Drax should be shut down

By reintroducing keystone species, such as beavers, and allowing rivers to flow more naturally, we can help secure a future for brown trout – and countless other species that depend on healthy waterways. 🧵3/4

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.

Tobacco lobbyists are banned from WHO meetings, why not oil and gas polluters from #ClimateCOP? #COP30 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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.

Shiny new PhD being advertised with me and @cmbeale.bsky.social !!

Over the next few weeks I'll be sharing some fun PhD opportunities. Today, if you're into hydrology, forests and wading 🪶 in Scotland this one might be for you! 🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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

I'm in

Small birds need big trees in the forest: The key to protecting cavity-nesters | www.sciencedirect.co... | Forest Ecology and Management | #ornithology 🪶

Common Calamint newly appeared in this eutrophic verge after ground disturbance (building new wall). Seedbank echo of a softer semi-natural past history.

Common Calamint newly appeared in this eutrophic verge after ground disturbance (building new wall). Seedbank echo of a softer semi-natural past history.

Astonishing active hunting and arial predation of small migrating birds! #ornithology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Astonishing active hunting and arial predation of small migrating birds! #ornithology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Don't care about the massive damage done to native ecosystems by the constant release of vast numbers of invasive pheasants for shooting? Maybe you'll care about catching Lyme disease instead.

Megafauna bones discovered in South America suggest that humans regularly ate giant sloths and armadillos. Archaeologists now think smaller animals only became dietary staples after the megafauna were hunted to extinction. archaeology.org/news/2025/10/06/what-happened-to-south-americas-megafauna/

www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025... Government were advised Palestine Action are non-violent, criminal damage generally minor & do not meet threshold of proscription. But they did it anyway (after lobbying from Elbit Systems).

www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025... Government were advised Palestine Action are non-violent, criminal damage generally minor & do not meet threshold of proscription. But they did it anyway (after lobbying from Elbit Systems).

A great thread dismantling the latest 'conservation populism' to be floated in Britain. With funding available for species recovery, this is business for some. We'll see more of this pitching for commercial projects that scientists & species experts think is useless. #ornithology #ukbirding

📢 We're hiring! Are you ready to make a national impact? Join us as Senior Project Manager on the UK Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure – a major initiative transforming how we monitor and respond to extreme hydrological events across the UK. 🔗🧪 ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca...

Studying breeding waders sometimes involves catching chicks multiple times. Do these intensive studies have negative effects on chick growth? Blog about reassuring paper by Camilo Carneiro et al from 5 Oct 2024 🎂 wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/10/05/h...

🍄 Opportunity alert! Natural England are looking for a UK-based collaborator to support analytics for a Fungal Red List for Great Britain. Tasks include bias assessment, Frescalo modelling, AOO/EOO, and data presentation (Shiny or Excel). 📩 Get in touch: [email protected]

“Ministers are to give police new powers to target repeated protests, aimed particularly at cracking down on demonstrations connected to Gaza, the Home Office has said.” They’re enabling a genocide and silencing opposition. This is authoritarianism. www.bbc.com/news/article...

NEW PAPER: Badgers, weather, and waders: badger predation on lapwing nests rise in cold conditions (below 4°C) and with high earthworm availability. Cold years see heavy losses, suggesting weather forecasts could guide management to protect waders ➡️ vist.ly/499u6 #ornithology #birds 🪶🧪

Biodiversity Net Gain or plastic pollution?

Project Officer - Rare Invertebrates in the Cairngorms - RSPB - environmentjob.co.uk/jobs/107624-... #entomology #ScottishBirding

Ticks are more likely to carry the bacteria that cause Lyme disease in areas where Common Pheasants Phasianus colchicus are released, according to new research. Read more: britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti... 🥇Subscriber Content

Terrifying tipping points being breached

Tragic reminder of the chronic misery of undiagnosed Lyme disease and the common failings of UK medical care to consider or treat Lyme. Sadly a familiar pattern.

Terrifying tipping points being breached

This is quite mind-blowing; Ecosystem processes and herbivores don’t just depend on but shape landforms + sedimentation process at regional-continental scales