Henry Lamb
@henryflamb.bsky.social
Emeritus prof - #biodiversity, #rewilding, #peatlands, #palaeoecology. Offaly Ireland, Aberystwyth Wales
Cuckoo calling today; swallows have been here for a while
April 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Cuckoo calling today; swallows have been here for a while
I've just signed this petition calling for a domestic abuse register to be put in place in Ireland. This could save lives – will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr... @uplift-ireland.bsky.social
Protect Lives – Create Jennie’s Law: A Domestic Abuse Register for Ireland
I've just signed this petition calling for a domestic abuse register to be put in place in Ireland. This could save lives – will you sign too?
my.uplift.ie
April 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I've just signed this petition calling for a domestic abuse register to be put in place in Ireland. This could save lives – will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr... @uplift-ireland.bsky.social
Blackthorn in flower and full of bees - near Talybont, Ceredigion, Wales
April 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Blackthorn in flower and full of bees - near Talybont, Ceredigion, Wales
Vance’s posturing in Greenland was not just morally wrong. It was strategically disastrous
April 1, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Vance’s posturing in Greenland was not just morally wrong. It was strategically disastrous
Totlally fascinating stuff on bees and pollination here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Pollination
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the interplay between plants and pollinators.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Totlally fascinating stuff on bees and pollination here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Reposted by Henry Lamb
Ahead of his latest exhibition at Ffin y Parc Gallery, Pete Monaghan discusses some of the inspirations for his current show, the surprising things that make the cut into his exceptionally fine art and the joy of individuality
Pete Monaghan's moving take on Wales' understated architecture
Stephen Price A new series of works by Pete Monaghan featuring his moving and original takes on Wales’ understated and overlooked architecture takes place in Llandudno’s Ffin y Parc Gallery this month...
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February 19, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Ahead of his latest exhibition at Ffin y Parc Gallery, Pete Monaghan discusses some of the inspirations for his current show, the surprising things that make the cut into his exceptionally fine art and the joy of individuality
Hard hitting article by @ellamcsweeney.bsky.social on deer problem in Ireland
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Irish deer populations have become rampant, and the trees are paying a price
Ella McSweeney: We will not reach our nature restoration goals without urgent action
www.irishtimes.com
January 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Hard hitting article by @ellamcsweeney.bsky.social on deer problem in Ireland
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
A fascinating read for those of us interested in New Zealand and its extinct giant eagle:
www.masseypress.ac.nz/news/2024/ap...
www.masseypress.ac.nz/news/2024/ma...
www.masseypress.ac.nz/news/2024/ap...
www.masseypress.ac.nz/news/2024/ma...
Hard by the Cloud House reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
www.masseypress.ac.nz
January 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
A fascinating read for those of us interested in New Zealand and its extinct giant eagle:
www.masseypress.ac.nz/news/2024/ap...
www.masseypress.ac.nz/news/2024/ma...
www.masseypress.ac.nz/news/2024/ap...
www.masseypress.ac.nz/news/2024/ma...
What do people think of this?: carbon footprint:
"The logic here is one of displacement, of shifting culpability for environmental devastation away from massive corporations to individual consumers". www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...
"The logic here is one of displacement, of shifting culpability for environmental devastation away from massive corporations to individual consumers". www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...
There is something delusional about your frantic trips to the recycling bin
Recycling seems to me a fake individual solution to a very real collective problem. As an idea, it facilitates the endless production of plastic trash
www.irishtimes.com
January 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
What do people think of this?: carbon footprint:
"The logic here is one of displacement, of shifting culpability for environmental devastation away from massive corporations to individual consumers". www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...
"The logic here is one of displacement, of shifting culpability for environmental devastation away from massive corporations to individual consumers". www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...
This is wonderful! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
BBC Sounds - Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton on BBC Sounds.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This is wonderful! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
This is a great book, full of practical information @whittledaway.bsky.social
December 28, 2024 at 9:33 AM
This is a great book, full of practical information @whittledaway.bsky.social
Reposted by Henry Lamb
Restoring bogs comes down to this - drain blocking. There may need to be thousands of these peat dams put in before the water table is elevated and stabilised. Carbon emissions will likely continue for some time, but… The positive impact on biodiversity can be seen almost overnight!
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December 27, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Restoring bogs comes down to this - drain blocking. There may need to be thousands of these peat dams put in before the water table is elevated and stabilised. Carbon emissions will likely continue for some time, but… The positive impact on biodiversity can be seen almost overnight!
🐸🦋🦇🕷🪲🐌🦎🐞🪱🦆🦅
🐸🦋🦇🕷🪲🐌🦎🐞🪱🦆🦅
@ellamcsweeney.bsky.social is such a good writer - elegant and interesting.
Unique Burren insects add another resplendent layer to an astonishing part of Ireland
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Unique Burren insects add another resplendent layer to an astonishing part of Ireland
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Ella McSweeney: Unique insects aren’t in the Burren for the scenery - but add another resplendent layer to an astonishing part of Ireland
The Burren is home to 27 species of moths and butterflies found nowhere else in the country, along with all of our rarest butterflies and half our rarest moths
www.irishtimes.com
November 16, 2024 at 2:14 PM
@ellamcsweeney.bsky.social is such a good writer - elegant and interesting.
Unique Burren insects add another resplendent layer to an astonishing part of Ireland
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Unique Burren insects add another resplendent layer to an astonishing part of Ireland
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
I’m happy to leave ToXic Twitter “…X, deplorable, compelling and mindless ... but still, it’s hard to say goodbye”
www.irishtimes.com/sport/2024/1...
www.irishtimes.com/sport/2024/1...
Sport Twitter, now X, deplorable, compelling and mindless ... but still, it’s hard to say goodbye
‘It can feel like this is the space where we all put our most toxic part, where the collective black dog lurks’
www.irishtimes.com
November 16, 2024 at 2:05 PM
I’m happy to leave ToXic Twitter “…X, deplorable, compelling and mindless ... but still, it’s hard to say goodbye”
www.irishtimes.com/sport/2024/1...
www.irishtimes.com/sport/2024/1...
A road through Ardee Bog? Surely not - this must be stopped!
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
Paving over progress — what Ardee Bog means for Ireland’s climate future
The controversy over Ardee Bog is a wake-up call. If we are serious about achieving climate goals, we must address these policy gaps that extend legal safeguards beyond SACs and NHAs to include smalle...
www.irishexaminer.com
November 15, 2024 at 2:23 PM
A road through Ardee Bog? Surely not - this must be stopped!
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...