Brighton and Hove Wildlife Forum
@bhwf.bsky.social
An umbrella organisation connecting groups across the city of Brighton and Hove working to protect and enhance greenspaces for all. website: BHWF.org.uk
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Flavoparmelia caperata is a common #lichen found across most of Britain. It has been given the name Greenshield Lichen by some, and is usually found on deciduous tree trunks.
Amazingly @sylviad.bsky.social has found another lichen nestling inside!
#Brighton #Wildlife #Biodiversity#brightonwildlife
Amazingly @sylviad.bsky.social has found another lichen nestling inside!
#Brighton #Wildlife #Biodiversity#brightonwildlife
The apothecia of Flavoparmelia caperata releasing its spores, but if you look closely there are tiny lichens of another species that have 'germinated' in the apothecia and begun to grow. First time I've ever seen this #lichen
December 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Flavoparmelia caperata is a common #lichen found across most of Britain. It has been given the name Greenshield Lichen by some, and is usually found on deciduous tree trunks.
Amazingly @sylviad.bsky.social has found another lichen nestling inside!
#Brighton #Wildlife #Biodiversity#brightonwildlife
Amazingly @sylviad.bsky.social has found another lichen nestling inside!
#Brighton #Wildlife #Biodiversity#brightonwildlife
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CEO Chris' favourite wildlife programme this year was Hamza Yassin's wonderful BBC series Hidden Wild Isles (some was filmed on one of our nature reserves, & he worked with Trustee, filmmaker David Plummer too). Catch it on iPlayer 📷 Nigel Kingston
December 10, 2025 at 7:17 AM
CEO Chris' favourite wildlife programme this year was Hamza Yassin's wonderful BBC series Hidden Wild Isles (some was filmed on one of our nature reserves, & he worked with Trustee, filmmaker David Plummer too). Catch it on iPlayer 📷 Nigel Kingston
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Are you ready to open door number 10?
Let’s see who’s bringing the winter cheer today...
#RSPBAdvent25
Let’s see who’s bringing the winter cheer today...
#RSPBAdvent25
December 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Are you ready to open door number 10?
Let’s see who’s bringing the winter cheer today...
#RSPBAdvent25
Let’s see who’s bringing the winter cheer today...
#RSPBAdvent25
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How did I miss this news story on pollution in the Medway last week?🤔 I must've been half-asleep.
"The largest contaminant was caffeine, which can affect reproduction in aquatic wildlife. It is thought caffeine enters the waters via sewage treatment after being ingested by humans."
"The largest contaminant was caffeine, which can affect reproduction in aquatic wildlife. It is thought caffeine enters the waters via sewage treatment after being ingested by humans."
Kent: Toxic chemicals found in River Medway may cause cancer
Rowing club coach says anyone who releases toxic chemicals into the River Medway should face jail.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
How did I miss this news story on pollution in the Medway last week?🤔 I must've been half-asleep.
"The largest contaminant was caffeine, which can affect reproduction in aquatic wildlife. It is thought caffeine enters the waters via sewage treatment after being ingested by humans."
"The largest contaminant was caffeine, which can affect reproduction in aquatic wildlife. It is thought caffeine enters the waters via sewage treatment after being ingested by humans."
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This brilliant documentary is a fabulous, funny and vital exploration of farming and rewilding, starring @derekgow1965.bsky.social & his farmer neighbour Derek Banbury. Its maker is seeking funds to show the film to the most important audience: farmers! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/derek-vs-d...
Saving British Nature - can you help?
To persuade hundreds of UK farmers to give their marginal unproductive land over to saving nature
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
This brilliant documentary is a fabulous, funny and vital exploration of farming and rewilding, starring @derekgow1965.bsky.social & his farmer neighbour Derek Banbury. Its maker is seeking funds to show the film to the most important audience: farmers! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/derek-vs-d...
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#Glyphosate - how much damage done in those 25 years, to #PublicHealth and #biodiversity.
We have to stop this #pesticide merry-go-round of new-wonder-chemical, concerns, then obvious disaster.
We need #agroecology
www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...
We have to stop this #pesticide merry-go-round of new-wonder-chemical, concerns, then obvious disaster.
We need #agroecology
www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...
Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication
A 2000 study that concluded the well-known herbicide glyphosate was safe, widely cited since then, has just been officially disavowed by the journal that published it. The scientists are suspected of ...
www.lemonde.fr
December 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM
#Glyphosate - how much damage done in those 25 years, to #PublicHealth and #biodiversity.
We have to stop this #pesticide merry-go-round of new-wonder-chemical, concerns, then obvious disaster.
We need #agroecology
www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...
We have to stop this #pesticide merry-go-round of new-wonder-chemical, concerns, then obvious disaster.
We need #agroecology
www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...
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Three reasons to avoid cutting back dead stems and seed heads this winter:
🐞 Hollow stems provide homes for hibernating insects, such as lacewings and ladybirds
🌻 Birds feed on seed heads like teasels, sunflowers and thistles
❄️ They look good when dusted with frost or snow!
🐞 Hollow stems provide homes for hibernating insects, such as lacewings and ladybirds
🌻 Birds feed on seed heads like teasels, sunflowers and thistles
❄️ They look good when dusted with frost or snow!
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Three reasons to avoid cutting back dead stems and seed heads this winter:
🐞 Hollow stems provide homes for hibernating insects, such as lacewings and ladybirds
🌻 Birds feed on seed heads like teasels, sunflowers and thistles
❄️ They look good when dusted with frost or snow!
🐞 Hollow stems provide homes for hibernating insects, such as lacewings and ladybirds
🌻 Birds feed on seed heads like teasels, sunflowers and thistles
❄️ They look good when dusted with frost or snow!
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🎄Brighton’s most enchanting Festive Fayre!
Join us at Brighton Toy Museum for handcrafted gifts, local makers, and Christmas nostalgia - plus a special Father Christmas visit (pre-book).
Sun 7 Dec, 11–4
Join us at Brighton Toy Museum for handcrafted gifts, local makers, and Christmas nostalgia - plus a special Father Christmas visit (pre-book).
Sun 7 Dec, 11–4
December 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
🎄Brighton’s most enchanting Festive Fayre!
Join us at Brighton Toy Museum for handcrafted gifts, local makers, and Christmas nostalgia - plus a special Father Christmas visit (pre-book).
Sun 7 Dec, 11–4
Join us at Brighton Toy Museum for handcrafted gifts, local makers, and Christmas nostalgia - plus a special Father Christmas visit (pre-book).
Sun 7 Dec, 11–4
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Tonight the Cold Moon rises 🌕❄️
Known too as the Long Night Moon or the Moon Before Yule, it lifts into the deepening dark as we head toward the year’s longest nights.
It will be the last supermoon of 2025.
Moonrise: 14:44*
📷 @andrewfusekpeters.bsky.social
Known too as the Long Night Moon or the Moon Before Yule, it lifts into the deepening dark as we head toward the year’s longest nights.
It will be the last supermoon of 2025.
Moonrise: 14:44*
📷 @andrewfusekpeters.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Tonight the Cold Moon rises 🌕❄️
Known too as the Long Night Moon or the Moon Before Yule, it lifts into the deepening dark as we head toward the year’s longest nights.
It will be the last supermoon of 2025.
Moonrise: 14:44*
📷 @andrewfusekpeters.bsky.social
Known too as the Long Night Moon or the Moon Before Yule, it lifts into the deepening dark as we head toward the year’s longest nights.
It will be the last supermoon of 2025.
Moonrise: 14:44*
📷 @andrewfusekpeters.bsky.social
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England’s most important nature sites are being failed.❌
Protected sites can and should be driving nature’s recovery.
But today’s OEP report exposes the real problem: years of weak delivery, underfunding and political drift have left them unable to do the job the law intended.
Protected sites can and should be driving nature’s recovery.
But today’s OEP report exposes the real problem: years of weak delivery, underfunding and political drift have left them unable to do the job the law intended.
December 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
England’s most important nature sites are being failed.❌
Protected sites can and should be driving nature’s recovery.
But today’s OEP report exposes the real problem: years of weak delivery, underfunding and political drift have left them unable to do the job the law intended.
Protected sites can and should be driving nature’s recovery.
But today’s OEP report exposes the real problem: years of weak delivery, underfunding and political drift have left them unable to do the job the law intended.
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As of the 1st of December The Government has announced an Access Green Paper, which will consult on how to ‘strengthen the public’s legal right to access’. This is welcome - but further delay isn't: Labour MPs & access NGOs are united on the need for access legislation now.
December 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
As of the 1st of December The Government has announced an Access Green Paper, which will consult on how to ‘strengthen the public’s legal right to access’. This is welcome - but further delay isn't: Labour MPs & access NGOs are united on the need for access legislation now.
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"Protected sites in England offer a golden opportunity to drive nature’s urgently needed recovery but they are failing to deliver the outcomes needed, says a new report,‘Review of implementation of laws for terrestrial & freshwater protected sites in England’, published by the OEP." 🧵 1/11
December 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"Protected sites in England offer a golden opportunity to drive nature’s urgently needed recovery but they are failing to deliver the outcomes needed, says a new report,‘Review of implementation of laws for terrestrial & freshwater protected sites in England’, published by the OEP." 🧵 1/11
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Out with the @southdownsnp.bsky.social volunteers today clearing bracken back from an area of former chalk heath. It was right next to part of Peacehaven golf course - plenty of balls found!
December 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Out with the @southdownsnp.bsky.social volunteers today clearing bracken back from an area of former chalk heath. It was right next to part of Peacehaven golf course - plenty of balls found!
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Window now open to apply for a BSBI grant for 2026!
We offer grants for short #WildFlowerID courses (our online course #Identiplant & courses from external providers), and for Plant Study & Research.
Find out which grant is right for you: bsbi.org/learn/grants
We offer grants for short #WildFlowerID courses (our online course #Identiplant & courses from external providers), and for Plant Study & Research.
Find out which grant is right for you: bsbi.org/learn/grants
December 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Window now open to apply for a BSBI grant for 2026!
We offer grants for short #WildFlowerID courses (our online course #Identiplant & courses from external providers), and for Plant Study & Research.
Find out which grant is right for you: bsbi.org/learn/grants
We offer grants for short #WildFlowerID courses (our online course #Identiplant & courses from external providers), and for Plant Study & Research.
Find out which grant is right for you: bsbi.org/learn/grants
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I promised listeners of my BSBI talk last night that I'd post a picture of an endemic orchid today. This is Epipactis sancta, the Lindisfarne Helleborine.
This orchid is only found on Lindisfarne, just off the Northumberland coast, and nowhere else on Earth.
This orchid is only found on Lindisfarne, just off the Northumberland coast, and nowhere else on Earth.
December 4, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I promised listeners of my BSBI talk last night that I'd post a picture of an endemic orchid today. This is Epipactis sancta, the Lindisfarne Helleborine.
This orchid is only found on Lindisfarne, just off the Northumberland coast, and nowhere else on Earth.
This orchid is only found on Lindisfarne, just off the Northumberland coast, and nowhere else on Earth.
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Climate change isn’t something we can afford to put off any longer, we must take action.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
#climatecrisis #netzero #NEB2025
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
#climatecrisis #netzero #NEB2025
National Emergency Briefing
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...
www.nebriefing.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Climate change isn’t something we can afford to put off any longer, we must take action.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
#climatecrisis #netzero #NEB2025
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
#climatecrisis #netzero #NEB2025
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Congratulations to Wiston Estate on winning the Schöffel Farm-Environment Partnership Award!
Read the blog by @sussexemerald.bsky.social
https://f.mtr.cool/itgdmdodsb
📷 Matthew Thomas
Read the blog by @sussexemerald.bsky.social
https://f.mtr.cool/itgdmdodsb
📷 Matthew Thomas
December 1, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Congratulations to Wiston Estate on winning the Schöffel Farm-Environment Partnership Award!
Read the blog by @sussexemerald.bsky.social
https://f.mtr.cool/itgdmdodsb
📷 Matthew Thomas
Read the blog by @sussexemerald.bsky.social
https://f.mtr.cool/itgdmdodsb
📷 Matthew Thomas
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A couple of days ago, I went to Ebernoe Common to see what I could hear:
amykingwildlife.blogspot.com/2025/11/list...
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social
amykingwildlife.blogspot.com/2025/11/list...
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social
Listening to Winter Woods
It’s been a weird November – this week felt like the first proper bit of Winter this side of the calendar year. With near-freezing temperat...
amykingwildlife.blogspot.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
A couple of days ago, I went to Ebernoe Common to see what I could hear:
amykingwildlife.blogspot.com/2025/11/list...
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social
amykingwildlife.blogspot.com/2025/11/list...
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social
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Curlew hunting for crabs in the Sea Purslane saltmarsh, with a flock of Wigeon behind.
At Rye Harbour @sussexwildlife.bsky.social
@curlewaction.bsky.social
#curlew
#birds
At Rye Harbour @sussexwildlife.bsky.social
@curlewaction.bsky.social
#curlew
#birds
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Curlew hunting for crabs in the Sea Purslane saltmarsh, with a flock of Wigeon behind.
At Rye Harbour @sussexwildlife.bsky.social
@curlewaction.bsky.social
#curlew
#birds
At Rye Harbour @sussexwildlife.bsky.social
@curlewaction.bsky.social
#curlew
#birds
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Our Christmas countdown for nature lovers is back! 😍🎄
A little bit of wildlife magic every morning...
Who's ready to open door 1 with us?
#RSPBAdvent
A little bit of wildlife magic every morning...
Who's ready to open door 1 with us?
#RSPBAdvent
December 1, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Our Christmas countdown for nature lovers is back! 😍🎄
A little bit of wildlife magic every morning...
Who's ready to open door 1 with us?
#RSPBAdvent
A little bit of wildlife magic every morning...
Who's ready to open door 1 with us?
#RSPBAdvent
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The Environmental Improvement Plan is out🎉
We took the Government to court over the last one. This time, warm words won’t cut it – nature needs delivery.
1/5 🧵
We took the Government to court over the last one. This time, warm words won’t cut it – nature needs delivery.
1/5 🧵
December 1, 2025 at 7:30 AM
The Environmental Improvement Plan is out🎉
We took the Government to court over the last one. This time, warm words won’t cut it – nature needs delivery.
1/5 🧵
We took the Government to court over the last one. This time, warm words won’t cut it – nature needs delivery.
1/5 🧵
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Shipwrecks and family memories in today's @theguardian.com country diary by Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social
#countrydiary #naturewriting
#countrydiary #naturewriting
Country diary: A rusting shipwreck that’s part of the family | Nick Acheson
Blakeney Point, Norfolk: The old steamer, called Yankee, has long been abandoned on the shingle, dwindling in the elements. I take the four-mile walk to visit
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Shipwrecks and family memories in today's @theguardian.com country diary by Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social
#countrydiary #naturewriting
#countrydiary #naturewriting
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Pet parasiticides are entering soils and waterways, harming the very ecosystems we depend on. Ministers must act on the evidence and reduce this chemical load on nature.
#EnvironmentalProtection #NatureRecovery
#EnvironmentalProtection #NatureRecovery
December 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Pet parasiticides are entering soils and waterways, harming the very ecosystems we depend on. Ministers must act on the evidence and reduce this chemical load on nature.
#EnvironmentalProtection #NatureRecovery
#EnvironmentalProtection #NatureRecovery
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Recently our fab Adur & Worthing Hit Squad removed Sycamore dominating Cissbury Fields to make way for native tree species which will benefit local biodiversity. If you're free one Saturday morning a month, we'd love you to get involved!
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📷Jack Thompson
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📷Jack Thompson
November 24, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Recently our fab Adur & Worthing Hit Squad removed Sycamore dominating Cissbury Fields to make way for native tree species which will benefit local biodiversity. If you're free one Saturday morning a month, we'd love you to get involved!
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📷Jack Thompson
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📷Jack Thompson
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Last few days to have your say: the first Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRS) for Sussex have been created, what do you think?
Consultation closes this Wednesday, 26 November 2025.
Add your voice: https://yourvoice.westsussex.gov.uk/
Consultation closes this Wednesday, 26 November 2025.
Add your voice: https://yourvoice.westsussex.gov.uk/
November 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Last few days to have your say: the first Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRS) for Sussex have been created, what do you think?
Consultation closes this Wednesday, 26 November 2025.
Add your voice: https://yourvoice.westsussex.gov.uk/
Consultation closes this Wednesday, 26 November 2025.
Add your voice: https://yourvoice.westsussex.gov.uk/