"If they're trail hunting, then why on earth would they need terriers?" - Chris Packham

Outrageous news: A new Taliban ban stops women from working in carpet weaving, leaving many widows and sole breadwinners jobless. Despite past office work bans, women depended on these jobs—until now. What’s Next? Ban women Inhaling Oxygen ?!

"Children are freezing to death because they don't have enough shelter items," says Louise Wateridge, a Senior Emergency Officer at UNRWA who has just returned from Gaza.

This is why I pay internet for

Soon be spring, soon be time for #pondwatch

Joyful thread!

Bats or great-crested newts? "Neither because I want growth" is simply one of the stupidest, immoral and most dismal political answers ever. I'm #teambat #teamnewt #teamhuman #teamhabitableplanet This story I wrote over the weekend has been cheering me up theguardian.com/world/2025/jan…

Chancellor Rachel Reeves, millions of people are worried about #wildlife, even if some developers want to wash their hands of it. The best way to stop people worrying about chalk streams, dormice, wildflower meadows and, yes, bats isn't to deregulate. It's to #RestoreNatureNow

Love this!

History will not be kind to our Labour Govt. And I think neither will voters at the next GE. This is such a stupid statement from Reeves. It is *exactly* the sort of environmentally ignorant attitude that has brought us to this point in our #ClimateCrisis.

Now if someone were to make this into a badge, I'd buy a few to hand out ...

On behalf of newts and bats we shall fight them in the countryside , we shall fight them in the ponds and marshes , we shall fight in the belfry’s , we shall fight them in the caves . We will never surrender our wildlife . . . (Channeling my inner Jonathan Pie !)

I am incredibly heartened by how many of you have liked and shared Team Bat/Team Newt Thank goodness so many people care about nature. I've put an enquiry in about t-shirts, caps, badges etc. Please keep sharing - under every post by Reeves, Starmer et al. #TeamBat #TeamNewt

Thanks to Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🦇 🦎 🍃💚🍃🌳🚲💧 for this ‘badge’. So I’ll also happily tweet it out. I’m asking everyone to save this image and use it to reply to every post Rachel Reeves and her little gang posts. We must fight for our natural spaces, our waterways, our wildlife. Team Bat. Team Newt 🦇🦎

Beautiful exquisite work. Taking mud pie making (a favourite occupation of mine growing up) to a whole other level.

Any spawn sighted this weekend? Please check the link below and I’ll update the map this evening. Happy spotting! 🐸 #spawnmap

#spawnmap updated Wed pm, 26th Feb. n = 95. Please contribute or RT, link: tinyurl.com/spawnmap25

The Dutch public broadcaster made a sketch on the current situation of the world