Tim Quantrill
@naturetim.bsky.social
Birdwatcher, all-round nature lover, walker, rewilding volunteer and keen green
Oh my god! Fantastic work by those concerned but just so horrible that so many have been slaughtered in this fashion, particularly in the Yorkshire Dales and Nidderdale. Why aren't they cracking down on this? Presumably because they don't want to upset the game shooting industry. Disgusting
November 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Oh my god! Fantastic work by those concerned but just so horrible that so many have been slaughtered in this fashion, particularly in the Yorkshire Dales and Nidderdale. Why aren't they cracking down on this? Presumably because they don't want to upset the game shooting industry. Disgusting
But ban on selling peat isn't scheduled until 2031 "when Parliamentary time allows". This is ridiculous, it's been years and it still hasn't been done. Good news on peat restoration and agro-forestry though which is expected to ramp up from 2026 - providing Defra funds are there!
UK unveils ‘carbon budget delivery plan’ to get back on track for net zero targets
UK unveils ‘carbon budget delivery plan’ to get back on track for net zero targets
Ed Miliband says pushing for renewable energy and lower emissions will reduce household bills and boost economy
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
But ban on selling peat isn't scheduled until 2031 "when Parliamentary time allows". This is ridiculous, it's been years and it still hasn't been done. Good news on peat restoration and agro-forestry though which is expected to ramp up from 2026 - providing Defra funds are there!
But where are the follow up questions investigating the fact that a monoculture of heather is allowing the beetle to build up its numbers and the consequences of climate change in the future. Again hand-fed a story on a plate with little critical thought
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Beetle-hit North York Moors pose 'massive fire risk'
The North York Moors are as 'dry as kindling' because of heather beetles, a gamekeeper says.
www.bbc.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
But where are the follow up questions investigating the fact that a monoculture of heather is allowing the beetle to build up its numbers and the consequences of climate change in the future. Again hand-fed a story on a plate with little critical thought
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Important report but once again a sad state of affairs re raptor persecution in @yorkshiredales.org.uk and Nidderdale National Landscape. Too many incidents and not enough breeding pairs
www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/about/nation...
www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/about/nation...
C5 - Illegal persecution of raptors - Yorkshire Dales National Park
Work with moorland managers and other key stakeholders to devise and implement a local approach to end illegal persecution of raptors, including independent and scientifically robust monitoring, and c...
www.yorkshiredales.org.uk
September 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Important report but once again a sad state of affairs re raptor persecution in @yorkshiredales.org.uk and Nidderdale National Landscape. Too many incidents and not enough breeding pairs
www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/about/nation...
www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/about/nation...
Great news so many YWT reserves are now included in the Wild Ingleborough National Nature Reserve. Let's hope all the remaining blanks will be managed sympathetically so the whole area will be connected for Nature in the Dales
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ingleborough National Nature Reserve to be extended - BBC News
The extension will offer greater protection to the rare species found in the Dales upland landscape.
www.bbc.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Great news so many YWT reserves are now included in the Wild Ingleborough National Nature Reserve. Let's hope all the remaining blanks will be managed sympathetically so the whole area will be connected for Nature in the Dales
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
In Lie of the Land @guyshrubsole.bsky.social talks about how large estates pay lip service to being "custodians" of their land. Here's Glen Affric which boasts all the nature designations you can think of - NNR, SAC, SSSI - but the estate of the same name is releasing red-legged partridges there
September 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
In Lie of the Land @guyshrubsole.bsky.social talks about how large estates pay lip service to being "custodians" of their land. Here's Glen Affric which boasts all the nature designations you can think of - NNR, SAC, SSSI - but the estate of the same name is releasing red-legged partridges there
Another important and shockingly revealing book from @guyshrubsole.bsky.social . Anglian Water is now proposing a huge new sterile and carbon-consuming reservoir in the Fens. Couldn't they just reinstate the meres like Whittlesey that were drained? Restoring nature and supplying water 1/2
September 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Another important and shockingly revealing book from @guyshrubsole.bsky.social . Anglian Water is now proposing a huge new sterile and carbon-consuming reservoir in the Fens. Couldn't they just reinstate the meres like Whittlesey that were drained? Restoring nature and supplying water 1/2
I expect there are a hundred or more swimming spots just along the river Wharfe in Yorkshire! France has thousands of bathing sites and we should too
Hundreds more waterways in England used recreationally than recorded by government, data finds
Hundreds more waterways in England used recreationally than recorded by government, data finds
Analysis finds 3,347 locations used for swimming, rowing and paddleboarding but government has identified just 342
There are hundreds more waterways being used for swimming and boating in England than recorded by the government, data has revealed.
