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Siobhan 🌿
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Conservation Intern | MSc #Biodiversity #Conservation 🌿 | #Wildlife enthusiast 🦁 | Passionate about protecting our planet 🌍 | Nature & Wildlife 🌱🐻🪻🐿️ | British European 🇬🇧🇪🇺 | she/her
This whole thing seems like it belongs in the 1980s, not the 2020s. Assessing Greenlandic people on their parenting abilities with questions like "Who is Mother Theresa?"...??

Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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🚨New blog! 👉🏼 www.nottsbag.org.uk/water-fern-c...
🐞Weevils vs Water Fern: NTU’s campus ponds are getting a natural makeover. 🌿 Curious how? Click to see what’s been happening!

#Conservation #Azolla #NTU #Ecology #InvasiveSpecies #Biodiversity #Nottinghamshire #Weevils
November 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
🌿🌿 If you're interested in nature conservation in Nottinghamshire, please follow @nottsbag.bsky.social for the latest news on what the local Biodiversity Action Group are working on in the county!

#Nottinghamshire #Notts #biodiversity #conservation #natureconservation
November 13, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I'm selling a few #ornaments on #eBay, feel free to browse!

#figures #figurines
Items for sale by orchids_00 | eBay
Shop eBay for great deals from orchids_00!
www.ebay.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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🚨New blog! 👉🏼 bit.ly/3JPDKsF
🌱 The Local Nature Recovery Strategy for Nottinghamshire, published by Nottinghamshire County Council, is here!
Check out the blog to find out more.
#LNRS #NatureRecovery #NBAG #NottinghamshireCountyCouncil #ConservationStrategy #WildlifeInNotts #Nottinghamshire
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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🌱Hound’s-tongue Sighting! Spotted in #Nottinghamshire — a rare plant which has a stronghold here! It grows on dry, base-rich soils, and is a great sign of #biodiversity bouncing back in restored habitats!

@bsbibotany.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @nottswildlife.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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🚨New blog! 👉🏼 bit.ly/3Xg4YM2

🌳Sherwood’s heathlands are making a quiet comeback - over 100 hectares are being restored in a project that’s as much about people as it is about nature!

#SherwoodForest #HeathlandRevival #NatureMatters #RewildingUK #ConservationInAction #SherwoodRevealed
November 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Fungi magic in an Irish Atlantic rainforest 🌍
November 2, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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October 31, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Well, he clearly did not get his wish fulfilled… 😐
On this day 225 years ago, John Adams moved into the still-not-quite-complete White House, becoming the first president to occupy it. His blessing was carved into the State Dining Room mantel in 1945: "May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof.”
November 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Yay for small things that make the world better! Every time I see something like this (swimming goggles today) that used to be sold covered in unnecessary plastic and now has paper/cardboard packaging, it makes me so happy. Manufacturers, I *will* choose this. Keep going! Make a better world real!
October 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Urbanised landscape and microhabitat differences can influence flowering phenology and synchrony in an annual herb 🌿🌏 🧪

Findings revealed that populations in urban sites exhibited earlier flowering onset and longer flowering duration compared to rural locations 🏢 👇

Read here: buff.ly/VWtG2kW
October 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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[Good news] After @mongabay.com covered a Costa Rican NGO which had installed 100+ rope bridges to help #sloths & #monkeys cross gaps in shrinking coastal forests, a Brazilian NGO noticed

“This article helped us realize that cable bridges could help our [endangered maned sloths]," & impacts began:
Coverage of ‘sloth bridges’ in Costa Rica inspires conservation action in Brazil - Environmental Journalism and Education
In January 2022, Mongabay Latam published a story about an unusual conservation effort underway in Costa Rica: the installation of rope bridges that help sloths safely navigate fragmented forests. Lat...
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October 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Wondering how much heat stress or what kind of cold wave climate change is bringing to your area? There’s an app for that.

The new Thermal Trace app allows users to explore thermal stress and related data from 1940 until five days before present, for anywhere in the world.
Feel the heat: New app maps heat stress anywhere on Earth, 1940 to now
Wondering how this summer’s blistering heat or last winter’s bone-chilling cold snap compared with previous years? Or want to know how much heat stress climate change is bringing to your area — or in…
news.mongabay.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.
October 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.
October 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Want conservation reporting without the noise?

We’re now on Substack so you can follow at your pace, in your inbox or scrolling your feed.

Follow us here: mongabay.cc/substack-blu....
October 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Yesterday, IUCN declared the Slender-billed Curlew to be extinct.
How did we let this happen?
What lessons are there for the future?
WaderTales blog based on paper by Graeme Buchanan et al
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/l...
#extinction #ornithology
October 11, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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@irishrainforest.bsky.social This is a bit different from your rewilding work, and a much smaller scale, but I thought it might offer ideas on helping people rewild their own lands. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/r...
In This Class, the Teacher Wants You to Be Wild
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Climate warming could cause much greater soil carbon losses in the tropics than previously predicted, with potentially dire consequences for the global climate, according to a new study published in Nature Communications.
Warming triggers unprecedented carbon loss from tropical soils, study finds
Climate warming could cause much greater soil carbon losses in the tropics than previously predicted, with potentially dire consequences for the global climate, according to a new study published in…
news.mongabay.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Some sea views seen on my walks (Lofoten, Scotland, Wales and Madeira)
September 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Evolution (abridged)
September 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
This week was my first as a Conservation Intern for Nottinghamshire County Council. Free coffee and Blueberry muffin on the first day, and went out to pull Himalayan Balsam. A good week! 👍🏻👍🏻
September 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM