Read 'The Village that Raised a Forest', the latest story from The Scottish Rewilding Alliance, written and photographed by my colleagues Hugh Webster, Mark Hamblin and @James__Shooter from SCOTLAND: The Big Picture. Thanks to Abriachan Forest for the inspirational work you do. rewild.scot/rewilding-stor…

Things really bad in Ukraine right now. Critical weeks lie ahead with history in the balance. I fear we will long regret not giving Ukraine all the support it needed before its army was exhausted. Biden (who, never forget, also abandoned Afghans to their fate) very much to blame.

Let's discuss the health effects of using lead ammunition in hunting. In this thread, I summarise the key takeaways from the most recent episode where I discussed this issue with Prof. Fredrik Widemo from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. 🧵 1/7

This is how Israel should have responded to last year’s attack by Hamas, with a series of these targeted strikes at the guilty parties - NOT by invading Palestine and killing tens of thousands of innocents.

I sense a growing feeling that our legal system makes no sense and serves the wrong interests. Nobody expects guilty people to actually be punished (various CEOs, fascist thugs etc.) and nobody is surprised when relative innocents receive harsh punishments. And that’s a worry.

Must make Tories like Suella Braverman really proud to hear their nasty slogan taken up by these brainless rioting thugs.

Say what you like about the violent, hate-filled rioters trashing our streets, intimidating communities and assaulting our police, at least they didn’t meet up for a Zoom call to have a chat about their protest beforehand. #RealCriminals

The far right thugs taking part in the #FarageRiots, assaulting police, burning and looting as they go, are complaining about a supposedly “two tier policing” system. I guess they missed the news that *peaceful* climate protesters got 5 year sentences for planning a traffic jam.

Why are BBC News (UK) describing riots as protests? Assaulting police, burning buildings and vehicles, attacking mosques and looting shops = rioting. Chaining yourself to a motorway gantry or throwing orange powder at a cricket match = a protest. It’s not hard. #FarageRiots

Ragworts (multiple species): still not the problem for horses or cattle some say they are. Still the valuable wildflowers they’ve always been. Just don’t cut them into hay. ragwortfacts.com/ragwort-horse-…

This should be our Dunblane moment. Only with social media not guns. Elon Musk is a feckless billionaire whose algorithms pose an imminent threat to life. He won’t act. So it’s critical that we now do. theguardian.com/media/article/…

You might say this is inconsistency from top Tories but it isn’t really. Labelling peaceful protests against genocide ‘hate marches’ and describing the violent, #FarageRiots by far right thugs as expressions of understandable concern is actually 100% consistent with their record.

Think how hard it is to secure footage like this - to show so clearly what these #criminals are up to, far from prying eyes, worried only about being caught out by tracking technology. How often do you think these crimes can be documented like this, and how many go unrecorded?

If this was a terrorist attack there’d be wall to wall media coverage, Govt crisis meetings and mobilisation against the enemy, but it’s climate change so we do nothing, Govt shrugs and the media barely blinks. Inaction is a choice.

With 5 years left to limit the worst of climate breakdown, we have a climate change denialist (who is also a felon, a sex pest, a certifiable sociopath and a shameless liar) about to take charge of the USA. Ukraine, Lebanon and Gaza will suffer first, but we’re all in trouble.

Twickenham gift shop might need to start selling welcome mats… Becoming a most hospitable stadium for visitors.

King Charles charges this RNLI lifeboat station to launch its boat because he owns the beach. And they’re not the only charity he’s rinsing (Location: Sennen Cove, Cornwall)

So far Trump has appointed a guy who thinks Israel has “title deed” to the occupied West Bank as his Israel ambassador, a suspected paedophile investigated for sex trafficking as Attorney General, a vaccine conspiracy theorist as Health Sec and Musk as an adviser. So far, so mad.

What made these marks? Some form of boring (burrowing, not dull!) insect? Found in a birch in Highland Perthshire… ben clinch Andrew Heald Buglife