Paul Dolman
@pauldolman.bsky.social
Collaborative interdisciplinary biodiversity conservation. Professor of Conservation Ecology at University of East Anglia. Father, survivor of grief, optimist. Pronouns: he/him
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Paul Dolman
@pauldolman.bsky.social
· Jan 20
The Breckland Farmers Wildlife Network is a farmer-led group. We came together 12 years ago to collaborate on creating a landscape scale wildlife network in the Brecks. We're very proud to now have 58 members and cover over 50,000ha.
Visit brecklandfarmlerswildlifenetwork.org.uk to find out more
Visit brecklandfarmlerswildlifenetwork.org.uk to find out more
Working with this amazing Farmer-led Landscape Recovery collaboration of so many individual farmers with a vision to deliver evidence-based habitats at landscape-scale has been uplifting & gives me optimism for a better future 🌍 #Biodiversity
Fantastic postgraduate conservation entomology research opportunity on forest carabids
Excited to have a ground beetle project @carabidaeuk.bsky.social open for applications in @crocus-dla.bsky.social. Nice mix of analysing long-term data, fieldwork and time at @forestresearchuk.bsky.social, assessing trends in woodland carabids. Please share!
blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...
blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...
CR2026_58 – Crocus DLA
blogs.reading.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Fantastic postgraduate conservation entomology research opportunity on forest carabids
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Mediterranean Gull: Traeth Dulas, Anglesey 11/10/25. Adult winter plumage bird (left hand bird) with Black-headed Gulls at high water. Gulls were closer than they usually are at this site, so thought it worth a quick photo - not least to show structural differences between these two species.
October 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Mediterranean Gull: Traeth Dulas, Anglesey 11/10/25. Adult winter plumage bird (left hand bird) with Black-headed Gulls at high water. Gulls were closer than they usually are at this site, so thought it worth a quick photo - not least to show structural differences between these two species.
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Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
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Did you know the name of the spiked thingy on the end of a Stegosaurus’ tail? Coolest etymology ever.
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Did you know the name of the spiked thingy on the end of a Stegosaurus’ tail? Coolest etymology ever.
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Yep - big declines in anything that eats insects and migrates across pesticide-drenched western Europe. And unfortunately, the pesticide-drenched area is growing . . . 😢😨
Buy organic food.
Buy organic food.
November 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Yep - big declines in anything that eats insects and migrates across pesticide-drenched western Europe. And unfortunately, the pesticide-drenched area is growing . . . 😢😨
Buy organic food.
Buy organic food.
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Voters want both: homes built and wildlife protected.
MPs should listen to the public, not a false "nature vs growth" narrative.
If nature loses at this stage, it will be because they chose not to protect it.
Tell your MP to back nature: action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 📢
MPs should listen to the public, not a false "nature vs growth" narrative.
If nature loses at this stage, it will be because they chose not to protect it.
Tell your MP to back nature: action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 📢
Help stop the Planning and Infrastructure Bill tearing up nature protections
I've just emailed my MP and asked them to vote to protect nature in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Will you take action too?
action.rspb.org.uk
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Voters want both: homes built and wildlife protected.
MPs should listen to the public, not a false "nature vs growth" narrative.
If nature loses at this stage, it will be because they chose not to protect it.
Tell your MP to back nature: action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 📢
MPs should listen to the public, not a false "nature vs growth" narrative.
If nature loses at this stage, it will be because they chose not to protect it.
Tell your MP to back nature: action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 📢
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New funded PhD projects with @marius-somveille.bsky.social, myself and collaborators. Examining migratory connectivity for seabirds www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d... and and the dynamics of seasonal migration www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK742/p...
#ornithology
@ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social
#ornithology
@ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social
Vorläufige Ergebnisse des 8. Internationalen Weißstorchzensus 2024
Der 8. Internationale Weißstorchzensus fand 2024 wieder als ein gemeinsames Projekt von NABU (BirdLife Germany) und BirdLife International statt. Der NABU koordiniert die länderübergreifenden Zählunge...
bergenhusen.nabu.de
November 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
New funded PhD projects with @marius-somveille.bsky.social, myself and collaborators. Examining migratory connectivity for seabirds www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d... and and the dynamics of seasonal migration www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK742/p...
#ornithology
@ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social
#ornithology
@ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social
Drax should be shut down
Official data from government of British Columbia, along with satellite monitoring, backs claims that a Canadian subsidiary owned by Drax sourced 250-year-old trees to manufacture biomass pellets as recently as this year
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Drax should be shut down
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By reintroducing keystone species, such as beavers, and allowing rivers to flow more naturally, we can help secure a future for brown trout – and countless other species that depend on healthy waterways.
