Trevor Halpin
@trevorhalpin.bsky.social
Trees, invasive species, anthropology, sci-fi
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This is a handful of the most interesting facts from the latest episode of the podcast about the impacts of beavers on salmonids, featuring Dr. Rob Needham's groundbreaking research on fish passage through beaver dams. 🌍🦤🦊🧪
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August 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
This is a handful of the most interesting facts from the latest episode of the podcast about the impacts of beavers on salmonids, featuring Dr. Rob Needham's groundbreaking research on fish passage through beaver dams. 🌍🦤🦊🧪
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Garden wildlife, ringlet butterfly, tadpoles, bumble bees and foxglove.
June 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Garden wildlife, ringlet butterfly, tadpoles, bumble bees and foxglove.
Nice to see an urban tree with plants around the base like this one in #Naas. It would be great to see more #suds landscaping in our towns & cities. #urbantree #Kildare
June 1, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Nice to see an urban tree with plants around the base like this one in #Naas. It would be great to see more #suds landscaping in our towns & cities. #urbantree #Kildare
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"Like Conor Pass, the ambition is to expand the number of national parks and protect biodiversity"
- Minister of State for Biodiversity, Christopher O'Sullivan.
With all our EXISTING national parks severely overgrazed, rectifying *that* should be the priority.
www.thejournal.ie/readme/biodi...
- Minister of State for Biodiversity, Christopher O'Sullivan.
With all our EXISTING national parks severely overgrazed, rectifying *that* should be the priority.
www.thejournal.ie/readme/biodi...
Like Conor Pass, the ambition is to expand the number of national parks and protect biodiversity
Community is key if we want to protect biodiversity, writes Minister of State Christopher O’Sullivan.
www.thejournal.ie
June 1, 2025 at 8:39 AM
"Like Conor Pass, the ambition is to expand the number of national parks and protect biodiversity"
- Minister of State for Biodiversity, Christopher O'Sullivan.
With all our EXISTING national parks severely overgrazed, rectifying *that* should be the priority.
www.thejournal.ie/readme/biodi...
- Minister of State for Biodiversity, Christopher O'Sullivan.
With all our EXISTING national parks severely overgrazed, rectifying *that* should be the priority.
www.thejournal.ie/readme/biodi...
Ant hills and yellow rattle in the garden.
June 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Ant hills and yellow rattle in the garden.
A small part of our #miniforest, 2021 v 2025. #miyawaki
April 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
A small part of our #miniforest, 2021 v 2025. #miyawaki
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Have you ever wondered what the Somerset Levels might have sounded like in the late Iron Age?
Worth a watch....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0l8... #soundscapes #SomersetLevels #Birds #birdsong #IronAge
Worth a watch....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0l8... #soundscapes #SomersetLevels #Birds #birdsong #IronAge
Iron Age Soundscape: Glastonbury Lake Villages 165 BC
YouTube video by Lost Soundscapes
www.youtube.com
April 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Have you ever wondered what the Somerset Levels might have sounded like in the late Iron Age?
Worth a watch....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0l8... #soundscapes #SomersetLevels #Birds #birdsong #IronAge
Worth a watch....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0l8... #soundscapes #SomersetLevels #Birds #birdsong #IronAge
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Do you know of any large old Elms in Ireland?
We're looking for really big old elms which have survived elm disease, despite it spreading everywhere across the country.
Please visit our dedicated website and let us know about any veteran elms out there!
www.wych-hunt.ie
We're looking for really big old elms which have survived elm disease, despite it spreading everywhere across the country.
Please visit our dedicated website and let us know about any veteran elms out there!
www.wych-hunt.ie
April 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Do you know of any large old Elms in Ireland?
We're looking for really big old elms which have survived elm disease, despite it spreading everywhere across the country.
Please visit our dedicated website and let us know about any veteran elms out there!
www.wych-hunt.ie
We're looking for really big old elms which have survived elm disease, despite it spreading everywhere across the country.
