Shane King
@shanethking.bsky.social
Nature | Conservation | Research | Natur Cymru
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Is the UK hot right now?
YES - it's hot!
Live temperature updates hour by hour, every day.
istheukhotrightnow.com
YES - it's hot!
Live temperature updates hour by hour, every day.
istheukhotrightnow.com
June 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Is the UK hot right now?
YES - it's hot!
Live temperature updates hour by hour, every day.
istheukhotrightnow.com
YES - it's hot!
Live temperature updates hour by hour, every day.
istheukhotrightnow.com
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New research by the BTO indicates that many migratory bird species are lacking consistent protection as they move through Europe:
Evaluating protected areas for migratory birds
New research by the British Trust for Ornithology indicates that many migratory bird species are lacking consistent protection as they move through Europe.
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April 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
New research by the BTO indicates that many migratory bird species are lacking consistent protection as they move through Europe:
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A Mechanistic Approach to Animal Dispersal—Quantifying Energetics and Maximum Distances | doi.org/10.1111/ele.... | Ecology Letters | #ornithology 🪶
February 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
A Mechanistic Approach to Animal Dispersal—Quantifying Energetics and Maximum Distances | doi.org/10.1111/ele.... | Ecology Letters | #ornithology 🪶
An exciting wetland creation project is proposed on the Afon Cynin - St Clears
Hosted by the West Wales Rivers Trust, there’s a chance to learn and ask questions about the project 🦢
#Carmarthenshire #Wetlands #Conservation
Hosted by the West Wales Rivers Trust, there’s a chance to learn and ask questions about the project 🦢
#Carmarthenshire #Wetlands #Conservation
February 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
An exciting wetland creation project is proposed on the Afon Cynin - St Clears
Hosted by the West Wales Rivers Trust, there’s a chance to learn and ask questions about the project 🦢
#Carmarthenshire #Wetlands #Conservation
Hosted by the West Wales Rivers Trust, there’s a chance to learn and ask questions about the project 🦢
#Carmarthenshire #Wetlands #Conservation
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We want to see diverse landscapes that are full of life. That's why we support @wildjustice.bsky.social's petition.
Add your name today 👇
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700036
Add your name today 👇
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700036
February 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
We want to see diverse landscapes that are full of life. That's why we support @wildjustice.bsky.social's petition.
Add your name today 👇
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700036
Add your name today 👇
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700036
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Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪🌍🦤🧬
#consgen #PopGen
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪🌍🦤🧬
#consgen #PopGen
Global meta-analysis shows action is needed to halt genetic diversity loss - Nature
A comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity covering more than three decades of research demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation i...
www.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪🌍🦤🧬
#consgen #PopGen
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪🌍🦤🧬
#consgen #PopGen
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Excruciating to hear Govt minister try to explain how expanding airport capacity won’t increase carbon emissions & drive #ClimateCrisis. It likely won’t even increase growth either given that corporate air travel is declining & 3 times as many tourists leave the country as come in. #BBCR4Today
January 29, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Excruciating to hear Govt minister try to explain how expanding airport capacity won’t increase carbon emissions & drive #ClimateCrisis. It likely won’t even increase growth either given that corporate air travel is declining & 3 times as many tourists leave the country as come in. #BBCR4Today
Even from an economic view, the basis of the move, it seems counterintuitive…
Expanding UK airports won’t deliver economic growth
New Economics Foundation calls on Treasury to publish evidence of growth benefits so they can be examined
neweconomics.org
January 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Even from an economic view, the basis of the move, it seems counterintuitive…
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Great to see momentum continuing to grow for introducing the #NaturalHistory GCSE - it just needs green light from government! A brilliant way to help restore nature, improve young people’s physical & mental health & fill the green skills gap.
Launch natural history GCSE in England now, campaigners urge Labour
Environmentalists say new course could be delayed until 2030 because it is viewed as Conservative party initiative
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Great to see momentum continuing to grow for introducing the #NaturalHistory GCSE - it just needs green light from government! A brilliant way to help restore nature, improve young people’s physical & mental health & fill the green skills gap.
