Please read this excellent thread.

Saw some lateral thinking and clever management from ⁦RSPB England⁩ today. Flooding out an uninspiring reedbed to kill the reed, then allowing natural processes to provide something a little more heterogenous. Mother Nature doing the heavy lifting.

Grow your grass long man! 93% boost for butterflies (in intensive farming areas) Brilliant research by Richard Fox and Butterfly Conservation 🦋 theguardian.com/environment/20…

📢Short notice, but can anyone please give an online aquatic research talk for us next Friday 26th April (2-3 pm UK)?

It does not have to be the full hour and can be on anything aquatic. A speaker has had to change their session.

Please drop me a message for more information.

Smileys are invented by a fishfarmer I think 😏
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Get a bird's-eye view of the incredible Norfolk Rivers Trust beaver enclosure! The beaver dams created a pool amidst the fallen trees. Nature's handiwork at its finest! 🌲🦫💧

On Tuesday Eva Bishop 🌎, our Head of Comms, joined the Beyond The Buffer panel as part of The Rivers Trust conference to discuss #riverbuffers & their significance for #beavers .

You can watch the panel discussion back by heading to the link below:
buff.ly/3JpTONQ

In the mood for a laugh and finally got round to reading the Monbiot article 🍆

‘Livestock farming is one of the most destructive industries on earth’ 😴 …Whilst I am bombarded with a car advert 🤦 🚗
Honestly The Guardian, you have no morals

Norfolk and Norwich Bat Group have written to Steve Barclay in support of Natural England's Favourable Conservation Status report for barbastelle bats, following an extremely disappointing response from some of Norfolk's MPs.

Today’s bonus content: an interview with the incomparable Surprised Eel Historian, PhD!
Join us as we learn about eels, their economic value, and their cultural history.

Find John’s work at Dr. John Wyatt Greenleehttps://www.jwgreenlee.netJohn Wyatt Greenlee

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Helpful clarification for MPs who signed the recent letter requesting NE’s advice on barbastelle bats be overruled, including my MP Jerome Mayhew MP.

The legal goalposts have not, as some Norfolk County Council councillors suggest, been moved. NCC has been advised of the bats for 10 years.

Fox didn't need a reason to run. She felt alive when she ran, she felt free. The rhythm soothed her. The repetitive movement took her deeper into her inner world. And the time with herself was everything. She didn't need a reason to run, but there were plenty of them.

Vote for peace. Vote for beauty and diversity. Vote for life. (No stupid old men waging war on this shortlist.) Vote for the UK invertebrate of the year. Polls close at 8am BST tomorrow. theguardian.com/environment/20…

I've been up in the Hull area this week, and caught a glimpse of the most northerly chalk stream in the UK. Flowing through a mostly arable landscape, yet gin-clear with beds of stream water-crowfoot. A testament to good land-management. It can be done.

Social media is now full of pet dogs worrying pregnant sheep or newborn lambs

Please keep your dog on a lead. It’s simple. ON A LEAD

Dogs are thinly domesticated wolves, however much you think they are a member of the family. The dog will be shot and that’s a stupid waste.

A rogues gallery of environmental hypocrisy! What they call an arbitrary decision is in fact objective advice based on years of study by experts in their field. They seem unable to grasp the basic concept of Natural England being an official government advisory body.

FANTASTIC WORK from NWT and partners - thank you to all involved. Uneducated and uninformed, and self-important MP's need to take guidance from specialists, and not just consider lining their own pockets.

Consider ecological overshoot.

This is the 9 spined stickleback the smallest freshwater fish in Britain. Unlike there 3 spined cousins the males turn jet black in the breeding season while females like this one are a olive green.

Tomorrow at lunchtime, I will be presenting this webinar on phosphorus.

The focus will be on the various sources and pathways by which phosphorus is making its way into the river Dee.

Register below:
welshdeetrust.com/webinar-phosph…