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Barry Yates
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Improve wildlife habitats and promoting nature in the coast and countryside around Rye in SusseX, UK, where fishing boats show the RX registration.
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“Ten years ago we had a more orderly path for staying away from 1.5 °C, with low or no #overshoot. Now we have failed,” Johan Rockström tells @apnews.com.
“Without carbon dioxide removal it is simply impossible to manage the overshoot scenario,” says Ottmar #Edenhofer.
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Climate leaders are talking about 'overshoot' into warming danger zone. Here's what it means
After years of pushing the world to limit Earth's warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, climate leaders are starting to acknowledge that the target set by the 2015 Paris Agreement will almost surely be brea...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Golden Plover being scared from their daytime roost by some unseen threat from the right...
Flat Beach at Rye Harbour this morning @sussexwildlife.bsky.social
Video at a quarter speed.
@sussexornitholo.bsky.social
#plovers
November 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Ringed Plovers roosting at high tide, together with Dunlin, Wigeon, Shoveler, a Golden Plover and a Common Snipe.
On Flat Beach at Rye Harbour this morning.
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social
@sussexornitholo.bsky.social
#plover
#waders
November 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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🚨 For millions across England NHS dentistry has effectively ceased to exist. People in agony are pulling out their own teeth - it’s not Victorian, it’s medieval! We cannot allow this to be normalized
🚨 For millions across England NHS dentistry has effectively ceased to exist. People in agony are pulling out their own teeth - it’s not Victorian, it’s medieval! We cannot allow this to be normalized

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🚨People in agony are pulling out their own teeth - it’s not Victorian, it’s medieval!
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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November 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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1,600+ fossil fuel lobbyists at COP30, outnumbering every delegation except Brazil

This isn’t ‘dialogue’; it’s the industry responsible for the crisis hijacking the negotiations meant to stop it

If this doesn’t make you furious, you’re not paying attention

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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In a moment when public life feels increasingly angry and divided, #WorldKindnessDay is a small reminder that everyday decency still matters.

Mike Dickson’s How to Be a Better Human is a timely guide to the quiet acts that hold communities together.

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November 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
A drake Shoveler feeding (at a quarter speed), filtering out the plankton with its specialised bill.
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#duck
#shoveler
November 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Appalling, illegal, unethical, disgusting. Oh, and in the midst of a severe outbreak of Avian Influenza #BirdFlu #H5N1 where free-range poultry are in mandatory lockdown to prevent viral spread.

#Ornithology #UKBirding

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/12/s...
Shot Pheasants found dumped in Dorset
Another week and another pile of shot and dumped gamebirds. Thanks to the blog reader who sent in this photo of a pile of dead, shot Pheasants he found yesterday, dumped on the road (B3081) running…
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November 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I lovely green foliose lichen growing on a dead branch in ancient woodland.
But, I wouldn't dare put a name on it!
#lichen
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
This is Candlesnuff Fungus - Xylaria hypoxylon - growing on a decaying log, but look closer... there's also a Springtail.
November 13, 2025 at 9:57 AM
A close view of a drake Shoveler today that shows the structure of its bill. Their wide flat bill is equipped with lamellae – small, comb-like structures on the edge of the bill that act like a sieve, allowing the birds to strain plankton from the water.
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#duck
November 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This afternoon's warm sunshine encouraged some ducks to wash enthusiastically... can you see what it is?
@sussexornitholo
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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The majority of Britons think important places for nature should have stronger protections.

Only 2% think protections should be weakened... yet that’s where ministers keep pushing.
November 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
A female Great Spotted Woodpecker came close yesterday.
@sussexornitholo.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Great Hairy Willowherb seeds being released from the seedpod.
#seeds
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Is this Winter Chanterelle?
About 5cm across, growing in an old coppiced stool of Sweet Chestnut near Icklesham.
#fungi
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This seed is abundant in wetland.
It's spread by the wind.
It's a grass that can grow 2 metres tall.
It's the main winter food of Bearded Tits.
Phragmites australis - Common Reed
#grass
#reed
November 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The Sweet Chestnut floor
Is now every shade of brown.
Leaves return to soil…

#haiku
#autumn
#leaves
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Just think of Wigeon as feathered sheep.
They graze short grass next to water, as here on the Flat Beach at Rye Harbour yesterday.
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social
#duck
#wigeon
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The best wildlife experience locally at the moment is the daytime roost of Golden Plovers at Rye Harbour
So, with a calm and bright morning forecast it was a chance to capture its essence in 3 videos...
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November 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
3 views of a drake Shoveler at Pett Level.
@sussexornitholo.bsky.social
#duck
#shoveler
November 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
During the last week there has been a small flock off Ruff at Pett Level. They are usually roosting or feeding with the much larger flock of Lapwing.
Here are 4 flight images which show just one of the smaller females - they tend to migrate further... to Africa.
@sussexornitholo.bsky.social
#ruff
November 8, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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'Small-scale fishermen using low-impact methods are...forced out by industrial vessels "that take more in a day than we can in a season...we are not asking for special treatment, only for rules that protect the ocean, reward those who fish responsibly, + give our communities a chance to survive"'.
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Shoveler and Teal flushed by a Marsh Harrier.
@sussexornitholo.bsky.social
#duck
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM