Emma Lusby
@emlusby.bsky.social
Easily distracted by winged things, food, nature nut, northern.
Head of comms for Yorkshire Wildlife Trust www.ywt.org.uk
https://bsky.app/profile/yorkswildlife.bsky.social
My own views and comment.
Head of comms for Yorkshire Wildlife Trust www.ywt.org.uk
https://bsky.app/profile/yorkswildlife.bsky.social
My own views and comment.
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Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
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Gardens make up 4.6% of UK land area according to the RHS, let’s make the most of them to save wildlife. Here’s how - please share and spread the word. www.wildway.info/p/21-ideas-s...
21 projects for starting a wildlife garden
How to make a wildlife garden to help nature
www.wildway.info
November 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Gardens make up 4.6% of UK land area according to the RHS, let’s make the most of them to save wildlife. Here’s how - please share and spread the word. www.wildway.info/p/21-ideas-s...
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Many of Yorkshire's most loved, visited and famous landscapes and places, including our reserves, are in National Parks.
We recently signed a letter alongside 170 other organsiations asking the Prime Minister not to weaken their protection.
We recently signed a letter alongside 170 other organsiations asking the Prime Minister not to weaken their protection.
We can’t afford to weaken National Park protections ⚠️
But there are rumours that some in Westminster want to remove the Protected Landscapes duty - the only real power to secure action for nature
We can't let 30 years of campaigning go down the drain
www.cnp.org.uk/about/our-wo...
But there are rumours that some in Westminster want to remove the Protected Landscapes duty - the only real power to secure action for nature
We can't let 30 years of campaigning go down the drain
www.cnp.org.uk/about/our-wo...
October 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Many of Yorkshire's most loved, visited and famous landscapes and places, including our reserves, are in National Parks.
We recently signed a letter alongside 170 other organsiations asking the Prime Minister not to weaken their protection.
We recently signed a letter alongside 170 other organsiations asking the Prime Minister not to weaken their protection.
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If you're still using peat based compost, it really is time to stop. It's dug straight out of precious natural habitat and releases tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere (literally) in the process. Here's a guide, there are loads of good brands out there www.jackwallington.com/how-to-figur...
How to figure out if a compost brand is good or not and the brands of peat free compost I use | Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens
Around the world the vast majority of plants on earth grow in a mix of mineral soil and composted organic matter - only those in peatland grow in peat. Over the last ten years I have grown almost ever...
www.jackwallington.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
If you're still using peat based compost, it really is time to stop. It's dug straight out of precious natural habitat and releases tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere (literally) in the process. Here's a guide, there are loads of good brands out there www.jackwallington.com/how-to-figur...
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Excellent opportunity with Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - Director of Fundraising and Engagement. Come work with passionate people in the best part of the UK, on the most worthy of causes.
careers.ywt.org.uk/job/f36346bb...
careers.ywt.org.uk/job/f36346bb...
Director of Fundraising & Engagement - Job page - Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Careers
careers.ywt.org.uk
September 30, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Excellent opportunity with Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - Director of Fundraising and Engagement. Come work with passionate people in the best part of the UK, on the most worthy of causes.
careers.ywt.org.uk/job/f36346bb...
careers.ywt.org.uk/job/f36346bb...
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We will regret not acting faster on climate change.
October 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
We will regret not acting faster on climate change.
Well it is autumn, and it’s been chucking it down all day. First fire in the house we moved into in May 🔥 🍂
September 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Well it is autumn, and it’s been chucking it down all day. First fire in the house we moved into in May 🔥 🍂
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Ingleborough just levelled up! 💚 More wild land, more rare species, more reasons to grab your boots and explore.
Nature’s winning big in Yorkshire—come see why! 👇
www.ywt.org.uk/blog/wild-ingleborough/wild-ingleborough-reaching-new-heights-wildlife
#WildIngleborough #KingsNNR #NatureRecovery
Nature’s winning big in Yorkshire—come see why! 👇
www.ywt.org.uk/blog/wild-ingleborough/wild-ingleborough-reaching-new-heights-wildlife
#WildIngleborough #KingsNNR #NatureRecovery
Wild Ingleborough – Reaching new heights for wildlife | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Tim Thom, Wild Ingleborough programme manager, celebrates the impact your support and donations have made on the Wild Ingleborough programme over the last two years.
www.ywt.org.uk
September 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Ingleborough just levelled up! 💚 More wild land, more rare species, more reasons to grab your boots and explore.
