Hunger Strike: Day 50 These are the largest collective hunger strikes in Britain since the Irish republican strikes of the 1980s. Then, Martin Hurson died after 46 days on strike. Bobby Sands was elected an MP from prison; he died after 66 days. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

So often, radical land-use change and dietary shifts could counterbalance climate impacts. But are opposed by vested money interests that have more power than humanity or people’s wellbeing.

The Sainsburys Centre are asking people for personal stories about their connections with plants, to include in an exhbition (and some will also feature in a book). To find out more about this project and to submit a story, see: sainsburycentre.ac.uk/catkins/?fbc...

Let's get one thing straight. What's REALLY putting jobs at risk is owners of the big fishing boats insisting on being allowed to continue hoovering up tons of wild animals way faster than they can reproduce, using ecosystem-killing methods. *Nobody* else is to blame. share.google/CCiKK8WnQTCz...

This willow grove, arose from a single tree toppled by the October 1987 storm - 38 yrs on 13 trunks from distal branches form a grove c20 m across. The 2-3 m high stump we sat on then, to watch the sunset, has disappeared. Ecology is dynamic, life is change.

This willow grove, arose from a single tree toppled by the October 1987 storm - 38 yrs on 13 trunks from distal branches form a grove c20 m across. The 2-3 m high stump we sat on then, to watch the sunset, has disappeared. Ecology is dynamic, life is change.

The Landscape Partnership #EcologyVacancies We are looking for a graduate ecologist in Bedford and experienced ecologists in any of our locations, including London and Woodbridge (Suffolk), to start in the New Year - DM me if of interest.

Good grief, when will the reintroductionists stop playing silly games and start getting on with doing something that actually benefits nature recovery? The amount of money and effort that’s been ploughed into pointless reintroduction is criminal.

What do houses, energy, and sixty-pound salmon have in common? All of them are currently scarce but could be plentiful with the right changes to policy and practice. 🧪🐟🏘️🔋 How do we get to this "conservation abundance" future for nature and people? I have thoughts! www.perc.org/2025/12/09/t...

Amazing #ornithology fieldwork opportunity. 👇🏼

UK Government sabotages Landscape Recovery; only 1% of £2.4bn pa ELMs funding. Most remains w. Broad & Shallow schemes that deliver less, if any, #Biodiversity benefit. Worse - Defra contracts can be revoked at any time, making LR risk unacceptable to farmers. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Shit. The rate at which we emit CO2 is accelerating, not declining. We really need to get our act together

UK Government sabotages Landscape Recovery; only 1% of £2.4bn pa ELMs funding. Most remains w. Broad & Shallow schemes that deliver less, if any, #Biodiversity benefit. Worse - Defra contracts can be revoked at any time, making LR risk unacceptable to farmers. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Shit. The rate at which we emit CO2 is accelerating, not declining. We really need to get our act together

Our paper in December's @britishbirds.bsky.social describes success in using sound recording for detecting Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers. We found Lesser Spots still present in woodlands where they have not been seen/heard for years. This is very exciting www.woodpecker-network.org.uk/index.php/ne...

Important rewilding initiative underway in the North Sea, with an Irish connection due to involvement of researchers at ATU. Ending bottom trawling in existing MPAs is an important first step. rewildingeurope.com/news/pioneer...

Fascinating study. Kids find Wolf much scarier than Lynx, but support for reintroducing Lynx only marginally higher than for Wolf; most are don’t know. Nature restoration a more familiar term than #Rewding 🌍

Great to see this cutting and scrub removal from a local fen. But habitat piles and burn sites destined to become nettle bed (already abundant), reducing the fen extent. Where possible, biomass removal is preferable.

What a fantastic initiative from Norfolk Wildlife Trust

Could this be Fuller’s Teasel Dipsacus sativus rather than Wild Teasel? Spines not greatly recurved. Growing in flushed gravel. #WildFlowerID

Poor show from Norfolk Wildlife Trust. Accepting advertising revenue from bird feeding despite massive evidence of negative impacts. Like a climate ngo taking money from big oil @alexanderlees.bsky.social @themarshtit.bsky.social

£500m to be allocated to Landscape Recovery Projects in the Government’s revised Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP) - good news for #biodiversity recovery www.theguardian.com/environment/...

