Pete Brotherton
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Pete Brotherton
@petebrotherton.bsky.social
Nature conservationist, evolutionary ecologist. Science and Climate Change Director @naturalengland
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🐦This #WorldMigratoryBirdDay highlighted shared spaces, creating bird-friendly cities for thriving avian diversity.

Progressive ecological urban planning shows how biodiversity conservation can be part of sustainable urban transitions.🧪🌍

.—IPBES #GlobalAssessment

📷 @migratoryspecies.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Yesterday our nest box was empty but today... THIS! #nestboxcamera
March 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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It's official: Sandra Díaz & Eduardo Brondízio Win the 2025 Tyler Prize!

💬 "The climate crisis, biodiversity loss & inequalities are all connected." – Díaz & Brondízio

Let’s celebrate these changemakers!
#TylerPrize #Biodiversity #Sustainability #ClimateAction #GlobalSouth
February 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Jeremy Reffin University of Sussex describes using #AI to make real time estimates of the carbon impacts of policy and delivery land use decisions #naturebasedsolutions #naturereturns
February 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Mark Lee @kewgardens.bsky.social stresses the importance of fungi for soil carbon and the enormous potential that increasing soil carbon, such as by enhancing soil biodiversity, could have for #netzero @merlinsheldrake.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Mark Lee @kewgardens.bsky.social describes the huge importance and potential of soil as a carbon store #naturebasedsolutions
February 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
@mikemorecroft.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social summarises some of the key findings of the Nature Returns partnership so far...
February 6, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Tamsin Lockwood @naturalengland.bsky.social describes the increases seen in carbon storage by grassland habitats as they become longer established #naturebasedsolutions
February 6, 2025 at 10:53 AM
@mikemorecroft.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social describes the evidence that #NatureBasedSolutions can work, but sometimes fail when done in the wrong way. Building the evidence of how they can be done well to deliver for both nature and people (and climate) is essential.
February 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
@naturalengland.bsky.social Chief Scientist @salliebailey.bsky.social kicks off today's conference reporting the evidence from 3 years of delivering #naturebasedsolutions across England
February 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Final wrap-up webinar for the UK_Treescapes project 'TreE PlaNat': Creating woodland through natural processes 🌳🌳

Monday 20th January 2025 at 12.30-2pm. Click events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b36709... to sign up.

Further info, blogs, webinars, factsheets @ www.naturalcolonisation.co.uk
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January 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Charles Glover gives #rewildingfutures a positive message about the potential of the seas to recover when pressures on ocean wildlife are reduced. The blue belt of UK overseas territories are hugely effective. Closer to home, UK Highly Protected Marine Area work #MARINE #REWILDING
January 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Spot the dog in this photo!
Luigi Boiteni tells #rewilding conference that Europe needs to move from saving the wolf from extinction to living with success. We need to recognise coexistence with predators as a journey not a destination. #rewildingfuture
January 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Fantastic #rewilding conference in Cambridge today.
Frans Scheepers and David Thomas identify 8 factors for successful nature recovery at landscape scale. Ensuring nature conservation policies accelerate and enable, rather than hinder, larger projects is part of the solution.
January 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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I was struck this morning by the sense of dire urgency expressed by Dame Glenys Stacey, Chair of the @OfficeforEP, on the need to quickly ramp up efforts to get on track to meet legally binding Nature goals. Time is running out, & so is Nature.

www.theoep.org.uk/report/gover...
January 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
JohnClareCountryside.org.uk is a great example where integrating nature and culture is at the heart of efforts to double nature marthagill.bsky.social

Jane Austen’s plates or the woods near her home? I know which I’d rather save | Martha Gill www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Jane Austen’s plates or the woods near her home? I know which I’d rather save | Martha Gill
Why this hierarchy of heritage? Our obsession with buildings and artefacts is blinding us to the value of nature
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January 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM