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Ranger Mark
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Countryside Ranger. Love nature - especially plants ☘️🌲🌳 and moths 🦋
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Please watch. It's about climate change and the National Emergency Briefing that was given to MPs. I've signed the letter to Kier Starmer that's mentioned... Please could you do so as well?
This is not the video I had planned to make.
YouTube video by Just Have a Think
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November 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Know your finches? 🤔 Whether an experienced birder or new to nature we want you to help us count Birds in Greenspaces next year 🪶 Our FREE resource pack provides ID guides to 30 bird species. Sign up to the newsletter to receive it at www.bto.org/greenspaces

Illustrations by @willrose.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I've just emailed my MP to tell them what nature means to me and that I want it to stay protected. Will you take action too?
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/...
Tell the UK Government they must do better for nature!
I've just emailed my MP to tell them what nature means to me and that I want it to stay protected. Will you take action too?
action.rspb.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Fascinating blog about Winter Active Bumblebees 🌻🐝 #insects #invertebrates #bees
Winter-active bumblebees: Still flying when it’s freezing! ❄

In our latest blog, Dr Richard Comont, Science Manager at the Trust, reveals why some bumblebees are still active, and how you can help 🐝 Grab a cuppa and read on 🔗 https://ow.ly/xVJo50XuzUt

#Winter #Bumblebees #Cold
November 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Obsidentify says this is November Moth... But is it...? #teammoth
November 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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If you can’t teach them empathy, teach them consequences.
September 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Cow dung is an important habitat and resource for fungi like the ones in this photo.
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Only two moths in my small actinic trap last night - both December Moth. But that's a new species for me and the garden so happy. #teammoth
November 15, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Went looking for Marsh Clubmoss in a bog and found a bonus Raft Spider (Dolomedes fimbriatus) and lots of Pale Butterwort (Pinguicula lusitanica)
October 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Enough is enough.

Rewilding Britain has joined 36 other powerful voices to demand the government end the sewage scandal once and for all.

📸 SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Alamy
July 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Criminal .

Help me fight them → petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
February 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I'm listening to The Plodcast | 284. How to train your dog to behave perfectly around livestock and wildlife on Podbean, check it out! www.podbean.com/ea/dir-rar8w...
284. How to train your dog to behave perfectly around livestock and wildlife
Poorly trained dogs can be a menace to wildlife and livestock – and are a major issue in the UK countryside. This week, host Fergus is joined by friend of the Plodcast James Fair and his dog Dakota to...
www.podbean.com
February 4, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Britain’s peat bogs store more carbon than rainforests, but many could dry out within 50 years! 😨

That’s bad news for biodiversity, flood control, and our planet.

We're working to preserve these vital ecosystems – keeping them healthy and absorbing carbon:
Most of Britain’s peat bogs could stop forming new peat as the climate changes – new study
But bad news for peatlands could trigger the funding needed to preserve them.
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February 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Be sure to tune into Countryfile on #WorldWetlandsDay (Sunday 2nd February) to learn about Whooper Swan monitoring in the UK 🦢 @wwtworldwide.bsky.social #UKBirding
On World Wetlands Day, be sure to watch BBC Countryfile on Sunday 2nd at 18:05 on BBC One as we bring one of the UK's very best wetlands, WWT Welney, to the nation's television screens! See @lizziebruce.bsky.social counting swans & me chatting to Matt Baker about the increase in Whoopers!
January 31, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Let me rephrase that for you. It is absolutely moronic!!!
🦇 (1/2) In response to the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s speech today: we believe that blaming the laws that protect bats, newts and other wildlife, as well as our wider environment, for planning delays is short sighted and misguided.
Is the government’s planning reform bad for bats? - News - Bat Conservation Trust
Planning reforms risk devastating impacts to bats, here's what we're doing about it and how you can help.
www.bats.org.uk
January 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Hello Bluesky! Butterflies and moths are often seen as a symbol of hope and new beginnings, so what better way to kick off our posts than with a thread of blue butterflies? 💙🦋

📷: Nick Edge
January 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Exciting festival at Carey’s Secret Garden coming up soon!!

Talks from fantastic speakers like @birdingfox.bsky.social, @btobirds.bsky.social,Tim Mackrill, a variety of workshops, and an exclusive screening of Amy King and I’s new documentary 🤩

👉🏻 bookings.careyssecretgarden.co.uk/event/careys...
January 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
We need this ASAP. Does it matter who's idea it is if it's a good idea...?
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 27, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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One of the highlights of studying my local Wasp Spiders (Argiope bruennichi) last year was seeing Hornets (Vespa crabro) taking them as prey. The Hornet flew low, banging webs to locate a spider. It grabbed a spider, which clung to its web, the Hornet chewed its legs off to remove it from the web.
December 1, 2024 at 1:56 PM