Natural England failing to protect valuable sites. Our report for @wildjustice.bsky.social shows that nearly 2/3 of sites waiting to be designated as SSSIs were under threat from development. One site in Thurrock will be directly destroyed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Unprotected Nature: Natural England failing to designate most important sites for nature... wildjustice.org.uk/unprotected-...

Last chance to apply to join BTO as a Senior Research Ecologist working on our #ClimateChange research portfolio! Apply online at www.bto.org/jobs 📆 Application deadline: Sunday 26 April. 📝 £44,637 per annum. #Ornithology

Mary Colwell and Prof Jenny Gill explore gender bias in fieldwork in our latest blog. Read it now: www.curlewaction.org/the-joke-tha...

Creating green jobs! #WalesPeatlandAction upscale creates more green jobs for contractors in Wales. Here the Wales Peatland Programme specialists are providing training to local contractors diversifying to work on peatland (Lot 3 in the Framework). @natreswales.bsky.social @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us ❓Quantifying animal #movement patterns & behavioural #interactions in a changing world 👥Joint position in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #MacquarieUniversity 📆19th April deadline tinyurl.com/343acaev #maths #modelling #data #fieldwork #Australia 🙏PLEASE SHARE

If anyone from my Wales, peatland, ecology, research, science or nature conservation communities (or anyone else) would like to support, or help spread the word about this crowdfunder for the fantastic Glo I Natur CIC, please do. They’re so close to reaching their target

Saw some familiar friends (people & mosses) during my first week with @peatlandcymru.bsky.social as part of the NPAP survey team. Been a long time since I’ve been back to Cors Fochno and it was great to see the parts of the peatland I did my MSc on years ago still with Sphagnum austinii hummocks

🚨 Top-downloaded 2024/25: Eurasian curlews strongly avoid nesting near a major road passing through the study site, despite the habitat being suitable for breeding, underscoring how human-altered landscape features can override habitat suitability. ➡️ vist.ly/4tpkb #ornithology #birds 🪶

🌎Check out our new #paper which analyses #AI-generated representations of #rewilding produced by different chatbots alongside visual and textual materials from UK rewilding advocacy organisations. #Rewilding #CriticalAIAnalysis #ConservationScience #NatureRecovery

Looking back on photos from instrumenting the bog this last week, it’s become clear to me that somewhere in the four days of lone working between installing dipwell 1 and dipwell 23, i did in fact lose my mind

Excited to see the DigiBog model, in this case DigiBog_Boreal, used by other research groups: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Absolutely shocking weather but still managed to get some logging dipwells and stilling wells into the bog today. Two sites down, three to go before the end of the week!

Some VERY healthy and happy looking Sitka that were planted on deep peat on a site I work on. I’m of course devastated about it. Check out the cracking on that excavated peat dollop. Hard to even think about the carbon balance for planting on 1m+ of peat when the trees don’t even survive 18 months

EARLY VIEW in IBIS Modelling the national breeding distribution and population size of an elusive forest bird, the Eurasian Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola) | onlinelibrary.wiley.... James O'Neill, Paul Holloway, Jamie Darby, Andrew Hoodless, John L. Quinn | #ornithology 🪶

🚨Funded #PhD opp🚨 in my lab, co supervised by Vincent Maire at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Linking above-and belowground plant #phenology to carbon cycling in #peatlands You can see full advert (in english/french) here: wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com/Opportunitie... Please share!

⏰ DEADLINE APPROACHING We have vacancies on 5 BOU committees, starting July 2026 Nominate yourself or someone you know now! Not sure if it's for you? Why not try our NEW Committee Shadowing Scheme bou.org.uk/about-the... Deadline: 27 Feb #ornithology 🪶

Data from long-term experiments in Finnish peatlands shows that warming induces a metabolic response in boreal Sphagnum peatlands that enhances accumulation of soil carbon, in contrast to the carbon losses in response to warming in boreal forests and tundra 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We were very glad to welcome Country Focus for BBC Wales to our Llwyndewi Nature reserve in Carmarthenshire to show all the work we are doing to restore biodiversity onsite. You can listen here from about 14 minutes in: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Press release by @exeter.ac.uk on our new paper, published today in GCB: "Pan-Arctic Peatlands Have Expanded During Recent Warming". See more: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

@rspb.bsky.social is also seeking a PeacePlus Nature Peatland Conservation Scientist. Fixed-term, until 31st July 2029, full-time, 37.5 hours per week. Location: Flexible in Northern Ireland @rspbni.bsky.social c-js.uk/4agNMwf

🚨 #PhD opportunity 🚨 Disturbance Impacts on swamp and forested peatlands in southern Québec This project will quantify how disturbances affect carbon cycling and hydrology in swamp and forested peatlands of southern Québec More info here: wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com/Opportunitie...

