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Phil Wsn
@philwsn.bsky.social
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Dad who enjoys the outdoors / nature / walking, bit of running, photography. Has a softspot for hedgehogs. Owns a cat, walks a dog. Tries to be plastic-free.
#BeKind 🦔🌿🐶 UK
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Phil Wsn @philwsn.bsky.social · Sep 21
A timely reminder folks if you can leave fresh water out for your #backyardwildlife they will be very grateful.
Our #hedgehog visitor was back last night and cleared his bowl again 🥰🦔💚
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Outstanding photograph of #bats by Sitaram Raul, one of the entries in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 🦇
saskiaw.bsky.social Saskia W. @saskiaw.bsky.social · Aug 27
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025: one of the 15 winners.

In total darkness in an abandoned building, Sitaram Raul focused his lens at the distance where he expected the bats to appear, relying on his flash to illuminate the scene. Meanwhile, the bats “defecated randomly on me and the camera."
flying bats illuminated by a flash of light against the darkness
August 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
philwsn.bsky.social
Absolutely gripped by the tv series #MixTape
July 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
philwsn.bsky.social
couldn't agree more.
BBC News - Dads call for ban on smartphones in schools across England - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dads call for ban on smartphones in schools across England
The two fathers say the current guidance on smartphones in schools is unsafe for children.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 12, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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weplanetint.bsky.social
Longer term, governments can support alternatives like precision fermentation & cultivated meat which allow the production of meat, palm oil & soya products with a tiny fraction of the environmental footprint of existing agriculture.

Here's @georgemonbiot.bsky.social to explain how it works.
🧵
A better way to feed 10 billion people featuring George Monbiot.
YouTube video by WePlanet
youtu.be
February 26, 2025 at 7:41 AM
philwsn.bsky.social
💚🦔🐾🎉
And a happy birthday to the @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social

www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk/give-hedgeho...
Photo of a small hedgehog advertising Hedgehog Awareness Week, 4th to the 10th May 2025
April 30, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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gfieurope.org
🧀Precision fermentation has been used for decades to produce ingredients like low-cost rennet for cheesemaking, and is now being used to facilitate more stable, sustainable production of common ingredients like milk and egg white proteins, palm oil and coffee. But how does it work?
Process diagram explaining how precision fermentation works: Similar to how traditional fermentation is used to produce alcohol when brewing beer and wine, precision fermentation uses microorganisms like yeast to produce ingredients ranging from palm oil to dairy proteins. First, microorganisms are given biological instructions that tell them how the target ingredient is made – which, for alternative protein applications, could be a flavour molecule like heme or a protein like whey. They are then added to a warm fermentor and fed sugars, which the microorganism then converts into the desired ingredients and releases into the fermentor. The water in the fermentor is then removed and the ingredients are filtered out to be used as part of a plant-based recipe – for example to add a meaty flavour to a burger or stretchiness to plant-based cheese.
January 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
philwsn.bsky.social
#PrecisionFermentation gotta be the way forward to replace #palmoil 💚🌱
weplanetint.bsky.social WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · Feb 26
Longer term, governments can support alternatives like precision fermentation & cultivated meat which allow the production of meat, palm oil & soya products with a tiny fraction of the environmental footprint of existing agriculture.

Here's @georgemonbiot.bsky.social to explain how it works.
🧵
A better way to feed 10 billion people featuring George Monbiot.
YouTube video by WePlanet
youtu.be
April 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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hedgehoghugh.bsky.social
The Littlest Hedgehog wins award! @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social film by Liquona, and narrated by @chrisgpackham.bsky.social has scooped the People's Choice Award at the Smiley Charity Film Awards. hughwarwick.substack.com/p/a-very-spe... #hedgehog
A Very Special Littlest Hedgehog...
wins award!!
hughwarwick.substack.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social
"A Labour government is choosing – and it is a choice – to take money from disabled benefit claimants rather than tax high earners. You might ask, is that the moral thing to do?”