January 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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“there are groups of scientists wanting to do more … combining activism and science, Scientists for Extinction Rebellion in the UK and Scientist Rebellion worldwide
There are many ways to be involved and make a contribution in these scientists’ groups”
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
There are many ways to be involved and make a contribution in these scientists’ groups”
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
How scientists and the climate movement can work together | Letters
Letters: Dr Ol Perkins says activists have no need to overstate the case, Michael Symonds thinks academics and students worldwide need to prioritise saving the planet, and Dr Tristram Wyatt says there...
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“there are groups of scientists wanting to do more … combining activism and science, Scientists for Extinction Rebellion in the UK and Scientist Rebellion worldwide
There are many ways to be involved and make a contribution in these scientists’ groups”
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
There are many ways to be involved and make a contribution in these scientists’ groups”
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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From air and sea surface temperatures, to greenhouse gas concentrations, sea ice cover and heat stress, explore and download the charts of the Global Climate Highlights 2024 easily from our gallery: climate.copernicus.eu/graphics-gal...
January 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
From air and sea surface temperatures, to greenhouse gas concentrations, sea ice cover and heat stress, explore and download the charts of the Global Climate Highlights 2024 easily from our gallery: climate.copernicus.eu/graphics-gal...
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Effects of farming specialisation on grassland birds in Mediterranean High Nature Value farmland | www.sciencedirect.co... | Global Ecology and Conservation | #ornithology 🪶
Effects of farming specialisation on grassland birds in Mediterranean High Nature Value farmland
The benefits of low-intensity mixed livestock-crop farming systems for Mediterranean farmland biodiversity have been widely documented. However, littl…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Effects of farming specialisation on grassland birds in Mediterranean High Nature Value farmland | www.sciencedirect.co... | Global Ecology and Conservation | #ornithology 🪶
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After Chequered Skipper went extinct in England some 50 years ago, the reintroduction of the butterfly has been declared a success by conservationists:
Chequered Skipper reintroduction declared a success
After Chequered Skipper went extinct in England some 50 years ago, the reintroduction of the butterfly has been declared a success by conservationists. The species was always scarce, but died out in 1976 with changes to woodland management being blamed. However, in 2018, ecologists brought a donor p...
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January 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
After Chequered Skipper went extinct in England some 50 years ago, the reintroduction of the butterfly has been declared a success by conservationists:
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New pub investigating shifts in 🐦 species distributions & sensitivity among 🐦 assemblages across latitude under #climatechange & #forestmanagement scenarios in hemi & boreal 🌲(Québec) - Kudos G. Labadie for your great work! 👏 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
@trailgeek.bsky.social @dstralberg.bsky.social
@trailgeek.bsky.social @dstralberg.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
New pub investigating shifts in 🐦 species distributions & sensitivity among 🐦 assemblages across latitude under #climatechange & #forestmanagement scenarios in hemi & boreal 🌲(Québec) - Kudos G. Labadie for your great work! 👏 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
@trailgeek.bsky.social @dstralberg.bsky.social
@trailgeek.bsky.social @dstralberg.bsky.social
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Spiralling global temperatures: 2024 edition
January 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Spiralling global temperatures: 2024 edition
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The data is in. 2024 was the warmest year on record, and probably in the whole of human history – about 1.6°C warmer than the pre-industrial period.
More than 1 billion individual thermometer measurements, made by thousands of people over many decades, have been condensed into a single number.
More than 1 billion individual thermometer measurements, made by thousands of people over many decades, have been condensed into a single number.
January 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The data is in. 2024 was the warmest year on record, and probably in the whole of human history – about 1.6°C warmer than the pre-industrial period.
More than 1 billion individual thermometer measurements, made by thousands of people over many decades, have been condensed into a single number.
More than 1 billion individual thermometer measurements, made by thousands of people over many decades, have been condensed into a single number.
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A new study from The Wildlife Trusts has identified continued declines in Water Vole populations set against heartening increases in areas where conservation efforts have been focused:
Mixed findings in new UK Water Vole report
A new study from The Wildlife Trusts has identified overall declines in Water Vole populations set against heartening increases in areas where conservation efforts have been focused. The report examines Water Vole distribution over 10 years by analysing the number of 10-km grid squares across the co...
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January 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
A new study from The Wildlife Trusts has identified continued declines in Water Vole populations set against heartening increases in areas where conservation efforts have been focused:
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New paper out! 🌳 🌲 (and this one is very special to me)
➡️ Diversity boosts forest productivity also (and especially?) through its effect on the number of trees within forests
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@journalofecology.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social
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➡️ Diversity boosts forest productivity also (and especially?) through its effect on the number of trees within forests
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@journalofecology.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social
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January 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
New paper out! 🌳 🌲 (and this one is very special to me)
➡️ Diversity boosts forest productivity also (and especially?) through its effect on the number of trees within forests
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@journalofecology.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social
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➡️ Diversity boosts forest productivity also (and especially?) through its effect on the number of trees within forests
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@journalofecology.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social
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Entirely what you'd expect from the NFU but are there other, genuine, conservation issues to consider before more WTE translocations in England & Wales?
#RaptorResearch #Ornithology #birdingWales
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/01/06/p...
#RaptorResearch #Ornithology #birdingWales
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/01/06/p...
Predictable backlash from NFU to proposed releases of White-tailed Eagles
Last week I wrote a blog about three separate proposals to release White-tailed Eagles in Cumbria, Wales, Severn Estuary and Exmoor National Park in a strategic attempt to bolster and connect the c…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
January 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Entirely what you'd expect from the NFU but are there other, genuine, conservation issues to consider before more WTE translocations in England & Wales?
#RaptorResearch #Ornithology #birdingWales
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/01/06/p...
#RaptorResearch #Ornithology #birdingWales
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/01/06/p...
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Climate change fueled some of the worst extreme weather events on record in 2024, according to a recent report.
Researchers found that nearly all extreme weather events were “made more intense and more frequent because of our continued burning of fossil fuels.”
Read more:
Researchers found that nearly all extreme weather events were “made more intense and more frequent because of our continued burning of fossil fuels.”
Read more:
Climate change fueled record extreme weather events in 2024
Climate change fueled some of the worst extreme weather events on record in 2024, according to a recent report. Researchers at the World Weather Attribution (WWA) and Climate Central reviewed heat wav...
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January 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Climate change fueled some of the worst extreme weather events on record in 2024, according to a recent report.
Researchers found that nearly all extreme weather events were “made more intense and more frequent because of our continued burning of fossil fuels.”
Read more:
Researchers found that nearly all extreme weather events were “made more intense and more frequent because of our continued burning of fossil fuels.”
Read more:
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A recently published study has shown how solar farms planted with native grasses and wildflowers have caused insect populations to flourish:
Insect populations flourish in restored habitats at solar-energy facilities
A recently published study has shown how solar farms planted with native grasses and wildflowers have caused insect populations to flourish.
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January 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A recently published study has shown how solar farms planted with native grasses and wildflowers have caused insect populations to flourish:
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Three different project teams looking to release White-tailed Eagles in these areas. If you're local, or a visitor, pls take a few minutes to share your views via the project survey forms (links in blog).
#RaptorResearch #Ornithology #birdingWales
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/01/02/p...
#RaptorResearch #Ornithology #birdingWales
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/01/02/p...
Public views wanted on plans to release White-tailed eagles in Cumbria, Wales, Severn Estuary & Exmoor
Various separate projects are gaining traction to release White-tailed Eagles (WTE) in Cumbria, Wales, Severn Estuary, and Exmoor National Park in a strategic attempt to bolster and connect the cur…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
January 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Three different project teams looking to release White-tailed Eagles in these areas. If you're local, or a visitor, pls take a few minutes to share your views via the project survey forms (links in blog).
#RaptorResearch #Ornithology #birdingWales
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/01/02/p...
#RaptorResearch #Ornithology #birdingWales
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/01/02/p...
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Protecting only 0.7% of world's land could save a third of endangered species, new research shows:
A third of endangered species could be protected by 0.7% of world's land
Protecting only 0.7% of world's land could save a third of endangered species, new research shows. The study, led by researchers at Imperial College London and published in Nature Communications, finds that large gains in conservation are possible by focusing on areas home to exceptional biodiversit...
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January 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Protecting only 0.7% of world's land could save a third of endangered species, new research shows: