Meta‐analysis of predator identity in nest‐camera studies in the British Islands - Barton - Ibis - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🦉🌏

English planters had already drained 300 or 400 acres of bog and made it fertile through careful nurture and maturing. Boate reckoned not one acre of bog would have been left in English-owned land if 'this detestable rebellion had not come between‘ www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

1. Sad to hear of the death of the great Robert Redford today. Apart from his brilliance as an actor, director, Sunday evening etc, it was his environmental activism that inspired. And his beautiful narration on this wonderful 1985 documentary.

Trees do not make good neighbours, if you're a breeding wader. Three relevant blogs from 10 years of Wader Tales. 1️⃣ North of Scotland wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/06/19/t... 2️⃣ Estonia wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/03/16/k... 3️⃣ Iceland wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/i... #ConservationScience🌍

A new IUCN assessment has officially recognised four distinct giraffe species, overturning previous classifications of the world’s tallest land mammal as a single species with nine sub-species. 🌏🧪 Learn more ➡️http://bit.ly/4mVVGji

Odd headline given the 'adverse effects' are losing top predators and not their reintroduction, but important take home message Researchers find adverse effects of apex predator reintroduction: 'The conservation message is don't lose them in the first place' share.google/10u3nR2k03dt...

"Some 30 per cent of its vast estate (134,000 hectares) is now managed primarily for nature; a target achieved this year ahead of schedule." Is this company spin or for real? I just don't 👀 it. Depends of your definition of nature I guess? www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

I first tried to write a paper like this alone, about 5 years ago but never got it across the line (the topic was another metric - GWP* - but very similar arguments). Wonderful to have been invited to collaborate with this great team of scientists to publish this great paper.

Hawaiʻi’s birds may face the highest rate of bird extinctions in the world. Why? Introduced diseases (avian malaria from mosquitos), predators (non-native cats, rats, mongoose, barn owls), competitors (non-native birds competing for resources), and habitat degradation (pigs, goats, invasive plants).

Lynx could thrive in Northumberland with most in area supporting return www.theguardian.com/environment/...

CBS news is now spreading timber industry propaganda. Salvage logging after fire followed by uniformly planting single species plantations so they can be logged in ~40 yrs is *not* restoration. Pushing the 'good neighbor' BS that allows ⬆️ logging on public lands. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zImN...

Good news from Wim Van den Bossche: "decree published, no Curlew and Black-tailed Godwit hunting allowed in #france till (at least) 1 july 2026 🙏" legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORF... #ornithology Hunting bans can make a difference - see what happened in GB: wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/04/21/c...

The UK's rarest breeding birds - the Montagu's Harrier - have successfully raised four chicks for the first time in six years. 🦉 #RaptorResearch x.com/Channel4News...

It doesn't take a scientist or forester to see that North America's forests are changing rapidly, sometimes in ways never seen before. For this #ForestFriday let's review some terms being used to describe these changes, & take a tour thru America's new 'Forests of the Anthropocene'. 🧵

July 17-18 | 08:30–17:00 (CEST) Join us online to explore the future of livestock protection – where tradition meets innovation. www.facebook.com/LIFEstockPro...

Depending on how the remainder of summer goes, 2025 could approach Canada's most fiery year on record in 2023. Irrespective, the recent trend is clear -- the country's forests are burning at unprecedented rates. I wonder why? 🔥🌍🔥

Sobering, well written article, the one word missing inexplicably is "sheep", overgrazing in most of our uplands is largely down to unsustainablly high densities of sheep. Deer undoubtedly are a huge issue too, esp Killarney, Wicklow and Glenveagh 🐦 🦉 🌎 theconversation.com/golden-eagle...

Just recorded a Turtle Dove in a fenland bird survey, but no way of knowing if it’s a wild bird or one of these idiotic amateur releases. This really matters for conservation. Treating Turtle Doves like pheasants masks the decline. Maybe that’s the point... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Biomass and abundance trends diverge as the North American avifauna undergoes widespread demographic declines | doi.org/10.1002/oik.... | Oikos | #ornithology 🪶

You may notice a brownish haze in the sky in some areas today. It's smoke that has been blown across the Atlantic from record-breaking Canadian wildfires. 200,000 hectares has burnt in Manitoba alone, three times the yearly average with the peak of the season yet to come.

SAVE OUR SPRAT held a public demonstration in Bantry yesterday to call for all industrial trawling of sprat to cease until populations recover. The local community *including small fishermen* are uniting to express our anger over, and determination to fight, the destruction of our marine ecosystem.

1. All eagle deaths, esp in a small population, are a loss but some are harder to take than most. Sadly, our 1st breeding male, released in 2008, was recently picked up dead. This bird deserves a proper obituary to put his life (and death) in context www.thejournal.ie/investigatio...

In his book My Head For A Tree: The Extraordinary Story of the Bishnoi, Guardians of Nature (2025), Martin Goodman writes about how Bishnoi climbed a transmission tower and threatened to jump if the forest department didn’t fit reflectors on the electric wires www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/r...

