In some parts of the UK like Brighton & Hove, bee bricks have been made mandatory for new buildings taller than 5 meters. These bricks contain narrow holes designed to mimic the natural nesting sites of solitary bees, which make up the majority of Britain’s 270 bee species.

It’s great to see WA Gov has committed to improving its state cat laws to enable local governments to prevent pet cats from roaming; a win-win-win solution for wildlife, cats and human health. NSW is now the only state who hasn't updated their laws. @drbrucewebber.bsky.social #cats #biodiversity

Good to see new efforts for mink control in Ireland, including detection dogs, but why only ‘pilot projects’? Planning & delivering eradication is the only effective way to protect not only ground nesting birds, but also amphibians and fish. What are we waiting for!? #GenerationRestoration

Things are looking up in Mexico What’s not to like about an amorous amphibian! #GenerationRestoration

Hope is most often the emotion evoked when reflecting on ecological restoration and rewilding Hard-won major dam removal from Klamath River is now bringing hope to Yurok people, and their beloved salmon, as the river is enabled to heal itself Insightful, hopeful article by @ianjames.bsky.social

Amid the biodiversity crisis, stories of resilience and recovery offer hope. From monarch butterflies migrating to the reintroduction of species such as the Arabian oryx, nature's recovery inspires. 🦋 #ConservationOptimism 🌏🧪 Discover more with @theguardian.com 

Almost 200,000 people have told @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu #HandsOFFNature A resounding response from EU citizens given the underhanded way the Commission quietly launched the consultation over the August holiday window 👏 www.environmentalpillar.ie/hands-off-na...

The Pollinator Academy is an online platform that provides tools and training to help strengthen your knowledge of the taxonomy of European pollinators. Follow us and visit our website to find out more! #PollinatorAcademy #Pollinators #Taxonomy #Bee #Hoverfly #Butterfly Pollinatoracademy.eu

Multiple benefits always arise from restoring ecosystems… In the case of mangroves, marine & terrestrial nature both benefit, as well as climate, fisheries & coastal protection too… Could You contribute to large scale mangrove restoration in some way? #GenerationRestoration - Let’s do it!

Calling all #SciArtSeptember artists & beyond… What about your art being featured on licence plates in #Montana celebrating wildlife crossings and migration? @y2y.bsky.social @largelandscapes.org @lizlagomorph.bsky.social #GenerationRestoration needs to be visualised & communicated! 🖼️

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Absolutely right Pádraic Ireland’s government should halt burning 🔥 and scale up restoration of the enormous areas of degraded peat bogs… Even more to gain

Peatlands are sponges for carbon, water, & nature If our aim is to halt & reverse nature loss + climate change our first step is stopping damaging practices Finally UK Govt has banned burning of peatland covering ~700,000 Ha in England, enabling restoring peatlands to begin #GenerationRestoration

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Day 6 of #SciArtSeptember: Prairie The adorable black-footed ferret with some prairie flowers. #Art #SciArt #AnimalArt

#SciArtSeptember Day 6: Prairie A couple of landscape block diagrams of grasslands, completed a while back for the Swatches Academy Intro to Environment Illustration course.

#SciArtSeptember 5 - Corridor Highways are like stripes of death criscrossing the world. Though useful to humans, they damage ecosystems directly by killing wildlife and in various indirect ways, including fragmenting habitats into pieces. Wildlife crossings are one way to mitigate that damage.

#SciArtSeptember 4 - Riverbank Many mammals across the world have evolved an otter-like body shape and lifestyle. Perhaps the oddest and one of the most obscure is the West African giant otter shrew (Potamogale velox). Not an otter, not a shrew, but a distant cousin of elephants!

#SciArtSeptember Day 5: Corridor The Florida Wildlife Corridor is a network connecting millions of acres and protecting the species that live there - including this black bear, drawn from a camera trap image. - #sciart #scicomm #bear #wildlifeart #sketchbook 🐻

#SciArtSeptember 6 - Prairie The greatest beasts are gone, but maybe the land still remembers. Another version of the idea of ghosts of lost beasts, this time the spirit of a mammoth walking with a bison somewhere in the fragments of the American prairie that still exist.

🌿 Healthy wetlands are essential for water, climate and food security. They regulate water flows, reduce the risk of floods and droughts, store carbon & support fisheries. They are also vital to achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Flagship species come in many shapes & sizes, migrating fish included! In southwest UK European eels recovery is restoring wetlands and freshwater connectivity, as well as connections to lives of people of all ages mixing education with culture Where else is this working? #GenerationRestoration

Here we go! For #SciArtSeptember #Islet theme here is a sicklefin lemon shark 尖齒檸檬鯊 Negaprion acutidens—which frequent Taiwan's 東沙環礁國家公園 Dongsha Atoll National Park as a pupping nursery. Thanks @lizlagomorph.bsky.social for another fun month of #SciArt prompts!! #TaiwanFishes #台灣魚類 Day 1/30 🐡🦑🧪

#SciArtSeptember day 1! Islet. This is a figure I put together as a bit of a practice exercise after reading Freeman and Wright’s 2021 account of juvenile blacktip reef shark circling and trailing grouping behaviour observed at Milman Island/Islet. Paper linked!

