Great evening in Frieth Village Hall yesterday - 40+ attendees and a really positive atmosphere.

Thanks to all who came and to mike hopkins and Amanda for organising things on the ground.

Next talk - Saturday in Welshpool

Have you booked your tickets for the 'Improving Habitats for Wildlife' Symposium yet? Hurry, the event is nearly sold out!😮
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FIND OF THE CENTURY AGHhh!!!!

Red-list Endangered, found at <100 places in Britain & formerly presumed extinct for Dorset…I cannot believe I’ve found this GORJ Three-lobed Crowfoot (Ranunculus tripartitus) at a site in Dorset! Wowowow!! 😍🌱

The latest Hen Harrier survey results are out, and it’s a mixed picture in Scotland.

The survey is the sixth of its kind, and the first one since 2016. A lot can change in seven years, let’s have a look.

The good news is the west Highlands, Hebrides and Orkney continue to…

We are pleased to work with RSPB England to monitor hen harriers, and welcome the encouraging increase in England.

However, illegal killing still casts a shadow over valuable partnership work to recover populations, and we continue to support the police in their investigations.

Surprise, surprise: grouse moor lobbyist would prefer decisions over moorland SSSIs are made by Tory Environment Ministers, two of whom <checks notes> *own* grouse moors (Lord Miller & Lord Benyon) 🤔

REVEALED: 18 Tory MPs have written to Environment Secretary Steve Barclay urging him to gut Natural England’s powers to create nature reserves (SSSIs)

This latest #AttackOnNature must not succeed

(Thanks to Joe Marshall for obtaining the letter)

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Extremely disturbing to see our water quality Ammonia test results:
An analysis of 139 river sites throughout England from 1986 - 2018 the concentration of Ammonia was found to have decreased (from 0.8mg/L) to less than 0.1mg/L
Our recent testing found a value almost 20 x higher

Coastal wetlands can’t keep pace with sea-level rise, and our infrastructure is leaving them nowhere to go theconversation.com/coastal-wetlan…

'Anglian Water, responsible for much of the region's sewer network, had the biggest increase of spills of all England's water companies'

The water company blamed exceptionally wet weather for the rise'

Norfolk beaches blighted by record sewage 'spills' edp24.co.uk/news/24228737.…

Like the moment in a movie where the thing inept bureaucrats thought they'd buried re-emerges:

sewage bubbles up in the heart of a village, as a water system left to decay for over a decade finally caves in.

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This is what supposedly harmless 'it's 95% rainwater you know', does to a chalk stream.

Lies, all of it, nothing but lies and environmental destruction.

2018 - The year that Anglian Water paid/declared a dividend to shareholders of £1.9359 BILLION (Ofwat data) the Chair of the Economic Regulator in control of that payment Ofwat was Jonson Cox - previously the CEO of - ready?
sure?
Anglian Water.

It takes a field naturalist of the quality and experience of John Walters to add value to an observation.
Who else would suggest that a nearby raptor kill would shorten the nest-building period of Long-tailed Tits?
Everyone quotes 2,000 feathers in their nest, but in fact....

I couldn't see or hear any lesser spots around. Then I noticed some chippings blowing in the wind and out pops the head of the male. He seems to making excellent progress despite the weather. Both females came by a few times. He had a look but kept on excavating LesserSpot Network

Two of at least five rapidly growing young herons at Ringstead today. The early nesters are well on their way with their first broods of the year. #northantsbirds

Distant phonescoped shot of the pair of garganey at the back of the main lake stanwick late afternoon #northantsbirds

The best day of any new year is one spent with the first Sussex nightingales of Spring 💚🎶 Sound on! 🔊

'Earthworms are a keystone species with potentially enormous effects on above-ground wildlife & ecosystem functioning... But the UK’s first national assessment in 2023, found that earthworm populations had declined by a third over the past 25 years.'
theguardian.com/environment/20…

Tengmalm's Owls are starting to occupy the nestholes in Białowieża Forest.