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Shazzoir @shazzoir.bsky.social · 8h

#MelbourneCup #racing #horses #NUP

It's time to end this grotesque exploitation of animals. Greyhound racing too.

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Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 8h

Want to know more about #Medical & #Veterinary #Entomology, or how insects interact with pathogens and parasites?

Get involved with our Special Interest Groups and learn more about #InsectScience 🦟

Read about our SIGs 🔽

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📸 Female ichneumon wasp (c) Adam Poledníček

Special interest groups - Royal Entomological Society

The Society convenes Special Interest Groups (SIGs) on a range of topics.

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Lynne McNulty @linners.bsky.social · 2h

Ireland could soon ban all trade with illegal settlements, but is being bullied by Washington to give up. Sign the petition — and show Ireland the world is behind this! action.eko.org/a/ireland-pa...

Ireland: Pass the Occupied Territories Bill

Spain, Slovenia, Belgium and the Netherlands have all announced bans on imports from Israeli settlements on stolen Palestinian land. It's Ireland's turn to finally pass a products and services trade

action.eko.org

Lynne McNulty @linners.bsky.social · 4h

We can't stop deforestation without the experts: Indigenous people. 💚

At #COP30, the UK govt has a chance to champion their rights, funding and legal protection.

Tell the UK climate minister: back the forest defenders. Sign our open letter. action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/def...

Demand UK support for Indigenous forest defenders at climate talks

Our world’s forests are under threat, worsening climate change, biodiversity loss and threatening vulnerable communities. This year’s UN climate talks – hosted in the Amazon – are our chance to act. W...

action.friendsoftheearth.uk

Lynne McNulty @linners.bsky.social · 7h

Nice one
Lots to look at here

filmsandfestivals.britishcouncil.org/projects/sup...

British Council UK Films Database: Super Nature

filmsandfestivals.britishcouncil.org

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 1d

The nightmare of neonicotinoid insecticides and glyphosate herbicides in freshwater systems. For a new book on stream ecology, coming from Yale University Press in 2026.
🧪🐡🌿🌎🪶 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #neonics #freshwater #streams

Complex diagram and data graphics on the harm neonic pesticides do to freshwater environments.

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Lynne McNulty @linners.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District

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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 1d

"Millions of hectares of virgin rainforest in Papua New Guinea are under threat, says new report." 🌎 www.straitstimes.com/asia/austral...

Papua New Guinea’s rainforest under major threat says new report

At least 1.68 million hectares have been potentially earmarked for deforestation: Report Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

www.straitstimes.com

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 1d

Please take action to defend grizzly bears!

Urge your members of Congress to oppose the Grizzly Bear State Management Act of 2025.

wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/oppose-grizz...

Speak up for grizzly bears!

Urge Congress to oppose the Grizzly Bear State Management Act of 2025.

wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 9d

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

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Lynne McNulty @linners.bsky.social · 3d

Correction - roll back the illegal settlements.

Lynne McNulty @linners.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you !

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Lynne McNulty @linners.bsky.social · 4d

One I’m sharing my flat with .. a ‘Bridge’ spider .. ?

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Seirian Sumner @waspwoman.bsky.social · 4d

Looking forward to sharing some #WaspLove at #UnknownWales2025 in #Cardiff today #AmgueddfaCymru.

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@uclcber.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
@jimlabisko.bsky.social - your gorgeous wasp photo continues its travels around the world 🥰

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Lynne McNulty @linners.bsky.social · 4d

Hear hear .. listen to Buglife

Lynne McNulty @linners.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s one from Sichuan

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Lynne McNulty @linners.bsky.social · 6d

It is - social media too

Lynne McNulty @linners.bsky.social · 13d

World Leaders: Protect the Sumud Flotilla Now action.eko.org/a/world-lead...

World Leaders: Protect the Sumud Flotilla Now

Right now, the Sumud Flotilla is a few nautical miles away from Gaza, carrying doctors, journalists, politicians, and activists - all risking their lives to break Israel’s illegal siege on Gaza and de

action.eko.org

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 18d

BREAKING: Keir Starmer has tasked a Conservative peer with writing a new planning bill to remove the ability for environmental groups to delay projects such as Heathrow’s third runway with judicial reviews

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starmer asks Conservative peer to write planning bill to block judicial reviews

Exclusive: One option could be to leave treaty that allows legal claims against projects such as Heathrow expansion

www.theguardian.com

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Lynne McNulty @linners.bsky.social · 18d

JL partners .. posted by a staunch Zionist it seems

Lynne McNulty @linners.bsky.social · 18d

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Demand tougher penalties for animal cruelty

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

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Lynne McNulty @linners.bsky.social · 19d

Tell Japan: shut down the ivory market, save elephant lives. action.eko.org/a/japan-ivor...

Tell Japan: Shut down the ivory market.

Every year, tens of thousands of elephants are butchered for their tusks despite a global ivory ban -- and Japan’s massive domestic market remains one of the main drivers.But we have a once-in-a-gener

action.eko.org

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 20d

One hopes the secret MI5 document justifying the proscription of Palestine Action is more impressive than the public one—which is a flimsy and unconvincing piece of work, writes @davidallengreen.bsky.social.

Should the government have used terrorism law against Palestine Action?

A disclosed MI5 document indicates that the basis for proscription may be weak

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Lynne McNulty @linners.bsky.social · 20d

Gosh that sounds evasive - like you haven’t a clue. It was my job … so though maybe you were also in the field - clearly not ! You really haven’t ..

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Lynne McNulty @linners.bsky.social · 21d

Can you point me to the research evidence - thanks

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