More than 125,000 animals are killed every year for trophies. There should be a worldwide ban on trophy hunting.

one of the many reasons Middlewick needs protection Natural England Essex Wildlife Trust RSPB Save Rose Hill Bessacarr🍃💚🍃 #NatureInMyBackyard Essex Birdwatching Society Nightingale Nights CommunityPlanningAlliance 🦇🦎

A great walk at Coombe Hill this afternoon enjoying at least 3 singing Redstarts, 5 Yellow & 1 White Wagtail, Sedge Warblers, bubbling Curlews, 3 Little Egrets. This eve at Dowds Res, 2 Reed Warbler, Mallard & Grebe pair, Grey and Pied Wagtail, 3 Moorhen. #Glosbirds.

A pair of Grey Partridges this morning on Salisbury Plain

All hail Private Eye Magazine Brilliant story about how one of the proposed new owners of Thames Water is offering up a £25 million "Community Benefit Trust" (CBT) to "support" local environment and community groups but only on condition that TW are exempt from environment law and

ANCESTRAL HOMES IS WHAT THEY NEED!!!!!

If, like me, you were born in 1956, you’ll receive almost £300,000 more in benefits than you’ll pay in taxes in your lifetime State Pensions make up a huge chunk of that Long term, we simply can’t afford to sustain the Triple Lock’s generosity Blog: desmondswaynemp.com/ds-blog/1956/?…

The little stream at the end of my road this morning. Hundreds of dead Roach. Very sad. Heavily polluted. Thames Water are here. Just breaks my heart to see. From des Taylor angling 😫

Male Red-spotted Bluethroat at Swineham, Dorset. Feeding on the footpath after a wait today. Beautiful bird and did show well on and off today. Dorset Bird Club

Today I went out onto our deck and had the feeling something was watching me. Norfolk Roof Ducks. Quite opinionated Wilder Norfolk AndyBloomfield

Nightingale song contest.

The Spectator Good post but upside down. Should have started as it ended - on Twitter only the troll version of the story appeared ‘above the fold’.

Celebrating #WorldPuffinDay today with this beautiful photo by Kristoffer Nærø Ytterland #Norway #birds BirdLife Norge

The loss of nutrient diversity in habitats (& decline in oligotrophic habitats) across Europe is an underestimated source of biodiversity loss, especially of heliophile groups (ants, lepidopterans, bees & beetles. Imagine the effect on spp. such as Red-backed Shrike & Wryneck.

Spring flowers in a small gem of an ancient Wood Pasture: Thursford Wood in Norfolk. Norfolk Wildlife Trust reserve. Bird Cherry at S end of range. Wood Sorrel. Primrose. Huge Common Cherry - multi-trunked but I think all one tree. Do visit. No dogs. Many Blackcaps, Chiffchaffs, Nuthatches.

A few shots from a couple of North-Essex sites this afternoon! Eurasian Spoonbills, European Adder, Common Nightingale, and Eurasian Sparrowhawk. #Birding #EssexBirding #UKBirding #WildlifePhotography

Significant investment by Defra UK into the Species Recovery Programme. This is excellent DefraNature 👏 defraenvironment.blog.gov.uk/2026/04/14/wil…

rt hon Sir Desmond Swayne TD MP Me too. I agree. Poorer pensioners should be treated differently. Possibly by other benefits.

BBC Newsnight Ewan Morrison The more important and newer bit was about taxing AI. Watch again?

Paul Tout So rank over-fertilised Nitrogen-gorged vegetation kills off butterflies, moths, ants, bees and beetles, and starves the birds which need them to eat.