A life cut tragically short 🌎 🦉 news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Non-natives rarely have positive benefits. I’ve seen native moths trying to use non-native salix species here in Westray. Caterpillars munch away on them and pupate, but not one I’ve seen has emerged as an adult insect. Often find m pupae dead in the tree.

This to me is astonishing. The site of Ireland's 1st breeding Cranes in centuries, could be 'developed' as a solar farm, instead of being protected for crane recovery. "the bog with the nesting cranes is at the pre-planning stage for a solar farm" 🦉 🐦 🌎 www.irishtimes.com/science/2025...

📢 New report: 5 years left to stop illegal bird killing 🚨 Millions of birds are illegally killed every year in Europe, the Middle East & North Africa. The goal to halve this by 2030 is still within reach if we act now! Read more: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/05... #FlightForSurvival

Your 'moment of doom' for May 13, 2025 ~ Marine apocalypse. “We’ve seen every kind of life disappear from these waters. This is more than just a bloom. It’s a collapse. We don’t know what will recover and what won’t." www.greenleft.org.au/content/mari...

Well I wasn't expecting this, wrens nesting (no eggs yet) in kale! Going to seed so had gone from being a great crop to a mini forest. Pres will desert and rebuild elsewhere but stuck the gorgeous wee nest back in another I'll leave and see what happens. Apologies Troglodytes everywhere:-( 🦉 🐦

Farmers fear dingoes are eating their livestock – but predator poo tells an unexpected story theconversation.com/farmers-fear...

This is horrendous, absolutely tragic 🌎 🦉, #RaptorResearch

Fine Gael MEP Regina Doherty said: “A high wolf population can be a threat to biodiversity conservation, farmers, rural communities and tourism.” Not to mention Red Riding Hood. And VD Leyen's pony Great to know the top scientific minds voting for us at EU Comm🌎 www.thejournal.ie/wolves-vote-...

This thread & comments is exactly why ecologists/conservationists need to stop using 'scrub' or 'scrubland', which wider society uses pejoratively to dismiss important habitat, and instead use the term 'shrubland' (like grassland, woodland, heathland, wetland). Nobody would say 'horrible shrubland'.

🚨 MEPs must reject the EU proposal to weaken wolf protections Experts & citizens agree the proposal is premature, unscientific & threatens biodiversity. 320,000+ voices call for continued strict protection. Farming & wolves can coexist - with real solutions🐺🌍 #SaveTheWolf #HandsOffNature

"There are no coincidences" euroweeklynews.com/2016/04/29/t...

‘In China, forests with up to 24 tree species reduced midday summer peak temperatures by as much as 4.4° C (7.9° F) compared with monocultures, benefiting both biodiversity and forest functionality’ 🌐🌍 #ForestEcology #RestorationEcology #Biodiversity #Climate news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Robbing a bank when no one's looking. Another priceless but little known part of this planet being damaged and exploited instead of being protected as the jewel in the Indian Ocean it is. Please support the work of The Journal Investigates @thejournal.ie www.thejournal.ie/saya-de-malh...

An annoyed Wood Warbler (sound up) whistling at a rival. Quite a few Wood Warblers in the forest already, females already nest-building, and lots of Willow Warblers passing through today. The forest phenology (foliage) is crazily advanced, looks like mid-May. #climatechange #ornithology #Białowieża

(Sorry for briefly spamming my own prints on here, but unfortunately it's still necessary to make some sort of tenuous living from drawing due to a significant delay in successfully wooing a wealthy bachelor farmer and being whisked off in his John Deere to a life of diamond-encrusted wellies)

Our new paper just out in Ecology & Evolution journal Applied Solutions to Balance Conservation Need With Practical Applications: A Case Study With Eagles Movement Models and Wind Energy Development Led by Megan Murgatroyd doi.org/10.1002/ece3... #RaptorResearch #ornithology

Native trees make a difference... 🌳🌲🌎 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

And just like that, over 100,000 acres of public land is handed over for militarization / increased degradation. The US-Mexico borderlands are likely to become a massive sacrifice zone for wildlife, biodiversity, etc that will never recover. 🌏

World’s largest meat company may break Amazon deforestation pledges again Investigation by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social & others: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the definition of "harm" in the Endangered Species Act (ESA) should exclude "actions that impair the habitat of protected species". Trumps assault on the environment goes viral www.rte.ie/news/environ...

Now the Trump administration moves to gut habitat protections for endangered wildlife. Not a day goes by without an assault on our natural world. 🌎🦑🌿 biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Natural colonisation of woodland/shrubland at 4, 10 & 29 yrs. Same spot, looking towards ancient woodland seed source 90 m away at Monks Wood Chronosequence. Still in dynamic change, dense hawthorn & blackthorn thickets are nursery for emerging oaks. Teeming with warblers, soil carbon increasing.

No, conservation is critical for conservation

Why not Scotland? Why not Ireland? The potential for nature recovery at scale in Europe is already happening, with benefits for nature, climate resilience and local people. @rewildscotland.bsky.social @rewildingire.bsky.social @irishrainforest.bsky.social youtu.be/FFypWj1bjPk?...