Brilliant news! At last, confirmation that the Govt *will* go ahead with the #NaturalHistoryGCSE 🎉 We have to get to know our fellow travellers on this planet again. Young people who know & love nature are far more likely to protect & restore it - as well as enjoying better physical & mental health

Despite endless stories that suggest the opposite, unemployment has stayed steady - & historically low at 4.4% The panic about too many people & too many of them being on benefits is misplaced. The problem is the wealth we all create goes only to the rich #r4today

Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...

The @Telegraph excels itself today with the claim that @NaturalEngland is ‘ideologically wedded to concept of conservation’. This is our job, & we do it as a matter of legal requirement. Would be odd for a conservation organisation to do anything else. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...

Beautiful day at Exeter University yesterday for our @britishecolsoc.bsky.social People, Policy and Planet event on Conservation and Novel Ecosystems ✨ another great workshop for the English Policy Group!

Today’s launch of the Land Use consultation is an important step. Land is a finite resource, and we have multiple demands on it for biodiversity, ecosystem services, food, timber, minerals, housing, energy and infrastructure. A strategic plan is essential if we are to reconcile these different uses.

There are no jobs on a dead planet: #ClimateEmergency www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We've got an exciting FREE public event in Exeter coming up with the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social - "Conservation and Novel Ecosystems in a Changing Climate". Read all about it here and then SIGN UP! 👇 www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/cons...

We've got an exciting FREE public event in Exeter coming up with the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social - "Conservation and Novel Ecosystems in a Changing Climate". Read all about it here and then SIGN UP! 👇 www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/cons...

Having a fab time at #BES2024 @britishecolsoc.bsky.social Best thing about December! Maybe… Here’s me doing a little talk about one of my PhD chapters.

🚨NEW exciting PhD opportunity... 🚨 designing effective habitat networks for species conservation #biodiversity #conservation #restoration A fab supervisory team from University of Liverpool, Natural England, Butterfly Conservation and @ukceh.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Excellent online meeting today with @savebutterflies.bsky.social research staff & PhD students, brilliantly run by @katiepowell51.bsky.social. Such exciting work covering everything from deep learning to moorland burning, via cytoplasmic incompatibility! butterfly-conservation.org/our-work/sci...

🚨NEW exciting PhD opportunity... 🚨 designing effective habitat networks for species conservation #biodiversity #conservation #restoration A fab supervisory team from University of Liverpool, Natural England, Butterfly Conservation and @ukceh.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...