Late Afternoon Sky. 8°C after the rain. Sparrows.

An across-government technical assessment published today recognises that "nature is the foundation of national security" and that "every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse". A rational response to this would be to get very serious about nature recovery. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Our Dark Skies Festival with the @yorkshiredales.org.uk is just one month away and it’s shaping up to be an unforgettable celebration of the night sky 🌌 Take a look at the full programme: https://www.darkskiesnationalparks.org.uk/ 📸 Chris Whiles #DarkSkiesFestival2026

Let's explain rocks by sandwiches. Trust me. Earth builds rock three main ways: it stacks, it cools from melt, or it presses and reheats what it already made. #Geology 🧵

This kind of day today! 🌧🌤🌈

Can you find a flowering member of the Gentian family or Gentianaceae, that’s the challenge this week. Post your finds for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #GentianFamily. Happy flower hunting!

Read about @yorkswildlife.bsky.social and @naturalengland.bsky.social’s exciting Wild Ingleborough! A landscape scale conservation project. I was lucky to visit the nursery where wildflowers are being propagated in their thousands 💞 www.wildway.info/p/wild-ingle...

Good evening lovely 😍! #hedgehog #Malton #nature 💚

A dead nettle that's not a Dead Nettle for #WildflowerHour - Fen Nettle - Urtica dioica subsp. galeopsifolia. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Fen Creation Workshop, 8th August 10am - 1pm Suitable for conservation practitioners, students and volunteers, this free workshop explores fen creation on a sand and gravel quarry For more information, see the link below: www.luct.org.uk/events-1/20...

A public consultation for the draft North Yorkshire & York Local Nature Recovery Strategy is now running until 11 August. And there are a number of events for Dales-based land managers and farmers. Find out more 👇 www.northyorks.gov.uk/environment-... #YorkshireDales #LNRS #NatureRecovery

Better late than never! For #WildflowerHour #HairyPlants week I have wonderfully wooly thistle! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Some butterflies and a moth from @yorkswildlife.bsky.social Wharam Quarry in the week. Six spot burnet moth, small heath, roosting common blue and marbled white butterflies. Flowers a bit crispy but a lovely evening stroll. @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social 💚

The heatwave is back, and the fire risk is high. Please help keep the countryside safe. 🔥 No barbecues or campfires 🍾 Take glass bottles and jars home 🚬 Dispose of cigarettes properly 📞 If you see a fire, call 999 With thanks North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue

Gatekeeper in the garden today #Malton @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social also large white & ringlet 💚

With warmer temperatures forecast for the end of the week hopefully you’ll appreciate a watery theme for this week’s challenge! Find wild or naturalised aquatic plants in bloom and share for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #AquaticPlants 💦🌱

Lovely and lively mass of peacock butterfly caterpillar today along the banks of the River Derwent, North Yorkshire @savebutterflies.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social

For #WildflowerHour this week marsh bedstraw, water forget-me-not, some stonking southern marsh orchid (and some likely hybrids with CS orchid), CS orchid, field rose (?), ragged robin, lesser stitchwort and meadow vetchling (with friends) 💚 @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

For #WildflowerHour this week lesser spearwort (and friend 🐁), bladder campion, crosswort & water avens, hoary plantain, salad burnett, yellow rattle, bird's foot trefoil, commons spotted orchid & common milkwort 💚 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Great to work with partners @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social & @naturalengland.bsky.social on a secret project to nurture Lady's-slipper Orchid back into the wild in Yorkshire! More info here: plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9... & here: bsbi.org/download/467...

Better late than never for #wildflowerhour & not orchids! Wild gladioli, thrift, wild thyme, ivy broomrape, stinking iris, horseshoe vetch, kidney vetch, woolly thistle & wild carrot all from that there Purbeck down South! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Great news, hoping for a successful fledging too! 💚 www.bbc.com/news/article...

The National Fire Chiefs Council has reported over 200 more wildfires this year than for the same period in 2022 - the worst year on record for wildfires, and more hot spells are predicted. Most wildfires are preventable, help us to keep people, nature and wildlife safe.

#NoMowMay bringing joy & not just for plants, but birds, inverts, herps - all! We're lucky to have a pair of greenfinch & yesterday one feeding in our little patch 💚 Soon it'll be a little crèche for froglets 🐸 @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @froglife.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

We've been doing #NoMowMay for a few years now & as it kicks off this week I'm sharing our little meadow in our back garden. We don't cut the front at all other than a postie path! Yellow rattle now becoming self-sustaining! Brings much joy!! 💚 @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

@teamneyedc.bsky.social #Hull #Nature 👏💚 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Green veined white from the garden today, plus first Holly blue of the year joining brimstone, orange tip and small tortoiseshell from last few weeks #Malton @savebutterflies.bsky.social

For #WildflowerHour #Woodlandplants great woodrush, early dog violet, greater stitchworth, wood anemone, dogs mercury and sweet violet @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Partial eclipse in refraction #Malton #NorthYorkshire

At #NaturalEngland we're proud to be one of the 50 organisations that have been involved in #NatureNorth & in developing the Strategic Plan we're launching in Sheffield today! The North has incredible natural assets let's make the most of them & create a nature positive economy! 💚

Please do join #HeritageFund Engagement Team in April to find out more about what a #Natural #Heritage project could look like. Full details below 👇

This is a great role - please take a look and circulate!

I went a bit early with this in the week! 🙄 Anyway happy ##WorldWetlandsDay 💙💚

Happy #WorldWetlandsDay !! Great to visit @wwtworldwide.bsky.social Martin Mere today with members of the WWT team, Natural England & Defra Minister @marycreagh.bsky.social & local MP @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social What a site & a perfect e.g. of the immense value wetlands provide us! 💚💙

How many of these are you going to mark off for your #BigGardenBirdwatch?

It was great to be at the Northern Place, Nature & Culture Forum yesterday in Leeds hearing from some great speakers & chairing a panel. @naturenorth.bsky.social & Northern Place & Culture Partnership working with others to position nature, culture & heritage as key to the North. More to come!

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...

Happy New Year folks, a great start to 2025! 💜💚

Great to be at the 2024 #GMGreenSummit at The Lowry in Salford today for #NaturalEngland with NE North West colleagues. Good to hear from Andy Burnham commitment to #NetZero & #Environment remains strong. Look forward to speaking later at Greater Manchester #LNRS session #Nature 💚

In 2019, our ‘Postcards From The Edge’ project gave good quality cameras to 10 rough sleepers. The participants captured images of heritage attractions outside the city centre that tourists don’t normally see. Those images were turned into a series of postcards. 1/3

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@tonyjuniper.bsky.social our Natural England Chair talking today at the ADEPT conference, nature as an enabler of health, wealth & security. How can we unlock greater investment by blending delivery of outcomes in place? Key tools emerging - time to integrate, blend & escalate. Collaboration key!

I'm at the ADEPT conference, which brings together local authority directors of environment, planning & transport. Local authorities are such crucial partners & leaders in place & Natural England see them as key nature recovery collaborators e.g. LNRS, BNG. Should be a great 2 days 👍

1st post - great to be here, thanks for all the follows. Here for #nature & #landscape happenings & for all the huge good these do for people & communities. The North has more than its fair share of natural assets let's unleash their power & make sure we protect & restore their value & beauty 💚