@jameso-brien.bsky.social
Nature Reserve manager. Just getting started on here...
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“This is nature restoration based on the ‘Lawton principles’ of bigger, better, more & joined-up habitats… Here, we’re celebrating the inclusion of the Middle Marches Community Land Trust’s new sites”
Let’s have more communities owning land for nature:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Let’s have more communities owning land for nature:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Country diary: The sight – and smell – of a habitat success story | Paul Evans
The Marches, Shropshire: The wonderful Stiperstones nature reserve now includes two sites from a community organisation, with a welcome focus on restoration, not just protection
www.theguardian.com
August 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
“This is nature restoration based on the ‘Lawton principles’ of bigger, better, more & joined-up habitats… Here, we’re celebrating the inclusion of the Middle Marches Community Land Trust’s new sites”
Let’s have more communities owning land for nature:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Let’s have more communities owning land for nature:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Three years to the day since the last government promised to ban the sale of peat-based compost. And yet, still no sign of the required legislation. www.businessgreen.com/news/4518121...
'Absurdly overdue': Government slammed over three year wait for promised ban on sale of peat composts
The Wildlife Trusts launch campaign calling on government to deliver full ban 'as swiftly as possible, as today marks three years since move was first promised
www.businessgreen.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Three years to the day since the last government promised to ban the sale of peat-based compost. And yet, still no sign of the required legislation. www.businessgreen.com/news/4518121...
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Quick little geeraff now up in my online art auction in aid of @actionaiduk.bsky.social to raise money for the women & children of Gaza.
Place ya bids here 👇🏼
new.biddingowl.com/items?QueryA...
Place ya bids here 👇🏼
new.biddingowl.com/items?QueryA...
August 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Quick little geeraff now up in my online art auction in aid of @actionaiduk.bsky.social to raise money for the women & children of Gaza.
Place ya bids here 👇🏼
new.biddingowl.com/items?QueryA...
Place ya bids here 👇🏼
new.biddingowl.com/items?QueryA...
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Liverpool Green Party Stands Against Racism
On Saturday 23 August 2025, join together to show UKIP that their ‘Mass Deportations Now Tour’ is not welcome here. In Liverpool, we are proud of our diversity and racism has no place in our city.
📅 Sat 23 Aug 2025
🕛 12pm
📍 St George’s Hall
On Saturday 23 August 2025, join together to show UKIP that their ‘Mass Deportations Now Tour’ is not welcome here. In Liverpool, we are proud of our diversity and racism has no place in our city.
📅 Sat 23 Aug 2025
🕛 12pm
📍 St George’s Hall
August 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Liverpool Green Party Stands Against Racism
On Saturday 23 August 2025, join together to show UKIP that their ‘Mass Deportations Now Tour’ is not welcome here. In Liverpool, we are proud of our diversity and racism has no place in our city.
📅 Sat 23 Aug 2025
🕛 12pm
📍 St George’s Hall
On Saturday 23 August 2025, join together to show UKIP that their ‘Mass Deportations Now Tour’ is not welcome here. In Liverpool, we are proud of our diversity and racism has no place in our city.
📅 Sat 23 Aug 2025
🕛 12pm
📍 St George’s Hall
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If you’re a ECR and are keen to be part of the peatlands and wetlands community in the UK (and beyond!) - please think about joining our committee and helping us grow!
We have momentum now but we need it to continue!
We have momentum now but we need it to continue!
Interested in #wetlands and #peatlands? Want to be part of a growing network to help promote these ecosystems?
We are looking for new ECR committee members
Email for more information (in link below):
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/peat...
@britishecologicalsociety.org
We are looking for new ECR committee members
Email for more information (in link below):
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/peat...
@britishecologicalsociety.org
Peatlands and Wetlands Group - British Ecological Society
Providing a forum to unite researchers working across all aspects of peatland and wetland science.
www.britishecologicalsociety.org
August 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
If you’re a ECR and are keen to be part of the peatlands and wetlands community in the UK (and beyond!) - please think about joining our committee and helping us grow!
We have momentum now but we need it to continue!
We have momentum now but we need it to continue!
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New research from Pesticide Action Network reveals the extent of pesticide use by UK councils. These are poisons being sprayed in your street, your local park. Pls share.
For links to the full report & to find out what you can do, follow the link below
www.pan-uk.org/pesticide-fr...
For links to the full report & to find out what you can do, follow the link below
www.pan-uk.org/pesticide-fr...
