Saving strands of sphagnum moss from the used paper around the plugs. The #peatlovers equivalent of panning for gold 😁

Another new Tracking the Colour of #Peatlands site at Clough Moor, Goyt Valley, UK #PeatColours @boggysal.bsky.social

Saddening to hear, but not surprising.

Common Twayblade by the side of a busy road #wildflowerhour

Eoghan's Irish rainforest 42k views (and counting) in 6 days! youtu.be/EavXzC_y3NM?...

Clouds, curlew and cottongrass @curlewaction.bsky.social

@curlewaction.bsky.social sadly the fire ignored the sign 😥 Goyt Valley

A sad #FingerpostFriday from the Goyt Valley 😥 #moorlandfires

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... What a brilliant thing to do 😁#worldcurlewday

Great to be able to watch a snipe, usually I just see it flying off in a hurry

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social beautiful bog rosemary just starting to flower, #wildflowerhour challenge tiny flowers

Given the unequivocal need for a ban on the use of peat in the horticulture industry, it is very disappointing to see this news released yesterday by the Royal Horticultural Society www.rhs.org.uk/advice/peat/... #PeatFree #Horticulture 📷 Charles Warner

We're excited to unveil our new mural by ATM Street Art on World Curlew Day, April 21, at Lansdown Hall in Stroud from 4pm. Join us for a series of talks, interactive activities, and stands with Curlew Action, WWT, ATM Street Art, and Gloucestershire Naturalists’ Society. Get your tickets now:

Wonderful news.

Join us for a workshop: #Peatland Resilience Under a Changing Climate: Place, Policy and Practice! 🗓️: May 6 2025 10:00-17:00 📍: @britishecologicalsociety.org HQ in London 💻: online attendance available More details and tickets here: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/peat... Please RT!

A pair of confused Egyptian geese on my walk back from the Soil exhibition at Somerset House

Have you signed up for our free #WaterResearch webinar on 26 March? Hosted by the IUCN UK Peatland Programme and the Environment Agency, this two-hour webinar will focus on the importance of peatland #Hydrological function. More info tinyurl.com/ctdy6bzs #Peat #KnowledgeExchange #Webinar

A nugget of the purest green. 5,000 sphagnum plugs now planted on my bog with a little help from my friends 😁

Creating scrapes for the wading birds who visit the moors to breed in the summer. Also helps break up the dominant purple moor grass. #PeatlandsandWetlands

Brilliant 😊

World’s largely unprotected peatlands are ticking ‘carbon bomb’, warns study www.theguardian.com/environment/... #peatlandsandwetlands

A distant rushup edge and mam tor #FingerPostFriday

Footpath to Roosdych, ancient earthworks, #fingerpostfriday

More nurseries are joining us & we're getting close to the new growing season, so here's a Bluesky #PeatFree #Nurseries List: shorturl.at/dIgYz So far includes 15 of 127 growers from ⬇️ list. Do let me know if I've missed anyone. Pls pin & share so these fantastic eco-friendly growers feel the 💚🌳💚.

This has to happen, we need future generations to be much more aware of the natural world ,the extent to which it is threatened and how we can support it

Complete & utter bollocks from the Moorland Association You don’t fight fire with fire - you fight it with water Peat bogs, burned & drained for decades by grouse moor estates, need to be urgently rewetted This would also reduce flammable vegetation www.moorlandassociation.org/post/england...

Pools created by new dams and bunds looking sparkly in the sunshine today on a @moorsforthefuture.bsky.social project site

Spot the dipwell...... Frozen data 😁 @moorsforthefuture

Wool log dams holding up well following the snow melt #soggybog

So pleased to find #postboxsaturday, gives me an excuse to share my picture from this week 😁

Which ever way you choose, it's gonna be cold, Buxton yesterday #FingerPostFriday

England doesn’t have enough houses, but we also don’t have enough Nature. What are we going to do about it? Some thoughts from Natural England, kindly published by Green Alliance. greenallianceblog.org.uk/2025/01/08/w...

Something is wrong with our Sssi approach. As an owner of an unfavorable/recovering site it sometimes feels as if the designation creates more delay than encouragement when planning conservation. There must be a focus now on moving all sites to a favourable condition.

go.bsky.app/BeUTmPd I've created a little UK botany group!

The wonderful @electra_rhodes has written a Christmas blog for us on our favourite shouty troglodyte, the wren. Read it here: goldengrenades.com/blog/ Artwork by @KerrieDoodles Merry Christmas!🎄

Today's the last day of 2024 grouse shooting season & the petition to ban driven grouse shooting passes 30,000 signatures petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Help us get 100,000 signatures and the shooting season need never open again. Thank you.

Day 7 of #ArtAdventCalendar. (I’ve made it a whole week!) 👏🏽 This is my coloured pencil drawing called ‘The Last Curlew’. It was used in ‘Red Sixty Seven’, a collaborative book filled with love letters from artists and writers to the UK’s red listed birds. (Book available on the BTO’s website.)

It is a Time for Change in places like the Dark Peak. Grouse moor licensing can be a win-win solution to what so many are calling for - sustainable land management and more nature in our uplands. 👉 Watch our new film to find out why: youtu.be/risNQF5E9r0

Quite late in life, and thanks to Helen's posts, I discovered Tunnicliffe's work. Have since been to Anglesey to see his work exhibited. His observation of the behaviour of birds is wonderful.

Remember that footage of gamekeepers killing a Hen Harrier on a grouse moor? Seen pictures of moors being set alight in recent weeks? It’s time to ban driven grouse shooting. Please sign @wildjustice.bsky.social’s petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

The mighty sphagnum

Last year, I hiked across the dramatic Isle of Skye from coast to coast. I published my first book #SkyeLine about my journey (5⭐s on Amazon!) as an indie author. Can you help me spread the word? 🙏🏼 For every LIKE, I'll post a photo from my trip in the thread, and I'll follow you if you REPOST. 🧵

A snowy #fingerpostfriday , the calm before the storm 🌧️☔🫤

We're on Bluesky 🎉 We're a European partnership project dedicated to Scottish wildcat conservation and recovery. We aim to prevent the extinction of wildcats in Scotland by breeding and releasing them into the wild, while mitigating the threats they face 🐾 Follow to find out more 😺

So much going on, on such a small twig #lichen

I loved Bunty's cut out wardrobe, and what inspiration. Wonder if I can get padded mariachi pants 🤔😎🚴🏼‍♀️

The Slender-billed Curlew is gone. A paper published today concluded that there is a 99.6% chance that the species is extinct, likely dying off around the time of the last irrefutable sighting in 1995. Read Curlew Action's response to this news: buff.ly/40SqglT%E2%8...

Absolute fury at this: United Utilities refusing to disclose data about sewage it's releasing into Windermere, because it's "not in the public interest." Ditto data on ammonia checks from a UU Cunsey Beck plant; site of a 2022 mass fish-kill from pollution. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We've just published our latest report: COLLATERAL DAMAGE, highlighting the widespread poisoning of birds of prey in England by the misuse & abuse of rodenticides. Govt scheme to reduce exposure has failed. Read the report: wildjustice.org.uk/general/coll...