"Whoever carved the Ardross wolf has seen the real thing" 🐺 Now on display in Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, the famous Ardross Wolf Stone was probably created over 1,000 years before these animals were persecuted to extinction in Britain around 1760: www.digitscotland.com/the-archaeol...

Lyme disease is a *massive* and largely unseen problem, especially in areas where deer or feral goats are prevalent. Please, nature lovers: be tick-aware at all times.

Every time I come back to Northern California from Ireland, I want to hug our California forests and meadows after the stripped green deserts of Ireland. Sheep and goats and Coillte timber plantations. Barely a flower or native tree. What a barren mess.

FYI & action @moorlandassoc.bsky.social @nfuscotland.bsky.social @gwct.org.uk

"The push to farm all available land to produce as much food as possible during WW2 continues into the current subsidy system. Even when farmers want to leave marginal and hard-to-manage areas alone, the subsidy system drives them to keep fighting nature." www.scottishwildbeavers.org.uk/alyth-voice/

Small gardens can boost biodiversity just as much as big ones. And when joined together, tiny nature-friendly spaces create wildlife corridors that can benefit hedgehogs and all sorts of other wildlife! Ideas for small gardens: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/sma...

A 7% decline in English birds in just 5 years is astonishing The web of life is unravelling fast

The whole Mediterranean basin has been goated into aridity.

10 years ago, there was only a single 'leathceann' (windswept) birch tree in the foreground. Now, there's a full-on exploding diverse native rainforest, none of which was planted. All it took was fencing out sheep. Let's rewild the world 🌏

A bit about why I think rewilding needs to be central to our response to the eco-emergency and my work in helping landowners rewild their land. Climate Changemakers: The rewilding advocate who helps landowners to restore nature www.independent.ie/life/climate...

A patch of wild native rainforest in Glenbeg, Beara, looks okay from across the lake. But it's dying because of sheep, with zero ground flora or regenerating trees. The farmer should be offered double his farm payments to take the sheep out, but chances are he'd actually get nothing. It's insane.

Someone's pet cat with the native wild red squirrel it just killed. Most cat owners have no idea of, or don't want to know, how much wildlife is slaughtered annually by domestic or feral cats. But it runs to 10s, possibly 100s, of BILLIONS of animals per year, and is a serious driver of extinction.

A stand-out massive old oak between Kilgarvan and Killarney, for over 16 years I've saluted it in my mind whenever passing. Surrounded by deadzones of alien sheep, sika deer, and sitka spruce, it's a defiant reminder of just how much we've lost, and just how much could come back with rewilding.

Some red gold found this week, a wild relic Shetland Honeysuckle with about 100 berries on it, rare I've ever seen more than a couple per plant, n given each berry rarely holds more than 1-2 seeds (up2 -6), each berry goes a long way to growing the next gen

It’s time we learned to cordially debate our political opponents, like the folks who consider moose invasive in Colorado. theconversation.com/moose-have-l...

Live in Scotland and want to rewild your community? 🌱 The Community Rewilding Guide from the Scottish Rewilding Alliance is a brilliant new toolkit – packed with practical tips, resources and stories from communities who've already taken the leap.

"Sinn Féin and the DUP have stalled the nutrients action programme over fears of a farmer backlash." The *only* thing they'll unite on: ensuring the largest lake ecosystem in Ireland or Britain, Lough Neagh, continues to die of pollution. What a f**king disgrace. share.google/cazBTwCid9qR...

Wonderful to host the charity GreenTeam offering young people access to nature and the chance to participate in ecological restoration of the woodland. Pls consider supporting our work.

Wrong: goats are, one-for-one, much worse than sheep. Goats can only be contained/ excluded by a high deer fence, hence are able to range freely, destroying habitat inaccessible to sheep. Standing on their hind legs, goats break down trees that have 'got away' in sheep terms. They even climb trees!

Could beavers return to the Loch Ness area? Major community consultation launched to discuss the reintroduction of these biodiversity-boosting animals. littlegreenspace.org.uk/news/loch-ne...