A wide-ranging analysis of the ways that England’s waterways are used for recreation by the government has found 3,347 “water recreation locations” in rivers, lakes and seas around the country. These are places where people take part in activities including swimming, rowing and paddleboarding. The Environment Agency had previously identified 342. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I expect there are a hundred or more swimming spots just along the river Wharfe in Yorkshire! France has thousands of bathing sites and we should too
Who'd have thought it? Farmers need lakes and ponds on their land - aren't they the same lakes and ponds they've drained over the past decades to increase production? NFU, it sounds like you need beavers back, they'll do wonders for you
England’s farmers to get new payments for cleaning up waterways on their land
England’s farmers to get new payments for cleaning up waterways on their land
Environment secretary says Defra will be launching changes to post-Brexit scheme for sustainable farming
Farmers in England will get new payments for cleaning up the waterways near their land, the environment secretary has said.
Agricultural pollution affects 40% of Britain’s lakes and rivers, as fertiliser and animal waste washes off the land into waterways. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Who'd have thought it? Farmers need lakes and ponds on their land - aren't they the same lakes and ponds they've drained over the past decades to increase production? NFU, it sounds like you need beavers back, they'll do wonders for you
Can't believe the Labour government blocked an amendment to their planning bill to mandate swift bricks in a
new houses - a cheap and useful way to turn around the decline in swifts that's ready to roll and popular. Its the latest horrible anti-nature and anti-people policy from Starmer
38d.gs/cdpr
new houses - a cheap and useful way to turn around the decline in swifts that's ready to roll and popular. Its the latest horrible anti-nature and anti-people policy from Starmer
38d.gs/cdpr
May 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Can't believe the Labour government blocked an amendment to their planning bill to mandate swift bricks in a
new houses - a cheap and useful way to turn around the decline in swifts that's ready to roll and popular. Its the latest horrible anti-nature and anti-people policy from Starmer
38d.gs/cdpr
new houses - a cheap and useful way to turn around the decline in swifts that's ready to roll and popular. Its the latest horrible anti-nature and anti-people policy from Starmer
38d.gs/cdpr
Spring is definitely in the air for mating insects at @rewildingbritain.org.uk Broughton sanctuary - alder leaf beetles and then two leopard moths! A first for me as we took off tree tubes from alders that were bursting out of them after just 4/5 years. I think 4th pic is a leopard moth cocoon?
April 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Spring is definitely in the air for mating insects at @rewildingbritain.org.uk Broughton sanctuary - alder leaf beetles and then two leopard moths! A first for me as we took off tree tubes from alders that were bursting out of them after just 4/5 years. I think 4th pic is a leopard moth cocoon?
You often find pellets from birds of prey at @rewildingbritain.org.uk site Broughton Sanctuary but it's not only avian predators doing well there. You often see stoats like this one hunting for the many voles in the grasslands
April 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
You often find pellets from birds of prey at @rewildingbritain.org.uk site Broughton Sanctuary but it's not only avian predators doing well there. You often see stoats like this one hunting for the many voles in the grasslands
Reposted by Tim Quantrill
Further to various comments from eg @markavery.bsky.social, @chrisgpackham.bsky.social and @raptorpersuk.bsky.social, about the decision by @privateeyenews.bsky.social not to take any more ££ from @wildjustice.bsky.social for their "pheasant" advert... I find myself at this week's letters page. 🧵1/8
April 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Further to various comments from eg @markavery.bsky.social, @chrisgpackham.bsky.social and @raptorpersuk.bsky.social, about the decision by @privateeyenews.bsky.social not to take any more ££ from @wildjustice.bsky.social for their "pheasant" advert... I find myself at this week's letters page. 🧵1/8
They should have mandated that industry use a rising proportion of recycled plastic in their products years ago. By now that would have been ingrained in a circular economy and a lot of used plastic could be being reused instead of dumped or burned
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Just 9.5% of plastic made in 2022 used recycled material, study shows
Global research reveals most of 400m tonnes produced using fossil fuels, predominantly coal or oil
www.theguardian.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
They should have mandated that industry use a rising proportion of recycled plastic in their products years ago. By now that would have been ingrained in a circular economy and a lot of used plastic could be being reused instead of dumped or burned
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How could anyone do such a thing? I hope they can find the perpetrator @raptorpersuk.bsky.social Hoping she lays a new clutch
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Peregrine falcon eggs smashed in St Albans Cathedral live stream - BBC News
Police are investigating after reports that a man was seen walking across the nest.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 8, 2025 at 6:52 AM
How could anyone do such a thing? I hope they can find the perpetrator @raptorpersuk.bsky.social Hoping she lays a new clutch
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Great to see the new planting @wtscotsocial.bsky.social Woodland Trust's new site at Hayhills Farm outside Silsden. Can't wait to see the new woodland develop. Well done to all the volunteers who helped out
April 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Great to see the new planting @wtscotsocial.bsky.social Woodland Trust's new site at Hayhills Farm outside Silsden. Can't wait to see the new woodland develop. Well done to all the volunteers who helped out
Great to see @hilltopfarm.bsky.social cows bringing more biodiversity back to Broughton Sanctuary, a fantastic @rewildingbritain.org.uk site - their pats are full of life and they are lovely animals too!
