According to the mining company involved, “The notion the mine can kill an orangutan directly has proven to be quite false.” In other words, ‘No no, it’s nothing to do with us, because didn’t you know that we’re not actually out there bludgeoning orangutans to death?’ 🤦🏻‍♀️

📣 We just released a new free resource at @climatecentral.org - a 72-slide deck introducing key facts about climate change, including its causes, impacts, and solutions. It also comes with speaker notes and links for local storytelling. ➡️ www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... (English & Spanish)

Worrying reports of bird flu (avian influenza) are coming in, including an outbreak in Whooper Swans in the Fens. Other waterbirds are also being affected, and cases are rising. 📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides #UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland

I’m just a poppy, Standing in front of a person asking, Why TF am flowering in November??

In 1850 the weight of all the world's wild mammals equalled the weight of humans and our livestock Today they are outweighed 1 to 20 Reconfiguring life on this planet to produce cheap meat and dairy www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here it is! So happy to announce that my next book, Beauty of the Beasts, will be released by Bloomsbury Wildlife on Feb 26th (April 28th in the US). And I couldn’t be happier with this stunning cover, designed by Abby Cook, which works so well to show a vilified creature in a beautiful way 😍

Despite the global pledge to stop deforestation by 2030, agricultural industries have received $409 BILLION in annual subsidies. 20m acres of forest were cleared last year as a result. We need finance funneled towards climate solutions NOT the problems. #DefundDeforestation https://bit.ly/475IIJh

From poisonings to collisions with power lines, vultures face many threats. But as they decline, so does their ability to control the spread of deadly diseases. Here's how one country is working to save them: https://therevelator.org/saving-zimbabwes-vultures/

🚨 BREAKING: All oceanic devil rays are now Critically Endangered. 🤝 Be part of our #SaveTheMantas campaign: ✔️ Sign the petition: only.one/act/cites-2025 ✔️ Grab a campaign T-shirt, snap a photo, and share it on our campaign page: mantatrust.org/save-the-mantas

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"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

Hi. It's me. 2 weeks later. This is done. 58 frames over 3 seconds, *50* layers in the final image. WOO. This was a long edit, felt like ACTUAL work so unless I get it again with the actual sunset I doubt I'll be editing more like this. Psyched for the final piece tho! 🪶

It’s truly baffling to me that so many of these stories focus on “wow big fish” and not “this is an IUCN Red List Critically Endangered species that is extremely physiologically fragile and often does not survive fishing practices like this” www.mysanantonio.com/news/south-t... 🦑🧪🌎🦈🐠

Wild Reads: 10 New Books that Celebrate Wildlife and Their Environments • The Revelator

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Hey, that's today! Still some in-person tickets available, and you can stream for only £5. #ornithology #UKbirds #conservation

One of the most joyful times of the year is almost here! 🥳 🐻

Squelching through the soggy bogs on Coll this week we saw quite a lot of grass-of-parnassus - such a beautiful flower 🤩 #wildflowerhour

Today is “drag and tag,” tagging sharks with drag queens while raising money for LGBQT+ youth organizations in Florida! www.scientificamerican.com/article/drag...

368 million birds are estimated to be migrating right now! 🪶

Happy International Vulture Awareness Day to all who celebrate.* (*If you like clean, safe, healthy humans and ecosystems, you should celebrate.) #vultures #birds #nature

It’s #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay, so let’s make a fuss of these phenomenal birds! I took these at the Horstmann Trust last year, and will tell their stories in my (nearly finished!) new book... They deserve so much more recognition for all they do, and up close are utterly charming 😍 #IVAD2025

111 years ago today the last Passenger Pigeon on earth, which we called Martha, died in Cincinnati Zoo at around 12:30pm local time. The most abundant bird species Earth had ever seen had been driven to extinction. markavery.info/2025/09/01/p... #cincinatti #ohio #extinction #birds #martha

London’s SUVs now take up the same space as the entire borough of Kensington and Chelsea, with more than 800,000 registered in London alone. Madness. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

Almost every newspaper and broadcaster in Britain is now waging a racist 24/7 campaign of hatred against migrants on behalf of the ultra rich. In response to this, one small thing you can do is donate to the NGOs supporting refugees.

