Broc Environment
@broc-environment.bsky.social
Working to avoid/minimise/manage extractive industry impacts on biodiversity, natural resources, ecosystem services and the communities who rely on them. Based in Scottish Highlands, working worldwide.
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The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has just been updated and now includes assessments of 1,266 species of sharks, rays, and chimaeras.
October 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has just been updated and now includes assessments of 1,266 species of sharks, rays, and chimaeras.
Porritt's great summary of an absolutely dire situation here in the UK. The government's watering down safeguards so they appeal more to the nationalist-Right hard-liners?
Please become a #forceforgood whilst in power, not just getting back into power. Head in hands, really.
#infrastructurebill
Please become a #forceforgood whilst in power, not just getting back into power. Head in hands, really.
#infrastructurebill
Starmer and Reeves’ big planning idea? Trash nature and concrete it over
Starmer and Reeves’ big planning idea? Trash nature and concrete it over
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June 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Porritt's great summary of an absolutely dire situation here in the UK. The government's watering down safeguards so they appeal more to the nationalist-Right hard-liners?
Please become a #forceforgood whilst in power, not just getting back into power. Head in hands, really.
#infrastructurebill
Please become a #forceforgood whilst in power, not just getting back into power. Head in hands, really.
#infrastructurebill
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Generation Hope is just two weeks away! Sign up for sessions here and tell your friends! www.nhm.ac.uk/events/gener...
Events on the planetary crisis led by young activists from around the world. Much needed chance to build community and find some positive actions in these dark times.
Events on the planetary crisis led by young activists from around the world. Much needed chance to build community and find some positive actions in these dark times.
April 18, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Generation Hope is just two weeks away! Sign up for sessions here and tell your friends! www.nhm.ac.uk/events/gener...
Events on the planetary crisis led by young activists from around the world. Much needed chance to build community and find some positive actions in these dark times.
Events on the planetary crisis led by young activists from around the world. Much needed chance to build community and find some positive actions in these dark times.
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That Bank Holiday Friday feeling... ☀️
📽️ Dave Bwarro
📽️ Dave Bwarro
April 18, 2025 at 7:19 AM
That Bank Holiday Friday feeling... ☀️
📽️ Dave Bwarro
📽️ Dave Bwarro
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New online! Biodiversity–ecosystem function research must consider abundance and not just diversity
Biodiversity–ecosystem function research must consider abundance and not just diversity
Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 11 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00040-1Maintaining human well-being in an era of biodiversity loss requires understanding the role of biodiversity in ecosystem function. We argue that absolute abundance can drive ecosystem function and that this measure should be considered alongside traditional measures of biodiversity.
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April 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
New online! Biodiversity–ecosystem function research must consider abundance and not just diversity
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“Tropical rainforests don’t give up their secrets easily,” says WCS’s @emmastokeswcs.bsky.social. That makes the images from a recent camera trap project in Congo rewarding.
They help us better understand the forests to protect them. #InternationalDayofForests 🌍
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They help us better understand the forests to protect them. #InternationalDayofForests 🌍
▶️ bit.ly/3DjeDLr
Unseen Rainforest
Over the course of an entire year, Will Burrard-Lucas, a UK-based photographer, worked with WCS and Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park to capture images of some of the rarest, endangered mammals for the fir...
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March 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“Tropical rainforests don’t give up their secrets easily,” says WCS’s @emmastokeswcs.bsky.social. That makes the images from a recent camera trap project in Congo rewarding.
They help us better understand the forests to protect them. #InternationalDayofForests 🌍
▶️ bit.ly/3DjeDLr
They help us better understand the forests to protect them. #InternationalDayofForests 🌍
▶️ bit.ly/3DjeDLr
Fascinating program, talking to people working in the field to try to address the worst challenges to the species and their conservation www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #conservation #vulture
BBC Radio 4 - Flight of the Vulture
Sacha Dench investigates the plight of one of the world's most persecuted birds.
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April 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Fascinating program, talking to people working in the field to try to address the worst challenges to the species and their conservation www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #conservation #vulture
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Today, we're revisiting a 2022 discovery about #BaskingShark courtship! 💙🦈 These ocean giants engage in “shark speed dating" forming courtship circles with delicate interactions like fin-to-fin contact & breaching.
Read more ➡️ https://buff.ly/41cZaWD
Full study here 🔗 https://buff.ly/4hQuZKc
Read more ➡️ https://buff.ly/41cZaWD
Full study here 🔗 https://buff.ly/4hQuZKc
Basking shark circles in the sea
Seizing an incredible opportunity to study circling basking sharks up close for the first time, David Sims and Simon Berrow witnessed a true spectacle of nature just a few miles off the West coast of…
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February 17, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Today, we're revisiting a 2022 discovery about #BaskingShark courtship! 💙🦈 These ocean giants engage in “shark speed dating" forming courtship circles with delicate interactions like fin-to-fin contact & breaching.
Read more ➡️ https://buff.ly/41cZaWD
Full study here 🔗 https://buff.ly/4hQuZKc
Read more ➡️ https://buff.ly/41cZaWD
Full study here 🔗 https://buff.ly/4hQuZKc
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The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) is expanding its work in China as it welcomes its latest member.
#China #NatureDisclosures #TNFD
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#China #NatureDisclosures #TNFD
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TNFD expands nature disclosure work in China
Bank of China is TNFD's newest member providing design recommendations for its framework.
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January 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) is expanding its work in China as it welcomes its latest member.
#China #NatureDisclosures #TNFD
www.csofutures.com/news/tnfd-ex...
#China #NatureDisclosures #TNFD
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Full paper can be read here for free: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pesticides have negative effects on non-target organisms - Nature Communications
Pesticides affect a diverse range of non-target species and the magnitude of this hazard remains only partially understood. Wan et al. found that insecticides, fungicides and herbicides have negative ...
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February 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Full paper can be read here for free: www.nature.com/articles/s41...