April 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Great to see @hilltopfarm.bsky.social cows bringing more biodiversity back to Broughton Sanctuary, a fantastic @rewildingbritain.org.uk site - their pats are full of life and they are lovely animals too!
Let's hope insurance companies pull out of covering fossil fuel investments like oil rigs or refineries and hopefully that will lead to their demise. That might actually make a difference to net zero efforts. If they carry on such business it would go against their own interests
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
- Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
www.theguardian.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Let's hope insurance companies pull out of covering fossil fuel investments like oil rigs or refineries and hopefully that will lead to their demise. That might actually make a difference to net zero efforts. If they carry on such business it would go against their own interests
Some good news, let's hope Defra go ahead with this - peatland restoration should be compulsory on upland moors as we're losing too much carbon and nature value. Eg this is bare peat on Grassington Moor. @yorkshirepeat.bsky.social should get more funds to help restore more such sites
March 31, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Some good news, let's hope Defra go ahead with this - peatland restoration should be compulsory on upland moors as we're losing too much carbon and nature value. Eg this is bare peat on Grassington Moor. @yorkshirepeat.bsky.social should get more funds to help restore more such sites
Great news and about time @sarakinguk.bsky.social @kneppwildlandfdn.bsky.social @beavertrust.bsky.social Let's hope landowners can take down their fences and let them run free!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Beaver releases into wild to be allowed in England for first time in centuries
Exclusive: Government to grant nature groups a licence for release of rodent species after earlier setbacks
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Great news and about time @sarakinguk.bsky.social @kneppwildlandfdn.bsky.social @beavertrust.bsky.social Let's hope landowners can take down their fences and let them run free!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fascinating talk at Wharfe Nats last night by Prof Jonny Grey , learning about the work of Wild Trout Trust. Talk of riffles, glides and pools and shade tied in with what Aire Rivers Trust Salmon Safari, @nationaltrust.bsky.social and Neil Heseltine at Malham and others are doing to restore rivers
February 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Fascinating talk at Wharfe Nats last night by Prof Jonny Grey , learning about the work of Wild Trout Trust. Talk of riffles, glides and pools and shade tied in with what Aire Rivers Trust Salmon Safari, @nationaltrust.bsky.social and Neil Heseltine at Malham and others are doing to restore rivers
I'm in Costa Rica now @irishrainforest.bsky.social Stayed at El Zora research lodge inland from Tortuguero. The wildlife and spectacular trees after stopping felling 35 years ago amazing - it helps that the rain and sun make it so easy to grow. One tree several metres round was a sapling in 1990!
February 6, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I'm in Costa Rica now @irishrainforest.bsky.social Stayed at El Zora research lodge inland from Tortuguero. The wildlife and spectacular trees after stopping felling 35 years ago amazing - it helps that the rain and sun make it so easy to grow. One tree several metres round was a sapling in 1990!
Had fascinating tour around El Zota - reserve/research station - where rainforest trees are making a comeback 35 years after felling stopped. Now secondary forest. Owner Hiner is setting a trend and hopefully other Costa Rica landowners will follow. Need Rewilding Britain @sarakinguk.bsky.social !
February 5, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Had fascinating tour around El Zota - reserve/research station - where rainforest trees are making a comeback 35 years after felling stopped. Now secondary forest. Owner Hiner is setting a trend and hopefully other Costa Rica landowners will follow. Need Rewilding Britain @sarakinguk.bsky.social !
More old trees surveyed at @rewildingbritain.org.uk Broughton Hall yesterday for the Woodland Trust Ancient Tree Inventory - don't you just love those shapes! And likewise all that pig action transforming the grassland
January 21, 2025 at 8:02 AM
More old trees surveyed at @rewildingbritain.org.uk Broughton Hall yesterday for the Woodland Trust Ancient Tree Inventory - don't you just love those shapes! And likewise all that pig action transforming the grassland
With the riverside of York once again under water and such events becoming even more frequent due to increased rain storms as part of climate heating, isn't it time to consider creating a River Ouse "bypass" wildlife corridor to take the extra water? 1/3
www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2483018...
www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2483018...
Four flood warnings in place for York and North Yorkshire
FOUR flood warnings remain in place this morning across York and North Yorkshire in the wake of recent heavy rainfall.
www.yorkpress.co.uk
January 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
With the riverside of York once again under water and such events becoming even more frequent due to increased rain storms as part of climate heating, isn't it time to consider creating a River Ouse "bypass" wildlife corridor to take the extra water? 1/3
www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2483018...
www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2483018...