£500m to be allocated to Landscape Recovery Projects in the Government’s revised Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP) - good news for #biodiversity recovery www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Great to see this cutting and scrub removal from a local fen. But habitat piles and burn sites destined to become nettle bed (already abundant), reducing the fen extent. Where possible, biomass removal is preferable.

Drax should be shut down

Importance of landscape configuration on nest predation explored here in @wadertales.bsky.social blogs by Graham Appleton bsky.app/profile/wade...

Valuable synthesis - shows that where seed source is present, natural regeneration generally gives more complex structures and better biodiversity outcomes but can be helped by hybrid approaches and limited planting. #Rewilding #Biodiversity

I had no words to say to the owner of an off-lead dog, that attacked our Labrador, unprovoked, while on a close-lead, at Froggatt Edge, Derbyshire #PeakDistrict late October. She recovered after two courses of antibiotics but was extremely unwell from the infection. Keep dogs under control.

I had no words to say to the owner of an off-lead dog, that attacked our Labrador, unprovoked, while on a close-lead, at Froggatt Edge, Derbyshire #PeakDistrict late October. She recovered after two courses of antibiotics but was extremely unwell from the infection. Keep dogs under control.

Human changes to landscape composition, food sources but also landscape configuration (small patches, proximity to plantations, narrow strips) together inflate the abundance + impacts of meso-predators. For some threatened bird species, predator management may be important to recovery.

Human changes to landscape composition, food sources but also landscape configuration (small patches, proximity to plantations, narrow strips) together inflate the abundance + impacts of meso-predators. For some threatened bird species, predator management may be important to recovery.

But beware generalising from a single study site. In a meta-analysis of wader nest camera studies in UK (Yellow in graph, 356 predation events) badger were the predominant predator of clutches. Same true for passerines. #ornithology

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

WaderTales blog about wader roosts and the energy that's lost when birds are disturbed. wadertales.wordpress.com/2016/10/30/a... Published on this day in 2016 🎂9️⃣ Over 3000 reads #ornithology

By monitoring 1896 Wood Warbler nests across Europe over 10 years, scientists found reproductive success varied by area BUT the populations with highest reproductive success were not necessarily doing better, suggesting other reasons for their decline doi.org/10.1111/jav....

Local, wild (not farmed) venison for sale in Lochalsh, supporting deer management. Would be great to see this local venison distribution widespread in England for muntjac.

Valuable synthesis - shows that where seed source is present, natural regeneration generally gives more complex structures and better biodiversity outcomes but can be helped by hybrid approaches and limited planting. #Rewilding #Biodiversity

This would be a radical shift for #IntrinsicValue and #Biodiversity www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This would be a radical shift for #IntrinsicValue and #Biodiversity www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Das böse Pferd denkt jetzt: DICH fress ich! Das ist zumindest das, was viele Naturschützer über Pferde denken. In Wirklichkeit brauchen Pferde nur Platz auf der Weide, dann blüht es nur so. Dieses Gebiet hier mit seinen Koniks ist das orchideenreichste Gebiet in ganz Mitteleuropa, das ich kenne.

Kudos 🇪🇸 👏. #OceanOptimism #MPAs #30by30 oceanographicmagazine.com/news/conserv...

Individual Bonelli’s Eagle tracked their natal climatic ecotype (Mediterranean, semi-desert, desert) during dispersed, and at settlement return med to their natal climatic zone. Fascinating. #ornithology

Genetic load, fitness and conservation in the Seychelles warbler. A wonderful PhD opportunity - spanning important evolutionary and conservation-relevant concepts. Come work with us lnkd.in/dtGaEJV2

How the Labour government would have banned the Labour movement. My latest column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Chris Packham, "This country voted in a party with a massive majority and a mandate for change" "All we see is Labour kowtowing to the far right. This causes me enormous concern" "I'm frustrated, I'm angry, and I've frightened" "And I get more scared every single day"

The messages from conservation orgs are finally getting more urgent and more realistic in their language. Climate change is rapidly outpacing conservation. Grim reading.

Polarised public attitudes in Denmark to return of Wolves, young and left-wing mostly positive, older and right wing mostly negative. #Rewilding

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