1/4 Photos from El Pijeral - 'The Enchanted Forest', Tenerife. Laurisilva forests in Canary Islands are ancient subtropical cloud forests formed in the Tertiary period. Sustained by trade-wind moisture they host many endemic species and relic biodiversity lost elsewhere in Europe

Big day First Iveragh Woodlands EIP operational group meeting. Farmer- hunter - forester - ecologist dream team!!

New site record of Hymenophyllum tunbrigense for Co. Louth (H31) growing in a rocky woodland on a minor hill. Happy to find this one today. A very scarce species in the county. @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #ferns #botany #filmyferns

Today's column is on the relentless march of blithering idiocy, which includes denying climate science while your house is - literally in this case - burning down. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Calling all #woodant researchers and stakeholders in Ireland ! 🐜 Join the All Ireland Wood Ant Network - Patrick Gleeson @patrickgleeson.bsky.social with poster 'The Future of Wood Ants in Ireland' at the Irish Entomologist's Meeting

Looking up into the crown of a much-loved ancient Small-leaved Lime coppice stool in Old Sulehay Forest on a gloomy grey day, the remaining leaves gradually changing from green to clear-yellow. @wildlifebcn.org #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

I am really looking forward to the new radio documentary being aired at 3.00pm today, Monday 27th Oct, on RTÉ Radio1. The ‘Silent Valley - the last Irish Ring Ouzels’, it examines the plight of our Ring Ouzels (down to just one known pair in 2024) and asks if they can be saved?

Sorbus scannelliana, S. anglica & S. rupicola from Killarney National Park recently ##WildflowerHour

I have so much respect for Greta Thunberg because she easily could have coasted on speaking gigs and Davos appearances for the rest of her life

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Manchán 🕯️

Our group of rewilders and river runners from the U.S., Mexico, and Argentina traveled away from the international border and into the #wild ahead.

An insatiable thirst for cheap, ready-to-build furniture has been linked to illegal logging of protected areas and assassinations of forest defenders. atmos.earth/political-la...

Nice day out on the islands of Derryclare Lough on Tuesday. We were out to collect Yew berries & cuttings for propagation for further planting locally. We were also hoping to collect some Rock Whitebeam berries as well but didn't find any unfortunately. Quite a rare species away from Killarney.

Sequoia sempervirens (redwood; world's tallest tree) is well adapted to high-intensity crown fires (eg 2020), but Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia; world's most massive tree) is adapted to surface fires only! bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪🌍🔥🌿🌳🔥🪴 @botsocamerica.bsky.social

UK is well on course for losing Willow Tit, Spotted Flycatcher & Wood Warbler as breeding species in our lifetime. Wood Warbler already virtually gone from England. I think Willow Tit would be first extinction of a resident bird since Capercaillie in 1700s or White-tailed Eagle in 1918. #ornithology

Fitzgerald Ecology is hiring a Consultant Ecologist and Graduate Ecologists! www.greenjobs.ie/jobs/1134654...

translucent Light Emerald moth Campaea margaritata resting on underside of Ash leaf, Buckfastleigh, Devon

What would Orwell think about a huge face on a gigantic screen telling a crowd of people they should wage war on foreigners and dissidents? No way of knowing, I guess.

Leaves from three species of endemic whitebeam, all from Arran. Top left is Arran Whitebeam, top right is Arran Service-tree, bottom is Catacol Whitebeam, arguably one of the rarest trees on the planet with only a single mature individual left in the wild. Plant Atlas: share.google/1KLV7i0QyxC7...

Shining Guest Ant, Formicoxenus nitidulus, a tiny (less than 3mm) ant which lives in Wood Ant nests. Another top find by @lancefly.bsky.social from our trip to the Wyre on Tuesday. The 2nd pic shows one top left with a Wood Ant btm right. @exmoormothman.bsky.social @pilning.bsky.social

Lowland beech forest in the Forest Reserve Joseph Zwaenepoel in Belgium on a recent visit. Appreciating beech in its native range and great to see so much standing and fallen deadwood. Nice also to see some unfamiliar continental fauna like Roe Deer, Marsh Tit, Nuthatch, and Short-toed treecreeper.

