Sarah Postlethwaite
@sarahpostlethwaite.bsky.social
Ecologist | Hiker | Raver | Bat botherer | Zoopharmacognosy dabbler | Autistic
Halting the decline in farmland bird species is going to require a lot more effort than just some nature-friendly farming schemes. It will require a wholesale reconsideration of where and how we build, which is the opposite of what’s currently happening.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wild bird numbers continue to fall in UK with some species in ‘dramatic freefall’
Species index fell by 4% between 2019 and 2024 – although data shows woodland populations beginning to stabilise
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Halting the decline in farmland bird species is going to require a lot more effort than just some nature-friendly farming schemes. It will require a wholesale reconsideration of where and how we build, which is the opposite of what’s currently happening.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Deregulation is massive self harm for negligible gain. Have the government learnt nothing from recent expensive examples of regulatory failure, such as the collapse of Carillion, the Grenfell tower fire & cladding scandal, or our water pollution situation? 🤦♀️
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Rachel Reeves tells private equity bosses she plans to shut down more regulators
Chancellor stopped short of saying which regulators were in government’s crosshairs
www.theguardian.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Deregulation is massive self harm for negligible gain. Have the government learnt nothing from recent expensive examples of regulatory failure, such as the collapse of Carillion, the Grenfell tower fire & cladding scandal, or our water pollution situation? 🤦♀️
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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From Great Yarmouth to the world: Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty broke new ground in 1877 and inspired change in animal welfare. 150 years on, the fight against cruelty continues, with rescue centres still needed across the region | Kate Moore
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Beauty, broken and rescued: 150 years of equine welfare
The legacy of Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty reminds us: cruelty to any creature is everyone’s concern
eastangliabylines.co.uk
September 1, 2025 at 5:06 AM
From Great Yarmouth to the world: Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty broke new ground in 1877 and inspired change in animal welfare. 150 years on, the fight against cruelty continues, with rescue centres still needed across the region | Kate Moore
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @oscarwoofs.bsky.social
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @oscarwoofs.bsky.social
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Seeing climate change like this, it changes you’: dance duo Bicep on making an album in Greenland
Collaborating with Indigenous artists and sampling melting glaciers, the Northern Irish artists are championing Arctic culture – and documenting a collapsing world www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Collaborating with Indigenous artists and sampling melting glaciers, the Northern Irish artists are championing Arctic culture – and documenting a collapsing world www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
‘Seeing climate change like this, it changes you’: dance duo Bicep on making an album in Greenland
Collaborating with Indigenous artists and sampling melting glaciers, the Northern Irish artists are championing Arctic culture – and documenting a collapsing world
www.theguardian.com
July 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Seeing climate change like this, it changes you’: dance duo Bicep on making an album in Greenland
Collaborating with Indigenous artists and sampling melting glaciers, the Northern Irish artists are championing Arctic culture – and documenting a collapsing world www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Collaborating with Indigenous artists and sampling melting glaciers, the Northern Irish artists are championing Arctic culture – and documenting a collapsing world www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
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"The Govt has no plans to ban driven grouse shooting..."
A disappointing (but not unexpected) conclusion to the @wildjustice.bsky.social petition debate just now from Labour Minister Daniel Zeichner.
No hint of licensing either: @rspb.bsky.social policy must shift
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVP_...
A disappointing (but not unexpected) conclusion to the @wildjustice.bsky.social petition debate just now from Labour Minister Daniel Zeichner.
No hint of licensing either: @rspb.bsky.social policy must shift
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVP_...
June 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"The Govt has no plans to ban driven grouse shooting..."
A disappointing (but not unexpected) conclusion to the @wildjustice.bsky.social petition debate just now from Labour Minister Daniel Zeichner.
No hint of licensing either: @rspb.bsky.social policy must shift
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVP_...
A disappointing (but not unexpected) conclusion to the @wildjustice.bsky.social petition debate just now from Labour Minister Daniel Zeichner.
No hint of licensing either: @rspb.bsky.social policy must shift
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVP_...
Two orchids from two local parks today. Pyramidal (a new record for the park) and (I think as still out and not checked) common spotted x southern marsh hybrid (one of many).
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour
June 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Two orchids from two local parks today. Pyramidal (a new record for the park) and (I think as still out and not checked) common spotted x southern marsh hybrid (one of many).
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour
Not speeded up, just a very hungry bat! (Common pipistrelle)
Found trapped in a house this week, and released after a couple of nights captivity in order to put some weight back on.
