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

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

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?

Just one of the pellets I found today. There are all five British species of owl there as well as Kestrel, Buzzard, Red Kite, Merlin and more

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

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!

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

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!

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 !

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

This is a rough route the river could follow. If it was 6ft wide and 6ft deep over 10 miles it would have a capacity of about 2m cu ft of water - the same as the Clifton Ings flood storage - but at a river flow of, say, 3mph its daily renewable capacity would be so much greater

Great that Yorkshire Wildlife Trust are creating a new reserve at Park Gill near Kettlewell in Yorkshire Dales National Park - can't wait to help out there as a volunteer. It's got amazing flora and fauna already and it will only get better!

Just caught up with this masterpiece of research, logical conclusion and boundary-breaking thought by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social as he always produces, beautifully written with such knowledge of nature. Let's hope the tipping point over to farmless food arrives in time for us and the planet