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Terrible news! Between 2021 & 2024 the ban on hunting turtle doves allowed the population to increase 25% - an astronomical speed of recovery. Before that numbers had been plummeting. Turtle dove population in the UK shrank by 98% between 1994 & 2021.
🚨 BREAKING: Turtle-dove hunting season reopens!
The EU Commission just gave the green light for EU countries to resume the hunt for European Turtle-doves, ending a 3-year pause.
This is reckless, short-sighted and will take this bird back to the brink.
More info: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/04...
The EU Commission just gave the green light for EU countries to resume the hunt for European Turtle-doves, ending a 3-year pause.
This is reckless, short-sighted and will take this bird back to the brink.
More info: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/04...
April 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Terrible news! Between 2021 & 2024 the ban on hunting turtle doves allowed the population to increase 25% - an astronomical speed of recovery. Before that numbers had been plummeting. Turtle dove population in the UK shrank by 98% between 1994 & 2021.
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beaver's return
![Comic by Stephen Collins for the Guardian. Script as follows:
Scene is a British WOODLAND by a RIVER. A NATURALIST is stood next to a cage, and TV NEWS REPORTERS are filming him and the cage.
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NATURALIST:
And now It is my great honour
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NATURALIST:
to reintroduce the first wild beaver
back into Britain
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[Cut to the BEAVER’S CAGE. Its door is open and the Beaver is leaned nonchalantly up against the opening, smoking a cigarette.]
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BEAVER:
Well, well, well.
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BEAVER:
Look who's come crawling back.
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BEAVER:
Got a rubbish ecosystem have ya?
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BEAVER:
Not happy with the *critical anti-flood infrastructure* engineered by the flippin *badgers*?
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BEAVER:
I almost didn't recognise you without one of my ancestors on your head…
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BEAVER:
First you wipe us out… now you ask us to come back and build dams for free…
You actually expect me to be *pleased* don’t ya?
NATURALIST:
I'm so sorry I…I…
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BEAVER:
“Ooh la la, the Brits have come crawling back…”
Do I look like *Michel flippin’ Barnier*?
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NATURALIST:
I-if there’s some kind of… *remuneration* we could offer I-I’m sure…
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BEAVER [throwing cigarette to the ground]:
Unlimited pond weed, two tickets to Abba Voyage.
NATURALIST:
Done.
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March 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
beaver's return
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Utter utter madness 🤬
The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists support key observations of surging greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to a list obtained by Democratic members of Congress and shared with The Post.
Trump moves to close facility that helps track planet-warming pollution
The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Utter utter madness 🤬
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Go beavers! How exciting. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Beaver releases into wild to be allowed in England for first time in centuries
Exclusive: Government to grant nature groups a licence for release of rodent species after earlier setbacks
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Go beavers! How exciting. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Shocking. Never thought I'd live to see this.
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
February 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Shocking. Never thought I'd live to see this.
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We can easily spare a tenth of England for nature without affecting food production!
20% of our land produces just 3% of our food.
Vast swathes of our uplands are owned by about 150 wealthy landowners who use it for shooting grouse, and set fire to our biggest carbon sink, our peat bogs...
20% of our land produces just 3% of our food.
Vast swathes of our uplands are owned by about 150 wealthy landowners who use it for shooting grouse, and set fire to our biggest carbon sink, our peat bogs...
January 31, 2025 at 8:43 AM
We can easily spare a tenth of England for nature without affecting food production!
20% of our land produces just 3% of our food.
Vast swathes of our uplands are owned by about 150 wealthy landowners who use it for shooting grouse, and set fire to our biggest carbon sink, our peat bogs...
20% of our land produces just 3% of our food.
Vast swathes of our uplands are owned by about 150 wealthy landowners who use it for shooting grouse, and set fire to our biggest carbon sink, our peat bogs...
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Hi, I’m Dr. Suzanne Simard, & I’ve dedicated my life to studying the deep, interconnected relationships that shape our forests.
My research and creation of The Mother Tree Project have worked to amplify the world where trees, plants, & fungi communicate & support each other. 🌎🌲
My research and creation of The Mother Tree Project have worked to amplify the world where trees, plants, & fungi communicate & support each other. 🌎🌲
January 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Hi, I’m Dr. Suzanne Simard, & I’ve dedicated my life to studying the deep, interconnected relationships that shape our forests.
My research and creation of The Mother Tree Project have worked to amplify the world where trees, plants, & fungi communicate & support each other. 🌎🌲
My research and creation of The Mother Tree Project have worked to amplify the world where trees, plants, & fungi communicate & support each other. 🌎🌲
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This is a shocking situation, well done PA Media for exposing. Please @tonyjuniper.bsky.social and Natural England, sort it out. English wildlife ‘could be disappearing in the dark’ due to lack of scrutiny www.theguardian.com/environment/...
English wildlife ‘could be disappearing in the dark’ due to lack of scrutiny
Conservationists issue warning as figures show three-quarters of SSSI sites have had no recent assessments
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2024 at 11:06 AM
This is a shocking situation, well done PA Media for exposing. Please @tonyjuniper.bsky.social and Natural England, sort it out. English wildlife ‘could be disappearing in the dark’ due to lack of scrutiny www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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This is the only story that should be making headlines re: Musk and the UK.
The apartheid nepo baby's wealth is based off some of the largest taxpayer subsidies in history. He is playing capitalism with the training wheels on
He's not a genius, he's a thief
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
The apartheid nepo baby's wealth is based off some of the largest taxpayer subsidies in history. He is playing capitalism with the training wheels on
He's not a genius, he's a thief
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk’s Tesla has received almost £200m in UK grants since 2016
Bulk of funds for electric vehicle firm relate to government’s plug-in car grant, analysis finds
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is the only story that should be making headlines re: Musk and the UK.
The apartheid nepo baby's wealth is based off some of the largest taxpayer subsidies in history. He is playing capitalism with the training wheels on
He's not a genius, he's a thief
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
The apartheid nepo baby's wealth is based off some of the largest taxpayer subsidies in history. He is playing capitalism with the training wheels on
He's not a genius, he's a thief
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...