Great to see this Conservation themed prompt list from the month of #SciArtSeptember - Day 1! Thank You @lizlagomorph.bsky.social Looking forward to seeing across multiple media thought-provoking & inspiring art to help us visualise our purpose in new ways We are #GenerationRestoration

Important to remember always that not every species can be conserved or restored. We must never lose sight of the many threads being pulled recklessly from the tapestry of life and lost by direct action or inaction

Don’t let the #EU tear down #nature #protection! The European Commission wants to roll back vital environmental protections – and they’re asking for your opinion. We have 10 days to speak up before it’s too late. Please participate! #handsoffnature handsoffnature.eu

#ExcitingNews! Austria has designated Peatlands in Styrian Salzkammergut as its 25th #RamsarSite. The Styrian Salzkammergut is a region in the Alps, between the Totes Gebirge mountain range and the Styrian Dachstein plateau. @bmimi.gv.at www.ramsar.org/news/austria...

Marine and freshwater ecosystems often fall into the category of being ‘out of sight, out of mind’ Kelp forests hold enormous but undervalued biodiversity and climate benefits, so it is great to see efforts to restore California’s ‘sea forests’ making clear vital progress #GenerationRestoration

Przewalski’s horses are being used very effective in multiple rewilding projects internationally, including @altyndala.bsky.social & Rewilding Spain, by releasing captive horses from zoo collections Wild horses bring multiple ecological benefits to landscape over time #GenerationRestoration

We’re filling the atmosphere with CO2 like a bathtub with water. Most of it stays for millennia. That is why the cumulative emissions (the total amount, as pictured here) and not yearly emissions determine the amount of #globalwarming.

Restoring marine ecosystems is still in its infancy but major investments by the @ec.europa.eu will bring clear advances in approaches and impact that will be evidence-based and communicated effectively #GenerationRestoration

Restoring freshwater ecosystems is one of our highest priorities. Gathering evidence to inform effective work is vital. Open Rivers Programme is looking for applicants to lead a study on the ecological impact of small dam removals across Europe, offering up to €100,000 What a great opportunity!

"Northumberland is the only area in England and Wales that has enough woodland to support them and 72% of people in the region support their reintroduction"

At least SOME countries recognize the value of NATURE and all its offerings.

Not perhaps an obvious motivation for restoring ecosystem… but Estonia is joining Finland & Poland considering how peatlands can serve as highly effective traps for both enemy tanks and carbon dioxide #GenerationRestoration always brings multiple benefits, sometimes unexpected ones @politico.eu

Another fascinating piece from the wonderful @biographic.bsky.social - Always thought-provoking (& definitely worth following!) Research to deter or eliminate cats (domestic or feral) is vital to reduce their catastrophic (!) impacts & enable recovery of wildlife populations #GenerationRestoration

Great work here from @carbonbrief.org , debunking common myths about solar power. The reason that solar power makes so much sense is fundamental physics - it takes energy in its most useful form, as soon as it arrives on Earth, before it's "taxed" in entropy. Making use of it is a slam-dunk win.

Preventing the extinction of the Iberian lynx is one of Europe’s greatest ongoing achievements, requiring work at species, site, & stakeholder levels A huge learning curve has shown the art of the possible when a coalition of the willing is created. #GenerationRestoration has the tools it needs

Professor John Lawton’s principles for nature conservation sites of “better, bigger, and more joined up” is vital both in deeply nature depleted UK, but is pertinent everywhere else too… #GenerationRestoration… one site at a time

Love this photo of Monarch Butterflies in Ontario Canada probably Point Peel National that i went to yearly in Sept in my twenties as they gathered to cross Lake erie migrating south waited for the wind to change

In southern Sumatra, a pair of dogs may have uncovered something no one expected: signs that Sumatran rhinos could still survive in a national park once thought empty, reports @jeremyhance.bsky.social for @mongabay.com. news.mongabay.com/2025/08/snif...

Degraded ecosystems fuel disaster risk, making communities more vulnerable. Explore environmental work that is underway to reduce disaster impacts through better ecosystem management. www.unep.org/topics/disas...

Small wetlands are often underestimated in terms of their role in maintaining biodiversity, water quality and ecosystem health. These wetlands, which are defined as wetlands smaller than 8 hectares (ha), support high levels of species diversity and ecosystem productivity.

Cities worldwide are embracing the power of young people to restore & protect urban ecosystems. This #YouthDay, see how the city of Kanazawa in Japan is incorporating the skills & perspectives of young people in its sustainable urban planning. www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

72% of people support lynx reintroduction in Kielder Forest - this is the result of a local (not national) survey The consultation has seen 10,000 people visit its touring exhibition and included one-to-one interviews with stakeholders www.countryfile.com/wildlife/lyn...

Indigenous Peoples make up less than 5% of the world’s population, yet they protect significant amounts of global biodiversity. #IndigenousPeoplesDay

Conservation of healthy and functioning wetlands is cheaper than restoration. To conserve and restore at least 550 million hectares of wetlands, resource mobilization must scale up dramatically. #RestoreWetlands #WetlandConservation #WetlandsMatter

I spoke to KFM today's about the government's new website for the Nature Restoration Law and the recent decision to gut the nature bit out of the Climate and Nature Fund. From 29:35 📻 www.kfmradio.com/on-air/podca...

There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.