Spot on, @francesryan.bsky.social
Labour mollifies the rich, targets disabled people and claims moral justification. There isn’t any | Frances Ryan
Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system. They have made that choice and it’s immoral, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
philwsn.bsky.social
Status:Near Threatened.
To help make your garden accessible, provide clean water and a few cat biscuits (not bread, milk or mealworms) and ask neighbours to create highways (gaps in fence to increase hedgehogs' foraging area). Talk about them when you see them, and learn a bit about them. 🦔💚🐾🌱
March 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Love this 🦔💚
hedgehoghugh.bsky.social Hugh Warwick @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social · Mar 6
First Class #hedgehog!!! How very appropriate ... if you would like to dig a little deeper into these gorgeous animals' lives, pop over to hughwarwick.substack.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu... 🍂🦔💚
Create a leaf-mould cage
Use leaves to make a warm and cosy winter sleepover for hedgehogs and toads. Create a storage cage where you will turn all the raked leaves from your garden into luscious leaf-mould.
www.rspb.org.uk
January 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
philwsn.bsky.social
Great news. Finally a government that sees sense.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Government overturns Tory measure and bans emergency use of bee-killing pesticide
Emergency use of Cruiser SB, a neonicotinoid pesticide highly toxic to bees, to be outlawed in UK in line with EU
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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BBC News - Nepal's leader says it has too many tigers. Does it?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Nepal's leader says it has too many tigers. Does it?
Wild tigers killed nearly 40 people in Nepal between 2019 and 2023. Solutions are hard to come by.
www.bbc.com
January 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
philwsn.bsky.social
Great news
BBC News - Deadline to record forgotten footpaths to be scrapped
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Deadline to record historic footpaths to be scrapped
Walking campaigners welcome the move, which the government says will help prevent paths from being lost.
www.bbc.com
December 30, 2024 at 12:55 AM
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BBC News - Ancient landmarks closed off to walkers, campaigners say - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ancient landmarks closed off to walkers, campaigners say
They include a neolithic burial mound in Wiltshire and an Iron Age hill fort on the edge of Dartmoor.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2024 at 11:55 PM
philwsn.bsky.social
5 more miles walked today means I'm 44 miles into the #50MilesForGuideDogsUK challenge 😊🐕🧡
Me wearing a Guide Dogs cap, face to face with a labrador retriever. We're looking into each other's eyes. The photo has a golden christmas bell sticker in the top right corner.
December 21, 2024 at 11:45 PM
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emma-robertshaw.bsky.social
Labour to ban neonics - great news!

Craig Bennett of The Wildlife Trusts says there is "no place in British agriculture for toxic bee-killing pesticides"… the government's decision "must not be undermined by granting the emergency use of neonicotinoids next year" 🐝

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bee-harming pesticides' emergency approval will end, vows Defra
Planned legal changes will see three neonicotinoid pesticides completely banned from any future use.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 21, 2024 at 11:46 AM
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awildwanderer.bsky.social
It's great to hear the government is taking serious steps to permanently ban #neonics, but #BritishSugar has still put in a request for use in 2025. I've just signed this #petition to encourage British Sugar to invest in alternatives & back #NatureFriendlyFarming. (1/2)
Back Nature-Friendly Beet Farmers!
I believe #NatureFriendlyFarming is key to a #wilderfuture Sign the petition!
action.wildlifetrusts.org
December 21, 2024 at 2:04 PM
philwsn.bsky.social
I'll believe it when I see it , but I bloody hope the government mean it this time - and not just capitulate to the NFU / British Sugar (again) 🐝💚
#bees #biodiversity #neonics
emmahardymp.bsky.social Emma Hardy @emmahardymp.bsky.social · Dec 21
You best beelieve it! 🐝
December 21, 2024 at 11:16 PM
philwsn.bsky.social
Fascinating success story regarding the near extinct Wilkins Bunting by the RSPB and global partners on Tristan da Cunha 👏🐦🐝🌳 @rspb.bsky.social
www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...
Tiny wasp helps prevent the first global bird extinction on British soil for 60 years
www.rspb.org.uk
December 21, 2024 at 9:41 AM
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ipbes.net
🚨 OUT NOW 🚨

📚 The @ipbes.bsky.social #NexusAssessment Summary for Policymakers is now available!

➡️ Explore the most comprehensive assessment ever of the interconnections between biodiversity, water, food, health & climate.

🌏 Options for a just & sustainable future!
www.ipbes.net/node/85582
December 17, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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drnickisaac.bsky.social
Very clear article summarising the IPBES Nexus assessment by @carbonbrief.org
www.carbonbrief.org/ipbes-nexus-...
IPBES nexus report: Five takeaways for biodiversity, food, water, health and climate - Carbon Brief
“Fragmented governance” between biodiversity, climate change, food, water and health is putting all of those...
www.carbonbrief.org
December 17, 2024 at 10:10 PM
philwsn.bsky.social
36 miles done so far 🙂🐕 On track to complete #50MilesInDecember for @guidedogsuk.bsky.social
A guide dog sits waiting to go for a walk wearing a festive red scarf with a white bobble.
December 18, 2024 at 7:15 AM
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BBC News - IPBES report sees climate, nature and food challenges interlinked - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
IPBES report sees climate, nature and food challenges interlinked
A new approach is needed to tackle the interlinked crises afflicting the planet, scientists warn.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2024 at 11:38 PM