🚨 Our new peatlands paper "Pan‐Arctic Peatlands Have Expanded During Recent Warming" published today in Global Change Biology, led by Josie Handley. Open access and free to all: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨Paper alert🚨 Very happy to see our paper published in @science.org #ScienceAdv. Very greatful to have worked with such a great team @duncanobrien.bsky.social #tomJohnson @robinfreeman.bsky.social #ValentinaMarconi #LouiseMcRae @expecocons.bsky.social 👇Check the main findings below!

Very emo Sphagnum on site today. Must have heard the rumours of a new my chemical romance album this year and (as I’ve been considering) dyed its hair black like it’s 2008 again. Caused by deposition of organic C and humic acids when peaty water evaporates as far as I know #MireChemicalRomance

#peatland job environmentjob.co.uk/jobs/108978-...

#peatland job environmentjob.co.uk/jobs/108978-...

For all the #nightjar enthusiasts out there - www.globalnightjar.org/post/size-ma...

@ogbogdog.bsky.social ear flappometer back my popular demand. Careful out there folks #stormingrid is at least 1-1.5 on the ear flappometer scale.

Very pleased to share #OpenAccess paper, which we think is important to understand woodland bird declines and impact of forestry on native ancient woodland in Britain. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology @ukceh.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @mizpas.bsky.social 🧵1/n

I had a wonderful time looking for chough as part of the @gowerchough.bsky.social project last summer - have a read of Mike’s piece to find out more about the work! (and then please help us find some more funding to do it again this year, thanks)

🤩We’re excited to announce our winner of Capturing Ecology🤩 🐊Zeke Rowe, @zekerowe.bsky.social, with their photo 'Wouldn't hurt a fly'🪰 Taken in Panama, the image shows an American crocodile fixing the camera with its golden eyes, utterly unmoved as blood-sucking horse flies feed on its snout.

Wrote a few words on our @gowerchough.bsky.social survey this summer - mikeshewring.substack.com/p/gower-gold

New National security and global biodiversity loss assessment from uk government. Some stark and scary predictions in here assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...

Always a relief to see the Welsh Bird Report arrive with all the pages in the right order and the photos reproduced well. Diolch Caxton Press @birdsinwales.bsky.social members also get the latest papers in Issue 2 of Milvus in the same post, thanks to editor @fidhw.bsky.social #BirdingWales (1/2)

🦋 Save the Small Blue at Cwm Tips 💙 We’ve launched a crowdfunder to restore flower-rich grasslands at one of the South Wales Valleys’ most important wildlife sites. Help us remove invasive scrub and safeguard rare butterflies, bees and grassland wildlife. 👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-s...

Delighted to begin this term's seminars with Malcolm Burgess @piedflynet.bsky.social from @rspb.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social on Migration behaviour, demography & phenology of declining migratory birds. Seminar at 3.30 on 16 Jan in LT1 in the LaMB @biology.ox.ac.uk: all welcome - see details ⬇️

Make a difference! Can you turn complex ecological data into clear insights for Wales Peatland Action? Become our Specialist Peatland Biodiversity Metric & Reporting Advisor! £42K-£46K+ Closes 28/01/26 swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/vacancyinfor... #jobs @natreswales.bsky.social #HighNatureLowCarbon

It always feels a bit sacrilegious to me to dig trial pits in the bog but needs must to check how deep in the peat the oxidation was at the upper Cwmparc peat site and if we can actually make the bunds we proposed. Several pits and von posts later, I think we can. Here’s the upper 20-30cm ish ⬇️

My good friend and collaborator (and now colleague!) talking about his work tracking Leach’s Storm Petrels on their incredible journeys at sea.

If you want to check out the NESO data tables for yourself, here’s the link: It’s this link: www.neso.energy/docu... On this page: www.neso.energy/publ... /ENDS 10/10

🧵A political/media guide to the "truth" about net-zero 1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system 2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free 3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us" 4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous 5) That's it! 1/10

It supports 1000s of migratory birds, but never before has a Lesser Yellowlegs graced the Clwyd estuary. Recent sightings in #NorthWales, ice-effects linger after snow recedes but summer birds are weeks away. #BirdNotes 📷 @millstonegrit.bsky.social #BirdingWales www.birdnotes.wales/blog/rhyl-or...

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

Fantastic Data job, making a difference! Go for the Data and GIS Officer role for NPAP, the Programme that coordinates Wales Peatland Action. £37K- £41K+ p/a. Deadline 01/02/2026. Go for it! swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor... @natreswales.bsky.social #jobs #greenjobs #environment #GIS

Six roles with @rspbcymru.bsky.social to survey breeding waders in #Wales in March/April, with a particular focus on #Curlews. Closing date is 25 January. #ConservationJobs app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

Another important reality is that Greenland holds major potential for future peat accumulation and carbon sequestration. Where will the bogs of tomorrow be? Not Canada. Not Siberia. But definitely Greenland.

Pleased to see this new paper with Dylan Young published: "Understanding the Carbon Balance of Peatlands: A Comment on Heinemeyer et al. (2025)". See: www.mires-and-peat.net/article/1547...

We'll be looking at ways, past and present, that #Manx people value #peatlands