July 30, 2025 at 8:31 AM
New research from Pesticide Action Network reveals the extent of pesticide use by UK councils. These are poisons being sprayed in your street, your local park. Pls share.
For links to the full report & to find out what you can do, follow the link below
www.pan-uk.org/pesticide-fr...
For links to the full report & to find out what you can do, follow the link below
www.pan-uk.org/pesticide-fr...
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Very good to be in the Northwest with the Natural England team to declare another National Nature Reserve - Risley, Holcroft & Chat Moss NNR. Home to the industrial revolution, the new NNR expands the green infrastructure needed for the ecological revolution that must get underway. t.co/6nXK9fcS5x
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20p2329p3xo.amp
t.co
July 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Very good to be in the Northwest with the Natural England team to declare another National Nature Reserve - Risley, Holcroft & Chat Moss NNR. Home to the industrial revolution, the new NNR expands the green infrastructure needed for the ecological revolution that must get underway. t.co/6nXK9fcS5x
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If your dog will jump in the nearest river, pond or lake given half a chance, don't use spot-on treatments for fleas and ticks, say researchers.
Dogs pollute water with pesticides even weeks after flea treatment
When dogs given spot treatments for fleas go swimming, they release levels of pesticides dangerous to aquatic life for at least a month after the treatment
www.newscientist.com
June 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
If your dog will jump in the nearest river, pond or lake given half a chance, don't use spot-on treatments for fleas and ticks, say researchers.
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Sightings of European Water Vole in Britain are being sought by a wildlife charity:
Records sought of Britain's fastest-declining mammal
Sightings of European Water Vole in Britain are being sought by a wildlife charity. The People's Trust for Endangered Species is seeking records of the rodent, which it has described as 'Britain's fastest-declining mammal'. Water vole populations have declined by 90% due to habitat loss, fragmentati...
bit.ly
May 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Sightings of European Water Vole in Britain are being sought by a wildlife charity:
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Fruits of Privatisation.
90% of England water companies owned from abroad, including state-owned companies.
50% of customer bills fund China-based corporations.
Dividends, interest payments exported. Poverty, industrial degradation at home
Can't end scams without nationalisation
archive.ph/0XEXO
90% of England water companies owned from abroad, including state-owned companies.
50% of customer bills fund China-based corporations.
Dividends, interest payments exported. Poverty, industrial degradation at home
Can't end scams without nationalisation
archive.ph/0XEXO
More than half of water bills in England help fund leading Chinese investment firms
England’s nine water and sewage companies are more than 90 per cent owned by overseas investors, i investigation finds
inews.co.uk
April 9, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Fruits of Privatisation.
90% of England water companies owned from abroad, including state-owned companies.
50% of customer bills fund China-based corporations.
Dividends, interest payments exported. Poverty, industrial degradation at home
Can't end scams without nationalisation
archive.ph/0XEXO
90% of England water companies owned from abroad, including state-owned companies.
50% of customer bills fund China-based corporations.
Dividends, interest payments exported. Poverty, industrial degradation at home
Can't end scams without nationalisation
archive.ph/0XEXO
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UK friends! Tonight Birdsong makes its UK TV debut on BBC4 at 9pm. It will also be available on BBC Player thereafter. Please spread the word! Extract taken from The Times.
March 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
UK friends! Tonight Birdsong makes its UK TV debut on BBC4 at 9pm. It will also be available on BBC Player thereafter. Please spread the word! Extract taken from The Times.
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An historic moment for Nature recovery in England with a new policy setting out plans for the return of wild Beavers. Licenses will be issued by Natural England so that we can harness the power of these keystone animals for the many benefits they bring.
naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2025/02/28/b...
naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2025/02/28/b...
Beaver wild release: a milestone for nature recovery in England
By Stuart Otway, Principal Officer in Natural England’s Complex Cases Unit and Delphine Pouget, Principal Officer in Natural England’s Species Recovery & Reintroductions Team After centuries of absen...
naturalengland.blog.gov.uk
February 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
An historic moment for Nature recovery in England with a new policy setting out plans for the return of wild Beavers. Licenses will be issued by Natural England so that we can harness the power of these keystone animals for the many benefits they bring.
naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2025/02/28/b...
naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2025/02/28/b...
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The @Telegraph excels itself today with the claim that @NaturalEngland is ‘ideologically wedded to concept of conservation’. This is our job, & we do it as a matter of legal requirement. Would be odd for a conservation organisation to do anything else.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...