Any thoughts, friends who know bees?

Decades of climate progress is being dismantled by a coalition of the wealthy and powerful. The Guardian is committed to exposing them. Support our annual climate support campaign today. www.theguardian.com/climate...

A bit of lepidoptera love in the air tonight 🤩

Seek tells me this is an ashy mining bee, but it doesn’t look right. Anyone able to confirm an ID? It’s quite a dinky bee and is absolutely loving the stonecrop 😍

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? (Couldn’t let this pass having just watched this episode. Think I’m onto a winner)

"Landmines have become the greatest protectors." The demilitarised zone between North and South Korea has become an ecological oasis, with nearly 6,000 species documented, including tigers, leopards, and bears. Sometimes, the best rewilding experiments are unintended. share.google/MkWWN9ajggFE...

The team of Ph.D. level experts in ChatGPT apparently doesn't include any anatomists.

Wasp lands on my leg. Smuggy McSmugface me: ‘No problem wasp, that is ok’. Wasp flies to my hand. Still in smug mode: ‘That’s ok, wasp, I appreciate all that you do.’ Wasp flies ONTO MY NOSE, starts crawling around. Fucking panic stations and random flailing. Goddamit wasp, I really tried 😭

New research from Pesticide Action Network reveals the extent of pesticide use by UK councils. These are poisons being sprayed in your street, your local park. Pls share. For links to the full report & to find out what you can do, follow the link below www.pan-uk.org/pesticide-fr...

Is this a fossil or just a cool bit of rock? Found on Le Brévent in the French Alps on the weekend.

2025 in a nutshell:

Very happy to share that the first of my three episodes of R4’s Tweet of the Day will air tomorrow (8.58am!). Do give it a listen if you’re up and about - I’m hoping I don’t sound like a total tit 🤣 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Giant bees 😮 These are sculptured resin bees, Megachile sculpturalis, huge members of the leafcutter family that are native to Eastern Asia and accidentally introduced to the US and France. They’ve not made it to the UK yet - I’m at a friend’s in Geneva - but it’s probably only a matter of time.

Loving this wasps-in-the-media summer! I think the message is shifting… the scare-mongering is finally giving over to a more positive message about wasps and their role in ecosystems. More about why you should love wasps here: harpercollins.co.uk/products/end... www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is the news we all need and deserve. Go paddle pups! 🐶

It’s #WorldSnakeDay so here’s a photo of me all goggled up (cos of spitting cobras) looking goofily at this little egg-eating snake, during research for my next book. Snakes are incredible, and this little one completely charmed me 🐍

Interesting new research

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Not quite sure what’s happening here - guessing some sort of fungus on the snail? But is the ladybird attracted to it? It stayed on it so wasn’t just in transit. Let me know your thoughts, BlueSky nature bods!

Staring into the week like…

Wonderful, thought-provoking, inspirational day at the Cuckmere wildlife festival yesterday, and in what’s got to be the best ever setting! Also, I made friends with a crow over lunch - this is a wildlife festival that truly delivers 👏 @wildlifefestival.bsky.social

Do you need a little persuasion to appreciate wasps? Check out the #WorldFirst exhibition about wasps!! #WorldOfWasps @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social Opens TOMORROW for 6 months! FREE!! Wasp are #PestControllers #Pollinators #Diverse #socialites #hunters the original #Bee www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...

Yikes! A geyser has appeared by Florence Park and that is a LOT of water 🤯 Another headache for Thames Water (and all of us who are gonna end up paying more)

Please share this post and thread. @alexismarieadams.bsky.social & @julianhoffman.bsky.social have highlighted Kushner's plans in one of the most precious wildlife areas in Albania. What is it with the uber-rich that they care so little about nature?