These rivers have all tested +ve for thiamethoxam since 2020 (data from Env Agency). This neonicotinoid was banned in Europe in 2018, but is allowed on sugar beet crops in UK. That is its only authorised use. Yet it is turning up in rivers all over the place... Hugely concerning.

Autumn Springtide Spectacular RSPB #snettisham

What are you planning for the final days of 2022?
Hunters in Montana plan on slaughtering more wolves. The death toll there has increased to 99.

🚨Retweet to call on the @interior to enact an emergency listing of wolves. Take action to #RelistWolves → bit.ly/3XmkAwz

UK has 177 billionaires (up from 147 in 2020), with a combined wealth of £653bn. Billionaire wealth has risen 1,000+% since 1990. Time for one-off #WealthTax of 10% on billionaires. It would raise £65.3bn

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Jenny Jones Rupert Read 🌍 Jean Lambert

Today we release our landmark report #StateoftheWorldsBirds , covered by the Guardian in detail. In the below thread you can read the report yourself theguardian.com/environment/20…

'21 Devon beaches after weekend rain'.

Just as the tourist season winds down and the first Atlantic swells announce the start of the surfing season guess what South East Water does. Yep dumps enough sewage into the environment to pollute 21 beaches in Devon.

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C’mon , Friday night , havin’ a glass or a pint , please give us and one of our most beautiful but still slaughtered birds a hand and sign this ! Please !

Ladybirds near the summit of Mount Etna

We're facing a climate and ecological crisis, and George Eustice Defra UK is now planning this 👇

IT IS COMPLETE MADNESS

There have been multiple drivers of biodiversity loss over 50 years

The EU Habitats Directive is NOT one of them

theguardian.com/environment/20…

Bringing you the best #gisfest event in Africa. Y'all better be ready for this!!!

#gischat

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We're after FIVE senior scientists in several fields inc #SocSci , International & #OffshoreWind bit.ly/3wDAt4V #Ornithology

'When you're done with everyone else's lifeless plastic gardens and feel like the burden of saving the world rests on your shoulders' 😂 Who can relate?

When you blindly follow others, there are consequences

Army ants are blind, relying on pheromones to track the ones in front, if one ant intersects with its old trail, it results in a circular death trap where they spiral until they die from exhaustion

Introducing a new #Python package named geospatial 🚀Installing commonly used Python package for #geospatial analysis and #dataviz with only one line of code. Let me know your fav package, and I can probably add to it

GitHub: github.com/giswqs/geospat…
Docs: geospatial.gishub.org

Matt Le Tissier with the most tragic narrative arc to come out of Southampton since the Titanic.

I can't stop thinking about this Greenland shark, recovered dead from the sea this evening. Even if she was 'only' just over 100 years old, she has shared the Earth with thylacines and passenger pigeons. She swam calmly in the deep ocean as wars raged above her.

Spring is in the air/Weekend reading. Lee Schofield #wildfell #springtime

Huge thanks to the 5,000 people who've now signed my petition to protect & restore Britain's lost rainforests!

We're halfway to getting a Govt response - can you help us reach 10,000 signatures by signing & sharing? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6084…

I recently learned something mindblowing about the geological history of the Mediterranean Sea, and I just can't get it out of my head.

Now I'm going to make it *your* problem too. Sorry.

Hang onto your hat. This is wild.

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❗️JOB OPPORTUNITY❗️ Programme Officer Invasive Species - Deadline Sunday 14th February. Come and work with IUCN in the David Attenborough Building - a global conservation hub in Cambridge, UK.
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