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Chloë Edwards
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👩‍👧 | Quiet leader | Thalassophile 🌊 | Lover of words & #swifts | Embracer of tsundoku 📚 | Director of Nature Recovery @ Herts&Middlesex Wildlife Trust (she/her) 🌱🦫✨ #coexistence
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Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals

- Exclusive: Planning bill includes mechanism for developers to ‘pay to pollute’ valuable ecosystems, experts warn

By Sandra Laville, @patrickbarkham.bsky.social, Helena Horton

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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals
Exclusive: Planning bill includes mechanism for developers to ‘pay to pollute’ valuable ecosystems, experts warn
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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wclnews.bsky.social
From the Humber Estuary to Dibden Bay, cherished nature sites across England are at risk if the Planning Bill is not made #WilderByDesign🚨

Read full story via Helena Horton, Sandra Laville & @patrickbarkham.bsky.social 👇

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ten jewels of English nature at risk from development and Labour’s planning bill
Across the country, irreplaceable and often internationally important sites could be lost as a result of cuts to habitat protections
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
wilderchloee.bsky.social
⚠️ Nature at risk!

UK Government promised to protect nature. But it’s breaking that promise. Demand they scrap the part of the new Planning and Infrastructure Bill which threatens important wildlife protections.

Take action 👇 action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/171483/ac…
May 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
wilderchloee.bsky.social
Third egg laid this afternoon! 🥚🥚🥚✨💚😍
wilderchloee.bsky.social Chloë Edwards @wilderchloee.bsky.social · May 7
It's been a 🎢 of emotions with our Peregrine pair at @stalbanscathedral.bsky.social this year, but nature is resilient and unexpectedly we have a second clutch! Our heartbreak turns to joy once more... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article.... Keep your eyes out for a third egg in the next couple of days 🥚🥚👀💚
St Albans falcons lay two new eggs after first clutch destroyed - BBC News
The wildlife trust says "it shows just how resilient nature can be".
www.bbc.co.uk
May 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Swift, House Martin, Swallow

Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton (1967)
The birds are all pictured in a domestic scene, either perched on a wall, on a washing line or flying overhead. It comes from the book ‘garden birds’
May 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
wilderchloee.bsky.social
It's been a 🎢 of emotions with our Peregrine pair at @stalbanscathedral.bsky.social this year, but nature is resilient and unexpectedly we have a second clutch! Our heartbreak turns to joy once more... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article.... Keep your eyes out for a third egg in the next couple of days 🥚🥚👀💚
St Albans falcons lay two new eggs after first clutch destroyed - BBC News
The wildlife trust says "it shows just how resilient nature can be".
www.bbc.co.uk
May 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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patrickbarkham.bsky.social
Important story by my Guardian colleague Sandra Laville www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development
Whitehall analysis provides no data or research to support the government argument that environmental legislation holds up building
www.theguardian.com
May 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
wilderchloee.bsky.social
Hello, March, so glad you're here ☀️🌱💚
March 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
wilderchloee.bsky.social
At long last! 👏🏼🦫✨💚
February 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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A lot of folks think when #beavers cut trees down or clip off branches then the tree just dies.

But actually, many of the trees beavers like to cut have evolved to re-sprout from the stump and grow back even stronger.

Trying to channel my inner beaver-chewed-tree, today.
A tree that a beaver has cut many branches off of that has lots of new sprouts coming out of it. A beaver chewed stump surrounded by new shoots and branches.
January 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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craigbennett3.bsky.social
Lovin' the story from #Czechia

"The #beavers beat [us] to it, saving us CZK 30 million”

“They built the dams without any project documentation and for free."

www.thedodo.com/daily-dodo/g...
Government Scraps Construction Project After Beavers Finish The Job Themselves
“The beavers beat [us] to it ..."
www.thedodo.com
February 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Ooo, bumbarrels! One of my favourite birds flitting through today's @theguardian.com country diary by Jim Perrin.

#naturewriting #countrydiary
Country diary: An eruption of the most delightful, sociable ‘bumbarrels’ | Jim Perrin
Llandrindod Wells, Powys: Moving in joyful groups through the copse, long-tailed tits are admirably cooperative, the perfect paradigm of a mutually helpful society
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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wclnews.bsky.social
Beavers can help tackle flooding, biodiversity loss & more, so why are we still waiting for a national strategy?

🌿 Today, 49 organisations have written to Defra urging action on wild beaver reintroductions.