🧵3/4
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November 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
By reintroducing keystone species, such as beavers, and allowing rivers to flow more naturally, we can help secure a future for brown trout – and countless other species that depend on healthy waterways.
🧵3/4
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Importance of landscape configuration on nest predation explored here in @wadertales.bsky.social blogs by Graham Appleton bsky.app/profile/wade...
Trees do not make good neighbours, if you're a breeding wader.
Three relevant blogs from 10 years of Wader Tales.
1️⃣ North of Scotland
wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/06/19/t...
2️⃣ Estonia
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/03/16/k...
3️⃣ Iceland
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/i...
#ConservationScience🌍
Three relevant blogs from 10 years of Wader Tales.
1️⃣ North of Scotland
wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/06/19/t...
2️⃣ Estonia
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/03/16/k...
3️⃣ Iceland
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/i...
#ConservationScience🌍
November 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Importance of landscape configuration on nest predation explored here in @wadertales.bsky.social blogs by Graham Appleton bsky.app/profile/wade...
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Valuable synthesis - shows that where seed source is present, natural regeneration generally gives more complex structures and better biodiversity outcomes but can be helped by hybrid approaches and limited planting. #Rewilding #Biodiversity
New OA publication from TreE_PlaNat project @uktreescapes.bsky.social in Ecological Solutions and Evidence: Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain
Natural colonisation can successfully create structurally diverse, locally adapted woodlands in Britain, but the outcomes of this process can vary considerably. Combining natural colonisation and tre...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Valuable synthesis - shows that where seed source is present, natural regeneration generally gives more complex structures and better biodiversity outcomes but can be helped by hybrid approaches and limited planting. #Rewilding #Biodiversity
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I had no words to say to the owner of an off-lead dog, that attacked our Labrador, unprovoked, while on a close-lead, at Froggatt Edge, Derbyshire #PeakDistrict late October. She recovered after two courses of antibiotics but was extremely unwell from the infection. Keep dogs under control.
November 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I had no words to say to the owner of an off-lead dog, that attacked our Labrador, unprovoked, while on a close-lead, at Froggatt Edge, Derbyshire #PeakDistrict late October. She recovered after two courses of antibiotics but was extremely unwell from the infection. Keep dogs under control.
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Tobacco lobbyists are banned from WHO meetings, why not oil and gas polluters from #ClimateCOP?
#COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling
Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Tobacco lobbyists are banned from WHO meetings, why not oil and gas polluters from #ClimateCOP?
#COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I had no words to say to the owner of an off-lead dog, that attacked our Labrador, unprovoked, while on a close-lead, at Froggatt Edge, Derbyshire #PeakDistrict late October. She recovered after two courses of antibiotics but was extremely unwell from the infection. Keep dogs under control.
November 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I had no words to say to the owner of an off-lead dog, that attacked our Labrador, unprovoked, while on a close-lead, at Froggatt Edge, Derbyshire #PeakDistrict late October. She recovered after two courses of antibiotics but was extremely unwell from the infection. Keep dogs under control.
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Human changes to landscape composition, food sources but also landscape configuration (small patches, proximity to plantations, narrow strips) together inflate the abundance + impacts of meso-predators. For some threatened bird species, predator management may be important to recovery.
Human land usage has created a predator friendly landscape, narrow linear grassland margins, narrow linear hedges, have replaced grassland and shrubland in larger patches, the cost of foraging by a predator is reduced.
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....
Distance to the edge and other landscape features influence nest predation in grey partridges
High nest predation is a serious threat to grey partridges Perdix perdix and other ground-nesting farmland birds. We analysed nest predation in radio-tagged grey partridges and found that nest site s...
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Human changes to landscape composition, food sources but also landscape configuration (small patches, proximity to plantations, narrow strips) together inflate the abundance + impacts of meso-predators. For some threatened bird species, predator management may be important to recovery.
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Shiny new PhD being advertised with me and @cmbeale.bsky.social !!
So, next up is this fabulous project with me and @funkyant.bsky.social on nomadic birds in East Africa. Fieldwork and fancy spatial statistics are on offer here, and who doesn't want birds like this fabulous, nonadic Temminck's Courser?! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
November 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Shiny new PhD being advertised with me and @cmbeale.bsky.social !!
