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Steve Reed has told Labour MPs to vote down amendment to the new planning bill intended to protect British wildlife and its habitats from destruction.
First Swifts, now hedgehogs and dormice. Nothing is sacred... just betrayals by this govt at every turn
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
First Swifts, now hedgehogs and dormice. Nothing is sacred... just betrayals by this govt at every turn
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Steve Reed has told Labour MPs to vote down amendment to the new planning bill intended to protect British wildlife and its habitats from destruction.
First Swifts, now hedgehogs and dormice. Nothing is sacred... just betrayals by this govt at every turn
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
First Swifts, now hedgehogs and dormice. Nothing is sacred... just betrayals by this govt at every turn
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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"...one of 1,700 “remnant” grasslands identified in Virginia over the past few years. Using carbon dating & other forensic techniques, scientists have found that plant communities in similar plots have existed continuously for at least 2,000 years..." 🌎 🌐 🌱
These ancient time travelers have answers to our 21st century problems
Newly discovered patches of ancient landscape have somehow managed to survive without being turned into a farm, forest or subdivision.
wapo.st
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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2025 British & Irish Botanical Conference #BIBConf25 takes place at Edge Hill University on Saturday 29 November.
We have a fabulous programme lined up for plant-lovers!
Exhibits & 8 talks inc. a keynote by Prof John Rodwell (of NVC fame).
Programme & bookings:
www.tickettailor.com/events/botan...
We have a fabulous programme lined up for plant-lovers!
Exhibits & 8 talks inc. a keynote by Prof John Rodwell (of NVC fame).
Programme & bookings:
www.tickettailor.com/events/botan...
Select tickets – British and Irish Botanical Conference 2025 – Health, Medicine and Social Care Building, Edge Hill University
British and Irish Botanical Conference 2025 – Health, Medicine and Social Care Building, Edge Hill University, Sat 29 Nov 2025 - Everyone is welcome at the 2025 British & Irish Botanical Conferenc...
www.tickettailor.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
2025 British & Irish Botanical Conference #BIBConf25 takes place at Edge Hill University on Saturday 29 November.
We have a fabulous programme lined up for plant-lovers!
Exhibits & 8 talks inc. a keynote by Prof John Rodwell (of NVC fame).
Programme & bookings:
www.tickettailor.com/events/botan...
We have a fabulous programme lined up for plant-lovers!
Exhibits & 8 talks inc. a keynote by Prof John Rodwell (of NVC fame).
Programme & bookings:
www.tickettailor.com/events/botan...
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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 👇
Ooh at last! Should be on everyone’s bookshelf.
November 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Ooh at last! Should be on everyone’s bookshelf.
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Ooh very exciting @bsbibotany.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/botani...
Botanical Skills Webinars | Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI)
Want to up your wildflower identification skills over this winter? Our Winter Webinar programme is now live.
Thanks to funding from the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Nor...
www.linkedin.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Ooh very exciting @bsbibotany.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/botani...
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Can't make the @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Dipterist Day 2025 in Cambridge this Saturday 15th November - fear not! Sign up through the link in the page below and we'll send you the recordings. The wonders of Modern technology...
dipterists.org.uk/events/dipte...
Please share the love ❤️
dipterists.org.uk/events/dipte...
Please share the love ❤️
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Can't make the @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Dipterist Day 2025 in Cambridge this Saturday 15th November - fear not! Sign up through the link in the page below and we'll send you the recordings. The wonders of Modern technology...
dipterists.org.uk/events/dipte...
Please share the love ❤️
dipterists.org.uk/events/dipte...
Please share the love ❤️
@sarahwhild.bsky.social @earthwormuk.bsky.social @peskypb.bsky.social @rockwolf74.bsky.social @pickeletto.bsky.social @lancefly.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @beetlequeen.bsky.social
Please share widely
Please share widely
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Re rabbit holes (see previous post), in seeking more definition of Galeobdolon, [galê, Ancient Gk for weasel ... not all roots are Latin], I came across a treasure trove.
By William Smith - The Ancient Library, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
@justagalandadog.bsky.social
By William Smith - The Ancient Library, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
@justagalandadog.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Re rabbit holes (see previous post), in seeking more definition of Galeobdolon, [galê, Ancient Gk for weasel ... not all roots are Latin], I came across a treasure trove.
By William Smith - The Ancient Library, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
@justagalandadog.bsky.social
By William Smith - The Ancient Library, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
@justagalandadog.bsky.social
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New #GBRedList for vascular plants is published today by a team led by @bsbibotany.bsky.social with partners @naturalengland.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @naturescot.bsky.social @natreswales.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social @plantlifeintl.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @thebotanics.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
New #GBRedList for vascular plants is published today by a team led by @bsbibotany.bsky.social with partners @naturalengland.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @naturescot.bsky.social @natreswales.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social @plantlifeintl.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @thebotanics.bsky.social
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As I get ever older I still continue to love the fact that trees produce these annual throw away items of such beautiful forms and colours
November 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
As I get ever older I still continue to love the fact that trees produce these annual throw away items of such beautiful forms and colours
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Over £9million raised so far in this 'once-in-a-lifetime opportunity' to do something truly meaningful for nature on a really large scale. It's absolutely doable. Can you help?
Donate here 👉 www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #wildlife
Donate here 👉 www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #wildlife
Sir David Attenborough backs bid to buy Rothbury Estate
Wildlife trusts attempt to raise £30m to keep Northumberland's Rothbury Estate from being split up.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Over £9million raised so far in this 'once-in-a-lifetime opportunity' to do something truly meaningful for nature on a really large scale. It's absolutely doable. Can you help?
Donate here 👉 www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #wildlife
Donate here 👉 www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #wildlife
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www.field-studies-council.org/shop/publica...
Look what’s just come out! Fab little book only £12. Really easy to follow.
Congratulations to @rockwolf74.bsky.social @vc40ladybirds.bsky.social
Look what’s just come out! Fab little book only £12. Really easy to follow.
Congratulations to @rockwolf74.bsky.social @vc40ladybirds.bsky.social
Micro ladybirds of Britain and Ireland
A photo-based guide to the smaller species of Coccinellidae in Britain and Ireland.
www.field-studies-council.org
June 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
www.field-studies-council.org/shop/publica...
Look what’s just come out! Fab little book only £12. Really easy to follow.
Congratulations to @rockwolf74.bsky.social @vc40ladybirds.bsky.social
Look what’s just come out! Fab little book only £12. Really easy to follow.
Congratulations to @rockwolf74.bsky.social @vc40ladybirds.bsky.social
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Another fantastic Brexit "benefit" Another massive let down by this chronically anti-nature government.
You couldn’t make it up - this is the same government that promised to deliver significant nature recovery - yet once again they’re slashing key nature funding & massively undermining farmers in the process. Madness
Fund for nature-friendly farming to be slashed in UK spending review
Exclusive: Defra sources say scheme, which pays farmers to protect nature, will be targeted at ‘small farms’
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Another fantastic Brexit "benefit" Another massive let down by this chronically anti-nature government.
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Please do feel at liberty to share this as much as you like.
October 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Please do feel at liberty to share this as much as you like.
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
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Wildlife needs site-specific protections it has now, not removal of all this and just compensation for destruction..
" #Wildlife doesn’t live in spreadsheets. Every species depends on real, living places...
By moving from local, site-specific protection to a national compensation scheme, the Government risks destroying the very habitats these species need to survive.."
www.somersetwildlife.org/blog/debbie-...
By moving from local, site-specific protection to a national compensation scheme, the Government risks destroying the very habitats these species need to survive.."
www.somersetwildlife.org/blog/debbie-...
Planning & Infrastructure Bill: Nature at a Crossroads in the Lords | Somerset Wildlife Trust
As the Planning and Infrastructure Bill progresses through the Lords, we highlight the issues that still remain with Part 3, what must change, and how to keep nature at the heart of decisions.
www.somersetwildlife.org
October 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Wildlife needs site-specific protections it has now, not removal of all this and just compensation for destruction..
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Everything must go. By Thursday.
I’m seriously downsizing my library. I sold a lot at the AES exhibition and fair but have some left overs. Have a look here: bugmanjones.com/2025/10/15/m...
More books for sale
I am seriously down-sizing my library. I managed to clear about 90% of the books I took to the 2025 AES Annual Exhibition. Here are a few left-overs that were not snapped up. Please email me at bug…
bugmanjones.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Everything must go. By Thursday.
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All #Shrewsbury folk please sign this petition to end the complete and utter arsery imposed on us by Gove’s bloody ‘levelling up’. It seems a small issue but it’s meant hold-ups for emergency vehicles ☹️
c.org/NHRqbQFz8S
c.org/NHRqbQFz8S
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
REMOVE the 'floating' BUS STOP at Shrewsbury Railway Station
c.org
October 21, 2025 at 10:02 AM
All #Shrewsbury folk please sign this petition to end the complete and utter arsery imposed on us by Gove’s bloody ‘levelling up’. It seems a small issue but it’s meant hold-ups for emergency vehicles ☹️
c.org/NHRqbQFz8S
c.org/NHRqbQFz8S
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Much digging about in a compost / horse dung / straw heap in All Stretton on Weds produced several fab inverts including many of these 1.9mm long Compost Chernes/Chelifer pseudoscorpions (Pselaphochernes scorpioides) incl two females carrying eggs.
October 18, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Much digging about in a compost / horse dung / straw heap in All Stretton on Weds produced several fab inverts including many of these 1.9mm long Compost Chernes/Chelifer pseudoscorpions (Pselaphochernes scorpioides) incl two females carrying eggs.
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We had a thoroughly enjoyable, and very informative, first meeting of the online #AquaticHyphomycete group yesterday. @isabelrfernandes.bsky.social gave us methodology and tips for collecting and fixing foam samples.
October 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
We had a thoroughly enjoyable, and very informative, first meeting of the online #AquaticHyphomycete group yesterday. @isabelrfernandes.bsky.social gave us methodology and tips for collecting and fixing foam samples.
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A male Dark Bush-cricket (Pholidoptera griseoaptera) seen earlier this week in Brambles near the River Severn in Telford. This species sticks almost exclusively to the Severn corridor in Shropshire, perhaps because of the warmer microclimate?
October 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
A male Dark Bush-cricket (Pholidoptera griseoaptera) seen earlier this week in Brambles near the River Severn in Telford. This species sticks almost exclusively to the Severn corridor in Shropshire, perhaps because of the warmer microclimate?
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Same story - 2 very different takes.
Reeves claims she unblocked a development being held up by a "microscopic snail or something", while Natural England claim they and the EA negotiated an agreement with Southern Water, to reduce water abstraction from the snail's habitat.
Reeves claims she unblocked a development being held up by a "microscopic snail or something", while Natural England claim they and the EA negotiated an agreement with Southern Water, to reduce water abstraction from the snail's habitat.
October 9, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Same story - 2 very different takes.
Reeves claims she unblocked a development being held up by a "microscopic snail or something", while Natural England claim they and the EA negotiated an agreement with Southern Water, to reduce water abstraction from the snail's habitat.
Reeves claims she unblocked a development being held up by a "microscopic snail or something", while Natural England claim they and the EA negotiated an agreement with Southern Water, to reduce water abstraction from the snail's habitat.