Nature’s winning big in Yorkshire—come see why! 👇
www.ywt.org.uk/blog/wild-ingleborough/wild-ingleborough-reaching-new-heights-wildlife
#WildIngleborough #KingsNNR #NatureRecovery
Nature’s winning big in Yorkshire—come see why! 👇
www.ywt.org.uk/blog/wild-ingleborough/wild-ingleborough-reaching-new-heights-wildlife
#WildIngleborough #KingsNNR #NatureRecovery
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Ingleborough just got wilder! 🌿 Now the size of 2.2 billion Yorkshire Tea bags—brewing a brighter future for nature!
www.gov.uk/government/news/yorkshires-natural-beauty-recognised-as-ingleborough-nnr-expands
#WildIngleborough #NNR
www.gov.uk/government/news/yorkshires-natural-beauty-recognised-as-ingleborough-nnr-expands
#WildIngleborough #NNR
September 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Ingleborough just got wilder! 🌿 Now the size of 2.2 billion Yorkshire Tea bags—brewing a brighter future for nature!
www.gov.uk/government/news/yorkshires-natural-beauty-recognised-as-ingleborough-nnr-expands
#WildIngleborough #NNR
www.gov.uk/government/news/yorkshires-natural-beauty-recognised-as-ingleborough-nnr-expands
#WildIngleborough #NNR
Red admiral, peacock, tortoiseshell, comma, holly blue and white butterflies in garden today. All going in the #BigButterflyCount 💚@savebutterflies.bsky.social
August 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Red admiral, peacock, tortoiseshell, comma, holly blue and white butterflies in garden today. All going in the #BigButterflyCount 💚@savebutterflies.bsky.social
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We've been granted a permissions hearing at the High Court for our legal challenge against Angela Raynor's assertion that the Planning & Infrastructure Bill 'will not reduce environmental protections', which we say was both untrue & unlawful.
Press release 🔽
wildjustice.org.uk/general/cour...
Press release 🔽
wildjustice.org.uk/general/cour...
Court hearing for Wild Justice’s legal challenge against Planning and Infrastructure Bill - Wild Justice
Court hearing for Wild Justice’s legal challenge against Planning and Infrastructure Bill Arguments for a legal challenge against the government […]
wildjustice.org.uk
August 8, 2025 at 7:50 AM
We've been granted a permissions hearing at the High Court for our legal challenge against Angela Raynor's assertion that the Planning & Infrastructure Bill 'will not reduce environmental protections', which we say was both untrue & unlawful.
Press release 🔽
wildjustice.org.uk/general/cour...
Press release 🔽
wildjustice.org.uk/general/cour...
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Wild Ingleborough's upland plant nursery - set within Yorkshire's stunning uplands, conservationists and volunteers help to restore a wild landscape www.wildway.info/p/wild-ingle...
Wild Ingleborough's upland plant nursery
Set within Yorkshire's stunning uplands, conservationists and volunteers help to restore a wild landscape
www.wildway.info
August 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Wild Ingleborough's upland plant nursery - set within Yorkshire's stunning uplands, conservationists and volunteers help to restore a wild landscape www.wildway.info/p/wild-ingle...
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Exciting news from @northcavewet.bsky.social: bitterns have bred here for the first time on record – a major milestone for this rare and elusive species.
A fantastic sign that wetland restoration is working. 🎉
Read more: www.ywt.org.uk/news/first-e...
A fantastic sign that wetland restoration is working. 🎉
Read more: www.ywt.org.uk/news/first-e...
First-ever breeding bitterns at North Cave Wetlands nature reserve | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust are absolutely delighted to announce their first-ever bittern breeding success at North Cave Wetlands nature reserve near Hull, where a juvenile bittern was spotted earlier th...
www.ywt.org.uk
July 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Exciting news from @northcavewet.bsky.social: bitterns have bred here for the first time on record – a major milestone for this rare and elusive species.
A fantastic sign that wetland restoration is working. 🎉
Read more: www.ywt.org.uk/news/first-e...
