Say hello to Jack & Victor, the new additions to the UofG Falcon family! 🐦

Bonnie and Clyde, a pair of Peregrine Falcons who return to nest atop the Gilbert Scott Building each spring, have welcomed their new chicks.

📸 Clarke Elsby #TeamUofG

WEBINAR COUNTDOWN

1 WEEK TO GO!

Join us as we celebrate #BiodiversityWeek2025 and #NVWIreland.

Discover the findings from the Irish Stoat Citizen Science Survey — made possible by YOU!

Date: 22nd May 2025
Time: 19:00 – 20:00
Register now: tinyurl.com/4vpw2wdp

@volunteerireland.bsky.social

New research finds that captive-bred wildcats pose a negligible disease risk to humans, pets, and wildlife! While moving animals can raise health concerns, this study shows that with the right practices, we can reintroduce wildcats safely.

Read full study: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Puma cubs can stay with mom for up to 2 years and may stay with their siblings for 2-3 more months after. While there is no specific breeding season, most births occur in late winter to early spring when prey and weather is more accommodating. In the wild, pumas can live around 6 - 13 years.

Pine martens eat squirrels.So why are they not a threat to our native reds? Find out more in this short film narrated by Beldorney ranger Louise McLaren. NB No grey squirrels were used in this film...because we don't have any!
scottishsquirrels.org.uk/2018/03/15/p... @naturescot.bsky.social

🦡 Anyone who has ever tip-toed across a deer or cattle grid will admire the nonchalance of this badger caught on trailcam at #LochArkaig Pine Forest 🔊 (sound up)

Skills! 👏

A win for grizzlies + wolves in 1 of the most anti-carnivore states!

Yesterday, a judge upheld her prior decision to prohibit Idaho’s authorization of wolf trapping + snaring in grizzly bear habitat during the grizzly bear non-denning season.

African wild dogs in Zambia don’t have enough to eat, thanks to human hunters targeting similar prey, according to a study of GPS collar data. Humans also hunt lions, but that reduction in competition doesn’t make up for the reduction in prey. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A fundamental part of Saving Wildcats is working with landowners, farmers, foresters, gamekeepers and community members to recover wildcat populations.

Find out more about how we're trying to ensure a fair coexistence between wildcats and people ➡ savingwildcats.org.uk/landmanagerengagement

Psychology may shape the success of carnivore reintroductions much more than ecology, politics, economics and philosophy ever can.