery of justice. And whilst we have an ex human rights lawyer as a prime minister. www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/202...

This is how to deal with dinosaurs … part 1.