Crab apple at the foot of na beanna beola, first time for me seeing it in Conamara and what a beauty of an example

Tree seed collecting by kayak 🛶 Volunteers on Harris and Lewis paddled out to an inland island to gather native tree seeds from surviving fragments of ancient woodland. 🚣♀️🌳 We’re working in partnership with @wtscotsocial.bsky.social to enhance the availability of native trees 👉 bit.ly/4ni57d2

The first confirmed birth of a white-tailed eagle in Co Waterford for over 150 years has taken place

One of the most famous Dracaena spp is D. cinnabari, the dragon’s blood tree, endemic to Socotra, a tiny island off the Horn of Africa. The species epithet & common name refer to the red resin. 📷: James Bailey CCBYNC4. #Dracaena #Asparagaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

This is an absolutely must-read by Justine McCarthy. Catherine Connolly’s continuing association with Clare Daly and Mick Wallace is troubling www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

1/ 🧵 How to protect declining forest birds? Studies from near-pristine habitats can help us answer this question. My keynote talk #BOUatEOU presents findings from our long-term bird studies in the primeval Białowieża Forest (BF) 🇵🇱 #openaccess paper👉 doi.org/10.3161/0001... #ornithology

After spending some time in East Mayo back in May, a highlight was exploring some of the woodland along the shore of Lough Cullin. It was very uplifting to wander along this wild shoreline and see Bilberry above knee height and even the most palatable tree species regenerating.

The main barriers to nature restoration are a lack of political leadership & a lack of vision. Denmark lack neither. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

A wild and structurally diverse island in contrast to the surrounding land.

A Hairy Wood Ant (Formica lugubris) nest under Juniper in Killarney NP. A healthy nest with strong foraging trails fanning out into the surrounding woodland. Part of an ongoing project to map this species in Co. Kerry.

1st Irish record of the newly described bryophilous ascomycete Endoantria benetecta on its host Lejeunea patens from the temperate rainforest at Correl Glen, West Fermanagh Known only from Scotland & Wales; this marks the first for Ireland - our rainforests support untold diversity #fungifriends

I guess now they're crossing that river, whether they wanted to or not.

New @biologicaldiversity.org report by my colleague @laikenjordahl.bsky.social and I on the impending border wall construction across a jaguar corridor linking Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. The jaguars El Jefe, Yo’oko and O:shad have relied on this corridor. biologicaldiversity.org/species/mamm...

The best time to clear rhododendron was in the 1700's when it was first introduced. The second best time is now - only three of us out today but a lot done (1/3) @hetzgonnabeme.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social @rewildingire.bsky.social

Another difficult spring for wood warblers in Białowieża Forest🇵🇱 Few birds settled after autumn oak masting, and ca. 80% of them failed to raise young due to nest predation. Frequent tree masting seems to be driving the species decline esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology

The MPA bill is not dead - it can and should be salvaged. Ramming it into another law as amendments is a half-assed idea and a red flag for anyone hoping that MPAs will be effective. If you agree, pls contact your TD to tell them. This stuff works, believe me! www.contactyourtd.ie

Spectacular epicormic resprouting of majestic redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) after the 2020 fire in the Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Santa Cruz, California. About 95% of the redwoods resprouted; they are used to crown fires! You just can’t stop taking photos ... doi.org/10.1016/j.tp... 🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🪴🌾

Why are they reporting it like it's a paramilitary coup?

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...

(1/2) We have been back clearing Rhododendron ponticum from a new woodland site in Conamara - Gleann dá loch. The site is privately owned ca. 150 acre parcel of which approximately half is old oak woodland With the help of Dúlra who are clearing the surrounding peatland areas we are looking...

It's often claimed Pedunculate Oaks cannot regenerate within forests, and need open ground (savanna/wood pasture), but here 2 km deep in the #Białowieża forest there's oaks at every stage of maturity, from seed/saplings, to juveniles, and mature forest giants 35-40 m tall, in continuous forest.

Do you know of any large old Elms in Ireland? We're looking for really big old elms which have survived elm disease, despite it spreading everywhere across the country. Please visit our dedicated website and let us know about any veteran elms out there! www.wych-hunt.ie

"On Wednesday, just days before her wedding, 25-year-old Hassouna was killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit her home in northern Gaza. Ten members of her family, including her pregnant sister, were also killed." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

More than 30 acres of native woodland in An Spidéal, Co Galway have been purchased by the Native Woodlands Trust.

This lekking season, please don’t go out looking for Capercaillie. Instead, stay at home and watch them on the live dust bath camera at our Abernethy nature reserve! Tune in here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRR2... #LekItBe 🎥 Male Capercaillie at the dust bath

The Monks Wood Wilderness is now in its 64th year of natural colonisation, eg. natural woodland creation. In 1961 this was a 4 ha barley field next to a larger wood, left to see what happened. No management, no planting. The wood expanded by itself, with the help of birds dispersing seeds.