Please visit our dedicated website and let us know about any veteran elms out there!
www.wych-hunt.ie
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1. Against my own political instincts, I’ve taken what feels like a drastic step, and started stockpiling food. This week’s column explains why.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Plus a brief thread.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Plus a brief thread.
Britain’s food supply is precarious – and Trump’s chaos is spreading. I have a plan. Do you? | George Monbiot
I’ve started a stockpile, but that isn’t the answer. If crisis strikes, the government needs a strategy to protect us all, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
March 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
1. Against my own political instincts, I’ve taken what feels like a drastic step, and started stockpiling food. This week’s column explains why.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Plus a brief thread.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Plus a brief thread.
March 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Thinking of growing butternut squash this summer?
If you are, why not try our open pollinated early butternut squash?
Most early butternut squashes are F1 hybrids. Ours isn't and it is seed saving friendly.
wolfseeds.ie/product/wint...
If you are, why not try our open pollinated early butternut squash?
Most early butternut squashes are F1 hybrids. Ours isn't and it is seed saving friendly.
wolfseeds.ie/product/wint...
Early Butternut Squash
An early butternut type squash that has medium sized fruits weighing about 1.2-1.8kg. They have rich slightly nutty delicious flavours. The fruit typically stores well (ca. 3-4 months).
Unlike sever...
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February 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Thinking of growing butternut squash this summer?
If you are, why not try our open pollinated early butternut squash?
Most early butternut squashes are F1 hybrids. Ours isn't and it is seed saving friendly.
wolfseeds.ie/product/wint...
If you are, why not try our open pollinated early butternut squash?
Most early butternut squashes are F1 hybrids. Ours isn't and it is seed saving friendly.
wolfseeds.ie/product/wint...
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Prof Dominick Spracklen just explained on @channel4news.bsky.social how reintroducing 167 wolves in the Scottish Highlands could reduce red deer population enough to boost woodland regeneration, leading to 1 million tons of CO2 sequestred per year.
🤞 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
🤞 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reintroducing wolves to Highlands could help native woodlands, says study
Researchers say the animals could keep red deer numbers under control, leading to storage of 1m tonnes of CO2
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Prof Dominick Spracklen just explained on @channel4news.bsky.social how reintroducing 167 wolves in the Scottish Highlands could reduce red deer population enough to boost woodland regeneration, leading to 1 million tons of CO2 sequestred per year.
🤞 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
🤞 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Seems unhelpful: artificial feeders in woodland, feeding competitors & occasional nest predators, at a vanishingly rare site that still has Willow Tits in southern England.
Putting up feeders in Willow Tit habitat is like going to a Little Tern colony and throwing bread for the gulls. #ukbirding
Putting up feeders in Willow Tit habitat is like going to a Little Tern colony and throwing bread for the gulls. #ukbirding
Right then. North Devon.
Firstly looking for Willow Tits, and at a publicised site, there were slight issues finding them.
I'm with The Shadow when it comes to these furry pests, where's a Goshawk when you want one??
Firstly looking for Willow Tits, and at a publicised site, there were slight issues finding them.
I'm with The Shadow when it comes to these furry pests, where's a Goshawk when you want one??
February 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Seems unhelpful: artificial feeders in woodland, feeding competitors & occasional nest predators, at a vanishingly rare site that still has Willow Tits in southern England.
Putting up feeders in Willow Tit habitat is like going to a Little Tern colony and throwing bread for the gulls. #ukbirding
Putting up feeders in Willow Tit habitat is like going to a Little Tern colony and throwing bread for the gulls. #ukbirding
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Welcome to Rewild!
If you have land in Ireland and you want to rewild it but are not sure how, this is the site for you!
www.rewildyourland.ie
If you have land in Ireland and you want to rewild it but are not sure how, this is the site for you!
www.rewildyourland.ie
HOME | Rewild!
