Invasive alien species are a top driver of global nature loss. Yet whenever it's an animal, a segment of people fanatically resists their control.
They believe it's okay to sacrifice whole native ecosystems, with 1,000s of interconnected species, rather than tackle the problem.
They're very wrong.
The @theguardian.com view on the Iran crisis exposing UK’s energy vulnerability: clean power offers protection
- The war reveals UK’s exposure to volatile fossil fuel prices. More North Sea drilling will not shield households, building green energy will
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Wow. Deliberately bat-friendly street lights - Denmark does “Planning and Infrastructure” way better than we do. dailygalaxy.com/2026/03/denm...
Starmer has spent his whole time in government ignoring public opinion and getting everything wrong.
If he’d had the common sense to take note of public opinion he’d have got everything right. Trust the people? He ignores us. He’s about to pay a heavy price.
Learning from hunters.
Fascinating information from one hundred years ago.
Blog about Pacific Golden Plover and Slender-billed Curlew:
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I wasn't intending to turn this into a thread, but it seems to have happened anyway.
It's about the great plague on our lives: the extreme wealth of a tiny number of people.
And what to do about it.
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
It is THE fundamental problem. To survive and prosper we must make billionaires history. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Heating oil just went from £325 to £858 for 500 litres! God bless America and its sick little friend Israel!
Cost of living’s going to go stratospheric. Starmer’s pal, mobster Donald, has put the cherry on the cake of his premiership. A catastrophe from beginning to end.
David Lammy’s proposal to diminish your democratic right to trial by jury makes its way to Parliament today:
More than 3,200 lawyers including 300 top barristers and retired judges have called on the government to drop a plan to abolish some jury trials.
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Hey @gatesheadcouncil.bsky.social this would be a great idea to help 🦇 for your LNRS
🚨 NEW: Several Labour MPs are in talks with the Greens about defecting to the party
Pacific Golden Plovers wintering in Europe?
And Slender-billed Curlews?
WaderTales blog #157:
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Can you hear the screaming
If i'm honest it bothers me how many people have swallowed the Starmer 'defensive missions only' crap. He's insulting our intelligence and some people are praising him for it.
More coverage of the campaign to end the Guga hunt as Govt petition passes 100,000!
www.ireland-live.ie/news/scotlan...
If you don’t already follow the wonderful Nigerian writer Adetokunbo Abiola, I’d strongly recommend him. My partly Nigerian-raised husband is in Ukraine making a film, “Climate in a Time of Conflict.” And I’ve watched war’s impacts on Nature in Angola and Namibia.
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Labour's core voters, on which its re-election entirely depends, are crystal clear about this: they absolutely hate its illiberal, intolerant, draconian, rightwards turn. Hence the total collapse in support. So how does the government respond? #SuicideMission🤦♂️
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One of the few partial wins for #biodiversity from (the threat of) armed conflict 🌍
Just a reminder it’s been two days since reports came out, later acknowledged by Trump and his Administration, that Russia has been helping Iran to try and kill US military personnel.
And the Trump response so far has been...drum roll please...to reduce sanctions on Russia!
What do you make of this? Is it an old nest of Yellow-legged (Asian) Hornet? It's very roughly 30 cm across, 15-20 m above the ground. Good view through binoculars, definitely looked like a wasp/hornet nest. Cambridgeshire.
@brianecambs.bsky.social
A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year
Wrecks in 2014 and 2023 were c10-20 birds. So, this is off the scale. One French beach had 1200 dead puffins, with 10 having rings (3 from Shiant Isles).
With our help
Israel and the US appear to want to do to Tehran what they have done to Gaza: reduce a busy and complex society to a toxic wasteland.
Human Rights Watch says Israel is deploying white phosphorus over civilian homes in Lebanon.
The chemical substance is highly dangerous, capable of setting buildings ablaze and causing severe, life-threatening burns to human flesh.
This is a war crime.
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a picture of a huge, low, heavy cloud of black oil over Tehran
This is the cloud of oil currently hovering over Tehran, released when the US bombed the city's oil depots. A stew of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds is raining down into the city right now. 1/2
As the US/Israel attack on Iran is likely to tip the UK into recession, let's not forget that Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are trashing our rivers, ecosystems, communities, health and resilience for the sake of economic growth. But, as they are now discovering, it's not something they can control.
An illegal war by USA & Israel, propped up by missions from UK air bases.
Supported by Nigel Farage.
Over 1000 civilians dead & now the threat of global economic fallout. Trump's disaster makes us all less safe, less secure - and we will remember those who backed it.
But, rather than receiving a formal invite to meet Trump, Farage was in fact invited to Mar-a-Lago by a member of the club, according to multiple people briefed on the matter They said Farage had hoped he would be able to catch Trump for a conversation as the US president was scheduled to travel to Mar-a-Lago that evening. However, Trump had a change in his itinerary and decided to stay instead in Doral, about an hour`s drive away The Reform leader's failure to secure an audience with the US president underscores a weakening of ties between the two populist leaders who famously formed a close friendship in the vears before and after the 2016
Massive humiliation for Farage, who tipped off the UK press that he was flying to Florida to have dinner with Trump... only for Trump to decide he had more interesting things to do when Nigel arrived.
