Wow, this is an important paper. We had some evidence early on from @ukbms.bsky.social sites but rarely had good data in grazing regimes. But @tombrereton.bsky.social always said that extensive cattle was the best for butterflies and this add yet more evidence
Brexit cut Britain off from its biggest market, and the damage is baked into the economy. Businesses face barriers that did not exist before, and investment has taken a hit. The UK should enter the Single Market and restore frictionless trade.
Europe is the largest single market in the world, and it was an act of self-sabotage to leave the EU. Joining the single market would facilitate easier trade between the UK and the EU, and would remove the red tape that many British businesses are struggling with now.
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
The Large Scabious Mining Bee Andrena hattorfiana needs our help...plant more scabious everywhere there is suitable soil for the bee to nest in
It’s beyond belief how we allow the abominable actions of Israel to continue - without sanction.
Mass starvation, targeting of children, journalists and aid workers, openly stated ethnic cleansing and of course Genocide.
People of Gorton and Denton, please make hope normal again on 26th February and vote for Hannah Spencer. 💚
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Shows pretty clearly the decline in climate change coverage by the NYT and WaPo since 2020; LA Times and USA Today hold pretty steady and the Wall Street Journal just doesn’t cover this topic, why am I not shocked.
I'm a bit upset to find Slender Bedstraw (Galium pumilum) that we refound next to @bbowt.bsky.social Dancersend and have been conserving successfully on the reserve and was on the Section 41 list and designated EN and NS is no longer on the Red List as considered a Neophyte (established post 1500)!
Group of seven stand in front of meteorological station at UKCEH Wallingford, plus text detailing 2026 summer student internship information
📣 2026 Student Summer Internships are OPEN for applications!
We’re recruiting SEVEN interns across our National Capability programmes at our Bangor, Lancaster & Wallingford sites.
Superb opportunity for hands-on experience in environmental science & applied research.
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We are looking to grow our ecology team!
🌿 Join Future Nature, our Wildlife Trust consultancy, as an Ecologist or a Bat Ecologist and help deliver exceptional projects where every pound of profit goes straight back into protecting and restoring wildlife.
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Close-up of a male European Stag Beetle (Lucanus cervus) showing its red-brown antler-like mandibles, contrasting with the dark, textured head. Image credit: Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.app
Did you know? 🤔
Community science makes a huge contribution to biodiversity reporting, with over 70% of records used in England being submitted by volunteers
Read more 👇
naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/14/m...
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Image credit: Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social
Happy Valentine's Day from @bbowt.bsky.social Dancersend Reserve. May you find romance in the beautiful outdoors today. This Hart's-tongue fern should be miss-spelled Heart's-tongue today!
New book on rewilding!
A curated collection of 27 articles published in British Wildlife over the last 5 yrs
So, accessible & nicely produced for a broad readership
And I’m one of the authors. Cheap at the price (£16.99)!
www.britishwildlife.com/wilding/
🦋 TVERC Spring Recorders’ Conference
Join us on Sat 21st March at Cholsey Great Hall for a full day of inspiring talks, practical workshops, and the chance to network with fellow wildlife recorders and nature enthusiasts from Oxfordshire and Berkshire.
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Join @bbowt.bsky.social Chilterns Group for their next wildlife themed talk next Tuesday 17 Feb in Great Missenden. Chris Williams, CEO of the Royal Forestry Society, will tell us 'The Story of Forestry in the UK'. All welcome!!
Exciting days at @bbowt.bsky.social Dancersend tackling thick scrub in a south-facing clearing lost to scrub/secondary woodland in the 1970s. The amazing RoboFlail made short work of pulverising followed by volunteers raking up. Scarification should help release special flowers from the seed bank.
Conservation works are underway at Strawberry Hill 🍓🌿
In collaboration with the Newt Conservation Partnership, new ponds are being created to support great crested newts & other wildlife, helping protect & enhance this special habitat for the future.
Watch here 👇
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This fantastic exhibition has been extended for a fortnight, so you can still catch it if you're quick...
Our volunteers are great at spotting things as they work. Here a piece of bark off a dead ash tree with the pattern of excavations by bark beetles, amazingly with a live larva at the end of each tunnel, and some close-packed slime mould, probably a Oligonema species.
Another good turnout of our volunteers at BBOWT
Dancersend Reserve coppicing and clearing fallen ash trees along one of our rides to let more light in to benefit wildflowers like Stinking Hellebore, seen in the foreground here. @bbowt.bsky.social
Copy arrived this week and it is fabulous, opens up a whole new world of interest. Absolutely in awe of author Martin Drake for putting it all together. It's pricey, shame the publishers couldn't have found a way of subsidising it more, but it contains priceless expertise and years of hard work.
This is very concerning and is almost certainly being championed in the US by Trump's tech and oil backers, both of which see the UK as a battleground at the moment.
That‘s the spirit.
Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
Look at these lovely Oxycera soldierflies and the opportunity to learn all about them..
We’re hiring! Join us as a Volunteering Engagement Manager and help nature recover by delivering dynamic recruitment campaigns and growing a more diverse and inclusive volunteer community.
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We are being spoilt this year for great new books on biological recording - congratulations Sarah 👏👏👏🍾
I'm getting a bit fed-up with endless dull, dreary, damp days whenever I can get to @bbowt.bsky.social Dancersend but have to admit that at this time of the year it is the dark, damp, weedy corners of the reserve where the jewels are. Thank goodness for snowdrops, Scarlet Elf-cups and slime moulds!
A chance to learn about fantastic soldierflies!