Natural England accused of favouring rewilding over saving farmland
Calls for body to be scrapped for being ‘ideologically wedded to concept of conservation and removing food production from the countryside’
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 14, 2025 at 7:50 AM
The @Telegraph excels itself today with the claim that @NaturalEngland is ‘ideologically wedded to concept of conservation’. This is our job, & we do it as a matter of legal requirement. Would be odd for a conservation organisation to do anything else.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...
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Are you looking out for a #PhD on #seabirds? *New* competition-funded project to understand and share biologging data to reduce consenting risk from offshore wind farms. Exciting collaboration with @olliepadget.bsky.social and @naturalengland.bsky.social (1/3)
February 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Are you looking out for a #PhD on #seabirds? *New* competition-funded project to understand and share biologging data to reduce consenting risk from offshore wind farms. Exciting collaboration with @olliepadget.bsky.social and @naturalengland.bsky.social (1/3)
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Help shape the Mersey Forest plan!
Consultation has opened on their emerging 2025 plan, have your say before Sunday 2nd March: merseyforest.org.uk/our-plan/
Consultation has opened on their emerging 2025 plan, have your say before Sunday 2nd March: merseyforest.org.uk/our-plan/
Our plan | The Mersey Forest
merseyforest.org.uk
February 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Help shape the Mersey Forest plan!
Consultation has opened on their emerging 2025 plan, have your say before Sunday 2nd March: merseyforest.org.uk/our-plan/
Consultation has opened on their emerging 2025 plan, have your say before Sunday 2nd March: merseyforest.org.uk/our-plan/
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Palus Demos is launched! This €10m #HorizonEurope #paludiculture project is a revolution in #farming that will bring profitable #agriculture to wetlands - which are more efficient at #carboncapture than the rainforests.
@universityofgalway.bsky.social #smartfarming #climateaction #sphagnummoss
@universityofgalway.bsky.social #smartfarming #climateaction #sphagnummoss
February 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Palus Demos is launched! This €10m #HorizonEurope #paludiculture project is a revolution in #farming that will bring profitable #agriculture to wetlands - which are more efficient at #carboncapture than the rainforests.
@universityofgalway.bsky.social #smartfarming #climateaction #sphagnummoss
@universityofgalway.bsky.social #smartfarming #climateaction #sphagnummoss
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Thames Water released raw sewage into a chalk stream for more than 1,000 hours over the past 6 weeks.
Execs will get a bonus. The company wants to pay higher dividends, record hike in customer prices.
Regulators do nothing. Govt can end the scam by nationalisation, but won't.
archive.ph/k7b60
Execs will get a bonus. The company wants to pay higher dividends, record hike in customer prices.
Regulators do nothing. Govt can end the scam by nationalisation, but won't.
archive.ph/k7b60
Thames Water pumps sewage into chalk stream for 1,000 hours
Pollution has created a ‘coating of brown sewage sludge’ on the River Ver
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Thames Water released raw sewage into a chalk stream for more than 1,000 hours over the past 6 weeks.
Execs will get a bonus. The company wants to pay higher dividends, record hike in customer prices.
Regulators do nothing. Govt can end the scam by nationalisation, but won't.
archive.ph/k7b60
Execs will get a bonus. The company wants to pay higher dividends, record hike in customer prices.
Regulators do nothing. Govt can end the scam by nationalisation, but won't.
archive.ph/k7b60
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Please report all sightings of dead birds for possible testing for Avian Influenza.
📌In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/...
📌In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/...
📌In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.serv...
#Ornithology #UKBirding
📌In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/...
📌In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/...
📌In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.serv...
#Ornithology #UKBirding
January 24, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Please report all sightings of dead birds for possible testing for Avian Influenza.
📌In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/...
📌In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/...
📌In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.serv...
#Ornithology #UKBirding
📌In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/...
📌In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/...
📌In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.serv...
#Ornithology #UKBirding
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The IUCN UK Peatland Programme is delighted to have joined the Bluesky community. Looking forward to great engagement on all things #Peat, including #research, #policy, and #practice and bringing you news, information, events, and stories from the wonderful world of #Peatlands.
📷Richard Lindsay
📷Richard Lindsay
January 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The IUCN UK Peatland Programme is delighted to have joined the Bluesky community. Looking forward to great engagement on all things #Peat, including #research, #policy, and #practice and bringing you news, information, events, and stories from the wonderful world of #Peatlands.