A fantastic sign that wetland restoration is working. 🎉
Read more: www.ywt.org.uk/news/first-e...
So many butterflies in garden today, 7 different species including a small copper! They seem to be having a good year, need to find out how best to support populations into next year
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July 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
So many butterflies in garden today, 7 different species including a small copper! They seem to be having a good year, need to find out how best to support populations into next year
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Our south regional reserves assistant, Katie Baker, explains just how much work goes into keeping our grazers amazing! 🐂🐏🐴
www.ywt.org.uk/blog/yorkshire-wildlife-trust/caring-for-our-livestock
#conservationgrazing
www.ywt.org.uk/blog/yorkshire-wildlife-trust/caring-for-our-livestock
#conservationgrazing
Caring for livestock – how we look after our conservation grazers | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Katie Baker, South regional reserves assistant, explains just how much work goes into keeping our grazers amazing!
www.ywt.org.uk
July 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Our south regional reserves assistant, Katie Baker, explains just how much work goes into keeping our grazers amazing! 🐂🐏🐴
www.ywt.org.uk/blog/yorkshire-wildlife-trust/caring-for-our-livestock
#conservationgrazing
www.ywt.org.uk/blog/yorkshire-wildlife-trust/caring-for-our-livestock
#conservationgrazing
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Yorkshire’s second hosepipe ban in three years starts tomorrow, following the hottest June and the driest spring in 130 years. 💧
Read more: www.ywt.org.uk/news/our-comment-yorkshire-hosepipe-ban
Read more: www.ywt.org.uk/news/our-comment-yorkshire-hosepipe-ban
Our comment on the Yorkshire hosepipe ban | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust comments on the hosepipe ban now in place, after the driest spring and warmest June in 130 years.
www.ywt.org.uk
July 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Yorkshire’s second hosepipe ban in three years starts tomorrow, following the hottest June and the driest spring in 130 years. 💧
Read more: www.ywt.org.uk/news/our-comment-yorkshire-hosepipe-ban
Read more: www.ywt.org.uk/news/our-comment-yorkshire-hosepipe-ban
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Revolutionising the Humberhead Levels! Can we balance peatland restoration & agriculture? We're on a mission to find out! 🚜🌱
🔍 Curious about the future of sustainable farming? Discover the breakthroughs: www.ywt.org.uk/blog/yorkshire-wildlife-trust/humberhead-levels-restoration-agriculture
🔍 Curious about the future of sustainable farming? Discover the breakthroughs: www.ywt.org.uk/blog/yorkshire-wildlife-trust/humberhead-levels-restoration-agriculture
Can we manage both lowland peatland restoration and agriculture on the Humberhead Levels? | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Mike Jones, South region projects manager, describes how managing water levels on agricultural land in the Humberhead Levels could have significant benefits to biodiversity and climate change.
www.ywt.org.uk
July 8, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Revolutionising the Humberhead Levels! Can we balance peatland restoration & agriculture? We're on a mission to find out! 🚜🌱
🔍 Curious about the future of sustainable farming? Discover the breakthroughs: www.ywt.org.uk/blog/yorkshire-wildlife-trust/humberhead-levels-restoration-agriculture
🔍 Curious about the future of sustainable farming? Discover the breakthroughs: www.ywt.org.uk/blog/yorkshire-wildlife-trust/humberhead-levels-restoration-agriculture
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Really lovely post from Jack about our trip out to Fleet Moss. In the wider world, #Peatlands don't always get the love they deserve, so it really makes us happy when someone just *gets* it...
Plant life returns thanks to blanket peat restoration -
I return to Fleet Moss in the height of summer with the @yorkshirepeat.bsky.social
www.wildway.info/p/plant-life...
I return to Fleet Moss in the height of summer with the @yorkshirepeat.bsky.social
www.wildway.info/p/plant-life...
Plant life returns thanks to blanket peat restoration
I return to Fleet Moss in the height of summer with Yorkshire Peat Partnership
www.wildway.info
July 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Really lovely post from Jack about our trip out to Fleet Moss. In the wider world, #Peatlands don't always get the love they deserve, so it really makes us happy when someone just *gets* it...
