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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 13h

Victory! Thank goodness. Well done @campaign4parks.bsky.social @roseoneill.bsky.social

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Campaign for National Parks @campaign4parks.bsky.social · 17h

It's now clear that the gov't are NOT proposing to repeal the Protected Landscapes duty 🙌

A huge thank you to the more than 200 charities, businesses & organisations who joined us in writing to Keir Starmer 💚

Now to focus on improving our Protected Landscapes...
www.cnp.org.uk/news/plans-t...

Plans to weaken Protected Landscapes Duty quietly dropped

Westminster government published its list of amendments for the Planning and Infrastructure Bill and there are no proposals to weaken protections for National Parks.

www.cnp.org.uk

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David S Richardson @david-s-richardson.bsky.social · 17h

Genetic load, fitness and conservation in the Seychelles warbler.
A wonderful PhD opportunity - spanning important evolutionary and conservation-relevant concepts. Come work with us
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RSPB Science @rspbscience.bsky.social · 19h

Job vacancy 🧪
Principal Conservation Scientist, RSPB Cymru

Can you provide the evidence needed to save and restore the iconic species and landscapes of Wales?

Deadline: 3rd Nov
Location: Flexible within Wales
Duration: Permanent

Apply here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

📷Jake Stephen

A Chough sits on a rocky cliff edge at South Stack Nature Reserve, North Wales.

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Alula Designs @aluladesigns.bsky.social · 3d

🐦‍⬛Ever been in awe of the huge journeys some birds undertake each year?
That’s what inspired us.
Celebrate #WorldMigratoryBirdDay with clothing that captures the magic of migration and wear what moves you.
🪶 For bird lovers. For nature lovers. For you.
🛒aluladesigns.co.uk
#Birding #BirdArt #WMBD2025

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Graham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 3d

Yesterday, IUCN declared the Slender-billed Curlew to be extinct.
How did we let this happen?
What lessons are there for the future?
WaderTales blog based on paper by Graeme Buchanan et al
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/l...
#extinction #ornithology

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Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) @cms.int · 4d

Today, IUCN officially declared the Slender-billed Curlew extinct, marking the first known global extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species whose range included mainland Europe, North Africa, and West Asia.

Read our and AEWA's full statement: www.cms.int/news/slender...

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 4d

It's also not "just another" extinction, it's the first from mainland Europe in centuries. CENTURIES.

And there will be others within our lifetime.

That's biodiversity loss.

We'll never hear this sound, ever again xeno-canto.org/398794

XC398794 Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris)

Awful wind noise in the original! See sonogram and notes of the recording circumstances on p12 of Gretton A. (1991) The ecology and conservation of the Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris). ...

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 4d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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David Kleijn @davidkleijn.bsky.social · 4d

Intensifying grassland management leads to massive loss of arthropod species. However, total arthropod numbers remain more or less stable. Many losers, few winners. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

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Martin George @jannerbirder.bsky.social · 4d

“If you've ever felt calmer after a walk in the park or a stroll through the woods, it's not your imagination - it's biology.”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wild about nature: Four health benefits of the outdoors

Spending just 20 minutes in nature can lower blood pressure, heart rate and stress levels.

www.bbc.co.uk

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PiedFly.Net @piedflynet.bsky.social · 6d

JOB ALERT: We have an exciting Senior Research Assistant post available for a project tracking predators and prey simultaneously starting early 2026. We need someone with experience tagging adult raptors or wader chicks. This you? app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

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Global Flyway Network @globalflyway.bsky.social · 5d

There is a nice example for Eurasian #spoonbills too:
werkgroeplepelaar.org/wp-content/u...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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Jen Gill @jengill.bsky.social · 5d

The latest wadertales blog (no. 151) describes how scoring moult from photographs can reveal moult season duration and how it varies between populations: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/m...
#ornithology

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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 5d

Attached is a suggestion I made several years ago. It would need to be part of a broader package, including eliminating first & business class, & ensuring even the first flight incurs the same tax & carbon costs as other fuels do. Aviation remains heavily dependent on its highly privileged status

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BOU @bou.org.uk · 5d

NEW on the #BOUdiversityBlog from Ellie Leech

Redressing the balance: why gender equity matters to BTO

bou.org.uk/blog-leec...

#ornithology 🪶

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Graham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 5d

'Photographic ornithology'
How can bird photographers contribute to shorebird research?
New WaderTales blog based on paper by Winfried & Wolfgang Daunicht, published in Wader Study journal.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/m...
#ornithology @waderstudy.bsky.social

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6d

A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."

Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Nature Geoscience

A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.

www.nature.com

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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 7d

Another massive movement of migratory birds underway tonight — nearly 1 Billion Birds! With the full moon, you might be able to see some silhouettes zipping by. You can make your own flow maps here (just hit record): aeroecolab.com/uslights

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7d

Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 8d

Reminder - carbon offsetting is a con. We have to BOTH stop burning fossil fuels and look after nature

#ClimateEmergency #NatureCrisis

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 9d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Elham Nourani @enourani.bsky.social · 8d

🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Golden eagle on the nest in Finland (by O. Karlin)

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Xavier Lambin @lambin-ecology.bsky.social · 9d

For 101 years, ecologists have sought to explain the 3-4 years multi-annual cycles of voles and lemmings. In our paper, doi.org/10.1073/pnas..., we find that Density-dependent recruitment, but not survival drives cyclic dynamics in a field vole population, overturning accepted wisdom.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 9d

Iceland is becoming no-ice land.

How Icelanders are grieving the loss of 'dead' and melting glaciers

Iceland’s glaciers are disappearing. For locals, it’s a profoundly sad loss.

www.thejournal.ie

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