Contrary to predictions, "Nature is slowing down, and its ability to regenerate is failing in the face of climate change." A new analysis finds the speed of species turnover in ecosystems worldwide has slowed by a third since the mid-1970s. 🌎🌿🧪
e360.yale.edu/features/eco...
Contentious (to the point of being hopeless IMHO) proposal for Calderdale Energy 'Park' gets pushbacks from @calderdale.bsky.social on detail, timing & consultation period markavery.info/2026/03/04/c...
Planning Authority doing its job.👍
#turbines #walshaw #peat #floods #climate
This is so great. Over the last 12 years beavers have gone from something that governments wanted rid of and few of the NGOs cared about, to being recognised as a native species right across GB. Well done to all those who campaigned to get us here.
VOLUME RIGHT UP!
Listen to the roar of frogs, the odd pipe of a toad and the whirr of a wren.
All clamouring for SPRING (well, for sex).
OK, the Gorton and Denton by-election, I have some thoughts!
Let's take a look at some of the FACTS and burst a few of the more ridiculous takes doing the rounds
But first up, can we acknowledge just what bad losers Reform are?!🤣
Right, let's get started...
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More than half of global GDP depends on nature, yet biodiversity loss is accelerating. Governments have now agreed the first global assessment focused on business.
In this blog, Katie Leach outlines what it means for companies and why nature is business critical.
Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.
Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.
This spring sees the release of a documentary about the fight to defend and extend access to nature in England and Wales. OUR LAND, directed by Orban Wallace and shot by Gallivant Film, follows the Right to Roam campaign as we trespass estates and challenge removal of rights on Dartmoor and beyond.
Re-peopling the glens with woodland crofts rather than subsidy fuelled hill sheep or ecocidal grouse shooting.
Eco-village with crofts and affordable homes planned at loch www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
‘Benthyg dros amser byr yw popeth a geir yn y byd hwn’
We’ve just seen a landmark moment for the environment in Wales greenallianceblog.org.uk/2026/02/25/w...
Following the success our #RewildTheRoyals campaign, we're thrilled to see the progress in expanding our beloved temperate rainforest on Dartmoor, owned by the Duchy of Cornwall. Thanks to Natural England, The Woodland Trust and Moor Trees for your hard work!
www.duchyofcornwall.org/article/volu...
If you’re also on insta or Facebook, check out the beautiful video zine contributions that have been made as part of the Rewild the Ghost Woods campaign from @wildcard.land
www.facebook.com/share/v/14XE...
We're also marking the launch of Radical Rural, a gallery trail championing many more voices who champion and care for rural England today. From summoning the folk spirits of England's woods and tors, to meticulously mapping the data of who really owns England.
merl.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/rad...
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
'The Church of England must use its immense wealth to invest in nature'
Wild Card & @deborahmeaden.bsky.social are calling on @churchofengland.org to restore nature on their land… but we need your help!
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Last month the UK Government quietly released a report detailing the severe threats to our national security posed by biodiversity loss.
It shows why we need to campaign for nature now more than ever.
You can support our work over at our website: www.wildcard.land
#Rewilding #NatureRestoration
A close up of Swan’s Neck Thyme Moss
Mosses may be small but when they come together they can create beautiful and diverse carpets of softness in a hard world.
#BeMoreMoss
I found this really resonated
We ask teachers to hold the emotional weight of the future —
often without the language, support, or permission to be honest.
Today, Climate Courage Schools is launching The Hardest Lesson, a short film about that quiet pressure inside the classroom. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H-5...
I used to be a secondary school teacher. 3 of our feeder primaries were flooded. It was months before the children could return. Many of our students’ homes were flooded too. Adults often put it on students as if it’s their responsibility to respond to climate change but it’s not, it’s ours.
Our #RewildTheChurch campaign has put nature on the agenda for the Church of England!
Our motion needs at least 100 signatures from Synod members to be considered for debate. You can ask your local representative to sign the motion here:
actionnetwork.org/letters/help...
#Rewilding #Stewardship
So many lives are affected by suicide and sometimes you just need to know there’s a reason to stay.
Check out this great page if you are struggling or if you would like to write a letter for someone going through a dark time in their life.
www.reasonstostay.co.uk
#ReasonToStay
A black and white spaniel stood on a carpet of vibrant green moss in the foreground with silhouettes of trees lurking in the fog behind him
Mossy foggy doggy photo.
(I could rework the lyrics of Julie Andrew’s’My favourite things’ on the basis of my walk in the woods yesterday)
A slide for the title of the talk. An array of colourful sphagnum mosses with the title Sphagnum in Calderdale Johnny Turner
Full room for a talk on Sphagnum moss with guest speaker Johnny Turner for the Halifax Scientific Society. With the announcement from the watchdog today that government are going to fail biodiversity targets it’s so good to see all these people who care
We concur with the healing power of nature, Happy Birthday to HRH Princess of Wales. 💚
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c394vykk4dgo
Screenshot from the website showing the game rules. You guess food type, bird size, foot function, habitat and bird name. Each one you get right goes green until you have a row of green.
I have just discovered Birdle (an alternative to wordle) it might be too easy for proper birdwatchers but as a bad birdwatcher myself it’s great. Birdle.co.uk
This frames climate as a single-variable problem. It isn’t.
CO₂ matters enormously, but so do land use, water, biodiversity, and scale. An energy source can be low-carbon and still ecologically destructive at deployment scale. Pointing that out isn’t “anti-renewable.” It’s systems thinking.
Oh my.
Even in silence we rebel.
A white lumpy jelly substance on the ground amidst leaf litter
Seen on the floor of the woods on Christmas Day.and advised by someone on INaturalist that it’s probably Star Jelly. This has a very interesting lore to it. I prefer to think of it as from a falling star than anything to do with a frog.
🌳Vast areas of our most vital habitat are at risk of being lost forever.
Will you join Dame Judi Dench and @wildcard.land in calling for DEFRA to fund the restoration of our publicly owned ancient woodlands?
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
