A book on societal #collapse, why it is happening, and what to do about it (and not do about it), is free from today as an ebook. Because we all need to know. So please RT this freebie. #BreakingTogether jembendell.com/2023/07/10/bre…

Always like doing woodland skills sessions at this school. Super nice to receive this thank you letter.

Looking forward to running the scythe training at Mar Lodge next month

Pie nails it :)

📢NEW REPORT📢 Making the Most of Scotland’s Grasslands plantlife.org.uk/wp-content/upl… Read about how species-rich grasslands connect Scotland’s unique biodiversity, history & identity Floodplain Meadows Partnership Pasture For Life

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Fantastic news from Aberdeenshire! Great White Egret chicks have hatched in Scotland for the first time! These stunning birds have been spreading northwards from continental Europe over the past few decades, thanks to increased legal protection against persecution and protection

Last week saw a group of folks out learning scything skills in the wildflower meadows that we are developing around the Lodge to benefit biodiversity, improve climate resilience, help sequester carbon, to provide a useful crop (hay!) and of course to look nice .

It's baffling – sacrificing our landscapes, tarnishing the environment, all to optimise conditions for red grouse so people can blast them out of the sky for fun. This isn't the world we want to live in. RT and follow us if you agree!

Our leaders are collaborators with fossil fuel colonialists. This is the source of our communal dread | Tim Winton theguardian.com/environment/20…

Regarding the recent application by National Farmers' Union to allow 'emergency' use of neonics on sugar beet, this image explains the problem: most of the pesticide goes into soils, leaches into waterways, & is taken up by wildflowers & hedgerows. Only 5% in crop. nature.com/articles/natur…

BBC Radio Scotland came to the Scything course at Tomintoul in August and recorded us for the Out of Doors programme... bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

More from the #Scything day at the Tomintoul community meadow... youtube.com/watch?v=5Hk-Lq…

The big question arising from this bizarre Cairngorms lynx story is not how the poor things got there; but why lynx, a secretive, beautiful British native species no larger than a labrador, have not been officially reintroduced to Britain long ago. The malevolence of a small

🌻@ScotGov's Nature Restoration Fund (NRF) provides a key vehicle to help Scotland meet its ambition to be Nature Positive by 2030, and to have restored and regenerated biodiversity by 2045. 🦋The Interim Evaluation of NRF examines its impacts: gov.scot/publications/i…

Very sad to see Labour govt flogging off allotment sites. Allotments provide sustainable, healthy food, encourage exercise and community spirit, & are rich in biodiversity. 10,000 people are on waiting lists to get one! Idiotic. We need more, not fewer! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

"The delusion is now systemic"

Jane Goodall's last interview released: "Don't lose hope." Today's stories prove she was right. Take a moment to listen to her words: daybreaknotesandbeans.substack.com/p/dont-lose-ho…

About *a third* of global fossil fuel CO2 emissions emitted during the Industrial age have occurred in roughly the last 17 years. The previous third was emitted over a period of roughly 26 years. The first third was emitted over a period of about 131 years.

Scything courses finished for another year... nesbiodiversity.org.uk/news/10-things…