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...

New National security and global biodiversity loss assessment from uk government. Some stark and scary predictions in here assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...

Ynysyfro WeBS: two male Pochard. #gwentbirding #moist #murky

Has anyone asked the arch-appeaser Farage what he thinks of his mate Trump tariffing the UK because we’re defending Greenland from aggression? A vote for Farage in May is a vote to be ruled by Trump www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests,

Goldcliff Pools: adult female Hen Harrier, 4 Whitefronts and a Chiffchaff. #gwentbirding

I do hope my MP @ruthjoneslabour.bsky.social is supporting this bill.

Climate change has now shrunk US salaries by 12%. And worse is to come No matter where you live, a new study has found warmer temperatures are picking your pocket www.sciencefocus.com/news/climate...

UPDATED – Factcheck: How ‘scary-sounding numbers’ are being used to mislead the UK about net-zero | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/Be7nHfA

There’s running a half marathon or marathon for a good cause, and then there’s running the Spine, all 268 gruelling upland miles of it. Well worth a few of your hard earned quid. 👇 #curlews #running #ukbirding

Bishton: 400 Lapwing and 40 Snipe. #gwentbirding

Collister Pill: several thousand calidrids, almost all in the air throughout my visit. Little else of note. The disturbance seemed to be caused by wildfowlers up towards West Pill. Why is any shooting allowed within the SPA? I mean, WTF does the P in SPA stand for? #gwentbirding

@oxfamgb.bsky.social: "The world’s richest 1% have used up their fair share of carbon emissions just 10 days into 2026", while "the richest 0.1% took just three days to exhaust their annual carbon budget". www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ynysyfro: 5 male Pochard. #gwentbirding

Hi @ruthjoneslabour.bsky.social, quick query from a constituent,… have you ditched X yet?

At least 7 Hawfinch at Rhiwderin now, in trees near the ‘swimming pond’ at c.ST263868. Also 15+ Greenfinch, Treecreeper, etc. #gwentbirding #lowcarbonbirding #footit

Given the US withdrawal from the UNFCCC I think we should think of imposing penalty tariffs against USA based on US climate denial alone. All forms of collaboration with the US now need to be urgently reviewed. Sanctions should follow. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

cc @ruthjoneslabour.bsky.social

Very quiet in the hills today, a Woodcock provided a moment of interest, otherwise just a lot of nival-gazing. ❄️ #seewhatIdidthere? ❄️ #snow ❄️

Ynysyfro: 3 male Pochard. #gwentbirding

Starting a ‘Books read in 2026’ thread to shame myself into reading an acceptable number of books for a reasonably well-educated adult human, so,…

A potter round produced a goody. Hawfinch(!) at Rhiwderin, initially flying around with a small flock of Chaffinch near the ‘swimming pond’ at c.ST263868 (adjacent to the Yellowthroat site), later sat up for high quality handheld phone-scoping shenanigans. #gwentbirding #lowcarbonbirding #footit

A light dusting of snow and a female Blackcap out back. ❄️ #gwentbirding #nippy

Female Blackcap in the garden. #gwentbirding #gardensafari

Uskmouth: every shade of dog shit bag plus Woodcock, Water Pipit, 8+ Snipe and a few Redpoll. Goldcliff Pools: 11 Whitefronts, 4 Golden Plover, Black Redstart, Pintail, Chiffchaff, Common Scoter feeding off the point, 28 Grey Plover and 16 Turnstone on the foreshore. #gwentbirding #birdingWales

Ynysyfro: Pochard. #gwentbirding #brevity

Quick spin round the local waterbodies, nowt much at Cwm Hedd or Pant-yr-Eos, 5 Pochard at Ynysyfro. #gwentbirding #lowcarbonbirding #birdingbybike

A gaping chasm in my graphic non-fiction collection was filled over Xmas. A stone cold classic of the genre. #Persepolis #comics #graphicnonfiction #sequentialart

Does anyone monitor the bycatch of shore netting? cc @rspbcymru.bsky.social @btocymru.bsky.social

Brexit's going well...

Goldcliff Pools: 2 Whitefronts, 9 Golden Plover amongst c.1,600 Lapwing, Black Redstart at the ‘dump’, Common Scoter feeding off the point, 3 Grey Plover and 32 Turnstone on the pill. 1/2 #gwentbirding #birdingwales

Heads up! #gwentbirding

This is all *perfectly* normal. Happy Christmas everybody! 🎄🥵🎄

Oooh, looks like the Caerleon/Llandegfedd Whitefronts were part of a broader movement. Yay for nippy easterlies. #gwentbirding

Yeah, we should definitely be handing Jim Ratcliffe £70M of government funding. This is the sort of development this country needs. #pollution #health #billionaire #taxdodging #Brexitclown globalspark.news/world/enviro... cc @antoniabance.bsky.social

More detail about the missing White-tailed Eagle in mid-Wales. Not the first investigation into raptor persecution in this area. Press release from Dyfed-Powys Police & commentary from me 🔽 #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime @iolowilliams.bsky.social raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/19/m...

I’ve stayed there! The Wilderness Hotel near Inari is currently on ‘Amazing Hotels’ (BBC2). Three-toed Woodpecker, Pine Grosbeak, Siberian Tit, Siberian Jay, etc., etc., in the ‘garden’,… also aurora,… also -30 degrees. #Finland #nippy

“On 13 Sept, a satellite tag belonging to a white-tailed eagle was recovered near Gwgia Reservoir, Tregynon, … police … are asking anyone who was at or around the reservoir between 11am and 1pm or on access land near Bryn y Fawnog between noon and 3pm on 13 Sept to come forward.” #birdingWales

Reform risk reviving Thatcher-style 'industrial destruction' in Wales, warns TUC www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

We (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Scops Owl bagged. Didn’t exactly rush down to Copperopolis but seemed rude not to pop in and say ‘hello’. #birdingWales

Goldcliff Pools: Black Redstart briefly at ‘the dump’, little else of note. #gwentbirding

Approx. grid ref. ST318897, W3W ///bottle.transit.care. #gwentbirding #birdingWales @birdguides.bsky.social

Glebelands Park, Newport: adult female Pied Flycatcher still present, feeding OK and looking healthy enough. #gwentbirding #birdingWales cc @birdguides.bsky.social

Quick circuit of the local lanes, ‘highlights’: Red Kite and roadkill Otter. 😠 #gwentbirding #birdingbybike #lowcarbonbirding

“UN environment report 'hijacked' by US and others,…” The Trump administration and its backers are our enemy and we should act appropriately. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #climate #environment

Up to Cwmcarn Pond along the canal: Kingfisher, 3 Goosander, Little Grebe, 115 Moorhen, 349 Mallard, 2 domestic duck and a Mallard x domestic duck? hybrid. Also two Pochard at Ynysyfro during a brief scan on the way back. #gwentbirds #lowcarbonbirding #birdingbybike

Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script

Lovely day for a WeBS count. Ynysyfro: one male Pochard, zero Scops Owls. #gwentbirding #moist

Reform UK’s attack on nature protections risks destroying the UK's already fragile ecosystem | Stuart Spray