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Over the next few weeks I'll be sharing some fun PhD opportunities. Today, if you're into hydrology, forests and wading 🪶 in Scotland this one might be for you! 🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
October 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Over the next few weeks I'll be sharing some fun PhD opportunities. Today, if you're into hydrology, forests and wading 🪶 in Scotland this one might be for you! 🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Human changes to landscape composition, food sources but also landscape configuration (small patches, proximity to plantations, narrow strips) together inflate the abundance + impacts of meso-predators. For some threatened bird species, predator management may be important to recovery.
Human land usage has created a predator friendly landscape, narrow linear grassland margins, narrow linear hedges, have replaced grassland and shrubland in larger patches, the cost of foraging by a predator is reduced.
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....
Distance to the edge and other landscape features influence nest predation in grey partridges
High nest predation is a serious threat to grey partridges Perdix perdix and other ground-nesting farmland birds. We analysed nest predation in radio-tagged grey partridges and found that nest site s...
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Human changes to landscape composition, food sources but also landscape configuration (small patches, proximity to plantations, narrow strips) together inflate the abundance + impacts of meso-predators. For some threatened bird species, predator management may be important to recovery.
Reposted by Paul Dolman
But beware generalising from a single study site. In a meta-analysis of wader nest camera studies in UK (Yellow in graph, 356 predation events) badger were the predominant predator of clutches. Same true for passerines. #ornithology
October 31, 2025 at 5:12 PM
But beware generalising from a single study site. In a meta-analysis of wader nest camera studies in UK (Yellow in graph, 356 predation events) badger were the predominant predator of clutches. Same true for passerines. #ornithology
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Restoring wild rivers and wild trout youtube.com/watch?v=NH1W...
Reimagining rivers and trout fisheries: evidence-based conservation in action
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Restoring wild rivers and wild trout youtube.com/watch?v=NH1W...
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WaderTales blog about wader roosts and the energy that's lost when birds are disturbed.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2016/10/30/a...
Published on this day in 2016 🎂9️⃣
Over 3000 reads
#ornithology
wadertales.wordpress.com/2016/10/30/a...
Published on this day in 2016 🎂9️⃣
Over 3000 reads
#ornithology
October 30, 2025 at 6:41 AM
WaderTales blog about wader roosts and the energy that's lost when birds are disturbed.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2016/10/30/a...
Published on this day in 2016 🎂9️⃣
Over 3000 reads
#ornithology
wadertales.wordpress.com/2016/10/30/a...
Published on this day in 2016 🎂9️⃣
Over 3000 reads
#ornithology
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By monitoring 1896 Wood Warbler nests across Europe over 10 years, scientists found reproductive success varied by area
BUT the populations with highest reproductive success were not necessarily doing better, suggesting other reasons for their decline
doi.org/10.1111/jav....
BUT the populations with highest reproductive success were not necessarily doing better, suggesting other reasons for their decline
doi.org/10.1111/jav....
October 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
By monitoring 1896 Wood Warbler nests across Europe over 10 years, scientists found reproductive success varied by area
BUT the populations with highest reproductive success were not necessarily doing better, suggesting other reasons for their decline
doi.org/10.1111/jav....
BUT the populations with highest reproductive success were not necessarily doing better, suggesting other reasons for their decline
doi.org/10.1111/jav....
Local, wild (not farmed) venison for sale in Lochalsh, supporting deer management. Would be great to see this local venison distribution widespread in England for muntjac.
October 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Local, wild (not farmed) venison for sale in Lochalsh, supporting deer management. Would be great to see this local venison distribution widespread in England for muntjac.
Valuable synthesis - shows that where seed source is present, natural regeneration generally gives more complex structures and better biodiversity outcomes but can be helped by hybrid approaches and limited planting. #Rewilding #Biodiversity
New OA publication from TreE_PlaNat project @uktreescapes.bsky.social in Ecological Solutions and Evidence: Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain
Natural colonisation can successfully create structurally diverse, locally adapted woodlands in Britain, but the outcomes of this process can vary considerably. Combining natural colonisation and tre...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Valuable synthesis - shows that where seed source is present, natural regeneration generally gives more complex structures and better biodiversity outcomes but can be helped by hybrid approaches and limited planting. #Rewilding #Biodiversity
Reposted by Paul Dolman
This would be a radical shift for #IntrinsicValue and #Biodiversity
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK campaigners launch bill to give nature legal rights
Private member’s bill backed by Chris Packham and Natalie Bennett would impose a duty of care on government and business
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This would be a radical shift for #IntrinsicValue and #Biodiversity
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...