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4 nature books I enjoyed in 2024 Hi readers!

If you enjoy #reading about #nature, I have four #book #recommendations for you today! 🏞️🐋🌱📖

Maybe this doesn't sound too scary - after all, it's possible to survive without broccoli 🥦. But think about the farmers: The #climate crisis can affect livelihoods.
And why are many of us happier to accept changes imposed on us by the climate crisis than to accept measures to limit the crisis?

Illustrations of 10 less common garden birds: Tree Sparrow (brown with a black cheek spot), Pied Wagtail (black and white with a long tail), Rook (glossy black with a pale beak), Fieldfare (grey head, brown back, speckled chest), Blackcap (male: grey with a black cap, female: brown with a chestnut cap), Common Gull (grey wings, white body), Stock Dove (blue-grey), Jay (pinkish with blue wing patches), Redwing (brown with red flanks), and Sparrowhawk (female: brown, male: blue-grey).

Ready to level up your birdwatching? 😎

Here’s another 10 birds to keep an eye out for this #BigGardenBirdwatch!

From colourful Jays to stealthy Sparrowhawks, who have you spotted on your patch before?

Join the count 24-26 Jan: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

Just received a parcel with this book, looking forward to it!

January theme, part 1: Identifying trees in winter … and connecting with nature

Getting into #tree #species identification in #winter
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One quarter of freshwater animals at risk of extinction - IUCN Red List Gland, Switzerland, 8 January 2025 (IUCN) – The largest global assessment of freshwater animals on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ to date has revealed that 24% of the world’s freshwater fish...

1/ 🚨It’s been a journey (20+ yrs) but today we finally publish the results of the IUCN Global Freshwater Fauna Assessment: 24% of the world’s freshwater fish, dragonfly, damselfly, crab, crayfish & shrimp species are at risk of extinction!
iucn.org/press-releas...

This needs to be more widely known! #birds #disease #ornithology #birding

Mammals that are invasive in some places are often threatened in their native range. What does that mean for #conservation?

Interesting read! #climate #adaptation

"The idea that #nature and #farming are in opposition is completely ludicrous." - Interesting article! Derek Gow's #book "Bringing back the beaver" 🦫 is also on my (long) reading list...

5 simple ways to help nature & the climate in 2025 How you can make a difference, even if you don’t have much time

5 things you can do for #nature & #climate in 2025 - without spending a lot of money or time.

#naturewriting

Nice - so important to get farmers on board. And the map is quite cool!

I challenge you to draw a tapir from memory. The results of doing that are among the funniest things I have ever seen.

A LinkedIn post by Christiana Figueres saying, “Maybe the simple lesson of the climate crisis is this: to step outside of ourselves and really strengthen our muscles of humanity, of compassion. It's about time we evolve beyond our reptilian brain, operating in a mode of collaboration - the only path to collective success - instead of extreme competition which is now a proven path to destruction. Will we learn the lesson? No guarantees. But let's give it our best shot.”

You can see why I look to Christiana for inspiration in our fight for a better world. She’s the architect of the Paris Agreement, but has never rested on her laurels. She just keeps going. 💚

Hopefully proper snow will come eventually! Where I live it has also not been very impressive so far...

They are just the most badass animals

One I cannot handle is "committee". I mean, is it comitee? commitee? comittee?

That list definately makes sense.

Really enjoyed those books even though it's a genre I don't usually read. Somehow the atmosphere is very special.

"Through her small #garden, Bradbury shows that each of us has the power to make a difference, one garden at a time."
This book (One Garden Against the World) is on my reading list for sure! 🌱🦋🪱
#Rewilding #Conservation #Gardening

Country diary: Somewhere around this glorious loch, beavers are at work | Merryn Glover Rothiemurchus, Cairngorms: Reintroduced here after local extinction for 400 years, 10 pairs are settling in well – at least two even have kits

Beavers are reshaping ecosystems in the Scottish Highlands, creating wetlands and boosting biodiversity! 🦫 Their return highlights the power of nature-based solutions to combat climate chang🧪🌍 #Biodiversity #Rewilding #Conservation #NatureBasedSolutions #Beavers 🐾
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Really nice article about reading #animal tracks in the #snow! The photo "Wing marks left by a bird of prey successfully catching a mouse" is fascinating - the tracks tell a whole dramatic story.

Awesome, thank you :)

Ah great, hadn't seen that one - thank you!

Oh that's very useful, thanks a lot!

Hi, I am new here! Interested in #nature, #conservation, #rewilding, the #outdoors, and #books & #writing. I'm mainly here to find news articles & blog entries on these topics - I found #Twitter / #X useful for that but left for obvious reasons. Any recommendations welcome, if anyone reads this :)

Seven quiet breakthroughs for climate and nature in 2024 you might have missed Global temperatures rose and extreme weather ramped up, but there were also some significant breakthroughs for the climate this year.

Seven quiet breakthroughs for climate and nature in 2024 you might have missed, from BBC

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

‘A trailblazing vision of hope’: The UK leads Europe’s rewilding goals Scotland and Wales are both on successful rewilding missions that show a pathway for the rest of Europe.

#Wales and #Scotland are reported to be carrying the #rewilding torch for Europe

Tir Natur in Wales, beginning project work in Spring 2025, is the only rewilding charity in Wales

Mae’n braf i weld yr ymdrychion sy’n rhoi gobaith i natur yng Nghymru yn cael ei adnabyddu

#TirNatur #Cymru #Nature

It's so stunning! It looks like a giant highway, but in a good way...