Read more and share with your MP 👇
The case for reintroducing beavers into the wild in England: The need for an immediate legal pathway
A coalition of eNGO, farming, landowner and business leaders are calling for Defra to immediately progress a wild release licensing system and national reintroduction strategy for beavers across Engla...
www.wcl.org.uk
January 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Sussex needs Beavers! These ecosystem engineers improve water systems and boost wildlife. @GOVUK, it's time to take action for wild releases. 🌿

Read The Wildlife Trusts' vision for a Beaver-friendly future: https://buff.ly/3Wk7CjL

📷 Eurasian Beaver, © The Wildlife Trusts
January 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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nicwilson.bsky.social
Thought I'd remind folk about the nature #writing starter packs and feed, now that @nicolawriting.bsky.social has joined the Bluesky crew. Please do like, 📌, repost & enjoy! Thank you 🙏🐸🐦‍⬛🌳🐌🐜

Starter Pack 1: go.bsky.app/NXoPc6D

Starter Pack 2: go.bsky.app/7opWxNV

Feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...
January 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Please say hello to Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social ... nature writer, campaigner, and all-round wonderful human being!

Welcome to Bluesky Nic 💙
nicolawriting.bsky.social Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · Jan 4
Hello lovely peeps! #NewHere, #FirstPost! Been a bit shy of Social Media of late, but missing you all, missing that lovely interaction that has long since vanished from the other place, so please do say hello! Meanwhile, been watching the skies, reading for snow, from up here on the Big Hill x
January 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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wclnews.bsky.social
Councils are key to nature recovery but with over half missing deadline on action to restore nature it’s clear that things aren’t working 🥀

With big reforms to planning coming soon we’re calling on Gov to support Councils to boost nature in our communities🏡

www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
Seals lying on a beach with wind turbines in the background. Text reads "planning to restore nature. we need a planning system that works for nature's recovery, not just to mitigate harm." The Wilder By Design logo is in the bottom right corner
December 13, 2024 at 9:07 AM
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kerriedoodles.bsky.social
Day 17 of #ArtAdventCalendar.

Today I’m sharing a page of moths from one of my old sketchbooks.

P.S. Is there really no moth emoji? That’s shocking. 😮
A selection of different moths created with water colour and coloured pencils by Kerrie Ann Gardner.
December 17, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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nicwilson.bsky.social
Looking for #naturewriting Christmas presents? Here are four wonderful anthologies, each with a different slant. I may be a tad partial as I'm in them, but each collection includes so much diverse, inspiring writing. (And I guess posts like this are good practice for book self-promotion next year!😊)
Title - Under the Changing Skies on pink, red and green cover with tree branches and a silhouette of a bird. Title - Women on Nature, on a purple background of fritillaries with a green spine. Grey cover with title - Going to Ground, a bird falling to earth over a bare field. Title - Moving Mountains, a navy blue background, with colourful leaves, stones, feathers and berries.
December 17, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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thrakbad.bsky.social
Pictures like this are why Patagonia remains on my travel list. It's absolutely stunning. Oh so many places to go, so little time.
beautysurroundsyou.com Christoph Fischer @beautysurroundsyou.com · Nov 30
The ever changing light is what makes Patagonia so very special. In Torres del Paine, a spot lit iceberg is dwarfed by mountains in the shade, except the jagged summit, bathed in the warm afternoon sun. 📷🦋

#photography #nature #landscape #bluesky #sunset #naturephotography #landscapephotography
November 30, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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According to the Express, magpies are "hooligans" & "instinctive killers" best controlled by using pesticides to kill their insect prey. Against stiff competition, possibly the worst piece of journalism I've seen. www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1984...
Warning issued to anyone with magpies in their garden
Magpies can cause damage to gardens, particularly in the breeding season.
www.express.co.uk
December 9, 2024 at 12:16 PM
wilderchloee.bsky.social
The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance is very much at the top of my Christmas book list. Robin Wall Kimmerer's words are such a gift 📚💚✨
emergencemagazine.bsky.social Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · Nov 23
In this conversation, Potawatomi botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer speaks about embracing a gift economy, and offers a framework for embodying a practical reverence: an ethic of care, reciprocity, and gratitude for the Earth. Listen to “Practical Reverence.”
emergencemagazine.org/interview/pr...
Photo of a woman with long silver hair and smiling, with the greens of trees and mossy rocks in the background. “What is the gift that I could give you in return for water or berries or birdsong?” —Robin Wall Kimmerer
November 27, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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‘When you really look at nature and see it, you love it and care for it too’ 💚 Benji wanted to share this message 🪶 He drew and painted these aged 5 to 9 years old.🙏 (Details in alt text) #River #Swifts #painting #watercolour #drawing #nature #art
Riverbank painted age 7, small tortoiseshell and peacock Butterflies and emperor moths, age 6, Swifts age 9, Kingfisher age 7, Autumn Lane age 7, Octopus age 5, Bison age 8, European BeeEater age 9 Benjamin Fallow loves to draw and paint from nature. He's passionate about protecting nature and wildlife, and hopes his artwork to encourage people to look after nature. He loves to draw out in the countryside and has been carrying paper and pens in his backpack since he was three!
November 27, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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Word of the day is ‘hibernacle’ (18th century): a hibernating animal’s winter retreat.

I believe it works on a human level too.
November 25, 2024 at 2:49 PM