We're excited to invite communities in the Loch Ness area to a series of discussions on the potential return of beavers 🦫 in partnership with @beavertrust.bsky.social Read the full story 👉 treesforlife.org.uk/communities-... 📷Elliot McCandless / Beaver Trust

A long read and a good read. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Rewilding – the large-scale restoration of nature – offers hope in the face of biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. Want to find out more? Check out these inspiring books about rewilding and nature! littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/rew...

They should do it anyway for the environmental benefits.

A combination of two alien invasive species, sika deer and rhododendron, are killing this beautiful native forest in Lauragh, Kerry. The trees can't regenerate due to the overgrazing, and as they age and die, only the proliferating rhodo remains. Invasives are a *top* driver of global nature loss.

Shockingly awful - and largely down to farming. Just dreadful. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"“[Some cattle and sheep farmers] will tell you that that grassland is sequestering as much carbon as a rainforest – it’s absolutely fucking tosh but it doesn’t stop them saying it,” he [Guy] says." 🔥🔥🔥 I'm going to share this blog again: theconversation.com/livestock-gr...

Scotland has so much to be proud of. But there’s something missing – something extraordinary... More info www.scotlandbigpicture.com/lynx-to-scotland 🎶 by Beluga Lagoon, 🎬 SCOTLAND:The Big Picture

UK falling behind EU on environmental rules amid post-Brexit rollback

The magic of an Irish Atlantic rainforest 🌍

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Lady's Island lake is the end result of decades of agricultural nitrogen water pollution. The only way we can turn the agricultural nitrogen pollution problem around is if those in power admit that their measures aren't working. It's time to actually listen to the evidence, not the spin.

The inglorious 12th tomorrow. On the left the devastation of a driven grouse moor on the right an alternative vision 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌳

Gorgeous young buck in The Wildwood.

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...

Irish nature is rapidly dying, and the reasons why are staring us in the face. Find your anger.

Sheep or sitka deadzones. The only current livelihood options open to farmers in Irish uplands. It's time society gave them an alternative that works for nature, the climate, tourism, local communities, against downstream flooding, etc., etc... #Rewilding 🌏

The main barriers to nature restoration are a lack of political leadership & a lack of vision. Denmark lack neither. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

✨Last chance to book tickets!✨ 🦫Beaver Trust production "Balancing the Scales" 📽️ THIS FRIDAY 25 July, 7.00 pm (start 7.30pm) 📍Soutar Theatre, York Place, Perth STAY after for a discussion panel of experts Q&A. Admission is FREE (donations welcome) BOOK HERE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-scree...

Lovely piece on the land Eoghan manages, including with Charlie the collie who plays a role of 'wolf' in an unfenced area accessible to sika deer: "My theory is that Charlie’s scent, which I like to imagine instinctively equals predator in a deer’s mind, discourages them from hanging around."

Grazing livestock and farming over the past 4000 years have rapidly accelerated the rate of soil loss in the Alps, jeopardising the ecosystem and putting the mountains at risk of further erosion

My Life in Books: Eoghan Daltun Questions and answers on my favourite books, writers, etc., in today's Sunday Independent.

Some of the kickass floral diversity in my place without sheep. Rewilding isn't just trees!!

All power to @chrisgpackham.bsky.social and @wildjustice.bsky.social in pursuing this crucial case. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The toll taken by overgrazing: @irishrainforest.bsky.social, of (grim) interest to you? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

0.1% of Dartmoor in good ecological condition. And each Dartmoor ewe loses its owner £16.90 – the ecological and economic craziness of the current sheep grazing regime well explained by @chrisgpackham.bsky.social. Time to change how this amazing place is managed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A highly readable account not only about the life-generating powers of beavers, but also the hard graft of campaigning often required by passionate individuals and fleet-footed small NGOs to make positive change happen. 2/2

NEW: Green jobs in Scotland increased by 7,500 over the past year, rising to a record high of 33,500 We welcome strong progress in areas like energy efficiency and low carbon vehicles, but some areas of concern remain 🧵

Seeding with drones looks promising as faster, cost-effective method markavery.info/2025/07/10/p... #Scotlandthebigpicture #moidart #trees #reforestation

80% of Scottish people think their government should have policies to support rewilding, but are still having to fight to make it happen. Why? Because vested interests are opposed. Rewilding will always be more bottom up than top down. news.stv.tv/scotland/sco...