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Over the past five years, record numbers of Hen Harriers have been killed or have gone missing according to a new report from the RSPB. We are calling on the UK Government to introduce licensing of grouse shooting in England as a meaningful deterrent to wildlife crime www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Record number of hen harriers killed or missing in northern England
The RSPB says calls for regulation of the grouse-shooting industry in northern after the findings.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 26, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Over the past five years, record numbers of Hen Harriers have been killed or have gone missing according to a new report from the RSPB. We are calling on the UK Government to introduce licensing of grouse shooting in England as a meaningful deterrent to wildlife crime www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Do you know a young person with an interest in insects? 🦋
The Douglas Boyes Fund aims to provide people aged 14-18 with access to entomology equipment, fostering their passion for insects and inspiring them to engage and share their interest with other young individuals 🔽
The Douglas Boyes Fund aims to provide people aged 14-18 with access to entomology equipment, fostering their passion for insects and inspiring them to engage and share their interest with other young individuals 🔽
Douglas Boyes Fund - Royal Entomological Society
The Douglas Boyes Fund has been established in honour of Douglas Boyes (1996-2021), an esteemed entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera. The Fund aims to provide young people aged 14-18 with access…
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June 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Do you know a young person with an interest in insects? 🦋
The Douglas Boyes Fund aims to provide people aged 14-18 with access to entomology equipment, fostering their passion for insects and inspiring them to engage and share their interest with other young individuals 🔽
The Douglas Boyes Fund aims to provide people aged 14-18 with access to entomology equipment, fostering their passion for insects and inspiring them to engage and share their interest with other young individuals 🔽
My happy place on a Friday evening, summer by the Wharfe. Pair of redstart, several spotted flycatcher feeding young, blackcap and butterflies
June 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
My happy place on a Friday evening, summer by the Wharfe. Pair of redstart, several spotted flycatcher feeding young, blackcap and butterflies
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Lots you can do in your garden to save water as well as help wildlife, more on our website 💚 #WildlifeGardening
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yorkshire residents urged to save water to help wildlife during dry weather
People are asked to collect water from their showers and not to cut their grass as regularly.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Lots you can do in your garden to save water as well as help wildlife, more on our website 💚 #WildlifeGardening
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Who’d have thought national park rangers would be frontline, leading a peaceful resistance, trying to shore up democracy and hold power to account
#Follow
#Follow
Ignore the bot accounts so much propaganda is being spread. Watch for the signs: no photos, no friends, account created last week. They’re everywhere, and we’re clearing out thousands every day.
June 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Who’d have thought national park rangers would be frontline, leading a peaceful resistance, trying to shore up democracy and hold power to account
#Follow
#Follow
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Discover Park Gill, a breathtaking new reserve in the heart of the Dales.🌳This magical spot is set to revive Yorkshire's rare #temperaterainforests, creating a haven for wildlife & a dream destination for nature enthusiasts.💚
ywt.org.uk/news/new-reserve-heart-dales-will-return-rainforests-yorkshire
ywt.org.uk/news/new-reserve-heart-dales-will-return-rainforests-yorkshire
New reserve in the heart of the Dales will return rainforests to Yorkshire | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is delighted to announce the opening of a new nature reserve, Park Gill, in the Yorkshire Dales thanks to a long-term partnership with Aviva, the UK’s leading diversified insu...
ywt.org.uk
June 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Discover Park Gill, a breathtaking new reserve in the heart of the Dales.🌳This magical spot is set to revive Yorkshire's rare #temperaterainforests, creating a haven for wildlife & a dream destination for nature enthusiasts.💚
ywt.org.uk/news/new-reserve-heart-dales-will-return-rainforests-yorkshire
ywt.org.uk/news/new-reserve-heart-dales-will-return-rainforests-yorkshire
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Puffin at Flamborough Cliffs. Here's my blog for Yorkshire Wildlife Trust about these engaging seabirds: www.ywt.org.uk/blog/rod-jon...
#ThePhotoHour #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #photography @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @emlusby.bsky.social
#ThePhotoHour #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #photography @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @emlusby.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Puffin at Flamborough Cliffs. Here's my blog for Yorkshire Wildlife Trust about these engaging seabirds: www.ywt.org.uk/blog/rod-jon...
#ThePhotoHour #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #photography @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @emlusby.bsky.social
#ThePhotoHour #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #photography @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @emlusby.bsky.social