📷Richard Lindsay
📷Richard Lindsay
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If anyone is coming to Scotland's Trade Fair over the next few days, do please come and check out @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social's beautiful artwork and products... you'll find her/us in the Launch Gallery on stand LG70
#wildlife #art #Scotland #nature
#wildlife #art #Scotland #nature
🤩 It’s official! We’re ready for Scotland’s Trade Fair 🤩
First day tomorrow. Looking forward to meeting lots of lovely people…
(Feeling equally excited, nervous, and exhausted already 😆🙌🤞😬💛)
Couldn’t have done any of today without you @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social , thank you xxxxxxx
First day tomorrow. Looking forward to meeting lots of lovely people…
(Feeling equally excited, nervous, and exhausted already 😆🙌🤞😬💛)
Couldn’t have done any of today without you @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social , thank you xxxxxxx
January 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
If anyone is coming to Scotland's Trade Fair over the next few days, do please come and check out @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social's beautiful artwork and products... you'll find her/us in the Launch Gallery on stand LG70
#wildlife #art #Scotland #nature
#wildlife #art #Scotland #nature
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New opportunity for a Seabird Research Officer in Bempton! If you’re interested please see below for details! 🐧 #ornithology
app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
Seabird Research Officer | RSPB
About RSPB Bempton
RSPB Bempton Cliffs is at the heart of the Flamborough and Filey Coast Special Protection Area (SPA), the UK's largest mainland seabird colony. The towering chalk cliffs support eig...
app.vacancy-filler.co.uk
January 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
New opportunity for a Seabird Research Officer in Bempton! If you’re interested please see below for details! 🐧 #ornithology
app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
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Interested in heather-dominated peatlands?
Our 10-year report peatland-es-uk.york.ac.uk/home is available in various forms:
10-year report (update to the previous Defra report)
Full summary (for practitioners & policy makers)
Short summary (for people with little time)
🧵 on background & findings 🔥🚜🌿
Our 10-year report peatland-es-uk.york.ac.uk/home is available in various forms:
10-year report (update to the previous Defra report)
Full summary (for practitioners & policy makers)
Short summary (for people with little time)
🧵 on background & findings 🔥🚜🌿
Peatland-ES-UK
Peatland (upland & heather-dominated Blanket Bog) - Management and Ecosystem Services in the UK
Please also see our website at: Ecological Continuity Trust (with other long-term monit...
peatland-es-uk.york.ac.uk
November 18, 2024 at 10:02 AM
Interested in heather-dominated peatlands?
Our 10-year report peatland-es-uk.york.ac.uk/home is available in various forms:
10-year report (update to the previous Defra report)
Full summary (for practitioners & policy makers)
Short summary (for people with little time)
🧵 on background & findings 🔥🚜🌿
Our 10-year report peatland-es-uk.york.ac.uk/home is available in various forms:
10-year report (update to the previous Defra report)
Full summary (for practitioners & policy makers)
Short summary (for people with little time)
🧵 on background & findings 🔥🚜🌿
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20 years on from the start of a novel avian disease epidemic that has led to catastrophic population declines in several UK species we are finally getting some significant movement on advice regarding bird feeding
www.theguardian.com/environment/... 1/2 #Ornithology #UKbirding
www.theguardian.com/environment/... 1/2 #Ornithology #UKbirding
RSPB stops selling flat bird feeders owing to deadly finch disease
Feeding birds from flat surfaces such as tables could be contributing to spread of finch trichomonosis, says charity
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
20 years on from the start of a novel avian disease epidemic that has led to catastrophic population declines in several UK species we are finally getting some significant movement on advice regarding bird feeding
www.theguardian.com/environment/... 1/2 #Ornithology #UKbirding
www.theguardian.com/environment/... 1/2 #Ornithology #UKbirding
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We need to go much farther however, and make sure that if we are to provision wildlife it is evidence-driven; at the moment negative consequences for biodiversity are swamping positive ones 2/2
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Feeding birds in our gardens is a joy – but it may be harming weaker species | Alexander C Lees
By boosting dominant species such as great tits, human-provided food can make life harder for many woodland birds, says conservationist Alexander C Lees
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
We need to go much farther however, and make sure that if we are to provision wildlife it is evidence-driven; at the moment negative consequences for biodiversity are swamping positive ones 2/2
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...