#bats #batcare #pipistrelle
Found trapped in a house this week, and released after a couple of nights captivity in order to put some weight back on.
#bats #batcare #pipistrelle
June 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Not speeded up, just a very hungry bat! (Common pipistrelle)
Found trapped in a house this week, and released after a couple of nights captivity in order to put some weight back on.
#bats #batcare #pipistrelle
Found trapped in a house this week, and released after a couple of nights captivity in order to put some weight back on.
#bats #batcare #pipistrelle
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The flammability of historic buildings that are the subject of longstanding contentious planning disputes is really worryingly high. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Manchester fire: Residents evacuated from tower as blaze spreads
Residents are evacuated from a tower block after embers from a major fire at Hotspur House spread.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The flammability of historic buildings that are the subject of longstanding contentious planning disputes is really worryingly high. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Biting stonecrop, Peak District
June 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Biting stonecrop, Peak District
Saw many small tortoiseshells along the Derbyshire lanes today
June 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Saw many small tortoiseshells along the Derbyshire lanes today
A couple of the great plants I’ve seen this week :)
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour
June 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
A couple of the great plants I’ve seen this week :)
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour
My favourites from this week - large skipper, marbled white, six-spot burnet & ringlet.
June 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
My favourites from this week - large skipper, marbled white, six-spot burnet & ringlet.
Two of Leicestershires hard rock quarries - Cliffe Hill and Croft. Surprised to see lots of southern marsh orchids in very dry places at Cliffe Hill.
June 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Two of Leicestershires hard rock quarries - Cliffe Hill and Croft. Surprised to see lots of southern marsh orchids in very dry places at Cliffe Hill.
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Marbled white, South Notts.
June 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Marbled white, South Notts.
Some of the meadow buttercups in a field near me have interesting white & yellow colour combos
June 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Some of the meadow buttercups in a field near me have interesting white & yellow colour combos
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The Planning and Infrastructure Bill will be a disaster for nature.
Britain's wildlife is a source of pride for millions - voters will not take kindly to its destruction.
There will be electoral consequences.
The Government must accept my proposals before it's too late.
Britain's wildlife is a source of pride for millions - voters will not take kindly to its destruction.
There will be electoral consequences.
The Government must accept my proposals before it's too late.
June 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The Planning and Infrastructure Bill will be a disaster for nature.
Britain's wildlife is a source of pride for millions - voters will not take kindly to its destruction.
There will be electoral consequences.
The Government must accept my proposals before it's too late.
Britain's wildlife is a source of pride for millions - voters will not take kindly to its destruction.
There will be electoral consequences.
The Government must accept my proposals before it's too late.
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Deserts are spreading across Britain, yet scarcely anyone in public life even seems to have noticed. This week's column seeks to open our eyes to something that has been too big to see. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There’s an invader turning huge swathes of Britain into deserts – and these dead zones are spreading | George Monbiot
Vast areas of land are now dominated by one species – purple moor-grass – and good luck with seeing a bird or insect there. How do we revive these habitats, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
June 9, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Deserts are spreading across Britain, yet scarcely anyone in public life even seems to have noticed. This week's column seeks to open our eyes to something that has been too big to see. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Another bat-bashing article, fitting nicely with the governments anti bat & newt rhetoric, on the eve of the P&I Bill report stage.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Why a bat in the attic could see home improvement costs go through the roof
As Labour plans an overhaul of planning rules on the preservation of bats, Alex Ross finds a system met with frustration and defence by homeowners and conservationists alike
www.independent.co.uk
June 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Another bat-bashing article, fitting nicely with the governments anti bat & newt rhetoric, on the eve of the P&I Bill report stage.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
My two wildflower stalking views. Not much of a helper.
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour
June 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
My two wildflower stalking views. Not much of a helper.
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour
More of my local park. With pepper-saxifrage, great burnet, knapweed, ox-eye daisy and rough hawkbit.
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour
June 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
More of my local park. With pepper-saxifrage, great burnet, knapweed, ox-eye daisy and rough hawkbit.
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour
A few faves this week from my local park (and local wildlife site). Lots of southern marsh, common spotted orchids and their hybrids, plus grass vetchling (1000’s live in the SUDs basin), adder’s-tongue ferns and pepper-saxifrage.
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour
June 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
A few faves this week from my local park (and local wildlife site). Lots of southern marsh, common spotted orchids and their hybrids, plus grass vetchling (1000’s live in the SUDs basin), adder’s-tongue ferns and pepper-saxifrage.
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour