Nick Atkinson
@feraltree.bsky.social
A plain member of the biotic community.
@ancienttreenursery.bsky.social we now own just under 30 acres of land. The #AncientTreeNursery is coming soon!
June 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
@ancienttreenursery.bsky.social we now own just under 30 acres of land. The #AncientTreeNursery is coming soon!
Integrated ecosystem markets are a good idea www.wsj.com/articles/tyi...
Tying Biodiversity to Carbon Credits Could Help Save Nature, Says Singapore’s President
Speaking at Davos, Tharman Shanmugaratnam called for nature markets to be stapled together, but others argue they should develop independently.
www.wsj.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Integrated ecosystem markets are a good idea www.wsj.com/articles/tyi...
Yes trees are cool, but they are also hot!
January 6, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Yes trees are cool, but they are also hot!
Reposted by Nick Atkinson
Want to know if data shows that policies actually work rather than being a result of a statistical artefact?
Excellent, accessible and wise words from the ever brilliant @billsutherland.bsky.social 👇🏽
#TogetherForNature 💚
Excellent, accessible and wise words from the ever brilliant @billsutherland.bsky.social 👇🏽
#TogetherForNature 💚
Video on why measures of effectiveness are often exaggerated and what can be done about it. Speed cameras are my example but discuss conservation. Applies to any policy or practice.
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Regression to the mean
Many measures of effectiveness are mismeasured as illustrated by speed cameras.
eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com
January 5, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Want to know if data shows that policies actually work rather than being a result of a statistical artefact?
Excellent, accessible and wise words from the ever brilliant @billsutherland.bsky.social 👇🏽
#TogetherForNature 💚
Excellent, accessible and wise words from the ever brilliant @billsutherland.bsky.social 👇🏽
#TogetherForNature 💚
Delighted to be joining the team at RBG Kew next year as Research Leader, Nature Markets. Please get in touch if you'd like to collaborate!
December 17, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Delighted to be joining the team at RBG Kew next year as Research Leader, Nature Markets. Please get in touch if you'd like to collaborate!
Is the #GuinnessDrought like the shortage of Christmas trees that we're warned about every year, or is it real?
December 9, 2024 at 12:43 PM
Is the #GuinnessDrought like the shortage of Christmas trees that we're warned about every year, or is it real?
"YOU people" have just got to understand how important food production and fox hunting are... www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
November 25, 2024 at 11:27 AM
"YOU people" have just got to understand how important food production and fox hunting are... www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Reposted by Nick Atkinson
A frog smaller than a pencil eraser has hopped into the record books as the one of the smallest vertebrates known to science.
Learn more about this tiny frog from this SHORT article: news.mongabay.com/shorts/#/290....
Learn more about this tiny frog from this SHORT article: news.mongabay.com/shorts/#/290....
November 24, 2024 at 12:15 PM
A frog smaller than a pencil eraser has hopped into the record books as the one of the smallest vertebrates known to science.
Learn more about this tiny frog from this SHORT article: news.mongabay.com/shorts/#/290....
Learn more about this tiny frog from this SHORT article: news.mongabay.com/shorts/#/290....
UK farmers' representative organizations are seriously risking crying wolf. They should probably wait until we actually have wolves. #rewilding
November 22, 2024 at 12:48 PM
UK farmers' representative organizations are seriously risking crying wolf. They should probably wait until we actually have wolves. #rewilding
Perhaps the user of "O" plates on elderly drivers' cars would help? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Call for drivers over 65 to have licence reviews
The Older Drivers Forum is urging older motorists to review their skills and any medical issues.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Perhaps the user of "O" plates on elderly drivers' cars would help? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Looking forward to the sixth Starship flight, although it's not the same since Musk showed his true colours.
November 19, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Looking forward to the sixth Starship flight, although it's not the same since Musk showed his true colours.
"Oh YOU people". Apparently it's ok though because shooting comes with the advantage of not having to pay inheritance tax. Does he not realise he's making things even harder for the rest of the population to understand? www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Clarkson clashes with BBC over inheritance tax comment
Jeremy Clarkson has had a heated exchange with Victoria Derbyshire about his own remarks that he bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2024 at 7:19 PM
"Oh YOU people". Apparently it's ok though because shooting comes with the advantage of not having to pay inheritance tax. Does he not realise he's making things even harder for the rest of the population to understand? www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Better successional planning is needed. No reason for anyone in their 80s to be sitting on family business assets worth millions.
November 19, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Better successional planning is needed. No reason for anyone in their 80s to be sitting on family business assets worth millions.
What is it about professional footballers that makes it impossible to capture their likeness in a statue?
November 18, 2024 at 8:38 PM
What is it about professional footballers that makes it impossible to capture their likeness in a statue?
Farmers protesting about the new inheritance tax rules, when most of the smaller farms won't be affected. Government is right, it's not fair that the very largest estates pay proportionately less tax. www.gov.uk/government/p...
Summary of reforms to agricultural property relief and business property relief
www.gov.uk
November 16, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Farmers protesting about the new inheritance tax rules, when most of the smaller farms won't be affected. Government is right, it's not fair that the very largest estates pay proportionately less tax. www.gov.uk/government/p...
Looking to reconnect with people having made the permanent switch to BlueSky
November 16, 2024 at 10:51 AM
Looking to reconnect with people having made the permanent switch to BlueSky
It's difficult to know where to start with this... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
COP29: Oil and gas 'gift of god', says host Azerbaijan president
Azerbaijan's president said countries should not be blamed for having fossil fuel reserves.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2024 at 7:07 PM
It's difficult to know where to start with this... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pretty sure that Trump supporters have fewer teeth on average than normal.
November 6, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Pretty sure that Trump supporters have fewer teeth on average than normal.
So uneducated middle aged white men seem to be the issue.
November 6, 2024 at 1:48 PM
So uneducated middle aged white men seem to be the issue.
There is a great disturbance in the force
November 6, 2024 at 10:25 AM
There is a great disturbance in the force
Looks like The Dotard is back ☹️
November 6, 2024 at 9:35 AM
Looks like The Dotard is back ☹️
Many congratulations to the Northumberland Wildlife Trust and Wildlife Trusts for their successful purchase of the Rothbury Estate. It couldn't have gone to any better.
October 29, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Many congratulations to the Northumberland Wildlife Trust and Wildlife Trusts for their successful purchase of the Rothbury Estate. It couldn't have gone to any better.