Join a growing network of people in Ireland taking action in the face of the biodiversity emergency
www.rewildyourland.ie
February 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Welcome to Rewild!
If you have land in Ireland and you want to rewild it but are not sure how, this is the site for you!
www.rewildyourland.ie
If you have land in Ireland and you want to rewild it but are not sure how, this is the site for you!
www.rewildyourland.ie
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We knew pet tick & flea treatments contaminate every river via domestic effluents. Now we see they are poisoning bird nests too. These hideously ecotoxic compounds are already banned in agriculture so why are they still freely available for pets? www.pan-uk.org/garden-birds...
Garden birds are being poisoned by pet flea treatments - Pesticide Action Network UK
Garden birds, such as blue tits and great tits, are being poisoned by pesticides found in pet tick and flea treatments.
www.pan-uk.org
February 4, 2025 at 7:18 AM
We knew pet tick & flea treatments contaminate every river via domestic effluents. Now we see they are poisoning bird nests too. These hideously ecotoxic compounds are already banned in agriculture so why are they still freely available for pets? www.pan-uk.org/garden-birds...
Found what I think is a #squirrel drey on the ground in Avondale, Wicklow today. Knocked by recent storms. I thought it was moss initially, but it's shredded bark. Possibly from these nearby conifers.
February 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Found what I think is a #squirrel drey on the ground in Avondale, Wicklow today. Knocked by recent storms. I thought it was moss initially, but it's shredded bark. Possibly from these nearby conifers.
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There's something absolutely tragic about the #Brigid's light atop the historic Hill of Allen, seat of Fionn MacCumhaill, shining out over the Kildare countryside, while metres away Roadstone have quarried away our collective heritage.
I will never understand how this was allowed
I will never understand how this was allowed
February 1, 2025 at 10:26 AM
There's something absolutely tragic about the #Brigid's light atop the historic Hill of Allen, seat of Fionn MacCumhaill, shining out over the Kildare countryside, while metres away Roadstone have quarried away our collective heritage.
I will never understand how this was allowed
I will never understand how this was allowed
"Between a rock and hard place" garden in #Carlow town. It was planted up last year, so it'll be interesting to see how it develops as the plants become established.
January 31, 2025 at 10:16 AM
"Between a rock and hard place" garden in #Carlow town. It was planted up last year, so it'll be interesting to see how it develops as the plants become established.
By dawns early light... I was worried that the scots pine wouldn't keep up with the birch, oak and alder, but I guess I was wrong.
January 31, 2025 at 9:59 AM
By dawns early light... I was worried that the scots pine wouldn't keep up with the birch, oak and alder, but I guess I was wrong.
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Reminder for Irish readers. Oleg owns Aughinish Alumina near Foynes; an environmental time-bomb also, as it happens.
Oleg Deripaska was named in Senate Intelligence report as working with Russian intelligence to subvert elections across the world. Aka Lord Mandelson’s friend.
The fact that Starmer is so indebted to him that he gave him this gig is honestly alarming
www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/fre...
The fact that Starmer is so indebted to him that he gave him this gig is honestly alarming
www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/fre...
Fresh evidence links Mandelson to oligarch
Peter Mandelson faced new questions today over his relationship with Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska. The newly-appointed Business Secretary is at the centre of a row over a potential conflict of i...
www.standard.co.uk
January 30, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Reminder for Irish readers. Oleg owns Aughinish Alumina near Foynes; an environmental time-bomb also, as it happens.
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Did you know that Snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis) aren’t native, but an introduction from Europe first recorded in the wild here in 1778? Another fun fact - the highest Snowdrops recorded in Britain were at 1,345 ft, above Ullswater in the Lakes. #wildflowerhour
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
January 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Did you know that Snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis) aren’t native, but an introduction from Europe first recorded in the wild here in 1778? Another fun fact - the highest Snowdrops recorded in Britain were at 1,345 ft, above Ullswater in the Lakes. #wildflowerhour
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...